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BATTLE STATIONS: A GRIZZLY FROM THE CORAL SEA. PELELIU LANDING.
by LEA, TOM
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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About This Item
Dallas: Still Point Press, [1988]., 1988. First edition. First edition thus. 4to. Signed by the author on the half title page. Two-tone cloth and boards, titles stamped in black on the spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, xii, 75pp., introduction, illustrated by Tom Lea The book reprints two of Tom Lea's most famous and stirring battle narratives of World War II: A GRIZZLY FROM THE CORAL SEA (first published 1944) and PELELIU LANDING (first published 1945). From the collection of Dick Bosse, Proprietor, The Aldredge Book Store, Dallas and with the slip laid-in. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket.
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- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47296
- Title
- BATTLE STATIONS: A GRIZZLY FROM THE CORAL SEA. PELELIU LANDING.
- Author
- LEA, TOM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Still Point Press, [1988].
- Place of Publication
- Dallas
- Date Published
- 1988
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- Spine
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