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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition.

dura. Condizione: Buen Estado. Condizione sovraccoperta: Buen Estado.

Condizione: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condizione: Good. Largeprint. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: VERY FINE/LIKE NEW. First Edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Cream color cover with black wrapped spine has gold foil stamp for the name of the authors, title, and publisher. Cover is clean, unmarked, and his straight boards with only a slight amount of bumping to the tips. Pages are white, unmarked and firmly bound, and this book is in virtually unread condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.42.

Condizione: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.

Condizione: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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first edition, hardcover octavo (VG+) d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good - Some Marks. The jacket has some scuffed edges.

Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition - - Chuck Yeager was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947. This book is the adventure of his life - - The fastest man in the sky a solid gold hero the stuff of legend.' Chuck Yeager has been described as all these things and more. A double-ace fighter pilot in the Second World War, the first man to break the sound barrier, the most daring and courageous test pilot, whose exploits inspired The Right Stuft, and the most colourful character ever to rise to the rank of US brigadier general. Chuck Yeager's story is truly the stuff that dreams are made of. - Fascinated by planes ever since he can remember, Yeager went straight from school to the US Air Force where, despite frequent brushes with the authorities for his hell-raising exploits, he quickly earned a reputation äs one of the most skilled and fearless pilots. Within months of the USA entering the war, Yeager had scored no fewer than eleven Messerschmitts in one flight, and had a remarkable escape with the help of the French Resistance after he was shot down over occupied France. - In 1947 Yeager, already famous, went on to become the first man to break the sound barrier in the super-secret Bell X-1 - even though he had cracked ribs from a riding accident a few days before. He never looked back; his career äs number one test pilot was an integral part of the supersonic era - and littered with extraordinarily narrow escapes, though his courage and feel for aeroplanes never let him down. It was a life where pilots either set new records or drilled a hole in the desert. And the tension of such endless strain could sometimes only be relieved with all-night drinking sessions at Pancho Barnes' -the Madame with the raunchiest bar room in the West and a great friend of Yeager's. - After he left Edwards Air Force Base in 1954 Chuck Yeager went on setting new Standards of excellence, whether commanding a fighter squadron in Europe, flying tactical bombers in Southeast Asia, or supervising military defence in the Pakistan-lndia War. - Yeager is the story of an extraordinary life, told to Leo Janos in the man's own inimitable 'no-holds-barred' style. Throughout, Yeager's knowledge and love of planes shines through, äs does his great love for Glennis, his wife. And it is through her eyes, as well as through the eyes of friends and colleagues that we come to know Yeager the man: literally a legend in his lifetime. - LEO JANOS is a prize-winning author who has written extensively on a broad ränge of subjects for The New York Times and other major publications. He was a Time correspondent for nine years, first in Washington, then as Houston bureau chief covering Apollo space flights. 342 p. Photos very good condition, dust jacket slightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book. Prior owner signature to flyleaf.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Wraps rubbed with edgewear, corner chipped. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Glued binding on vintage paperbacks may be brittle. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo 342pp., b/w plates index, The First Man through the Sound Barrier in the Bell X-1.

Softcover. First Edition (10), 331 pp., This prepublication copy does not have the pictorial content of the final trade edition. Bound in white boards with black titling. Light wear along edges but seemingly unread. Light tanning to edges and paper margin.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Hardcover, in dust jacket. SIGNED by Colonel Bud Anderson mid-text. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Very Good in Brodart. Illustrated B&W Photographs (illustratore). First Edition. 0553050931 A First Edition with the copyright page listing the full number sequence of 1-10 being present. The dust jacket's original price is still present. Pages are clean, tight and bright. Generously illustrated throughout! 342 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition Later Printing. Autobiography of the record-shattering test pilot, in 342 pages with Index + 24 pages of black-and-white photos. A FIRST EDITION, later (16th) printing from 1985, this hardcover 8vo has a quarter black cloth-wrapped spine with tan paper over the remaining boards. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding sturdy, hinges secure, pages off-white with moderate tanning to all edges, but unmarked. Mild-moderate rubbing to extremities, corner bumping. The unclipped DJ is Good+, with chips at all corners & both ends of spine, but colorful & bright. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED boldly on the front endpaper "Chuck Yeager" (no inscription). Hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket is NOT price-clipped and has a 1" gray smudge on the back cover and a few tiny chips/tears. It looks very nice under the fresh mylar cover I've added. The book is sturdy, clean and complete.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 342pp., b/w plates, index, The First Man through the Sound Barrier in the Bell X-1. This is a Taiwanese bootleg edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dj. 7th printing. inscribed by Yeager on ffep in blue ink-"To: Pete & Kit Ryan/ Good Luck/ Chuck Yeager". front board is warped toward front. some fading near edges of both boards with small moisture spot near the bottom of front board. moderate bump on bottom, front corners. dimpling on a few pages, does not affect text.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 342pp., b/w pls., index, The First Man through the Sound Barrier in the Bell X-1. Owner's stamp & some annotations by previous owner who was in RAAF Bomber Command.

reprint dust jacket Near Fine octavo 342pp., b/w pls., index, The First Man through the Sound Barrier in the Bell X-1.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Fine unread condition beige boards with a black cloth spine and gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Index; and About Leo Janos. Illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographic plates. The lower front left jacket edge has a 1/2 inch repaired closed tear (see photographs); the jacket is otherwise in fine condition. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). " "The secret to my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day." General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all .the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. the World War II fighting ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang. the hero who defined a certain quality that all the hot-shot flyboys of the post-war era aimed to achieve .Chuck Yeager is the right stuff. Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his career as a flier. He joined the Air Force at Eighteen, fresh out of high school. By tewnty-two he had risen through the ranks on the wings of his heroic exploits: his dogfighting over the flak-filled skies of Nazi Europe; his escape with the help of the French resistance after he was shot down over ocupied France; his determination to stay in the war and bring down as many German planes as he could, despite orders to send him home. But it was after the war in 1947 that Yeager captured world-wide recognition as the first test pilot to smash the sound barrier -- flying the supersecret Bell X-1 despite cracked ribs from a riding accident a few days before. This was truly the Golden Age of Aviation, the exciting leap into the supersonic era, and Chuck Yeager was there every step of the way. Through him we can relive those daredevil days when pilots either set records or drilled a hole in the desert -- when the tension of wondering whether you would be the next to die could always be worked off with some hard drinking and fighting at Pancho Barnees's notorious desert bar and ranch house. By the time he left Edwards Air Force Base in 1954 he was already a legend. But Chick Yeager kept on setting new standards of excellence, whether commanding a fighter squadron in Europe, flying tactical bombers in Southeast Asia, or supervising military defense in the Pakistan-India war. The story is all here, in Yeager's own words, and in wonderful reminiscences from his wife, Glennis, and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. Glennis's contributions to the book, as indeed to Yeager's life, are especially important for what they tell us about the day-to-day strain of living with a man who daily braved death in the skies. about the special kind of heroism it takes for a young woman to raise a family of four in the bleak Mojave desert in primitive makeshift lodgings. Chuck Yeager's exciting, entertaining and immensely revealing book is a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true America hero." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Includes a inscribed note from Chuck Yeager written on the back of a 1994 American Airlines Flight plan slip. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.

1st edition, later printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper Near fine/very good (price-clipped dj shows wear and slight discoloration at top of spine).

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 342pp., b/w plates, index, The First Man through the Sound Barrier in the Bell X-1.