War Department Annual Reports, 1908, Volume II
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Chehalis, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply and includes reports from the Quartermaster-General, Commissary-General, Surgeon-General, Paymaster-General, Chief of Signal Officer, and Board of Ordinance and Fortification. The folding map shows the U.S. Signal Corps telegrpah and Cable System in Alaska and U.S. Cables and Canadian Line Connecting with the United States.
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Details
- Seller
- Walkabout Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1652
- Title
- War Department Annual Reports, 1908, Volume II
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1908
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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Walkabout Books
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About the Seller
Walkabout Books
Biblio member since 2011
Chehalis, Washington
About Walkabout Books
Walkabout Books is an antiquarian bookstore located in southwest Washington State. We specialize in Americana and the literature of travel and adventure, including travel narratives, travel and tourism ephemera (travel diaries, vintage brochures, guidebooks, etc), exploration, mountaineering, and other outdoor pursuits. We also carry interesting and unusual books in many other fields.
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- Library Binding
- A type of reinforced binding designed for libraries, schools, or other applications where a book might experience high...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...