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The Greatest Adventure, (Copy 2).
by Piccard, Bertrand Jones, Brian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0747271283
- ISBN 13
- 9780747271284
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Headline.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, two very small marks to front board, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped. Very slight marks to rear. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat pencil dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, absolutely minimal age to page margins and edges, no other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Three x 8pp. Blocks of colour photos. B/w line drawings, vignettes and small maps throughout. Coloured (blue) end papers with world map showing flight path.* Pages: 301 pp. text. ix pp. appendices at rear.* Description: They could no longer be the first to climb Everest, reach the North and South Poles, sail around the globe, but they could be the first to fly around the world in a balloon - and they were. Written by the pilots, this is the account of their epic success. They describe the difficulties they faced and overcame during this feat of endurance.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL, in protected dust jacket with only minor faults reducing it to VG.*
Synopsis
New Maps of Hell is a series of lectures about critical literary analysis of science fiction, including it's history from rough beginnings as short stories in pulp magazines up to the mid-seventies. Includes many synopses, breaks down the "types" of science fiction, and provides a thoughtful introduction to an often scoffed at form of modern literature.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5793
- Title
- The Greatest Adventure, (Copy 2).
- Author
- Piccard, Bertrand Jones, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0747271283
- ISBN 13
- 9780747271284
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publishing
- Place of Publication
- UK 314
- This edition first published
- 1999
- Size
- 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm
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