Jet blast and the hand of fate : adventures with landspeed cars and record balloons
by John Ackroyd
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0954435788
- ISBN 13
- 9780954435783
- Seller
-
Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Ackroyd, design engineer extraordinaire, has been a key man in a mad mix of land speed and long distance balloon record attempts, including the first supersonic land speed record. This book provides a fantastic insight into the frustrations, tragedies and triumphs of record breaking. This copy with gift inscription from 'Ackers' himself opposite half-title page. 283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm. First edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016089
- Title
- Jet blast and the hand of fate : adventures with landspeed cars and record balloons
- Author
- John Ackroyd
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0954435788
- ISBN 13
- 9780954435783
- Publisher
- Redline Books
- Date Published
- 2007
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