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WRIGHT BROTHERS: HEIRS OF PROMETHEUS
by Hallion, Richard P
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0874745047
- ISBN 13
- 9780874745047
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Books. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black graphic of the Wright Flyer, this 1979 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG jacket (unclipped). 146pp, illustrated with b/w photos, this book commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first powered, sustained, and controlled heavier-than-air flight. jacket is rubbed and creased a little along top and bottom edges, especially to spine; bottom corners are worn; spine faded, and to topedge of front. Internally clean, although there is ink on the FFEp, where a previous owner's name has been scribbled out. Otherwise VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1979.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0021494
- Title
- WRIGHT BROTHERS: HEIRS OF PROMETHEUS
- Author
- Hallion, Richard P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0874745047
- ISBN 13
- 9780874745047
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Books
- Place of Publication
- Washington D.C., USA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Aircraft, Airplanes, History, Wright Brothers
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12".
Terms of Sale
Camillas Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...