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octavo, cloth. New Edition, Revised. New Edition, Revised. octavo, cloth. xx, 337 pp. Little, Brown, Throughout the history of aviation there is a story of adventure, of men who are groping their way towards big ideas, of risks undertaked, though they were but half understood, and of a success that yielded slowly to the persistence and ingenuity of a hundred brilliant men. It is a story in which Americans played a foremost part. Illustrated with photographs. Name on front endpaper, bit of spotting and fading to spine. Blubs from dust jacket glued to back endpapers.
Published by Garden City Pub Co, New York, 1938
Seller: Attic Treasures Book Shop, Mt. Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 354 pages with index in rear; Acknowledgments and disclaimer in front; 28 chapters; Pages tight; minor yellowing; page edges cut roughly; no markings; Several glossy b/w photos and illustrations in book. Black hard cover with lettering on spine. Corners bumped; Some fading, smudges, and rubbing on covers. Moderate shelf wear. Book traces aspects of power-electricity; steam; locomotive, railroads; motors; engines; water, wind power; dynamo; ships; turbines; etc. Chapter headings include: Muscles for Machinery; When Horses were wishes; The winds and the Waters; Atmosphere goes ot work; Stack Blast; John fitch writes in water; Without help of Napoleaon; Steel Shoulders; Mr. Edison's Jumbo; Emancipated mules; New colossus; Spent waters; Prairies and Mikados; Wanted a new watt; Peak Load, etc. RARE VINTAGE BOOK.
Published by Garden City Publishing Co.,, 1938
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1938 in fair dust jacket.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1932
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. No dust jacket. Cover a little soiled and bent. Spine leaning. Light foxing and soiling on some pages. Good condition.
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1929
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condition: G ex-library. Illus (illustrator). 2nd ptg. Top of spine split, edge wear.
Published by Knowledge Publications, 2006
ISBN 10: 1603220011ISBN 13: 9781603220019
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.
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Published by Garden City Publishing Co.,, 1938
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition. Missing dust jacket. Clean inside.
Published by Little, Brown, 1929
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: very good. no jacket. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Book with red cloth cover, print and small illustration of a balloon in black. Some light foxing on rear of frontis. Clean pages.
Published by Doubleday Doran and Company, New York, 1932
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. first edition, Junior Literary Guild. 8vo 354pp. stated first edition, Junior Literary Guild. popular and humorous narrative account of the development of physical power and its application over the course of human history--from human power, to animals, to wind, water, steam and finally electricity. #01557. Book VG-: age wear to boards and spine, bumped corners, mild toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding intact.
Published by Forgotten Books, 2020
ISBN 10: 133274916XISBN 13: 9781332749164
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
Book Print on Demand
Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Excerpt from Sky High. About the Publisher, Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some errors may persist, however we consider it worth publishing due to the work's historical value. The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase. print-on-demand item.
Published by Little, Brown and Company,, Boston, 1929
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
1st edition, 2nd impression. Binding tight; spine slightly bumped at head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).
Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/FR. Black & White Plates (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Junior Literary Guild. G/FR. 1932. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. Sm 4to., 354 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, waterstained, page toning .
Published by Doubleday Doran, 1932
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lightly read if read at all. No DJ. Scuffed covers. No markings in book. Binding is tight. Book review laid in.
octavo, cloth. First Edition. First Edition. octavo, cloth. xx, 337 pp. Little, Brown, Throughout the history of aviation there is a story of adventure, of men who are groping their way towards big ideas, of risks undertaked, though they were but half understood, and of a success that yielded slowly to the persistence and ingenuity of a hundred brilliant men. It is a story in which Americans played a foremost part.
Published by Doubleday Doran, New York, 1932
Seller: Winding Road Books, Templeton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Doubleday Doran, 1932, New York. Hardcover. First American Edition/First Printing. Fine. Book has been well preserved for 80 years and is clean and mark free throughout, with rigid, square boards and a tight spine. Just some slight tanning on the endpapers and a bit of dust on the top of the text. Now brushed away. Appears unread. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing.
Published by Whittlesey House, 1931
Seller: Resource for Art and Music Books , Ivoryton, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Whittlesey House, stated 1st Ed., 1931, Hardcover, no DJ,8vo - over 7" - 9" tall, 495pp. Illustrated in B/W. Firm binding, no ownership markings, light even tanning to pages, a few pages chipped along fore-edge, several small dampstains to top text block.
Published by N.Y: WHITTLESEY HOUSE, 1931
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. N.Y: WHITTLESEY HOUSE January 1931 Binding: Hardcover.
Published by Little, Brown and Company,, Boston, 1935, Revised edition,, 1935
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, xxii,414pp, illustrated, owner's gift inscription on flyleaf, slight foxing, text clean and sound, blue cloth pictorial, rubbed, corners bumped, Good / no dustwrapper.
Published by Garden City Publishing Co., [1938]., New York:, 1938
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
8vo. xvi, [2], 354 pp. Numerous photo plates. Black cloth, red lettrng (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpg to crnrs, rmnts of Christmas seals on endpapers), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, crnrs, some edgewear, mnr creasng), still G/G copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on ffep. Reprint edition of this excellent work tracing the history of water, steam, and electrical engines and generators.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1932
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
354 pp. Beige endpapers. Black cloth with faded gilt titles. Corners bumped. VG.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket with couple tiny chips. Previous owner bookplate.
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1931
Seller: Invicta Books P.B.F.A., Builth Wells, POWYS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. some light wear to the top and bottom edge of the spine, some light wear to the corners of the boards, some browning to the edge of the pages, illustrated, 495 pages.
Published by Little, Brown and Company,, 1929
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Not Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Well-read copy with some spine wear but still useable. Colouring of pages due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1258777258ISBN 13: 9781258777258
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1931
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good minus condition for 2 tiny enclosed tears to page edges. Stated first edition. Inscribed by author, Alexander F.Magoun, "To John Jewett, just because his dad went "up in the air" no matter what happened". Illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Includes Appendix, with Bibliography, Chronology of Flight, and Index. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1258773090ISBN 13: 9781258773090
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, New York, 1931
Seller: virtualrarities, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. Very Good+. Inscribed by author at free front endpaper: "To my good summer neighbors, the Stetsons, with the delightful knowledge that they never go 'up in the air' no matter what happens. F. Alexander Magoun, June 1939". Illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Includes Appendix, with Bibliography, Chronology of Flight, and Index. Blue cloth with silver titling and small airplane on spine and front cover. Covers show light bumping, light wear at top & bottom of spine, light wear to titling on spine. Very light soiling at free front endpaper above inscription; otherwise interior is unmarked. Mild sunning to page edges. Binding is tight. 495 pp. Approx. 6.5" x 9.5". Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York, 1932
Seller: NWJbooks, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Author signed on the half title page & inscribed on the first free end paper: "To William Webster merely as a reminder that you can't always tell how far a frog can jump by counting the spots on his legs, F. Alexander Magoun April 1, 1932". Gilt spine lettering & blindstamped black front cover. 8vo, 354pp. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Whittlesey House, New York / London
Seller: Antiquariat Johann Forster, Friedenweiler, BW, Germany
1. Ed. New York / London, Whittlesey House, 1931. 8°. XX, 495 S. mit 155 Figures. Bibliography, Appendix, Index. OLwd., sehr gut erhalten (condition best). (s. Foto). Sprache: eng.
Published by CHIZINE PUBN, 2018
ISBN 10: 137704212XISBN 13: 9781377042121
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Book
Condition: New.