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Kenneth Gow. Letters of a Soldier. Herbert B. Covert January 1920, 1920.
Price: US$73.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). light shelfwear, corners slightly bumped. very slight amount of water damage to bottom outside corner. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good copy in decorated olive green cloth of this 457-page volume of World War I letters. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, mild wear to the covers. A gift bookplate signed by R.M. Gow (holder of the copyright) is inside the front cover. Several adjoining middle pages are creased at the top corner margin. Photo-illustrated throughout. No dust jacket. (Not ex-library.)
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$97.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ISBN . Hardback. No dustjacket. First Printing from 1920. Bound in green pictorial covers. Both interior hinges tight and sound, but evidence of past glue repair to the front interior hinge. Otherwise a tight sound unmarked copy in Good condition.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Capt. Kenneth C. Wilson. xxviii, 457 [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo, publisher's olive cloth stamped in black. First edition. Title hand-lettered in pencil on the bottom edge of the text block; light use to cloth; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Gow, Kenneth, Lt.. Letters of a Soldier. Herbert B. Covert, 1920.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 457 pps, hardbound, 1st, internal splitting both front & rear (holding for now), light extremity wear, else very clean and titling/decoration bright -- NOT EXLIB -- gift inscription (w/light offsettting) adhered fep from author's father (so i'm told -- and it appears), "To/Mr. & Mrs. . . ., in/Testimony of our common/sacrifice and mutual sympathy/RMGow(?)"
Seller: The Way We Were Bookshop, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
Gow, Lieut. Kenneth. Letters Of A Soldier. Herbert B. Covert, New York, 1920.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, black lettering on front cover and spine, 107th Infantry insignia on front cover, xxviii, 457 pp. Frontis photo of the author of these letters, with tissue guard, profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. Gow was a Lieutenant of a Machine Gun Company in the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard, which was called into Federal service in 1916 and sent to the Mexican border. Upon the US entry in World War I, the 7th Regiment was designated the 107th Infantry and fought in the Ypres salient and at Mt.Kemmel. Gow was killed in action October 17, 1918 and was buried at St. Souplet British Cemetery in northern France. Front free endpaper lacking, 4 small newspaper clipping dealing with World War I pasted to rear free endpaper, no marks in book, binding tight. Covers clean with very light edge wear. Book condition VG. Binding: HB
Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, U.S.A.
GOW, Kenneth. Letters of a Soldier. Herbert B. Covert, New York, 1920.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. xxviii, 457pp. 12mo, green cloth, rubbed on spine ends and edges of corners. New York: Herbert B. Covert, (1920). First Edition. Letters of a United States lieutenant killed in action on October 17th, 1918. He was a member of the 7th Regiment, National Guard, New York, and the Machine Gun Co., 107th U.S. Infantry. Inscribed by the author's father.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.