Flying Against Times or Ted Scott Breaking the Ocean to Ocean Record
by DIXON, Franklin W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Illustration by Walter S. Rogers. Small 8vo. Red cloth with black and gold lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 214pp, (4pp ads). Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and faintly age toned. Absolutely lovely, tight first edition of the ninth title in the popular 20-volume "Ted Scott Flying Stories" series (1927-43) that played off the overnight worldwide fame of Charles Lindbergh. First nine titles only on copyright page and front jacket flap, while ad at rear lists to title #10 (published same year) and jacket verso lists first five titles. HUDSON p. 204.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45914
- Title
- Flying Against Times or Ted Scott Breaking the Ocean to Ocean Record
- Author
- DIXON, Franklin W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- Cloth
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- Verso
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- Copyright page
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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