The Sky's the Limit: Women Pioneers in Aviation
by Wendy Boase
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0025119702
- ISBN 13
- 9780025119703
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Macmillan Pub Co, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine condition with fine dust jacket. 223 pages. Black and white photographs. Bibliography and index. A captivating look at an international group of women flyers who first took to the air in the pioneering days of flight despite frequent scorn and ridicule. By the late 1920s onward, however, they demainded to be traeted as full-fledged professionals rather than publicity seeking amateurs. Among those the reader will meet are te Dutchess of Bedford, Lady Heath and Lady Bailey, America Earhart, Amy Johnson, Anne Lindbergh, Hanna Reitsch and others.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E22910
- Title
- The Sky's the Limit: Women Pioneers in Aviation
- Author
- Wendy Boase
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0025119702
- ISBN 13
- 9780025119703
- Publisher
- Macmillan Pub Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- aviation, planes, sky, limit, women, pioneers, history,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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