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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 100 pages, 555g. Cream cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Hardcover. Zustand: fair. First edition. 4to, soiled khaki cloth, 240 pages, some corners dog-eared. upper right corner of top cover breaking This is the record of the Second Camp, which trained officers. The Commandant was Col. Paul A. Wolf. This copy inscribed at Washington D.D. by Capt. Edwin DeWitt Ackerman, of Company 13, to 1st Lt. A. D. Farwell, in December, 1917. Extensively illustrated by its trainees, who included Hanson Booth, a charcoal specialist, and Bud Fisher, creator of Mutt & Jeff, the first commercially successful daily comic strip in the U.S. - in fact, those characters appear here, along with Fisher's caricatures Includes an interview with Lt. Henri Poire, winner of the Croix de Guerre: "You ask me my first impression of Plattsburg?" . " I thought Plattsburg was the most miserable spot of the earth! " Includes a long poem, "Worlds At War" by Robert Haven Schauffler. Facing it is a full-page illustration by Hanson [ mis-spelled Hansen ] Booth ( younger brother of artist Franklin Booth, both of Indiana. Hanson Booth did cartoons for THE ARBUTUS, the yearbook of Indiana University, in 1903-04.