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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by C. Jucker, the Spruce Goose's flight crew chief, to his portrait photo on the front end-paper illustration. Generously illustrated throughout with photographs. A definitive, unsuppressed, behind-the-scenes, historical, in-depth account of the legendary seaplane, The Spruce Goose, and the man who designed and flew it. Upper front corner tip and upper spine edge very lightly crimped, else near fine in dark-blue leatherette with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, photo-pictorial end-papers; in a very good dust jacket with a half-inch tear to the upper edge and to the lower edge of the front panel, very short tears and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges, a two-inch tear to the upper rear panel that is tape-reinforced to the verso; original printed $19.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Quarto; 272 pages; appendix; notes; and index. Signed by Author(s). …