commander geoffrey rawson (3 resultados)

Condición: Fair. 1938. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Pull-out black and white map to frontispiece. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining overall.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First Edition. Octavo, blue boards with gold spine lettering, 284 pp., frontispiece, 14 plates and two integral maps. Rubbed at spine ends, some foxing, otherwise a good copy in worn dust-jacket. Book club edition. The autobiography of the great Australian airman, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, who narrated in great detail the story of his flying life - a life so full of adventure, romance, danger, thrill, and excitement, that it is an epic of the Air Age. This book, published posthumously, brings forth his early struggles, his first great flight across the Pacific Ocean, his numerous flights around the world and the startling series of flights across the Tasman Sea, when on several occasions he and his companions were very near to death. The illustrations were chosen by Lady Kingsford-Smith herself.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First Edition. Octavo, blue boards with gold spine lettering, 284 pp., with 32 pp. publisher's advertisements bound in. With a frontispiece, 14 plates and two integral maps. Some flecking at edges of the boards and spine, page edges foxed, overall a very good copy in a heavily worn and taped dust-jacket. The autobiography of the great Australian airman, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, who narrated in great detail the story of his flying life - a life so full of adventure, romance, danger, thrill, and excitement, that it is an epic of the Air Age. This book, published posthumously, brings forth his early struggles, his first great flight across the Pacific Ocean, his numerous flights around the world and the startling series of flights across the Tasman Sea, when on several occasions he and his companions were very near to death. The illustrations were chosen by Lady Kingsford-Smith herself.