Stratton Roy Olin Commander Usn (3 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. 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".