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The Red Eagle: Being the Adventurous Tale of Two Young Flyers
by Alexander Key
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 120 pages. Condition Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1930. Nice blue boards and red embossing shows off this tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Previous owner's marks on title pages, aircraft on pages 76 and 77 colored in and a chunk torn from non-text bottom of page 77. Book covers are worn with some stains and bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Numerous color and B&W illustrations. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
If the author rings a bell for you, it might be that you remember Alexander Key from Walt Disney's 1961's Escape to Witch Mountain.
Brothers Ned and Richard Jemeson, smitten by the aviation bug after having heard about Charles Lindbergh's epic 1927 journey, get a visit from Uncle Jim who owns a plane called the Red Eagle. When he visits he just lands the plane on their farmland. After they've cleared an area for a runway for him of course. Both boys really want to learn to fly, but their father thinks they're too young and it's too dangerous. Uncle Jim takes their father up for a long, long ride in the Red Eagle and what do you know, once they land dad has the flying bug too. Uncle Jim was previously a flyer in WW1 and now conveniently owns an aircraft factory and manages a flying club. So he's just the guy to teach us all about planes and how to fly them!
If the author rings a bell for you, it might be that you remember Alexander Key from Walt Disney's 1961's Escape to Witch Mountain.
Brothers Ned and Richard Jemeson, smitten by the aviation bug after having heard about Charles Lindbergh's epic 1927 journey, get a visit from Uncle Jim who owns a plane called the Red Eagle. When he visits he just lands the plane on their farmland. After they've cleared an area for a runway for him of course. Both boys really want to learn to fly, but their father thinks they're too young and it's too dangerous. Uncle Jim takes their father up for a long, long ride in the Red Eagle and what do you know, once they land dad has the flying bug too. Uncle Jim was previously a flyer in WW1 and now conveniently owns an aircraft factory and manages a flying club. So he's just the guy to teach us all about planes and how to fly them!
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- Seller
- River House Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656319
- Title
- The Red Eagle: Being the Adventurous Tale of Two Young Flyers
- Author
- Alexander Key
- Illustrator
- Alexander Key
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wise-Parslow Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Pages
- 120
- Size
- crown octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
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San Antonio, Texas
About River House Books
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I found hundreds of nice dust jackets with no books to cover. Need one for your library? Have a look at that category!
Have some dust jackets to sell? Drop me a line!
I ship domestically in the US using the Post Office and internationally using consolidation services. Books are always wrapped then packed in cardboard boxes with padding to protect the contents. International shipments are double boxed with shipping paperwork attached to the outside of the box using a special envelope. And a complete duplicate of all the paperwork packed inside the outer box in case the attached set wanders off.
Previous international shipments to Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, Sweden, UK --> Help me fill in my international bingo card!
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