[Rarebooks] fs: WWI Training Camp album

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 7478 )  [Fitzpatrick, Vincent de P.]. "OVER HERE," AFFECTIONATELY 
DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN PREPARING FOR "OVER THERE," CAMP MEADE, 
MD..
Baltimore: Horn-Shafer Press, [1917?]. Wrappers, Oblong quarto, [32 leaves, 
fold-out photos], Black & White photographs. Good.
      Scarce souvenir booklet of narrative and photographs of the regiments 
of the 79th Infantry Division training for World War I at Camp Meade, 
Maryland. This was the birth of the 79th, and this cantonment was carved out 
of the agricultural land of Anne Arundel County as a training camp for the 
draftees who came from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Illustrated with forty 
photographs plus 3 long, fold-out panoramic photographs. Bound in pictorial 
paper covers over saddle-stapled binding with string tie. Color illustration 
on front cover depicting Uncle Sam in uniform reviewing troops from a rocky 
perch. Covers show a few creases, mild rubs. Rear cover has some penciling. 
Some minor scattered foxing. Two of the panoramic fold-out have expert 
tissue-repaired tears. Still attractive and well preserved copy of this 
scarce booklet....... $100.00
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