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Flying against Time or Ted Scott Breaking the Ocean to Ocean Record (Ted Scott Flying Stories)
by Dixon, Franklin W.; Rogers, Walter S. (Illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Rogers, Walter S.. Book #9 in the 20-book YA series penned by under the same pseudonym as the author of the Hardy Boys, featuring intrepid young aviator, Ted Scott. The actual principal author, John W. Duffield, who also contributed to the Don Sturdy and Bomba the Jungle Boy series, was a "conscientious student of aeronautics." This is a true FIRST EDITION, second printing, from 1929, listing to Self & to HB#7 in front matter, but to TS #19 in rear, along with other boys' series titles. In publisher's original RED cloth binding, in 214 pages, with glossy (not plain) frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright, with small oval spot to top outside page edges. Binding strong & straight, hinges intact. Interior pages show modest tanning, commensurate with age. Very mild rubbing to spine tips & corners. No DJ.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders. Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021381
- Title
- Flying against Time or Ted Scott Breaking the Ocean to Ocean Record (Ted Scott Flying Stories)
- Author
- Dixon, Franklin W.; Rogers, Walter S. (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Rogers, Walter S.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- YA MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUNG ADULT BOYS SERIES CHAPTER BOOKS MYSTERY ADVENTURE PILOTS AIRPLANES FLYING PLANES AERONAUTICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children-Young Adult (YA) / Collectible Series; Transportation: Planes/Trains/Automobiles/Boats/Motorcycles/Bikes;
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La Mesa, California
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