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The Glorious Story of the United States Marines in France as told by their Letters from the Battlefield

Kemper F. Cowing & Courtney Ryley Cooper

VG. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Spine is a bit concave, book otherwise tight and clean. Virtually no edgewear. No tears or chipping to spine. Copies of this scarce book are rarely found in such nice condition. Some light spotting to rear cover, but spine & front cover are clean. Gift inscription (not by authors) in ink on front flyleaf, in elegant hand, dated 1922. (NY: Houghton Mifflin, Co, 1919). First Edition. Illustrated by Morgan Dennis, USMC. 288 pp.

Dated & signed letters from Marines at Paris Island, Quantico, Bourmont Training Area, Verdun Trenches, Paris, & various hospitals. Majority of letters concern the fighting at Belleau Wood.

OUT OF PRINT, SCARCE.

$165.00