The Eagle Book of Cutaways
by L. Ashwell Wood & Denis Gifford (editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0863502857
- ISBN 13
- 9780863502859
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1990. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards with Eagle motif and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and minor traces of storage. 95pp. A collection of cutaway scientific and transport models taken from the Eagle comic of the 1950s with labelled description of the components revealed and a general description of each print. With mostlry images of scientific sites and transport vehicles in existence at the time plus some futuristic proposals including a railway engine powered by an atomic reactor. These were all first shown in the Eagle comic between 1946 and 1960.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9 x 10.5 Inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022180
- Title
- The Eagle Book of Cutaways
- Author
- L. Ashwell Wood & Denis Gifford (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0863502857
- ISBN 13
- 9780863502859
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Technology, Science, Eagle Comic, 1950s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's; Collecting;
- Size
- 9 x 10.5 Inches
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