c/o Postmaster
by Thomas R. St. George
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Thomas Crowell, 1943 Thomas Crowell, New York. 1943. Hardcover. BOMC Edition with BOMC News reprint page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner bookplate on FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good + ; light shelfwear to board bottoms, lower tips, head, and tail. DJ: Good +; chipping of spine cover at head and heel; wear to spine edges. Pictorial slick paper over boards with black lettering on spine and front board that matches the DJ. 194 pp 8vo. A chronicle of what the average American Soldier experienced when "Down Under" in Australia during WWII. An account of the voyage, life in Australia, the food, the women; a comic and humane of two quite different democracies learning to work with each other. A good show of the remarkable prudence and intelligence with which our overseas operations are managed by the US Army. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Seller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006212
- Title
- c/o Postmaster
- Author
- Thomas R. St. George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- AUSTRALIA, MILITARY HUMOR, WORLD WAR II, LIFE in World War II, WWII, DUTY IN AUSTRALIA, TROOP SHIPS, military food, military life, Matson Liners,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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