Published by Macmillan, 1944
Seller: Selleronebay, West Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition~First Printing. Please read the full description carefully before purchasing any products. Book does not come with Certificate of Authenticity and/or any type of provenance. Book and/or dust jacket may consist of a sticky residue, foxing, water stains, fingerprints, dirt, debris, writings, scratches, scuff marks, creases, wrinkles, rips, tears, folds, minor staining, previous stickers, or labels applied by the retail store, manufacture and/or previous owner. I am not a book expert.
Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1944
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. 243pp. Gray cloth with red lettering stamped on spine. Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. Owner's stamp on front fly, foxing on page edges, faint dampstain near bottom edges of boards and spine, still a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. The author was a sport's reporter in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor and then becoming a war correspondent. This is the story of his time spent on the Astoria which was sunk in the Battle of Savo Island just off Guadalcanal. A very uncommon title.