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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cloth is fading slightly, with occasional spotting. Mild bumping to extremities. Front and rear end papers have been removed. Previous owner's name has been blacked out inside front and rear covers. Another previous owner's name has been written inside front cover and on rear of title page (Lt. G R Nunn SEATIC). Otherwise clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. This is a copy of the 1939 first edition 'Lithographed in the U.S.A. Edwards Brothers Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1942. SEATIC refers to Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center (New Delhi, India), set up to interrogate Japanese prisoners of war and translate captured Japanese documents, during the Second World War.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cloth is fading slightly, with occasional spotting. Mild bumping to extremities. Previous owner's name has been blacked out inside front and rear covers. Number 491 has been printed inside front and rear covers. Otherwise clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. This is a copy of the 1940 first edition 'Lithographed in the U.S.A. Edwards Brothers Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1942.It is probable, but not certain that tis item was once owned by an operative at SEATIC refers to Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center (New Delhi, India), set up to interrogate Japanese prisoners of war and translate captured Japanese documents, during the Second World War. The book has been obtained from a source connected with SEATIC.…

Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, various pagination, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss with chipping to spine & extrems, moderate chafing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, large scuff & surface loss to rear pastedown, light cracking to gutters- boards sl shaky). …