[Rarebooks] fs: The Plane Shooter, WWII
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Fri Sep 5 10:38:10 EDT 2008
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 8681 ) [U. S. Navy]. THE PLANE SHOOTER, U. S. NAVY ARMED GUARD SCHOOL,
"WE AIM TO DELIVER" [COVER TITLE].
[Baton Rouge]: [Army and Navy Publishing Company of Louisiana], [1945?].
Full cloth, Folio, 138 pages, Black & White photographs. Good.
Class book of the this special Navy training school in Shelton,
Virginia, which trained naval officers and men to serve aboard merchant
ships to defend them against enemy action in World War II. Lots of
photographs, individual portraits, etc. Bound in dark blue leather-textured
cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering to upper board. Circular paper
service emblem is laid onto upper board and ringed with blindstamped border.
Minor extremity wear including shallow wrinkles and rubs to spine ends and
bumps to fore corners. Paper emblem on upper board has a few spots of
foxing. Endpapers are browned, there is light foxing to first printed page.
First leaf is halfway detached along inner margin, but still holding.
$50.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/8681.jpg
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Rock Toews
Back Creek Books
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