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Sagittarius Rising
por Lewis, Cecil
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Livreiro
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. (1963). Second Printing. Hardcover. First published in 1936, this is the 2nd printing 1963. Book is fine. No ownership or other marks. Binding sound, tight and square. There is some faint fine speckling on top edge of text block otherwise as new. DJ is clean but has minor edge wear, two 1/2 inch tears at lower part of back and a 5/16 x 1/8 inch hole over rear hinge near top. DJ in Brodart archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages .
Sinopse
A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince A singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I. Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the Western Front only a year later. At the time, flying was so new that designers hadn’t even decided on basic mechanics such as how many wings a plane should have. Despite this, Lewis mastered virtually every kind of single-engine plane in the RFC, going on to excel in active duty and even to dogfight the Red Baron—and live to tell the tale. Full of infectious charm and written with the prose and pacing of a novel, Sagittarius Rising beautifully recounts Lewis’s harrowing exploits in the sky alongside his wild times of partying and chasing girls while on leave in London. His coming-of-age story is unlike any other WWI memoir you’ve read before.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 17350
- Título
- Sagittarius Rising
- Autor
- Lewis, Cecil
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edição
- Second Printing
- Editorial
- Stackpole Books
- Local de publicação
- Harrisburg, PA
- Data de publicação
- (1963)
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Aviation; Military History; World War I;
Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Membro de Biblio desde 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
Sobre James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
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