Boot: A Marine in the Making
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1943
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA)
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Signed with an inscription by the author Black cloth to photo paper covered boards; 10.5 inches tall; 129 pages with a glossary. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Shelf handling wear with rubbed edges. Numerous full page b/w photos. Basic Training in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II described and captured in photographs.
Seller Inventory # 17495
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Boot: A Marine in the Making
- Author
- Bailey, Cpl. Gilbert P.
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1943
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket As Issued
- Binding
- Photo Illustrated Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Photography by Edward J. Freeman and John H. Birch Jr.
- Seller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR, History: MILITARY HISTORY, History: UNITED STATES
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Blind Horse Books is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and adheres to its Code of Ethics. We specialize in travel, exploration, fine press, and documentary material, with particular emphasis on printed ephemera, maps, photographic archives, and institutional publications from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our inventory regularly includes material appropriate for academic, library, and museum collections. We work carefully with provenance, condition, and bibliographic accuracy, and stand fully behind all descriptions and attributions. Items are selected with long-term research and collecting value in mind. Blind Horse Books is operated by Richard and Dottie Oates and based in DeLand, Florida. We have been active in the antiquarian book trade since 1999 and are members of the ABAA, FABA, IOBA, and the Ephemera Society of America. Building Your Great Collection, One Fine Book at a Time. …
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