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’Sound Barrier’, The Story of High-Speed Flight
by Duke and Lanchbery, Neville / Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London : Cassell, 1954. 6th Edition or Higher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/Fair. Small Octavo. Some line drawings and several sections of black and white photos. An informative treatise on both the technical and historical aspects of high-speed flight. Size: Small Octavo. 129 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Some slight foxing on endpapers, text browned. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owner’s signature in ink. Edges browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Aviation; Jets & High Speed Flight; Main Picture: Front cover. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50206. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Some slight foxing on endpapers, text browned Edges browned
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50206
- Title
- ’Sound Barrier’, The Story of High-Speed Flight
- Author
- Duke and Lanchbery, Neville / Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 6th Edition or Higher
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 129
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jets & High Speed Flight BZDB397 supersonic fighter, jets, flying, aviation, speed of sound Aviation; Jets & High Speed Flight; Sound Barrier The Story of HighSpeed Flight
- Size
- Small Octavo
Terms of Sale
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Biblio member since 2020
Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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