timothy hewat (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover with dark blue cloth over boards, golden lettering. White DJ with pictorial front cover, black and red text across covers and spine. Faint scuffing across back cover, likely due to shelf wear. A few creases near top right corner of front cover, corners gently bumped. No text marred, no tears. DJ encased in protective mylar sleeve to prevent further damage. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1955. 160 pages. Section of glossy black and white photo pages at center of text. Pages clean and bright. Binding neat and tight. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 160 pages, illustrated with black and white plates, third impression. The jacket is rubbed along the edge with loss to the head and tail as well as the outer edges; the half title page and the last page are discoulred along the inner edge. Internally the book is clean, unmarked and solid. ".the full story of the Comet, the world's first jet airliner, from its first brave hopes and promise to its tragic crashes in which British aviation hopes crashed, too." (front flap).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. The Comet Riddle by W A Waterton & Timothy Hewat. Publisher: Frederick Muller, 1955, First Edition, first printing. Good hardback with jacket. Blue boards have a little fading and bumping to edges, binding firm, tanning and some foxing to pages, some corner creasing and chipping to a few pages, inscription dated 1956 on ffep. Jacket is rubbed, marked, chipped and creased with some small loss and repaired tears. 160 pages, illustrated. This book tells the full story of the Comet, the first jet airliner, from its first flights to its major crashes.