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Vision: A Saga of the Sky
by Mansfield, Harold
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair to Good (in mylar)
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Former owner's bookplate on ffep verso, and a lenghty gift inscription in ink on half-title page, dated Chirstmas, 1956; Textblock is very clean and tight. Sunned top edges and slightly to the spine, minor surface scuffing to the covers. Price-clipped, very worn dust jacket, with heavy edge wear, creases and chips; 389p.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair to Good (in mylar). Illus. by B&W Photographs/Illustrated End Papers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB16478
- Title
- Vision: A Saga of the Sky
- Author
- Mansfield, Harold
- Illustrator
- B&W Photographs/Illustrated End Papers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair to Good (in mylar)
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Boeing Airplane Company Personal Narratives, Personal Narratives, Boeing Airplanes Personal Narrative
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
Terms of Sale
Clausen Books, RMABA
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
Established July 1, 1946. Member- Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Now exclusively on-line. Used - Old - Rare - Out-of-print - Antiquarian; CERTIFIED APPRAISALS * Visit our homepage at www.clausenbooks.com
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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