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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Second Edition. xviii+427pp.  Hardcover, no jacket. Good condition.  Yellow buckram boards show considerable grime and spine toning.  Interior has owner name and bookseller marking to ffep.  Interior is otherwise clean, square and tightly bound.  "This book traces the origin, survival, culmination and recent decline of the mass army recruited by universal, compulsory service which...has so evilly transformed warfare during the last hundred and fifty years."  (cfm)

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good. 22 x 15cm. Hardcover. 1942. Second edition. Ex-library. No dj. Spien frayed. Front board faded. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. 1942, 427pp, yellow cloth, 2nd ed., light soiling & shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to top pg edges, owner's name to front free ep, very small piece from top corner of pgs from ffep to pg xv are missing, slight soiling to dj, tears & edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked. . Cloth. Very Good -/Good.

G. P Putnam's Sons, 1942. Hard cover. Good/Good. Jacket is worn, rubbed, and smudged with the top edge of the jackets spine being bumped and creased with a half inch tear. the front jacket flaps hinge is worn and rubbed. Cover is worn, particularly along the top and bottom edges. The top and bottom edges of the spine are bumped. The top edge of the text block is slightly foxed, not visible on page margins. The front end leaf is foxed with the back end page leaf having residue from a torn off sticker, otherwise all other pages are clear and bright.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. 428 pp. Original yellow cloth covers, moderately soiled. Light scattered foxing. DJ moderately soiled and rubbed w/ insect damage. Price clipped. Illust. w/ maps and tables. Contents nice.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940 1st edition. Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Yellow cloth with black lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some handling marks to cloth, some darkening to spine and edges of boards. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some odd darkening/tanning to centre folds of endpapers. Authors penned inscription to front “To Richard, with love from Hoffmann. Jan 22 ‘41.” Some occasional neat pencil notes and underlining to text. Else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 427pp.

Putnam, 1940-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.3147 cent in x 23.3503 cent in x 15.2284 cent in. 1940 first edition on yellow cloth + dedication to end paper

G.P. Putnam's Sons. Used - Very Good. 1942. 2nd Edition Second edition. Hardcover. Cloth, dj., 8vo, xviii + 427 pp., with maps and tables. Dj. has slight shelf wear, is sunned on the spine, and has a couple of nicks. Yellow cloth is very clean with minor edge wear to boards. Text is clean, bright, and tight. Near fine. (Subject: Military History & Exploration.)

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, 1942. Second edition of this influential, if controversial, study, first published in 1940. This copy inscribed by the author, "To General Martel from a follower in the wake of the Tank, Hoffman Nickerson". The recipient was Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel (1889–1958), and the inscription refers to his 1931 publication In the Wake of the Tank, which is an account of his role as one of the main progenitors of tank warfare during WWI and in the subsequent mechanization of the British Army. Later book label of Australian bibliophile and military collector David D. Levine to the front pastedown. Octavo. Original vivid yellow buckram lettered in black on the spine and front board. With the striking Don Ross designed dust jacket. Maps and plans to the text. Cloth a little spotted, corners bumped, toning to the text, price-clipped jacket tanned on the spine, a little rubbed and with a couple of minor marks, but overall a very good copy.