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Vision A Saga of the Sky - INSCRIBED copy
by MANSFIELD, Harold
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. x, [2], 3-389. With an eight-page section of black-and-white photos. Intertextual line-drawings of Boeing aircraft throughout. Decorated endpapers. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Light tape shadows to front and rear board, where old dust jacket protector had been affixed. Dust jacket quite bright, but with corresponding tape shadows; price of $5.00 intact. Inscribed by Mansfield on the front free endpaper. Inscribed to Dorothy Alvord, who from 1951-1962 served as the second director of the King County Library System: "To Dorothy Alvord / With much appreciation for all the King County Library is doing fro us / [signed] Harold Mansfield". A presentable, well preserved copy, with dust jacket now housed in a fresh removable clear dust jacket protector.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6818
- Title
- Vision A Saga of the Sky - INSCRIBED copy
- Author
- MANSFIELD, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Jacket
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