Gunners Get Glory
by Bob Berry; Lloyd Wendt
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good-
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lieut. Bob Berry's Story of the Navy's Armed Guard - as told to Lloyd Wendt" - from the dust jacket. 293 pp. Book has slight right lean and light bumping on corners and spine ends. Previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Pages are tanned with age. Dust jacket is tattered with creasing, tearing and chipping loss. Missing pieces on front lower corner, 1 1/2" X 1 1/2"; front hinge, 1 3/4" X 1/2"; bottom of spine from rear hinge across to front panel, 2 3/4" X 3/4". Light background of rear panel shows rubbing with light smudging/spotting. Now in protective cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Texas Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007845
- Title
- Gunners Get Glory
- Author
- Bob Berry; Lloyd Wendt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II, WWII, SECOND WAR, U.S. NAVY
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II; NAVY;
Terms of Sale
Texas Star Books
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About the Seller
Texas Star Books
Biblio member since 2003
Fort Worth, Texas
About Texas Star Books
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- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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