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Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Sm 4to., 279 pp., cover edges rubbed, corners bumped, page toning .
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1929
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: fair. First Edition. First? Printing. 279, illus., maps, boards stained & somewhat marred, some water staining at top edge, minor printing defect on pp. 142/3. Front board weak. The story of the establishment of an air route from London to India. Sir Philip was British Undersecretary of State for Air, November 1924 to May 1929. The author's own story of the 17, 000 mile flying tour of British oversea air stations in Egypt, the Sudan, Transjordania, Iraq, India, and Malta. Introduction by Thornton Wilder.
Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce, first edition of this entertaining account of a long-distance flight from Britain through Europe, Africa and the Middle East. First edition.Scarce. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Written by Sir Philip Sassoon, a British politician and socialite, who travelled widely during his life. 'The Third Route' depicts Sassoon's own experiences in travelling on the 17,000-mile-long flying tour of British air stations overseas, visiting places including Egypt, India, Malta, the Sudan, and many others. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with twenty-four photographs and maps, one of which is folding, and brightly illustrated endpapers. Lacking the plate to page 128. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Externally, sound with slight rubbing to the extremities. Slight bumping to extremities and head and tail of the spine, causing tears to spine ends and joints. Slight discolouration to the cloth. Bookplate remnants to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good. book.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
1929 1st U.S. edition with B&W illustrations; red cloth binding neatly mended; gilt lettering to front and spine; spine and front panel darkened; discolouration spots to back panel; wear to top and base of spine. Page fore-edges yellowed and untrimmed. Internally, pages yellowed with a few discolouration spots; otherwise, a readable copy. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).
Published by London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
First edition. 8vo. viii, 291, (1) pp. Publisher's pale blue cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, colour map endpapers. Frontispiece and 23 black and white photographic plates plus a folding maps. Mild bumping to the edges, some spotting to the front and rear, very good overall. An account of a long distance flight from Britain through Europe, north Africa and the Middle East to India an back.