John H Craige (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oct, 1934, pp. 435-485, Profusely Illus with Color & BW Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Paperback. first edition. bs-67 near fine, unread paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 212 pages, illustrations, index, Near fine hardcover First edition in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 212 pages, illustrations, index, Near fine hardcover First edition in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Full-bound blue cloth w gilt lettering, 211pp, illustrated w line drawings. Light edge-wear, small tape stains on ffep (first blank page), small bookseller label on ffep (first blank page), corner missing on pp125. Dustjacket has 1 x 1 3/4 in. chip on lower edge of front panel and several closed tears and small edge chips, price-clipped. RARE. Pont, Charles E. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 212 pages, illustrations, index, Very good hardcover First edition in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Charlie Burrows "wishing him luck in his second World War". 22 May 1942 - Has bookplate of Lt. Col. Charles R. Burrows, 68th Armored Regiment, 6th Armored Division, Desert Maneuvers, California. GREAT ASSOCIATION piece for a WWI & WWII collector. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. The covers and spine have moderate wear. The former owner wrote his name and university on the ffe and stamped his last name in bold letters on the front pastedown. The pages are clean and there are some short creases. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by W. W. Norton, New York, 1941. 211 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. THE justly famous âsoldier and sailor, too, â is the hero of the latest volume in the series which offers the American citizen information about the various factors in his countryâs defense. The United States Marine Corps is the land- fighting arm of the Navy. Some of the Marinesâ most spectacular feats of arms have been performed, however, while they have been detached for duty with the Army. And it is impossible to understand the tasks of this âtop-notch fighting organizationâ without going into the history of the Marines and outlining something of their effectiveness. So Captain Craigeâs little book becomes not only a presentation of facts âthe citizen should knowâ but also the repository for some interesting historical anecdotes.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 211 pp including index, illustrations. Dj has large chips and tears along edges. Boards have shelfwear with bumped corners. Hinges weakening - no loose pages. Previous owner's name penned to ffep (Major K.G. Montgomery 1944). Interior is o/w unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Practical handbooks of important information written authorities about our war services. Formerly published under the title, What the Citizen Should Know About the Marines. Illustrated. Dust jacket shows wear, is in a mylar cover. volume solid and clean. Owners name on first page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (1934). Stated first edition. Octavo black cloth lettered in gilt. Bookplate on the front pastedown, else a fine copy in a very good Walter Cole dust jacket which has a short tear at the upper spine and light fraying at the upper spine tip.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [First hand account of the US Marine occupation (1915â"1934) of Haiti.] Handsome dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Scattered foxing. 288 pages ; 22 cm. Contemporary signature of William M. Curtis. Captain Craig commanded the police department in Port Au Prince and the Haitian gendarmerie. An account of Haiti in the 1920-30s.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1933 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, 1ST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, APRIL 1933, NF BOOK/GOOD- DJ ,SLIGHT WEAR EDGES AND CHIPS EXTREMITIES DJ ,VG/GOOD-, AS-IS, BLACK CLOTH HARDBACK book TITLED IN GREEN is in VG condition. Pages are VERY gently tanned, but the binding is tight and the pages are unmarked. , 276 PGS, DJ SPINE HAS CHIP OUT BTM. and chips 2 the DJ EXTREMITIES . Account of the author's period in the Haitian gendarmerie in the 1920s, under the American occupation. Chatty account full of local lore. author was a U.S. Marine officer sent to Haiti to leadHaitian soliders, also was in charge of the police department in Port Au Prince. an educated view of the customs and lives of Haitians in the 1930's. dust jacket is illustrated by Walter Cole. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1933 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, 1ST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION, APRIL 1933, NF BOOK/GOOD- DJ ,SLIGHT WEAR EDGES AND CHIPS EXTREMITIES DJ ,VG/GOOD-, AS-IS, BLACK CLOTH HARDBACK book TITLED IN GREEN is in VG condition. Pages are VERY gently tanned, but the binding is tight and the pages are unmarked. , 276 PGS, DJ SPINE HAS CHIP OUT BTM. and chips 2 the DJ EXTREMITIES ,Chatty account full of local lore. author was a U.S. Marine officer sent to Haiti to leadHaitian soliders, also was in charge of the police department in Port Au Prince. an educated view of the customs and lives of Haitians in the 1930's. Walter Cole. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A.L. Burt & Co., New York. 1933. 276 pages. First printing of the A.L. Burt edition, preceded by the Minton, Balch edition. Rare DJ is chipped and tattered. Book is tight and clean. Black cloth stamped with cream titles. Light shelf-rubbing to cloth along top edges. Endpapers tanned in gutters. Laid-in is an original book advertisement for this title, from 1933. A memoir of a U.S. Marine Captain on loan to Haiti to help train their soldiers, before ultimately being tapped to run their police department in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city. From learning the language, the people, the land, the culture and of course, voodoo, Captain Craige fills the pages with anecdotes and exotic observations while shedding light on a U.S. serviceman's take on Caribbean "Banana Wars," during the 1920's. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. A bit of foxing or light staining on titlepage, very good lacking the dust jacket. Account of Haiti by a white American Marine captain who later headed the police there.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Lightly worn near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Account of Haiti by a white American Marine captain who later headed the police there.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. DJ in two pieces because most of the DJ spine is missing. Scuff mark on front free page as a previous owner name was likely there in the past. Lightly readl. No markings in book. Binding is fine. 299pp.

