Isbn: 9780874748321 - Pacific Air Race (13 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The true story of the first Pacific air race--August 16, 1927. Of eight entrants, only two finished, three were lost at sea, two crashed on takeoff, and one caught fire and returned to Oakland after the start. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (w/dj)A clean tightly bound hardcover copy. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the dust jacket and lightly bumped corners. A really nice copy overall.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. LOOKS LIKE NEW. VERY WELL ILLUSTRATED. k73.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 147pp. Tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Story of the first Pacific Air Race, 1927.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Hardcover with dustjacket. SIGNED & inscribed by author on title page. Slight spine lean. Boards lightly rubbed. Faint sticker scar on front fly leaf. Foxing to end papers. Edgewear with light creases and short tears to DJ. Spine head has been repaired with tape on the inner DJ. Light rubbing to DJ panels. ; B&W Photographs; 22D; 9.10 X 6.20 X 0.80 inches; 208 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in jacket. Inscribed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. vii, [1], 148 p. Illustrations. Aircraft Specifications. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. In 1927 James D. Dole offered $25, 000 to the first flier to cross from North America to Honolulu. Only two of the seven planes that started made it. From the dust jacket: "From a prospective field of thirty pilots, fifteen entered the race, but only nine were ready for take-off on August 16, 1927. Three planes had crashed en route to Oakland; three participants were dead. Others withdrew, were disqualified, or never showed up. To the cheers of 75, 000 people, eight planes managed to take off into the fog over San Francisco. Tragically, seven more died during the course of the race. Only two planes finished the trip: the Woolaroc reached Wheeler Field in a little over 26 hours and the Aloha arrived a couple of hours later. Fifty thousand people were there to greet them, ." Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has slight wear and soiling.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The true story of the first Pacific air race, August 16, 1927.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. Account of this early air race from Califonia to Hawaii in 1927 whcih only two planes completes and resulted in a number of deaths. 148pp, illustrated. VG copy in dust wrapper.

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