army air forces training command usaaf (3 Ergebnisse)

163 pages. Hardcover: H 31.25cm x L 23.25cm. No dust jacket. Blue cloth, some soiling and light staining to boards, mild fraying at spine ends. Interior leaves have faint staining at bottom spine corner margins extending upward by about 4cm from heels with shallow extensions into bottom margins; some scattered soiling to interior pages as well but otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy. With front endpapers illustrated in blue and white, Foreword by Lt. General H.H. Arnold [Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold], early leaves inclusive to page 16 enhanced by some color illustration but remaining majority of book features b/w photographs/illustrations. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 2.75 pounds (1.24 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

1, [1], 2-31 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 13.6cm x L 10.3cm. Tan paper covers well rubbed with worn/curled corners; shallow losses at spine fold ends; front cover illustration by Pvt. M. Phillip Brady with three-line form for owner's name, etc. which has been filled by soldier's ink inscription. Interior leaves have some soiling and foxing as well as being creased/curled at fore-edge corners; a few blue ink smudges with blue ink number notations correcting stanza sequence on page 26. Binding staples rusted but holding. Title page credits Commanding Officer Colonel Robert E.M. Goolrick, Director of Band Training Lieutenant Colonel Harry G. Douglass, and Post Morale Singing Officer 2nd Lieutenant Alexander M. Sulloway. Text comprised of song lyrics only without any musical scores. OCLC only locates two copies at member institutions with Berea College evidently owning the same 1943 imprint and the University of Mississippi possessing a 1944 imprint. Only a good+ copy but US Army Air Forces base-printed soldier morale material is exceptionally uncommon as it would have been issued to servicemen in training and discarded prior to an overseas combat assignment.

Unpaged - 36 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.25cm. Color pictorial paper covers with spots of surface abrasion. Four-line ink inscription of Keesler Field private dated December 1942 on front cover's verso. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Some rust to staples but binding is firm. B/w photographs throughout with b/w cartoons on pages 18-19. Scarce Army Air Force Keesler Field wartime publication for which OCLC locates copies at four member institutions (another 36 page publication was also issued in 1942 under altered title "Keesler Field, Mississippi; We'll Keep 'Em Flying!" for which OCLC only locates a single institutional holding at University of Southern Mississippi).