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Battery A of the 101st Field Artillery by Authors?
- Bookseller: Gene Sperry Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 74096
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: very good plus
- Jacket condition: no jacket
- Quantity available: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Brattle Press
- Date published: 1919
Description
Authors?., Loomis & Co., The Brattle Press, c1919, red cloth with gilt titles (hard cover), very light wear, PO's blindstamp o/w vg+ (no dj), 269 pp with appendix, B&W photographic & map illus., tall 8vo, 'Sixteen members of Battery A writing the text; From its muster into the Federal Service on July 25, 1917, through its nineteen months of service in France, nine months of which were in action at the front' (World War One), formerly Battery A of Boston, quite scarce
gilt : The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.
blindstamp : An indentation deliberately placed on the board of a book. Often indicates a book club edition.
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.
o/w : An abbreviation for otherwise
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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