Aviation Engines: Design--Construction--Operation and Repair --1918 Edition
by Page, Victor W
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company. Good+. 1919. Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth boards. No dust jacket. Third printing (1919) of first edition. Book is solid and clean. Binding is firm but a little slack. Corners are worn at tips. Title and picture of plane imprinted in white on front--both a little faded. Spine title is barely legible. With frontispiece announcement by the publisher that the book was censored by the U. S. Government "and parts of pages have benn omitted by special instructions from Washington. " Illustrated throughout with technical drawings and photographs. 8vo. 589 pp. Including index plus 34 pages of listings for othre "practical and mechanical books" from the publisher. .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81191
- Title
- Aviation Engines: Design--Construction--Operation and Repair --1918 Edition
- Author
- Page, Victor W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Aeronautics
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