Into the Water Barrier
Campbell, Donald
From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 June 2002
Quantity: 1From Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 June 2002
Quantity: 1About this Item
Owner's signature. Moderate browning and spotting to pag edges. Moderate rubbing to edges of boards. Some masking tape repairs to verso of dust wrapper. Adhesive tape stains at margins of dust wrapper. 1" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. Creasing and rubbing to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 239, [1] pages + frontis + 32 illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles on spine. "After his father's Bluebird was wrecked, when it hit a submerged log at 170 m.p.h., and John Cobb had been killed on Loch Ness, he spent every penny he owned - even mortaging his house - to build a turbo-het hydroplane. // [.] a new world record of 202.32 m.p.h. was established on 23rd July. // Donald thus became the first man to travel at this speed and live to tell the story." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 4305
Bibliographic Details
Title: Into the Water Barrier
Publisher: Odhams Press (1955), London
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
Store Description
Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, trading as Renaissance Books. Contact details: Renaissance Books, 271 High St, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand. Phone: +64 3 4719294. Email: info@renaissancebooks.co.nz. Website: www.renaissancebooks.co.nz. GST #39 820 209. Terms of Sale: All books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund of the book price, not including shipping. Return shipping also refunded where books are not as described.
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