Charles e chuck yeager (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, a comprehensive textual and ilustrated history of "a very diverse and special family of aircraft whose 29 members have explored every facet of aerospace science," book has some mild foxing on the title page but is otherwisw in excellent condition, the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine, the jacket has moderate edge-wear, foxing is present but it is confined to the reverse side only which is protected by our professional (removable) mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 178 pages. Features: Editor's Forecast 1969 - The Best New Looks in Fashion and Beauty - 50 pages of predictions picked for success; Energy - The Untapped Powers That Can Change Your Whole Life; President-Elect Richard Milhouse Nixon; Alec McCowen - The Man Who Plays the Man Who Plays Pope Hadrian VII; Wig Versus Hair; Gorgeous photos of Marsha Hunt; Sixteen pages of Sun-Quest fashion photography in the Bahamas by Richard Avedon; The Young Life A Loft - Sculptor Peter Reginato and his wife live in a studiio atop a New York warehouse. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Penn, Irving (Cover); Avedon, Richard; Lichfield, Patrick (ilustrador).…

Legendary U.S. Air Force fighter pilot of World War Two, the Korean War and Vietnam War best known as the first test pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947. Signed broadside, heavy stock 16½" X 11", Chicago, IL, n.y. [1985]. Very good. Mild overall wear. White card stock promotional sheet placed behind plexiglass in the door of every "Chicago Tribune" metal newspaper stand, printed in black and orange and reading simply "The / Supersonic / Best Seller / YEAGER / Starting Sunday 7/28 / Chicago Tribune" in huge typefaces. In a light area at upper right, Yeager signs boldly in black fineline. Yeager's 1985 autobiography, titled simply "Yeager," proved a bestseller, especially coming as it did on the heels of the popular 1983 film "The Right Stuff" (in which he did a cameo as Fred the bartender and Sam Shepard portrayed Yeager); excerpts from it were serialized in Chicago's most popular newspaper. An exceptionally unusual item, these ephemeral broadsides being intended for temporary public display invariably followed by disposal -- ideal for display. Likely one of a kind.…