Takeoff! How Long Island Inspired America to Fly by Newsday staff

Newsday, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Globe Pequot Press, The. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Camino Books, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Newsday, Incorporated, 1998. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Camino Books, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Melville, New York: Newsday Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1885134266 . Large format hardcover with dustjacket, "The history of Long Island is written in the sky as well as on land and sea - Stories and photographs of the men and women who took us from the farm fields to the moon," an inked-over name is present at the top of the front end-paper, mild wrinkles to the corners and spine-ends, the binding is tight and clean and the contents are fine, the white jacket is slightly tanned on the spine, couple of short edge-tears on the rear panel, the jacket is clean and attractive, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included ; ; 214 pages .

NY,NY: Signet Special J6281, 1974. 1st edition. mass market paperback. VERY GOOD. Appears unread. Solid binding with reading creases on spine. Several light creases on the covers. Clean interiors pages free of any markings. 322 indexed pages with 90 documentary black and white photos. 7"" X 4.25"" X 0.75"" 1974 Pulitzer Prize Winner. Collecting all of Newsday's Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on heroin in 1973 and 1974. Starts the heroin trail in Turkey where the ban on poppy is meaningless. Smugglers send it on to France to convert the raw materials of morphine into heroin. Details underworld ties with members of the French governments. Ends in the US, the main client for heroin. In 1974 dollars, morphine base sells at $350 a kilo, in Marseilles France at $1100 and once converted to heroin, at $240,000 in the US.

London: Souvenir Press. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 1974 Pulitzer Prize Winner, numerous monochrome illustrations. The first journalistic investigation to trace heroin traffic from Turkey to France to its ultimate customer – the young American addict! The book is tightly bound, internally generally clean, free of markings and foxing. The dust jacket is worn to the extremities, slightly marked; unclipped. ; 315 pages .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 322p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Foredges lightly foxed. Previous seller's price stamp on front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is barely worn along the edges and very faintly rubbed on the front panel; otherwise intact. Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the undergound heroin trade, illustrated with black and white photographs.