Add this copy of Stormy Genius: the Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill to cart. $4.00, good condition, Sold by Copperfield's Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Spring, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Add this copy of Stormy Genius: the Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by Dorothy Meyer-Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Batavia, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Very good in good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. 401 pages including the index. Dust jacket has 1" chip with creases bottom front. Price is not clipped.
Add this copy of Stormy Genius the Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear to cart. $33.75, very good condition, Sold by Crossroad Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eau Claire, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Houghton Mifflin (T).
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. 0395353726. Light bumping to spine head and rear top board edge. A bit of light soil to page top edges and rear flyleaf. Else pages clean. Rubbing to DJ spine extremities and corners. Surface rubbing to DJ front panel. Rubbed soil to DJ rear panel.; BIH19C; 9.25" x 11.25"; 401 pages.
Add this copy of Stormy Genius; the Life of Aviation's Maverick, Bill to cart. $67.50, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Very good in Good jacket. 24 cm. [12], 401, [3] pages. Illustrations. Patents. Selected Bibliography. Notes. Index. Some wear, soiling, and edge tears to DJ. William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902-May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. Throughout his career of 46 years, Lear received over 120 patents. Richard L. Rashke (born 1936) is an American journalist, teacher and author, who has written non-fiction books, as well as plays and screenplays. He is especially known for his history, Escape from Sobibor, first published in 1982, an account of the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor in German-occupied Poland. Drawn to compelling stories, including Bill Lear, an aviation engineer and inventor who did not get beyond seventh grade. Bill Lear did more in his unorthodox way to make the skies safe for pilots than an other man of his era. "Bill stirred men's blood, " said one of Lear's employees, and after reading this spirited biography by the author of The Killing of Karen Silkwood, the reader understands why. Although lacking formal education, especially in science, Lear was an inventive genius, his interests ranging from radio to airplanes, wire recorders, prefabricated homes and steam-powered cars. His patents included a radio direction finder and an automatic pilot for planes, and the eight-track tape, designed originally for automobile stereos. And, while he focused on his invention of the moment with monomaniacal intensity, Lear found time to contract four marriages and sire seven children. A stubborn, opinionated, difficult man who made and lost several fortunes, his technological intuition rarely led him astray, although he was ill-suited to manage his various companies. His life story is absorbing." Publishers Weekly.
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Add this copy of Stormy Genius: the Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Scrolls Book Shop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stanley, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition, SIGNED by the author, in original unclipped jacket. Clean blue paper covered boards with dark blue cloth spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "To Pat with my best wishes-Richard Rashke-12/13/85". Illustrated with black and white plates. 401 pages with index. Clean jacket is not price clipped (19.95 on front inside flap), unchipped, a few tiny closed edge tears and tiny rubs. Photo of Bill Lear on rear panel with his automobile steam turbine engine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The life story of Bill Lear, an irascible, eccentric, outrageous aviation genius. A poor boy who made and lost millions four times over, he patented more than 150 designs and inventions in electronics and aerodynamics including the first automatic pilot for jets, an automatic landing system for jets, and the eight-track tape, not to mention an automobile steam turbine engine.
