A Soldier's Reader
by Macy, George
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Army green buckram with gilt titles, 12mo, 751 pages; a well kept copy, clean text, solid binding; price clipped dust jacket is now protected in mylar cover. "A book that will appeal to any man in uniform is George Macy's big 400,000-word Manthology. It contains 9 novelettes and full-lenth books, 27 short stories and essays, and over 250 poems...The editor's selections are fresh and various; his introductions friendly; his whole book an expert assemblage of discriminating and diverting entertainment."- Charles Lee in The Philadelphia Record
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CS00560
- Title
- A Soldier's Reader
- Author
- Macy, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ARMY MILITARY WAR MEN MAN SOLDIER VINTAGE WORLD WAR TWO II ALLIED AXIS
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...