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Boot: A Marine in the Making by Gilbert P Bailey - 1943

by Gilbert P Bailey

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Boot: A Marine in the Making

by Gilbert P Bailey

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Columbia, SC: Bistick & Thornley, 1943. Name of previous owner in marker on page edges. This is the true first edition which predates the Macmillan book printed a year later.. hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
  • Bookseller McCauley Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Bistick & Thornley
  • Place of Publication Columbia, SC
  • Date Published 1943

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Boot: A Marine in the Making

by Bailey, Gilbert P

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later ptg
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NY: Macmillan. VG/FAIR only (see notes). 1944. later ptg. hardcover. small 4to . 131pp . DJ has extensive interior tape repairs. .
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BOOT: A MARINE IN THE MAKING

by Bailey, Gilbert P

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MacMillan. Good+. 1944. Hardcover. 131 pp; Edge wear on boards and spine, binding is a little weak but still secure, no loose pages, no marks on text. .
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KENTUCKY HOUSEWIFE: CONTAINING NEARLY THRITEEN HUNDRED FULL RECEIPTS

by Bryan, Mrs. Lettice

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Collector's Books. Fine+. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. 456 pp; No date ca 1970, excellent factsimile reprint of the 1839 edition .
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Boot: A Marine in the Making

by Bailey, Gilbert P

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Bostick & Thornley. Used - Good. Good condition. (United States Marine Corps, training) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Boot: A Marine in the Making

by Bailey, Gilbert P

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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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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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BOOT: A MARINE IN THE MAKING

by BAILEY, Gilbert P

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1943. FREEMAN, Capt. Edward J.. BAILEY, Corporal Gilbert P. BOOT: A MARINE IN THE MAKING. Photographs by Cpl. Edward J. Freeman and Pfc. John H. Birch Jr. Columbia: South Carolina: Bostick & Thornley, 1943. Small quarto, pictorial boards & cloth spine; 169 pages. Many photographic illustrations. First Edition. Later reprinted by The MacMillan Company in 1944. A look at the U.S. Marine boot camp at Parris Island during World War II. Signed by about 64 boot camp members, apparently from Platoon 823, 12th Battalion and signed in December, 1943. One signature is "Buck Jones (All-Amer) Buffalo, New York." Jones played football at Wake Forest and then joined the Marines during World War II, playing on the Georgia Pre-flight Skycrackers service team in 1944 and the Fleet Marine Force Pacific team in 1945. After the war, he was drafted by the New York Giants and also played for the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 and for the Detroit Lions in 1947 and 1948. Good (contents clean & tight but… Read More
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