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ADMIRAL WILLIAM SHEPHERD BENSON, FIRST CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
by Klachko, Mary With David Trask
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0870210351
- ISBN 13
- 9780870210358
- Seller
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Farmingville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Naval Institute Press, 1987. 1st edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover: Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Lightly bumped lower corner. Cloth binding with title on spine in silver. Clean crisp endpapers and pages. Color photo of the presentation of Admiral William S. Benson's biography to Pope John Paul II by Mary Klachko during a private audience, Vatican, 25 June, 1987 pasted on to half title. Students of Naval History will welcome this book. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Lightly rubbed corners. Illustrated front cover. Attractive copy in protective mylar. . ISBN: 0-87021-035-1.
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- Bookseller
- Koster's Collectible Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- INVENT011589I
- Title
- ADMIRAL WILLIAM SHEPHERD BENSON, FIRST CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
- Author
- Klachko, Mary With David Trask
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0870210351
- ISBN 13
- 9780870210358
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Place of Publication
- Annapolis
- Date Published
- 1987
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