8vo blue boards with bumped corners and deckle edge pages on the fore edge. This book club edition has a dust jacket with chipping and a closed tear of 3/4" on the lower front. Text block clean and unmarked,
A fictional accounting of an airport in crisis during a blizzard and follows many different struggling employees working to keep things operational when things are "outmoded to the point of danger; air traffic control is overtaxed; the supposedly modern glass and chrome main terminal has become a whited sepulcher."
Made into the 1970 American air disaster film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin of the same name.