Bridge To Victory; The Story Of The Reconquest Of The Aleutians
by Handleman, Howard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1943. Stated First Printing. HB. Green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 275 pp., map endpapers.Frontis photograph of the author. Account of the military operations by American forces in the Aleutian Island chain during World War II. Previous owner's inscription on ffep, no other marks in book, binding tight. Covers clean with light edge wear, title lettering rubbed. Lacking the dust jacket. Book condition VG.
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- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KM7687
- Title
- Bridge To Victory; The Story Of The Reconquest Of The Aleutians
- Author
- Handleman, Howard
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Stated First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II;
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Parker's Rare Books
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Ontario, Wisconsin
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- VG
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- Gilt
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- FFEP
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