Proud Pilot, A True Story of Family, Wartime, and Survival Against the Odds (signed)
by McMurry, Lt Col Robert J. USAF, Retired; as told to Gail L. Spelis (signed)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New condition/New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1495142558
- ISBN 13
- 9781495142550
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Professional Press, 2016. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by co-author Gail L. Spelis, as "Gail" on the blank page opposite the half title. Her inscription includes: "Hope you enjoy our labor of love." BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Near PERFECT CONDITION. The jacket has only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). NO chips, creases, tears or fading. NOT price clipped ($24.99). Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. Copyright 2015. First printing with "First Edition: October 2016" so stated. Profusely photo illustrated on glossy paper stock, many vintage from the 1930s and WWII. Has chapters on the Great Depression (1929-1939); World War II (1939-1945); US Army, Infantry, Air Corps; US Air Force, aerial operations; Commercial Pilot biography. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. ISBN in the book is 9781495142550. Sticker on the jacket's rear panel has a different ISBN: 9780578190181.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Gail L. Spelis . First edition (so stated). Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. xxxviii, 255pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Title
- Proud Pilot, A True Story of Family, Wartime, and Survival Against the Odds (signed)
- Author
- McMurry, Lt Col Robert J. USAF, Retired; as told to Gail L. Spelis (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition (so stated)
- ISBN 10
- 1495142558
- ISBN 13
- 9781495142550
- Publisher
- Professional Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Date Published
- 2016
- Size
- 8vo. xxxviii, 255pp
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Aviation / Aeronautics / Space Travel;
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