Soldier Silhouettes On Our Front
by STIDGER, William L.; Jessie Gillespie, illus
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Reprint. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in red and olive; viii,[4],209pp.; frontispiece, 7 leaves of plates. Boards a bit rubbed, corners slightly bumped, spine lean, textblock a bit shaken, else a Near Very Good copy, attractively illustrated. Account of the noted American preacher at the front with the YMCA during World War I.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41669
- Title
- Soldier Silhouettes On Our Front
- Author
- STIDGER, William L.; Jessie Gillespie, illus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; WW1;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.