Rickenbacker's Luck : An American Life
by Farr, Finis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395271029
- ISBN 13
- 9780395271025
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Book has 366 pages. Book has light wear to edge of cover. DJ has wear to edge with a few small chips. DJ price is clipped. Previous owner name penned in front endpaper. Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, "Ace of Aces" and the most decorated pilot of World War I, was a larger-than-life American hero. Captain Eddie spent nearly his entire career with automobiles or airplanes "All my life engines have spoken to me." Richenbacker was by turns and auto mechanic, a racing car driver (setting a world record of 134 mph in a Blitzen Benz at Daytona), a World War I air ace (his first victories were against "the flying circus" led by German ace Richthofen), an auto manufacturer (General Motors helped drive him to bankruptcy by callingt his 4-wheel brakes unsafe, brakes now standard on all American cars), owner of the Indianapolis Speedway (where he raced regularly), and head of Eastern Air Lines. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000319
- Title
- Rickenbacker's Luck : An American Life
- Author
- Farr, Finis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395271029
- ISBN 13
- 9780395271025
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- RICKENBACKER EDWARD VERNON 1890 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; History; World War I; Biography/Autobiography;
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