About this title: Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as "Queen Bess", a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream. 30 duotone photographs.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781560982654ISBN:1560982659
Description: Good/Wraps. Trade PB 1560982659 Book shows has a crease the length of the front cover, back cover has some crease too. 153 pages including index. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781560982654ISBN:1560982659
Description: New. First Printing 10-1. Minor jacket wear and tear. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 153pp, illus. edgewear, scratches, rubbing, dust jacket. light shelfwear cover. used book price inked over top front end page. clean and tight text. flight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781560982654ISBN:1560982659
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard cover is in fine condition as is the dust jacket. is unmarked and tightly bound. as if never read. read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781560982654ISBN:1560982659
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 172 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Dust Jacket Included. 1st printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG+/VG+. Sunning to spine of jacket. Gift inscription on FFEP. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. 153 pages including an index and a bibliography. Volume features a section of black and white illustrated plates. read more
Description: Smithsonian; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1560982659. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Index. The life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African-American woman aviator. A woman who defied the strictures of race, sex and society in pursuit of a dream.; Traces the life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African-American woman aviator, who dreamed of opening a flight school for African Americans but died in an crash in 1926. By the author of Amelia Earhart: A Biography.; Photographs; ... read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington
Date Published: 1993
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Presents the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Follows Coleman's life from her Texas childhood through South Side Chicago and on to France where, because no flight school in America would accept a woman of color, Coleman made her way and learned to fly. Incudes an Index. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781560982654ISBN:1560982659
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Used "What makes Queen Bess: Davedevil Aviator intriguing is how this Chicago manicurist, born dirt-poor in Atlanta, Texas in 1892 became America's first black aviatrix...."-QUARTERLY BLACK REVIEW OF BOOKS. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Washington DC, Smithsonia Inst Pres
Date Published: 1993
Description: HB, dj; As New; Signed by author. "the brief but intense life of Bessie coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texa, she would become known as " Queen Bess, " a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream. " Illustrated w photos. read more
Description: 8vo; dj few scuffs, near new; cover sl. mark on top front corner, otherwise as new; binding tight; near new condition, 153 pages with index, notes, biblio. b/w photos. 1copy. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C
Date Published: 1993
Description: F/NF (crease on front flap of dj. ) SIGNED Hardcover First edition-Biography of the America's first African American woman aviator-a woman who defied the strictures of race, sex and society in pursuit of a dream. Afterword by Mae Jemison. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. SIGNED on the title page by the author. read more
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