Young Orville and Wilbur Wright loved building things. From the fastest sled in town to the highest-flying kite, the Wright brothers’ creations were always a step ahead of everyone else’s. They grew up learning all about mechanics from fixing bicycles and studied math and physics. On December 17, 1903, Orville took off in the world’s first flying machine! The Wright airplane is one of the most amazing–and life-changing–
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Young Orville and Wilbur Wright loved building things. From the fastest sled in town to the highest-flying kite, the Wright brothers? creations were always a step ahead of everyone else?s. They grew up learning all about mechanics from fixing bicycles and studied math and physics. On December 17, 1903, Orville took off in the world?s first flying machine! The Wright airplane is one of the most amazing?and life-changing?
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Landmark Book Pictorial Cover is in Very Good condition with a tight binding and mostly clean crisp pages. Inside text is in Very Good condition with some minor soiling, but appears to have had little use. There is a bent bottom corner on the first title page. Some minor soiling to some outside page edges. Pictorial covers are nice with some minor soiling and corner and edge wear. There was no Dust Jacket with this Pictorial Cover issue. Book has come from a private collection. Landmark Books and World Landmark Books are accurate, in-depth stories for young people in the 9-15 year old range. These living histories were written by award-winning authors or by men and women who experienced the events first hand. Written during the 1950's and 1960's and illustrated either with two-color drawings or clear photographs, the books are informative, enjoyable, and well worth reading and collecting. Seller Inventory # 231007B
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First Printing, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 183 pages. Illustrations on endpapers are specific to this book (airplanes). Description: Illustrated with drawings by Jacob Landau This is Number 10 in the Landmark Books series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations. Quentin Reynolds wrote three others in the Landmark series: The F.B.I. , The Battle of Britain, and Custer's Last Stand as well as several other nonfiction books. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with title and series device printed on the front cover; the top edge tint is red; a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket. ISBN: 0394803108. Seller Inventory # 067619
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