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The Story of the U.S. Air Force
by Loomis, Robert D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. ©1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 182 p. 21.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth covered boards. Foxed along the edges and text block edges. Faint remains of previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has heavy wear and chipping to the spine ends, less so along the edges and at the corners. Top of spine has been repaired with cell tape. Folds and panels are somewhat rubbed and rear panel shows soil. No price on flap and has BOMC details on front flap. Illustrated with black and white drawings. One of the publisher's Landmark series books for children. Landmark Books No. 89 .
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Details
- Seller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4540
- Title
- The Story of the U.S. Air Force
- Author
- Loomis, Robert D
- Illustrator
- Bill Feeny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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