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Purple Heart Valley, A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy
by Margaret Bourke-White
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Independence, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
This book has a notice about books printed in wartime on the legal page. (WWII)
Some of the things included in the chapters are: Naples, Hot Spot, Monks and Engineers, Foxhole Studio, Rome, Artillery, Spies, Fifth Army Field Hospital, and more.
Good condition. No dust jacket. Tan cloth covers over boards, black printing on spine. Corners are bumped, edges have wear. Back cover seems to have a slight outward flare. Both front and back end papers are partly broken at spine, and both have tape discoloration. Light age spots on some pages, but text is clean. Page binding is good. LOTS of black and white photographs.
Good reading copy.
Please use photos as part of the description.
182 pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1706
- Title
- Purple Heart Valley, A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy
- Author
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Illustrator
- Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 182
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WWII, World War II, Italy, world history, history, American history, soldiers, Naples, Rome, monks, engineers, spies, Fifth Army Field Hospital
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - American; Reference; History - World War II; Books - Vintage;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
Biblio member since 2005
Independence, Missouri
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not 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....
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