Who Walk Alone.
by BURGESS, PERRY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
New York.: Henry Holt and Company.. (circa1940).. Endpaper maps, black and white illustrations, viii + 308pp, index, name stamp of prior owner pastedowns, small label laid down lower pastedown, presentation label from author laid down one prelim, hardback binding worn, lettering on spine dulled, contents sound and clean. "This is the story of an American soldier who served in the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, and who many years after he had returned home became a leper. He is not the only American soldier who experiences that fate. More than thirty became patients at the great leper colonies at Culion or at Cebu, in the Philippines, or at the United States Leprosarium in Louisiana." Taken from the introduction. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59278
- Title
- Who Walk Alone.
- Author
- BURGESS, PERRY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company.
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- Date Published
- (circa1940).
- Keywords
- America, History, Medicine, Military, Philippines, Soldiers, Spain, War, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Asia Bookroom
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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