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Sky High: The Story of Aviation
by Eric Hodgins & Magoun
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Little, Brown and Company,, Boston, 1935, Revised, 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1935. New Edition. 414 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracking to rear hinge, with exposed netting. Moderate foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed with sunning to spine. Boards are slightly bowed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1654014150DPB
- Title
- Sky High: The Story of Aviation
- Author
- Eric Hodgins & Magoun
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company,, Boston, 1935, Revised
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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