Stratton Roy Olin Commander Usn (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. blue cloth, bright gilt lettering on front and spine, double map end papers, military emblem for Saco Group China frontispiece, many b&w illustrations and supply convoy routes map, story of the top secret operation of 3000 US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard counter-insurgency fighters successfully harassed the Japanese in China during World War II, mild soil to front cover, light dampstains to rear cover , internal pages fine with no soil, wear or markings, 408 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed first edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Pleasantville, NY: C. S. Palmer, 1950. 8vo., xvi+408pp., illustrated with numerous b/w plates, map endpapers. Foreword by rear admiral Milton E. Miles. Inscribed by Stratton of free endpaper: "For The Falmouth Enterprise, with all good wishes for your future success. Roy O. Stratton" The Falmouth Enterprise is a century-old local newspaper in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where Stratton resided. SACO was the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, a top secret operation of American and Chinese counter-insurgency fighters that successfully harassed the Japanese in the China Sea and on mainland China during World War II. Blue cloth with gilt tiles. Gilt a bit rubbed, mild scuff to the cloth. A very good copy. Scarce. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo blue pebbled bds, gilt titles; Jacket priced $13. In mylar. SIGNED ded tp to Charles Saladino. Ow Fine/nfdj: 258pp. "Perplexing question of why the U.S. Navy was establishing bases in the Gobi Desert, in Northern India, along the Yangtze River, and the China Coast". Tai Li "an oriental Himmler" and Mary Miles performing secret magic tricks in the China theatre of ww2. Signed by Author. Book. /aa=1950, SACO: The Rice Paddy Navy [Sino-American secret organization during world war two]. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo blue cloth bds, gilt titles, minimal shelf wear and fading on the edges. Pages are clean but some are yellowing some along with the textblock, spine has some tanning. Gutters look great. PO stamp HC Taylor to fep Ow VG/ndj:  xvi+408pp, double map end papers, military emblem for Saco Group China frontispiece, many b&w illustrations and supply convoy routes map, story of the top secret operation of 3000 US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard counter-insurgency fighters successfully harassed the Japanese in China during World War II Sino-American secret organization during world war two. ASSOCIATION: PO Taylor, Howard C. was Lieutenant Commander at Chongqing 5/44-10/44./cf CAMMANN, Schuyler aka KI 1951:The Land of the Camel: FIRST & ONLY EDITION; gws copy has Signded author to George Berger to fep dated Sept 8, 1954, the lengthy ded references Rice Paddy Navy "Rice Paddy Navy is quite falseetc, etc". …