The Sad Sack. His Biography in 115 Cartoons from the Pages of Yank Magazine
by Baker, Sgt. George
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. Fourth Printing. Unpaginated. Publisher's full red cloth with titles and decoration stamped in black. Binding shows some light rubbing and bumping to edges. Pages lightly toned. Book plate and address label to front paste-down. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated jacket shows rubbing and edge wear with some chipping to ends and sunning to spine. An overall very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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On Mar 1 2018, a reader said:
My grandfather still talks about it!
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Details
- Bookseller
- HK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4405
- Title
- The Sad Sack. His Biography in 115 Cartoons from the Pages of Yank Magazine
- Author
- Baker, Sgt. George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- MILITARY HUMOR AMERICAN ARMED FORCES ARMY ILLUSTRATION CARTOON
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Art & Photography;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Plate
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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