Description:
University Press Limited, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Stated. 400 pages. No dust jacket. Vol XII. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked with netting visible, thus the boards are slack. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Some gutter cracking. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting around edges and at corners. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, faded staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.
What's Wrong with the Army by Democritus - 1942
by Democritus
What's Wrong with the Army
by Democritus
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
London: W H Allen, 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 45 8vo. The Army referred to and discussed is the British Army as it was in the first years of World War 2. Section 3 has some very specific demands/suggestions for reform- Round Pegs in Round Holes, Better Pay, measures to prevent NCOs from becoming petty tyrants, and more. A Hurricane Book. 2nd printing of first (only?) edition. A stapled booklet, 64 pages, publisher's advertisements inside front cover and on back cover, 184 mm high. Condition notes: Paper covers soiled, especially the back cover. Some general wear, and a tear to bottom corner of front cover, with loss of roughly one inch by half an inch. Light soiling to title page, paper age-toned.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (GB)
- Format/Binding Paperback
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher W H Allen
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1942
- Keywords Army history, World War 2
- Size 45 8vo