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Here is Your War
by Ernie Pyle
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: Peoples Book Club / Consolidated Book Publishers, 1944 Peoples Book Club / Consolidated Book Publishers, Chicago, IL. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Not Produced under Wartime Restrictions; font is larger and spacing between sentences if greater than on Henry Holt books. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the half title page. Book Condition; Very Good; light bumping to head, tail, and tips; light shelfwear to board bottom edges; light suntoning to spine. No DJ. Tan cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering in a red shadowbox on the spine; Pyle signature embossed on front board. 304 pp 8vo. Told as only Ernie Pyle could so. This the story of the North African Campaign. Pyle takes you to live with the soldiers on the great adventure of their lives and tells you the thousands of little things you want to know about how they are living this war from day to day. A clean very presentable book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016078
- Title
- Here is Your War
- Author
- Ernie Pyle
- Illustrator
- Carol Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Peoples Book Club / Consolidated Book Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ERNIE PYLE, SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS, LE SHIMA, G.I. JOE, NORMANDY, OPERATION TORCH, FOXHOLE, TRENCH LIFE, LIFE ON THE FRONT LINES, WAR CORRESPONDENT, STARS AND STRIPES NEWSPAPER, TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN, NORTH AFRICA, World WORLD II, CASABLANCA, ALGIERS, Worl
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Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
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- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
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- Half Title
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- Title Page
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- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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