John a De Chant (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 265 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear to the blue covers; cracked front hinge; pages yellowed. A good working copy of the original edition. No jacket. Foreword by General A.A. Vandegrift. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 217682.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (1966) 230 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Small portion of cloth starting to "bubble" at foredge of front cover. Spine a bit darkened. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Illust. w/ b/w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Harper hardcover sans jacket, 1947-1st edition (stated), blue cloth, decorated endpapers; Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) ex-library copy with typical stamps/stickers; sturdy binding, text unmarked and no foxing, edge wear at extremities. Intact.

Condition: fair, ex-lib., fair. 230, illus., maps, endppr maps, apps, index, lib stamps, rear flylf cut off, rough spots ins bds, DJ worn: tear at sp, sm pc missng.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Used; Very Good. Used; Very Good. 24-D-21 Van Nostrand Company 1966 Hardcover. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket has moderate wear, chipping at edges. Book Condition; Very Good Jacket Condition; Good . 1966. HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Faint marks to covers, corners lightly bumped and light marks to page block. Clean throughout. AD. Used.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Unofficial history of USMC air activities, mostly in the Pacific theater, with chapters on the origins of Marine aviation, Pearl Harbor / Wake / Midway, training, Guadalcanal, Solomons, Rabaul, Philippines, fast-carrier task forces, Okinawa, list of aces. Hardcover, as pictured; the stated first edition (first printing). General wear, corners rubbed & frayed, spine a little creased; no jacket; pages lightly tanned. Text clean, no names or marks; xvii, [3], 265 pages; b/w plates; endsheets show aviation insignia and the marine advance through the Pacific during the war. Size: Octavo.

hardback, 4to, xiv,230pp, illustrated, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wtapprt slightly frayed at corners and spine ends, spine faded.

265 SS. mit zahlr. s/w Abb. 8°. OLn. NaV. Einband moderat unfrisch/staubfleckig. Insgesamt aber eher gut. Foreword by General A.A. Vandegrift. Aufgrund der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen EPR-Handels-Erschwernisse kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Polen, Österreich, Rumänien, Dänemark, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sollte eine deutsche Lieferadresse möglich sein, kann an diese aber problemlos geliefert werden! * * * due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Austria, Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain * * * Sprache: Deutsch 999 gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 265 pages, indexed. Hardcover in grey pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket has a blue "Signed" label taped to the inside of the mylar at the foot of the spine. The jacket has moderate wear with some rubbing along the edges and brief chipping at the headcap. Illustrated endpapers. Some pencil notations on recto of front flyleaf. There is tipped-in biographical note before the half title pertaining to WWII Marine Corps Aviation fighter pilot Robert Edward Galer and is signed by him as "R. E. Galer" at the bottom. This book is NOT signed by De Chant. Signed By Subject.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. You can see the blue covers in the photos. They are very clean. The gilt lettering on the spine is very bright. The top and middle edges look very good. The bottom edges have some small whitish spots, just a little color loss. The corners have little to no rubbing. The front bottom one has some crinkling from the bump/crease that you can see in the photo. The spine ends have just a little bit of crinkling as well. I don't see any stains on the page edges. The book has a slight forward lean, but is solidly bound from cover to cover without any issues. The covers are nicely tight. The front inside cover and front end paper are illustrated with U.S. Marine Corps Aviation insignia. The rear inside cover and rear end paper form a map of 'The Advance of Marine Aviation through the Pacific in World War II.' The inside covers and end papers are in very good shape. The same goes for all of the pages in the book. I've scrolled through them several times and haven't found any instances of soiling. The bump/crease at the front bottom corner surprisingly didn't create any creases on any of the pages, and I'm not seeing any conspicuous creasing anywhere in the book. Nor are there any markings or attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. There are four 8 page sections of photographs, so 32 pages in total. They are on glossy paper, but I'm not seeing any foxing or spotting on any of them. They are in very good shape. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. I think it's done pretty well for a book published in 1947. It does have that diagonal crease just got off the front bottom edge, and there are several tiny tears off the top edge of the rear cover. There's also small loss off the top edge of the spine, maybe a tiny loss at the bottom edge of the spine. There are two thin brown stains on the rear cover, and there are the typical tiny losses at the corners. The top and bottom corners of the front flap are clipped, so the price is gone. The flaps are otherwise in solid condition. I've always had the jacket in a fitted protective cover. I removed it to better assess the condition of the jacket and will replace it with a new fitted protective cover before the photos are scanned. From the dust jacket: 'This is the stirring story of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II. It is not a critique or judgment in the armchair sense but rather a reportorial, well documented accounts of what the Air Arm of the Corps did in supporting 55 amphibious landings, shooting down nearly 2400 Japanese planes and sinking some 900 enemy ships. A hundred thousand men served in Marine Aviation during the late war-- this is their story accurately and authoritatively told. Captain De Chant's book is the end result of nearly four years of close study in intimate association with the members and campaigns of Marine Aviation.' This book was originally sent to one of those 'armchair critics'. An original Harper & Brothers notice was still in the book. On it is printed 'To the Literary Editor: Direct quotation in reviews is limited to 500 words unless special permission is given.' Also 'Please do not release reviews before publication date.' And 'Date Of Publication Sep 3 1947, Price $3.00.' A 4 is penciled over the 3.

8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, pictorial front endpapers, rear endpaper map, uncut, backstrip faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.456.

D. van Nostrand Company, London, 1965. 230 S. mit einigen Abb., Quart (Bibl.-Ex.)--- 750 Gramm.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A nice Association copy: WARMLY NSCRIBED TO COLONEL JOHN HARSHBERGER ("THE IRON MAN") BY THE AUTHOR, JACK DE CHANT, on the first blank endpaper. A solid copy to boot of this early (but not 1st) edition. Tight and VG in its dark-blue cloth, with very light soiling to the panels. Octavo, black-and-white photos supplementing Captain de Champ's text. Signed.

DE CHANT, John A. THE MODERN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., [1966]. Small quarto, green cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. De Chant relates the complete story of the U.S. Marine Corps from its founding to the present day. Signed presentation from De Chant on the half-title page: to a well-known Pentagon journalist: "12 Nov. '66, Potomac, Md. For Lloyd Norman- fellow veteran of battles galore- the Pacific- Yucca Flats and the Pentagon- with warmest personal regards to a damn good reporter- John De Chant, Colonel of the Corps." Norman was a well-known defense correspondent for "Newsweek" magazine and was admired by government officials and fellow journalists alike for his penetrating and comprehensive reporting. He died in 1987 at age 73. De Chant was awarded four battle stars and a Navy Letter of Commendation with Ribbons- his signed books are scarce! Near fine (contents clean & tight with a promotional photograph of the book laid in); little edgewear & short tears d/j. $100.00.

Condition: Fair. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Later printing. 8vo. xvii,265pp. Illus. Inscribed by author on front endpage verso. Book Good. No dust jacket. (United States Marine Corps, aerial military operations) Inquire if you need further information.