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Boot: A Marine in the Making
by Bailey, Gilbert P
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, 1943. First edition, 1943. Well illustrated throughout in black and white. Illustrated hardcover with dark blue cloth spine printed in silver gilt, 169 pages. no dustjacket, likely as issued. Covers rubbed at the edges, name and additional information written at top corner of front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a number of names from the 13th Batallion signed on the rear endpapers along with their home towns. Confidential photo of an unidentified airfield loosely laid in at the front. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045820
- Title
- Boot: A Marine in the Making
- Author
- Bailey, Gilbert P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bostick & Thornley
- Place of Publication
- Columbia, SC
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- US MARINES WORLD WAR II WW2
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History and Biography; World History, World Wars and Militaria;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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