Kiser Sherman (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Stated first edition. Light blue cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine, corners and spine ends a little bumped, cover shows some unsightly fading/sunning and minor rubbing. Dust jacket shows minor tanning, spotting, and shelf wear & tear. Binding tight, flyleaves a little foxed, text pages a little tanned but very clean, author inscription to previous owner on first free end page is the only marking. 159 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books or sets may require extra postage for priority or international shipment. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01. signed and inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. 234 pages. Some wear and soiling to DJ. Foreword by H. Ezra Eberhardt. Sherman Leo Kiser (31 Aug. 1889, Huntington County, Indiana-24 Mar 1974, Fort Myers Beach, Lee, Florida) was a US Army officer. He is famous in Philippine Boy Scouting history as the founder of the Lorillard Spencer Troop, an early Boy Scout Troop in the Philippines, and is mentioned in every account of Philippine Boy Scouts history. On 15 November 1914, 2nd Lieutenant Sherman Kiser, then a young US Army artillery officer with the Philippine Scouts at Pettit Barracks in Zamboanga City, organized the Lorillard Spencer Troop, named after Lorillard Suydam Spencer (1883-1939), member of the Officers of the National Council and Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America indirectly honoring Lorillard's mother Caroline Suydam Berryman Spencer, a wealthy widow who worked as a missionary on Mindanáo and provided money for the troop's Boy Scout uniforms. In 1915 the Boy Scouts of America magazine Boys' Life, Vol. V, No. 6, August 1915, page 21, reported: "Lieut. Kiser of the Philippine scouts in the American army has organized a troop of boy scouts in the town of Zamboango. The boys are keenly interested in scouting and put the scout law into action daily." Kiser, a career officer in the US Army served at the Battle of Bud Bagsak in 1913 under Gen. John Joseph Pershing. In 1914 to early 1915, Kiser was stationed at Augur Barracks on Jolo and Pettit Barracks in Zamboanga City. In 1915 to early 1916 he was assigned to coastal defenses and Camp Eldridge in Laguna. In middle 1916 he was back on Mindanáo at Ludlow Barracks. On 19 May 1917 he got promoted to first lieutenant. As an artillery battalion commander in World War I, he received decorations from the USA and France. In 1929 he graduated from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. On 14 March 1946, the 14th Major Port, the US Army unit Col. Kiser served as Port Commander, was honored by the Mayor and burghers of the Borough of Southampton in England for outstanding achievement in the operation of the Port of Southampton during World War II and on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Later, Col. Kiser was also honored as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his World War II service. After retirement, Kiser authored The American Concept of Leadership and Americanism in Action.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Signed by author and inscribed to Colonel Donald M Libby both on front free endpaper and on another sheet (possibly from the first edition) which has been taped into this second edition copy. The inscription on the front free endpaper is dated July 1, 1955; the inscription on the added sheet is dated May 24, 1954. Hardbound without dust jacket. Embossed stamping on title page. Former owner wrote humorous comments and markings in margins, apparently for author's benefit. Moderate exterior wear. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 1955 (revised enlarged Second Edition of 1954), Pageant Press, HB 234pp, SIGNED and inscribed in 1956 by author to Hon. Adlai Stevenson ("who has abundantly demonstrated his clean vision, his great wisdom and his infallable leadership"), laid-in ephemera includes: typewritten reviews from John Bottomley, James A. Van Fleet, Allan H. Brown, book review from the National Defense Transportation Journal, VG/G+ (dj has small chips and tears at edges, dj price intact, interior clean, binding tight but spine slightly cocked). Signed by Author(s).