The Recruit's Handy Book

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190X 2 nd Edition

Cover:

Cloth, tan pamphlet style, Blue lettering, USNI Seal

Author:

prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Navigation

Copyright Date:

1902 by Lieutenant E. L. Beach, USN

Printing Date:

none listed

Publisher:

The Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD.

Printer:

The Lord Baltimore Press, Baltimore, MD.

Size:

4¼” x 6″ x ¼”

Price:

no price given – back cover page states “gratis to each recruit on enlistment”

Number of Page:

100 pages

Number of Chapters:

2 parts each with its’ own table of contents

remarks:

no data available on a 1st edition, all data assumed based on the 1903 4th edition

approximate used value:

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Main Pages – from 1903 4thedition

Table of Contents – from 1903 4thedition