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Amelia Earhart Lives
by Joe Klaas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0070350108
- ISBN 13
- 9780070350106
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970 McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1970. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; opposing bumps to board top edges. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($7.95); moisture stain to tail and front panel bottom edge; bumping to top edges; closed tear to front gutter. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Pictorial endpapers. 272 pp 8vo. Written by a WWII pilot who was a POW of the Germans for 2 years. Based on the ten -years of research of Joe Gervais, the author has written a book that tells of his findings that contradict the usual government stories. Finding a plane crash on a California mountain with her plane's registration number, numerous sightings of Amelia after the crash, and a highly revealing name and code begs for further investigation of her crash and what the State Department has to do with her. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013615
- Title
- Amelia Earhart Lives
- Author
- Joe Klaas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070350108
- ISBN 13
- 9780070350106
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- airplanes, Amelia Earhart, Lockheed Electra, plane crash, South Pacific, California mountain, State Department, Joe Gervais, conspiracy theories, female spy, Japanese Army,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
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- Cloth
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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