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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-17. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: John Long. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth gilt. Slight cant, slight corner wear. PO pencilled info to ffep; ffep toned. Tissued frontis. Trace foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pages .

London: John Long, 1907. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), uncut, 358 pp. Frontis., plates. Fine.

Hardback. New.

John Long, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. complete, 358 pages. edge wear on boards. foxing and marks. ownership sticker. partly loose binding and visible netting. page ends are roughly cut. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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London: John Long, 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. The first edition of Gertrude Bacon's biography of her father, pioneer aeronaut John M. Bacon. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece, and sixty-two photographs on forty plates. Collated, complete.Gertrude details the life of her father. He had been interested in aeronautics since his boyhood, and his first ascent in a balloon took place from Crystal Palace on the 20th August 1888. Whilst on these ascents, Bacon also did meteorological researching.In 1888, Bacon became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He underwent his ballooning and meteorological experiments with the help of his daughter, Gertrude, who paved the way for women in the aeronautical field. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A touch of shelf wear to spine tail, otherwise externally excellent. Significant spotting to fore edge of text block. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.… Read More