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Aircraft Jet Powerplants
by Franklin P. Durham
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€12.21€8.55
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About This Item
New York, NY: Prentice-Hall , 1951 Prentice-Hall, New York. 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good; small tear to spine fabric near the title; light foxing to textblock top; rubbing to gilt on spine and front board. No DJ. Maroon cloth boards and spine with gilt and maroon lettering on the spine and front board in gilt shadowboxes. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 326 pp 8vo. This book was written for undergraduate courses in aircraft jet powerplants with special emphasis on the gas turbine. Chapters 1-6 cover over-all jet propulsion and gas turbine principles; Chapters 7-11 present jet engine components- inlet diffuser, compressor, combustion chamber and jet nozzle; Chapters 12-13 give the fundamentals of ramjets and rockets. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015918
- Title
- Aircraft Jet Powerplants
- Author
- Franklin P. Durham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- aircraft, jet aircraft, turboprop aircraft, jet engines, gas turbine engines, reciprocating engines ramjets, rockets, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, physics, mathematics, engineering
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- 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....
- Cloth
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