THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
by W.L. White
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First American Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. The story of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, virtually wiped out in the fall of the Philippines. As told by four of its surviving officers, including Lt. John Bulkeley, who evacuated MacArthur, won the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross and retired as a Vice-Admiral. The basis for the John Ford movie. A very good copy, front cover very slightly dampstained, corners & edges a bit worn, discreet ink marginalia in roster, in price-clipped, worn dust jacket with chipped corners. (205p., roster.)
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- Bookseller
- Chartwell Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140115
- Title
- THEY WERE EXPENDABLE
- Author
- W.L. White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (with Dust Jacket)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 4th Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...