Around The World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae
by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Hamilton, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No edition remarks. 221 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over brown paper covered boards. Black and white photographs. Jacket is a photocopy. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper missing. A previous owner's name to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1715702248DPB
- Title
- Around The World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae
- Author
- Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Hamilton
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...