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Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter and stamps to top, bottom, and fore-edge of page block. Light ink underlining. Sunned and rubbed cover. 328 pp.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. VG, none 491.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy wear and tear, mainly to the edges.

First Edition. A World War I war journal which covers the early years of Bedros Sharian, and provides details of the Gallipoli campaign, the war on the Syria Front including the capture of Jerusalem, with the narrative carrying through the years of the Turkish Reconstruction, from 1914 to 1922.~~This copy signed by Mr. Sharian on the front endpaper, and signed again on the half title page with his address. The photographic portrait frontispiece was loose and, now a bit wrinkled, is tipped in between the verso of the front endpaper and the half-title page.~~Rather uncommon in commerce.~.…

First edition, inscribed by Sharian on the front free endpaper and signed on the half-title: "Bedros M. Sharian, 320 Drexel Ave., Decatur, Ga., May - 1942". Sharian (1892-1994) fought in the First World War, first for the Ottoman Empire and later for the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He experienced the Gallipoli Campaign, the capture of Jerusalem, and the Turkish War of Independence. After the war he emigrated to America and opened a rug store in Decatur, Georgia. Octavo. Halftone portrait frontispiece of Sharian in uniform, 3 halftone photographic plates, full-page map in text. Original green cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Small pencil correction on illustrations list. Spine cocked, scattered silverfishing on binding and fore edge, contents a little toned at edges: a very good copy.…