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The Airplane and its Components

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Signed : No
Topic : Airships
Place of Publication : New York
Subject : Science & Medicine
Language : English
Country/Region of Manufacture : United States
Year Printed : 1942
Original/Facsimile : Original
Personalized : No
Region : North America
Binding : Hardcover
Author : William R. Sears, Ph.D
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Special Attributes : 1st Edition, Ex-Library, Illustrated

Hardbound, heavy bright blue cloth boards with gold text on the spine, ex-library book with Dewey number on lower spine, library pocket and check out sheet removed from the front and free end papers. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. Debossed publishers’ symbol and “GALCIT Aeronautical Series” (GALCIT = Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory California Institute of Technology) to the front cover. Boards are in very nice condition with only slight wear at the top and bottom of the back strip and along the front and rear gutters. Corners are sharp with the slightest of wear at each corner. Spine is straight with no cracking to the endpapers. Text block is solid with all pages firmly attached. There is a stain along the top edge but does not impact interior pages. Filled with in-text and full-page B&W illustrations and photographs from various plane manufactures. Age tanning throughout especially at the front of the pages. There are some smudges to the title page but otherwise all interior pages are clean with no tears, cracks, or previous owner marks. 75 pages including index Dimensions: H – 9” W – 6”. William Rees Sears (1913 – 2002) was an aeronautical engineer (at Northrop Aircraft) and an educator (Caltech, Cornell University and University of Arizona). He was also an editor (Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences and Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics), writer and musician (he worked his way through college playing drums for dance bands, after moving to California a tympanist with the Pasadena Symphony, at Cornell he became an expert recorder player and he played with the Collegium Musicum at the University of Arizona for 20 years. If that weren’t enough, he was also the recipient of numerous awards in the aeronautical field.

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