THE WHITE ROAD TO VERDUN
by Burke, Kathleen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near Very Good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Co.,, (c. 1916). First American edition. hardcover. Very Good/near Very Good. Octavo, 168 pages. Includes black and white photo repros. Tiny gouge in pictorial inlay on front cover. Some of the white titling has flaked off from the front cover and spine, but still a nice bright copy. The scarce dust jacket has a one-inch closed tear on front panel, a little chipping at edges, light soil. The author was the chairman of the Scottish Woman's Hospital fund, and was awarded the Serbian Orders of Miserecorde and St. Sava, the French Red Cross medal and Golden Palms medal -- awarde by the French government for her services to the wounded. Nursing, World War I, The Great War.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000014189
- Title
- THE WHITE ROAD TO VERDUN
- Author
- Burke, Kathleen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c. 1916)
- Keywords
- Serbia, Verdun, Nursing, World War I, The Great War
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About the Seller
Alkahest Books
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Deerfield, Illinois
About Alkahest Books
Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....