Take Me Out to the Airfield! How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane
by Robert Quackenbush
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
-
Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Parents' Magazine Press, USA, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Foxing/staining to boards. Minor foxing to page block edges and endpapers, text mostly clean. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. Size: Large 8vo ( 9 to 11 inches). Text body is clean & unmarked. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's signature in ink..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37164
- Title
- Take Me Out to the Airfield! How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane
- Author
- Robert Quackenbush
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Parents' Magazine Press
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Children's Fiction; Robert Quackenbush Take Me Out to the Airfield! How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane
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Shiny Owl Books
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
About Shiny Owl Books
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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