4to, soiled khaki cloth, 240 pages, some corners dog-eared. upper right corner of top cover breaking This is the record of the Second Camp, which trained officers. The Commandant was Col. Paul A. Wolf. This copy inscribed at Washington D.D. by Capt. Edwin DeWitt Ackerman, of Company 13, to 1st Lt. A. D. Farwell, in December, 1917. Extensively illustrated by its trainees, who included Hanson Booth, a charcoal specialist, and Bud Fisher, creator of Mutt & Jeff, the first commercially successful daily comic strip in the U.S. - in fact, those characters appear here, along with Fisher's caricatures Includes an interview with Lt. Henri Poire, winner of the Croix de Guerre: "You ask me my first impression of Plattsburg?" . " I thought Plattsburg was the most miserable spot of the earth! " Includes a long poem, "Worlds At War" by Robert Haven Schauffler. Facing it is a full-page illustration by Hanson [ mis-spelled Hansen ] Booth ( younger brother of artist Franklin Booth, both of Indiana. Hanson Booth did cartoons for THE ARBUTUS, the yearbook of Indiana University, in 1903-04.

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The Plattsburger

Publisher

The Plattsburger, Inc, New York

Publication Date

1917

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

fair

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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