Into the Valley A Skirmish of the Marines
de Hersey, John
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Poor
- Librería
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red cloth stamped with black lettering in original dustjacket. Jacket lacking several peices from backstrip and is edgeworn, but complete. A presentation dus tjacket, so printed across front panel and carrying the following script at lower extremity: "Into the Valley" is the second book to be judged imperative by the Council on Books in Wartime --formed by the book publishers of America to sponsor books which make 'important contributions to the war.' (The only other book to receive the Imperative label as W.L. White's "They Were Expendable.")" Presentation copy book plate on front endpaper, with the compliments of Time Magazine [for whom Hersey worked]. William Worsley's copy. A stirring account of the Marine's battle for Guadalcanal in 1942. A very good copy in poor dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000695
- Título
- Into the Valley A Skirmish of the Marines
- Autor
- Hersey, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Poor
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1943
- Palabras clave
- WORLD WAR II, PACIFIC THEATER, GUADALCANAL, MARINE CORPS MILITARY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Military; Alibris3;
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
