The Guam Recorder: Monthly Magazine of Guam (2 numbers). This item is unavailable.The Guam Recorder: Monthly Magazine of Guam (2 numbers)

Quarto (8" x 11"); Very Good condition. Included are the May and June, 1939 numbers (Volume XVI, Numbers 2 and 3). The Guam News Letter, and its later evolution, the Guam Recorder were the first two regularly printed Guam newspaper publications. The Guam Recorder was published by the U.S. Navy from March 1924 until November 1941. It was a monthly news and information publication that also included Guam vital statistics; it ceased publication after its November 1941 issue due to World War II when the Japanese took over the island. Howard F. Bowker was Associate Editor and then Editor of the monthly from December, 1937 through August, 1939. This collection is from the Bowker estate.