Airport

AIRPORT

This low-priced Bantam Book
has been completely reset in a type face
designed for easy reading, and was printed
from new plates. It contains the complete
text of the original hard-cover edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED.

AIRPORT

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Doubleda), & Company, Inc.

PRINTING HISTORY
Doubleday edition published March 1968
2nd printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… March 1968 6th printing Juh, 1968
3rd printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… March 1968 7th printing ~ . Jul),1968
4th . . . printing……. April 1968 8th printing . . September
1968
5th. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . printing…….. June 1968 9th printing October 1968
10th printing October 1968
Excerpt appeared in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE March 1968
Literarv Guild edition published April 1968
Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club edition published April 1968
Dollar Book Club edition published Januari, 1969
Bantain edition published Jul " v 1969
2nd printing . . . …….. Julv 1969 6th printing …….. Ju1j,
1969
3rd printing . . . …….. July 1969 7th printing …….. July
1969
4th. . . . . . . . . printing…….. July 1969 Sth printing ….. October
1969
5th. . . . . . . . . printing…….. Juh, 1969 9th printing …..
Januai-), 1970
loth printing
Ilth printing

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Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

from High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941) sometime Flight Lieutenant,
Royal Canadian Air Force

PART ONE

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