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CHEERIO!
by Major Harold Melvin Hays
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[MAJOR HAROLD MELVIN HAYS]. CHEERIO! SIGNED & INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1919. First Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, a few trivial soiling specks to covers, in brown-beige cloth and titles stamped in red type on cover and spine, pages are clean, bright and binding tight. A about fine copy. Scarce presentation copy SIGNED, INSCRIBED, dated 1921 on the ffep. Major Hays (1880-1940) was part of the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps of WWI. (Not to be confused with WWII Airborne medic veteran Harold Hayes of 807th Airborne that crashed landed in Albania in 1943). Scarce in this fine condition and rare presentation copy, signed and inscribed WWI memorabilia, highly collectible. 291 pgs. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-565
- Title
- CHEERIO!
- Author
- Major Harold Melvin Hays
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WWI, Signed, Presentation Copy
- Bookseller catalogs
- United States Political / Government; Non-Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Astro Trader Books
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About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles , California
About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- Fine
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- FFEP
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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