Boot by Gilbert Bailey, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 131p. Photos. Pictorial cover. Large format. SIGNED & inscribed to Commander Victor Blakeslee, Aprtil 1945. Shelf wear. In mylar. Near Fine/Very Good Copy. Signed by Author. Book.

FREEMAN, Capt. Edward J. (illustrator). BAILEY, Corporal Gilbert P. BOOT: A MARINE IN THE MAKING. Photographs by Cpl. Edward J. Freeman and Pfc. John H. Birch Jr. Columbia: South Carolina: Bostick & Thornley, 1943. Small quarto, pictorial boards & cloth spine; 169 pages. Many photographic illustrations. First Edition. Later reprinted by The MacMillan Company in 1944. A look at the U.S. Marine boot camp at Parris Island during World War II. Signed by about 64 boot camp members, apparently from Platoon 823, 12th Battalion and signed in December, 1943. One signature is "Buck Jones (All-Amer) Buffalo, New York." Jones played football at Wake Forest and then joined the Marines during World War II, playing on the Georgia Pre-flight Skycrackers service team in 1944 and the Fleet Marine Force Pacific team in 1945. After the war, he was drafted by the New York Giants and also played for the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 and for the Detroit Lions in 1947 and 1948. Good (contents clean & tight but edgewear to covers). An unusual book! Semper fi. $185.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Columbia, SC: Bostick & Thornley, 1943. First edition, 1943. Well illustrated throughout in black and white. Illustrated hardcover with dark blue cloth spine printed in silver gilt, 169 pages. no dustjacket, likely as issued. Covers rubbed at the edges, name and additional information written at top corner of front cover, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a number of names from the 13th Batallion signed on the rear endpapers along with their home towns. Confidential photo of an unidentified airfield loosely laid in at the front. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.