Airport. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968.
First edition.
Large octavo. [vi], [1]-440, [8, blank] pp. Publisher’s full light-blue cloth, spine stamped in green and gilt, dust jacket. Jacket spine slightly sunned, some rubbing to edges, one small closed tear to rear panel, minor rubbing to book. Still, a near fine copy.
First edition.
This book, about the politics of running a major airport, especially during a crisis (in this case, a massive snow storm, which causes the closure of one of the major runways). As Hailey did exhaustive research on this topic before writing this book (indeed, a huge amount of research was always done by Hailey on all of his books), much of the facts in this book are still relevant today. This book became a huge bestseller, and inspired an equally successful film (released in 1970) starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, and Jacqueline Bisset.
Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), a British/ Canadian novelist, was a phenomenally successful writer, known for his extensive research, gripping action, and multiple plot lines. Though critics felt that his multiple plot lines were his way of camouflaging a lack of writing ability, his books were much beloved by the reading public and were virtually guaranteed to become best sellers.
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3104
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100