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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Sheeler, Jim
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2008. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 280 pages. Hardcover bound in full brown leather with gilt embossing. All edges gilt. There is light wear to the binding, however the text block is slightly uneven with a break in the center (near the photographs), possibly from pressure exerted on the spine. Contains a gold ribbon bookmark. Silk moire send papers. The text is clean and sound. Illustrated with color photographs in the center.
Synopsis
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man's effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050316
- Title
- Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
- Author
- Sheeler, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 2008; Jim Sheeler; Journalist; Journalism; Pulitzer Prize; War Stories; Casualties; Iraq; War in Iraq; Marines; Military; Nonfiction; Easton Press; Leatherbound; Collector's Edition; Leather Bindings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings; Military Science & General Military History;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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