Airlines of the United States Since 1914 – R. E. G. Davies – Revised Edition, 1982 – Putnam

Author: R. E. G. Davies [Ronald Edward George Davies]
Title: Airlines of the United States Since 1914
Publisher: Putnam, London
Date: 1982
Edition: Revised Edition / Revised Reprinting
Format: Octavo
Pagination: xiii, 746pp
Illustrations: Numerous Black-and-White Photographs, Maps, Charts and Tables
Binding: Original Publisher’s Cloth, Lettered in Gilt
Dustwrapper: Original Pictorial Dustwrapper
Condition: Fine in Near Fine Dustwrapper
Stock Number: 004221
Location: OSR

Description

A particularly attractive copy of the 1982 revised edition of R. E. G. Davies’s major reference work Airlines of the United States Since 1914, published by Putnam and substantially updating the original 1972 edition. Davies traces the development of American commercial aviation from the earliest experimental services and government air-mail routes through the formation of the major airlines, the DC-3 era, wartime expansion, the post-war boom, deregulation-era change and the arrival of the modern jet age.

Aircraft, airports, navigation systems and organisational experience developed during the war all contributed directly to the post-war airline boom.

Condition

Revised Edition / Revised Reprinting, 1982. Octavo. xiii, 746pp. Original publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, charts and tables. Original pictorial dustwrapper.

The binding is nice and tight and very clean. The pages and illustrations are very nice and clean throughout. The book is in fine condition.

The original pictorial dustwrapper remains bright, clean and attractive, with only very minor signs of handling. The dustwrapper is in near fine condition.

Stock Number: 004221 Location: OSR

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