The Balkan Wars by Clyde Sinclair Ford
- Bookseller: Dog Lovers Bookshop
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: biblio168
- Book condition: Fair
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Press of the Army Service Schools
- Place: Fort Leavenworth
- Date published: 1915
Description
Fort Leavenworth: Press of the Army Service Schools, 1915. Green cloth binding (gilt-stamped spine), 8vo, 150 pages. The first and only edition of a series of lectures delivered at Fort Leavenworth's Army Service Schools by an American medical officer who served in the conflict from 1912 to 1914. A rare and fascinating book. Fair condition (shaken but intact; faint browning throughout; edgewear; small tears; boards worn; previous owner's bookplate on half-title; pencil marks on endpapers); no dust jacket.
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
bookplate : A device (often decorative) affixed to the book, usually on the endpapers, which designates ownership (or former ownership).
Fair : is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, jacket (if any), etc., may also be worn. All defects must be noted. (defined by AB Bookman's Weekly)
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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