Summon the Stars: The Advance of Aviation from the Second World War

Joe Christy and Page Shamburger

ISBN 10: 0498073416 / ISBN 13: 9780498073410

Published by A.S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick and New York, 1970

About this Item

Dust jacket with protective plastic cover. Clipped (not price-clipped). Small sticky labels on plastic cover. Slight grubby appearance but generally good. The story of America's airmen and aircraft, both military and civilian, and also spacecraft, since 1939 to the early 1980s. The 'whys' as well as the whats, wheres and whens, are explored. Authors discuss Pearl Harbor, Defense Secretary MacNamara re the Viet Nam war, General Curtis Le May, the Berlin Airlift the rise of Pan American World Airways, breaking the sound barrier etc. Full of photos and text. 434 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £14.25 as book more than 1.25 kilos weight.

Seller Inventory # 3528

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Summon the Stars: The Advance of Aviation from the Second World War
• Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company, South Brunswick and New York
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0498073416
• ISBN 13: 9780498073410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

First Edition bound in green cloth. 9" x 11 1/2". A Near Fine copy in a VG+ dust jacket. Mild dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Mild tanning to the endpapers. The dust jacket is rubbed at the front panel and corners. Light wear to the head of its spine. Mild dust soiling to the rear panel.