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Great Soldiers of the Two World Wars
by De Weerd, H. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, 1941. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Clean tan buckram cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner inscription on front free endpaper dated December 25, 1941. Pages and edges are clean with dark blue top-stained upper page edges. Illustrated with maps and photographs. 378 pages with index. Dust jacket is clean, not price clipped, has chipping at top edges, short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A gallery of military portraits which includes Schlieffen, Hindenburg, Hoffman, Kitchener, Lawrence, Pershing, Petain, Gamelin, Wavell, Churchill, Seeckt, Hitler..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31427
- Title
- Great Soldiers of the Two World Wars
- Author
- De Weerd, H. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Stated First Edition.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, SOLDIERS, WORLD WAR I, II, WARS, H. A. DE WEERD, MILITARY HISTORY, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- War/Military; World War II; World War I;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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