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Three Months of It
by Norman H. Chase, Editor-in-Chief
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Candidates of the Third Officers' Training School, Camp Sherman, Ohio, Jan. 5 --April 19, 1918. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 93 pp of crisp, white leaves with profuse b/w drawn illustrations throughout. No foxing. Prior owner attribution dated April 27, 1918 on front free endpaper from Glenn M. Hood to Mary Jane Nixon. (Glenn M. Hood is listed on page 92 among the roster of Clerical Force of Company K, 331st Infantry along with his picture on page 14.) This book is a very rare compilation of a training manual that prepared U. S. Army officers to go to WW I. It contains the Roster of the Third Officers Training School present at Camp Sherman near Chillicothe, Ohio. The book also contains b/w group photographs of the training officers and each of the Infantry and Battery training classes. The back cover has a small water stain near the bottom edge at the spine and the bottom outer edge corner is missing. Otherwise, in remarkable condition for its age and construction.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100343
- Title
- Three Months of It
- Author
- Norman H. Chase, Editor-in-Chief
- Format/Binding
- Yellow paper with b/w illustration of soldier crossing barb wire. Pasted and sewn binding.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Candidates of the Third Officers' Training School
- Place of Publication
- Camp Sherman, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1918
- Pages
- 93
- Size
- 7 1/4 x 9 1/2
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WW I
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Good+
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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