GAS WARFARE: The Chemical Weapon, Its Use, and Protection Against It
by Waitt, Brigadier-General Alden H. [Harry]
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good-
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1943) 328 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ light fraying to spine ends. Modest rubbing to corners. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ALDEN H. WAITT ON HALF-TITLE PAGE, a lengthy inscription to Major Elkins, Chief of the Counter-Intelligence Section of the Chemical Warfare Service. Clipping from "The Pocket Book of War Humor" w/ a joke taped to rear blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear, several closed tears, and few chips to edges. Small, faint dampstain to rear panel of DJ near spine. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M2053WWII
- Title
- GAS WARFARE: The Chemical Weapon, Its Use, and Protection Against It
- Author
- Waitt, Brigadier-General Alden H. [Harry]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- MILITARY HISTORY WORLD WAR II 1939 1945 SECOND WORLD WAR WWII CHEMICAL WEAPONRY WEAPONS CHEMICAL WARFARE ASPHYXIATING AND POISONOUS GASES GAS WAR USE AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES WORLD HISTORY EUROPE NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - WWII; Weapons;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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- Text Block
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Inscribed
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