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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1944. Edition Not Stated . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Freeman, Edward J. & Birch, John H. Jr.; Photographs By. Wear to boards, spine slightly loose.

New York: Macmillan, 1944. Hardcover. Very good condition, in pictorial boards. 131p., illus.

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.

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.

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… Leer más

Columbia, South Carolina: Bostick & Thornley, 1943. Pictorial boards. Very Good +. Cpl. Edward J. Freeman & Pfc. John H. Birch, Jr.. A fascinating one-of-a-kind copy of the 1943 1st edition. WITH A DECEMBER 7TH, 1943 (2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PEARL HARBOR) FULL-PAGE INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER BY CORPORAL ROBERT E. ALBRECHT OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS TO "CONNIE", ENCOURAGING HER TO READ THRU TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT LIFE ON PARRIS ISLAND IS LIKE FOR THE NEW RECRUITS. CPL. ALBRECHT FURTHERMORE GIVES A HANDWRITTEN, RUNNING COMMENTARY THRUOUT TO THIS COPY, ESSENTIALLY OFFERING CONNIE (AND NOW US) AN INSIDER'S TAKE AND A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE ACTUAL DAY-TO-DAY TRAINING. A very solid copy to boot. Tight and VG+ in its wonderful pictorial boards, with very light scuffing to the panels and just a bit of wear along the top and fore-edges. Quarto, crisp, high-quality black-and-white photos thruout by Cpl. Edward Freeman and Pfc. John Birch, Jr.