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A CADET OF BELGIUM: An American Boy in the Great War; A Story of Cavalry Daring - Bicycle and Armored Automobile Adventures.
by Grant, Captain Allan (pseudonym of Arthur Douglas Howden Smith, 1887-1945)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair condition only in illustrated blue cloth (front free endpaper and one plate missing, crease down spine, other wear to the c
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: George H. Doran,, (1915). Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in illustrated blue cloth (front free endpaper and one plate missing, crease down spine, other wear to the covers, but still a very readable and reasonably decent copy of a hard-to-find title) . First edition. The first book in what was intended to be a 4 books series on "Boys at the Front in the Great War" - but apparently only the first 2 titles were published, both in 1915. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 5 inserted plates by Bayard Jones. 286 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66492
- Title
- A CADET OF BELGIUM: An American Boy in the Great War; A Story of Cavalry Daring - Bicycle and Armored Automobile Adventures.
- Author
- Grant, Captain Allan (pseudonym of Arthur Douglas Howden Smith, 1887-1945)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition only in illustrated blue cloth (front free endpaper and one plate missing, crease down spine, other wear to the c
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1915)
- Keywords
- world war i fiction, boys series, military series,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile series;
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Ione, California
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