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HANDBOOK OF THE WAR
by de Wilde, John C.; David H. Popper; Eunice Clark
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fine/fair
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First Edition. hardcover. fine/fair. Small quarto (approx. 6 3/4" wide by 9 1.8" tall), terra-cotta colored cloth with titles in navy blue. 248 pages. Pictorial charts by Irving Geis. Maps by Richard Ely Falconer. Maps on endpapers plus 8 others. Fourteen chapters including; What They are Fighting For; The Geography of Land War; The War of Annihilation (esp. about tanks); Air: The New Dimension; Ships and Strategy; Propaganda. The U.S. had not entered the war when this book was published. "Written since the fall of Poland and the 'peace offensive'. This is the first factual guide to the strange new Europe." Book is in fine comdition. Dust jacket price clipped, with chips and closed tears, fair. 092508F
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020893
- Title
- HANDBOOK OF THE WAR
- Author
- de Wilde, John C.; David H. Popper; Eunice Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
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- New
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Fair
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fine
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