Moon Plane, First Edition (6 results)

Condition: Very Good. McCarty, Peter (illustrator). First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. McCarty, Peter (illustrator). First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. base 01 5¼"x8¾"; 234 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. The dust-jacket is not price-clipped and has a clear polyester book jacket cover. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following stories: The Intruder; A Love Song; Falling in Love; Blessings; Sunday Morning; Allthe Time in the World; Woman on a Plane; The Colonel's Wife; The Lover; The Last Moon; The Timing of Sin; At Night; Out of the Snow; Dancing After Hours.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original pictorial boards. Text in French. Includes the accompanying model and figurine. One from the collection of 50 books and models. Very slight wear. In very near fine, clean condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed with an illustrated by the author to editor and author, Charlotte Zolotow. Winner of the Charlotte Zolotow Award with a program from the ceremony laid in. A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon. From the library of Charlotte Zolotow, editor and publisher at Harper's celebrated children's books department, and acclaimed author of over 65 children's books. She is credited for her contributions to the Children's Liberation Movement which believed the rights and emotional concerns of children be recognized and treated as the equal of adults.

First edition, [34]pp., final leaf blank, final signature bound out of order. 2 works bound in one, recent full calf to style, spine with five raised bands, intricate gilt tooling to compartments, red morocco title label lettered in gilt. Prior to going to Greenwich as Maskelyne's Assistant in 1788, William Garrard (active 1781-1808) was an usher at Mr Bettesworth's Marine Academy, Ormond House, Paradise Row, Chelsea. The tables within the first work, which are not paginated, consist of: Table I, Where in the Distance is Extended to Three Hundred and the Angles Shewn to Every Ten Minutes of the Quadrant. Table II, Being a Traverse Table of Quarter Points Wherein the Distance is Given From 1 to 300. Table III, From Whence the Sides of Plane Right Angled Triangles May be Taken to Six Places of Figures, Being the Radical Table on White the Proceeding Two are Founded. Table IV, Being An Improved Table of Meridional Parts For More Accurately Solving the Cases of Mercator's Sailing. The second work contains a two page preface followed by Tables and Observations. Both works are rare and recorded by ESTC in only a handful of locations.