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Famous Planes and Famous Flights
by Winslow, John; Irvin L. Holcombe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Mansfield Center, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Platt & Munk. 1945. early printing. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket; Hardcover; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; Bound in red cloth with pictorial paste-down on front cover. Orange endpapers. Reinforced binding (NOT a library discard). 21 beautiful full-page color depictions of famous planes by Irvin L. Holcombe. Clean cover, sharp corners, tight binding. A couple small stains or ink spots on back cover; light fraying at base of spine. Child's pencil scrawl neatly erased from front endpaper. Interior very crisp, clean, unmarked. All illustrations bright, intact. In jacket ith ragged edges, tears, large chips at ends of spine. Original price intact on flap. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount Hope Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29907
- Title
- Famous Planes and Famous Flights
- Author
- Winslow, John; Irvin L. Holcombe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- early printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Platt & Munk
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Aviation, Air planes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Mount Hope Books
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About the Seller
Mount Hope Books
Biblio member since 2004
Mansfield Center, Connecticut
About Mount Hope Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
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