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Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers
by Howard, Fred
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 039454269X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542690
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. 25 cm, 530, illus., bibliography, index, DJ worn at edges and somewhat soiled, front DJ flap price clipped. The author edited the multivolume edition of the Wright papers in the Library of Congress. Early aerial experimentation in America, France, and England. Included is Chanute obsessed with the mechanics of flight, and Curtiss whose challenge to the Wright patents precipitated lawsuits.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39365
- Title
- Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers
- Author
- Howard, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 039454269X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542690
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Aerial Experiments, Aeronautics, Orville Wright, Chanute, Glenn Curtiss, Gliders, John Montgomery, Wilbur Wright, Samuel Langley
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.