The Flight of the Mew Gull
by Henshaw, Alex
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Slightly Worn
- ISBN 10
- 0719537401
- ISBN 13
- 9780719537400
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1980. Illustrated, octavo, pp 310, top and bottom edge foxed otherwise extremely clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, the tirnover flaps are slightly age-toned, otherwise it shows just very slight signs of use. [The author was a British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War. This book is an account of the author's pre-war air racing and record-setting adventures. ]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018979
- Title
- The Flight of the Mew Gull
- Author
- Henshaw, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Slightly Worn
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719537401
- ISBN 13
- 9780719537400
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- aeronautics.history.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Military; Transport; Industry;
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Mike Park Ltd
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