There Shall be Wings; A History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
by Roberts, Leslie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Clarke Irwin. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 290 p. 23.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Darkening and foxing to top edges of boards and text block. Some soil spots on fore-edge of text block. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has heavy wear to the edges, including chips, tears, and creases. Rubbed along the folds. Spine is sunned. Includes 32 page section of black and white photographs. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5730
- Title
- There Shall be Wings; A History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
- Author
- Roberts, Leslie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Clarke Irwin
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...