Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Publicado por John Murray Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.9.
Publicado por John Murray Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.9.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por John Murray Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Used - Like New. 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine.
Publicado por John Murray Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Used - Very Good. 2003. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Publicado por Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2003
Librería: Virg Viner, Books, Minneapolis, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. No Printing Stated. Using extraordinary research from the rich archives of aviation, the author pulls readers back to a time when flight seemed simutaneously crazy and tantalizing, drawing them along with the Wrights' twisting path of trial, error and breakthrough. 430 pages including index. B&W photos. Fabulous copy.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: RiverRaisinBooks, Dundee, MI, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: New.
Publicado por London : John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
1st UK Edition. This is the story of how the obscure but brilliant and determined Wilbur Wright, and his brother Orville, beat rich, powerful and sometimes unscrupulous rivals to become the first to fly. At the turn of the 20th century, as Wilbur Wright himself said, men by common consent adopted flight as the standard of impossibility. Intense, brilliant, determined, Wilbur and his brother Orville seized that challenge for their own. They were obscure bicycle makers from Ohio who went to a deserted Atlantic beach to devise the world's first aeroplane, and they faced keen competition from far more prominent men, equally driven to make history. First came Samuel Langley, head of the Smithsonian Institution, the odds-on favourite to fly first. Under intense public scrutiny, his ponderous aerodrome dropped into the icy Potomac River like a handful of mortar just nine days before the Wrights' unheralded first flight at Kitty Hawk. Yet the Wrights were so obscure they were all but ignored. So for six years they fought for recognition - flying a full circle before the disbelieving French, competing against Alexander Graham Bell, and finally against the motorcyclist Glenn Curtiss, fastest man in the world. In the final showdown with Curtiss in 1909, Wilbur Wright circled Manhattan above a million ecstatic spectators. The brothers' place in history was assured. Using his research in the rich archives of aviation, James Tobin pulls readers back to a time when flight seemed simultaneously crazy and tantalizing, drawing them along the Wrights' twisting path of trial, error and breakthrough. No one, Orville later remarked to Charles Lindbergh, quite understands the spirit of those times. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 430 pages; Description: vii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) --Wright, Orville (1871-1948) --Aeronautics --United States --History 1 Kg.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557380 ISBN 13: 9780719557385
Librería: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First British Edition. Copy in illustrated card wraps. Free of inscriptiobns. Clean text with b/w plates.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: As New. First edition. ISBN 0719557275. Hardback. First Printing. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. As new condition.
Publicado por London : John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
1st UK Edition. This is the story of how the obscure but brilliant and determined Wilbur Wright, and his brother Orville, beat rich, powerful and sometimes unscrupulous rivals to become the first to fly. At the turn of the 20th century, as Wilbur Wright himself said, men by common consent adopted flight as the standard of impossibility. Intense, brilliant, determined, Wilbur and his brother Orville seized that challenge for their own. They were obscure bicycle makers from Ohio who went to a deserted Atlantic beach to devise the world's first aeroplane, and they faced keen competition from far more prominent men, equally driven to make history. First came Samuel Langley, head of the Smithsonian Institution, the odds-on favourite to fly first. Under intense public scrutiny, his ponderous aerodrome dropped into the icy Potomac River like a handful of mortar just nine days before the Wrights' unheralded first flight at Kitty Hawk. Yet the Wrights were so obscure they were all but ignored. So for six years they fought for recognition - flying a full circle before the disbelieving French, competing against Alexander Graham Bell, and finally against the motorcyclist Glenn Curtiss, fastest man in the world. In the final showdown with Curtiss in 1909, Wilbur Wright circled Manhattan above a million ecstatic spectators. The brothers' place in history was assured. Using his research in the rich archives of aviation, James Tobin pulls readers back to a time when flight seemed simultaneously crazy and tantalizing, drawing them along the Wrights' twisting path of trial, error and breakthrough. No one, Orville later remarked to Charles Lindbergh, quite understands the spirit of those times. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 430 pages; Description: vii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912) --Wright, Orville (1871-1948) --Aeronautics --United States --History 1 Kg.
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
Librería: G T Carter Transport Books, Wanganui, WHANG, Nueva Zelanda
Card Covers. Condición: Fine. 432 pages; black and white photographs. (The Wright brothers faced powerful, sceptical and sometimes unscrupulous rivals in the race for flight. This is the enthralling story of their victory.).
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Holanda
Condición: as new. London : John Murray, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. vi,430 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780719557279. Keywords : ,
Publicado por John Murray, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557275 ISBN 13: 9780719557279
Librería: ivanpavlovitch, East Hoathly, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. fine hardcover, 1st, dustjacket unclipped.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 2003
Librería: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, Reino Unido
Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Thus. Illustrated. Some minor marking to edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0719557380 ISBN 13: 9780719557385
Librería: Itziar Arranz Libros & Dribaslibros, Boadilla del Monte, MAD, España
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condición: Bien. 4º menor. Cartoné con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Portada, 430 pàgs. Ilustrado. Ver fotografía índice. Buen estado de conservación. Ver fotografías.5-2.