Command Performance Guts by Glover Cato (7 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 215pp, small octavo, hc w/jacket, tight binding, clean throughout, clean mustard cloth boards with clear spine titles, uoper right corner slightly bumped, clipped/soiled/worn jacket.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed First Edition. 215p. Signed and dated with a lengthy inscription present on front endpage. Bright pages are otherwise unmarked. Yellow cloth boards are pointed with heavy foxing on surfaces and text-block. Jacket is clipped on flaps, but price of $7.50 remains. Faint foxing present with a small chip on upper crown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in the year of publication. Near fine in a very good (some light edge wear and rubbing) dust jacket. B0106TLANU.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 215p. Photos. Maps. USNA 1919. Naval Aviator, Assist. Naval Attache Paris 1939-41, XO USS Saratoga, Staff officer for Nimitz and King, Captain of the USS Enterprise at Letye Gulf 1944. . Post war NATO. SIGNED with inscription. Fine/Near Fine Copy. Signed by Author.

First Edition. Signed (twice) and inscribed by the author. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 215 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22cm. Subjects: United States -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Signed (twice) and inscribed by the author. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 215 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22cm. Subjects: United States -- Navy -- Officers -- Biography. 1 Kg.

First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Camden, S.C. 4 Dec, 1969. For my friend Selden K. Smith. Your continuing interest in the navy and your interest in - 'Command Performance With Guts' - are genuinely appreciated and it delights me to dedicate this first edition book to you. C. D. Glover". Glover has additionally signed underneath his portrait "Cato D. Glover Admiral US Navy (Retired)." Glover (1897-1988) commanded the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in heavy combat in the Pacific in the Second World War. After the war, he served in several high ranking capacities in the newly formed NATO and did much to shape the organization. The recipient Selden K. Smith (1930-2018) taught history for nearly four decades at Columbia College in South Carolina (where Glover lived) and was a pioneer in developing Holocaust education courses at the college. Octavo. With half-tone illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Light spotting to edges; unclipped jacket with chips and closed tears at extremities: a near-fine copy in good jacket.