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Seaplane Design
by Nelson, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1934. Stated first edition, 1934, association copy inscribed and signed by the author: To Jimmy Work, William Nelson 1934. Externally fair to good, internally good to very good. Groundbreaking work on early seaplane design, illustrated with black and white, plates, charts and diagrams. Jimmy Work was James Work, who served as a naval airship designer and chief draftsman at the Lakehurst NJ Air Station (where the Hindenburg disaster later occurred in 1937), and who founded Brewster Aeronautical Corp in 1932. Brewster first manufactured seaplane floats and wing panels, but rapidly grew into a defense contractor producing aircraft of dubious quality due to rushed wartime expansion, design issues, labor problems and suspected worker sabotage. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, 274 pages, no dustjacket. Covers scuffed with heavier rubbing and some fraying to the edges, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with no other names or markings.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044236
- Title
- Seaplane Design
- Author
- Nelson, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AVIATION HISTORY FLIGHT MARINE
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; World History, World Wars and Militaria;
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- Gilt
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- Association Copy
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- Rubbing
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- Fair
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- Spine
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- Edges
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