MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History
by Whitney, Major General Courtney
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Ex-Library. Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over rust-colored boards with gilt lettering and artwork embossed on spine, rough-cut pages, top edge of text block stained red, illustrated with maps, 547 pp. A comprehensive look at the life of General Macarthur and the trying times during which he lived and prevailed. Ex-library, Sturgis Library plate #19340. A great find for those who collect MacArthur, World War II or Korean War books. Title underlined in black on spine, slight shelf-wear, spine discolored, ephemera from Remington Rand Foundation laid-in on endpaper, dust jacket flaps affixed to page, appears gently read. Good..
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- Seller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- EM-B1207-13
- Title
- MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History
- Author
- Whitney, Major General Courtney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY BIOGRAPHY WORLD WAR II KOREAN WAR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History; Rare History;
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Rose's Books, IOBA
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts
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- Flap(s)
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Laid-in
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...