Handbook for Light Artillery
by A B Dyer
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall, 1896-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Edmund / Truman Smith Family Copy.] Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Army Navy Club bookplate. Tear on spine cloth, with some loss. ix, 521 pages illustrations (including diagrams) 19 cm. Contents: Pt. I. Mountain-artillery --Pt. II. Field-artillery. <br> Interesting provenance: This volume was from the library of Truman Smith. Colonel Truman Smith (1893-1970), was personal advisor to General George C. Marshall. Yale class of 1915. Awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Service Medal. The volume was owned by his father, Captain Edmund Dickinson Smith. E.D. Smith (1857-1900), was killed in the Spanish American War in Sogod Island, Cebu, Philippines. Smith was the son of Senator Truman Smith of CT.
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2103250016
- Title
- Handbook for Light Artillery
- Author
- A B Dyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall
- Date Published
- 1896-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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