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Prisoner of War: History of the "Lost Battalion", 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery
de Clyde Fillmore (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Very Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 75.40EUR 52.78
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Sobre este artículo
Wichita Falls, TX: Nortex Offset Publications, 1973 Nortex Offset Publications, Wichita Falls, TX. 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP verso dated July 27, 1973. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine; scant shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($5.95); sunfading to spine; missing small pieces at head; light wear to flap folds. Tan tweed cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and front board.152 pp 8vo. This is the story of the 2nd Bn, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division of the Texas National Guard that was mobilized in November 1940 and sent to Australia and later to Java, Dutch East Indies. This unit was cut off by the Japanese Army and without communication, became the "Lost Battalion" as 345 members were placed in a POW camp until the end of WWII. They were POWs in Java, and later in Thailand where they were forced to build a railroad to Burma under the harshest of jungle conditions. Fillmore was returned to the US in September 1945. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016156
- Título
- Prisoner of War: History of the "Lost Battalion", 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery
- Autor
- Clyde Fillmore (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Nortex Offset Publications
- Lugar de publicación
- Wichita Falls, TX
- Fecha de publicación
- 1973
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- World War II, Java Dutch East Indies, Thailand, Prisoners of War, POWs, Texas National Guard, Railroad construction, Burma, United States Army,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Prisoner of War; Autobiography;
Términos de venta
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Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