5 letters 140mm x 215 to 215mm x 280, 11 pp. of typescript. 1 85 x 120mm b&w photo. 1 article from New Yorker, 1 p. CONDITION: Very good. An engaging group of letters between the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Maine historical novelist and a former marine Captain stationed in Haiti turned author, concerning research for the former's novel, Lydia Bailey. Kenneth Lewis Roberts (18851957) of Kennebunk, Maine, was a renowned journalist and author of American historical fiction. His Lydia Bailey (1947), which these letters concern, is a novel set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Haitian Revolution with action taking place in Haiti, France, and amongst the Barbary pirates. The book remained at the top of the list of The New York Times fiction best sellers of 1947 for twelve weeks, and in 1952 the novel was adapted into a Technicolor film by 20th Century Fox. John H. Craige was a former marine Captain who served in Haiti and would go on to write popular books on Haiti, including Black Bagdad (c. 1930s), which argued that the Hatians were inhumane and was apparently one of the first books to bring voodoo to the attention of the Western world. In this lively letter exchange Roberts writes to Craige in pursuit of information that pertains to his forthcoming novel. Roberts' initial letter, dated April 10, 1944, begins: "I come to you for the information because your books on Haiti are miles ahead of anything else that has been written on that island, and because I think you're in a peculiarly excellent position to clear up for me a segment of Hatian history that I seem wholly unable to clear up by myself." In particular he wishes Craige would tell him, among other things, "why [the fort] Crete-a-Pierrot should have been so valuable to Toussaint." More questions follow. Referring to the published literature on Haiti, he notes, "I don't think the military details in any of them are worth a damn, but there's nothing else to go on." In a letter dated April 14, 1944, Craige responds positively to Roberts and even commends his earlier works: "I have read your Northwest Passage [1937], and it was a grand job." Craige also remarks that he would be "peculiarly interested in reading your Oliver Wiswell [1940]." He tells Roberts he is "interested in your efforts to fathom the fable of Crete-a-Pierrot, for fable I believe it to be." Before launching into a detailed exposition of Haitian history and the subject of Crete-a-Pierrot, Craige explains that he "spent nearly four years in Haiti, starting with a pretty good knowledge of French and a solid groundwork of history. I cultivated a sound drinking acquaintance with the history of the French peres, and with some of them, did a good deal of digging into the history of the land." On April 26, 1944, Roberts writes Craige again: "I'm reluctant to bother you further, but you know more about Haiti than anybody in this or any other country, and I don't want to go wrong if I can help it." He attaches a copy of his reference books on Haitian history for Craige to scrutinize. Writing on April 27, 1944, Craige affirms the contents of Roberts' last letter: "I think you've got something in the theory that LeClerc's people were after Dessalines when they attacked Crete a Pierrot." After briefly remarking on Haitian "old castles," which "had a fascination for Haitian guerrilla chiefs," Craige launches again into an excursus on Haiti and its revolution. In the final letter dated March 17, 1947, and penned from Nassau, Bahamas, Roberts writes to Craige just after Lydia Bailey has been publishedconfiding in him, "A lot of the critics don't get it, and it pleases me more than I can tell you to have you and Francis Rennell Rodd [18951978] get it." [with] 1 photo with affixed typescript reading, "Captain John H. Craige, with his officers of the Police Department of Port au Prince, Haiti." [with] A New Yorker article on Craige entitled, "A Gentlemen with Two Cauliflower Ears." A lively exchange concerning Haitian history relating to the Maine author's historical novel Lydia Bailey. REFERENCES: Sommers, Jeffrey. Race, Reality, and Realpolitik (London: Lexington Books, 2016), p. 82 (regarding Craige's views on the Haitian people). …