The Real Book About Airplanes
by Whitehouse, Arch
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City (NY): Garden City Books, 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. Orbaan, Albert. Decorated blue board covers with black lettering and red and black pictorial design on front cover; Pictorial Endpapers show different types of planes; rear free endpaper has a manila pocket though book does not appear to be a library copy; right book edge is rough-cut and top book edge is stained red by publisher; book interior is clean and tight; illustrated; 8vo; 190 pages; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is fairly clean and mostly bright; front dustjacket panel has a neat 'Av' written in red near center of panel and lower edge has some tiny chips and rubbing at corners; upper edge of front dustjacket panel is rubbed with a scuff at upper right corner; spine panel of dustjacket is heavily rubbed at top and bottom with some light chipping and has a couple of scuff marks along spine; rear dustjacket panel is heavily rubbed at top edge with some minor chipping and lower edge is rubbed with a chip at right spine gutter leading to a diagonal crease; both top and bottom corners of inside front panel are clipped
0.73#; P3;A;MS7.95;ACQ0896;C-28;10/30/253
0.73#; P3;A;MS7.95;ACQ0896;C-28;10/30/253
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20031422
- Title
- The Real Book About Airplanes
- Author
- Whitehouse, Arch
- Illustrator
- Orbaan, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Garden City Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City (NY)
- Date Published
- 1952
Terms of Sale
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Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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Canton, Georgia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....