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Army and Navy Journal; United States at War, December 7, 1943 - December 7, 1944
by Leroy Whitman, Editor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Army and Navy Journal, Inc., 1944. Special edition of this WWII magazine, bound in dark blue cloth and title stamped in gilt front cover. The Presentation Copy of the Honorable Will H. Hays, his name stamped in gilt bottom edge front cover. Hays managed Warren G. Harding's successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Book is Very Good, cloth lightly soiled, a few marginal pencil notations by Hays in margins of table of contents page, browning at edges . . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005998
- Title
- Army and Navy Journal; United States at War, December 7, 1943 - December 7, 1944
- Author
- Leroy Whitman, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Army and Navy Journal, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Bookseller catalogs
- U.S. History; Ephemera;
Terms of Sale
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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