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Test Pilot
by Martin Caidin
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$15.00$10.50
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About This Item
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1961 E.P. Dutton and Company, 1961. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Retired high school library copy. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamps on the FFFP, RFFP, and title page. Book Condition: Good; wear through fabric at head, tail, tips and board bottom edges; pocket and slip on FFFP; index number on spine; soiling to textblock edges. No DJ. Orange cloth boards and spine with blue lettering on the spine and USAF jet on front board in blue. Clean internals; Internal hinges are sound but show cracking. 182 pp 8vo. This book, designed for a younger audience, discusses the techniques of test piloting developed over the years, personal qualifications and training of test pilots, short bios of famous test pilots, and some accounts of a few spectacular testing ventures. A clean presentable reading copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013167
- Title
- Test Pilot
- Author
- Martin Caidin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- test pilots, experimental aircraft, aircraft testing, Chuck Yeager, Gus Grissom USAF, NASA, space program, hypersonic aircraft, supersonic aircraft,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
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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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Title Page
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Cloth
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