The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan
Washington, DC: GPO, 1956. First Printing. 26 cm, 358, illus., maps (2 folded, color), bibliographical note, index, boards scuffed, top edge soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1956. First Printing. 26 cm, 358, illus., maps (2 folded, color), bibliographical note, index, boards scuffed, top edge soiled. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1956. 26 cm, 358, illus., maps (2 fold-out, color), bibliographical note, index, name inside front board. More
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 235, index, usual library markings. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 512, v.5 only, illus., footnotes, index, usual lib markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ edges worn, library stickers on DJ & sleeve. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 512, v.5 only, illus., footnotes, index, some wear and small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1957. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 254, illus., Ink notation inside front endpaper, DJ worn, soiled, and chipped. More
Philadelphia, PA: Fidelity Publishing Co., 1899. 435, illus., sm stains to text & ins bds, bds scuffed & stained, weakness to fr bd, ink name ins fr flylf crossed out in marker. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1900. 252 pages. Tables, chronology, index, stamps on a few pgs, fr bd weak, lg tear ins fr hinge, bds & spine scuffed & edges worn. Signed. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1965. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 107, [5] pages. Illustrations. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling, and is price-clipped. Inscribed by the author (and his brother) on the fep. Inscriptions read To Mr. Chas. W. Carter With best wishes Herman E. Strong; and To: My good friend Mr. Chas. Carter This story of an ordeal in the life of my brother. Sincerely Walter Strong. Scarce small printing publication by a long disappeared press. True account of one man's story of being trapped in the Philippines when World War Two broke out, His subsequent internment for more than 3 years and his struggle to survive. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 20 cm, 176 pages, former owner's information in ink on front endpaper (military chaplain), sticker inside board, a few stray pencil marks. More
Place_Pub: South Bend, IN: Icarus Press, 1981. 233, illus., bibliography, index, few library marks, call # sticker on DJ spine, marker cross-out on top edge & inside rear flyleaf Two Japanese generals (Masaharu Homma and Tomoyuki Yamashita) were tried in the Philippines by a military commission under General Douglas MacArthur. Although the Japanese generals were unaware of the atrocities perpetrated by their troops, they were found guilty, appealed that decision and lost, and were executed. More
South Bend, IN: Icarus Press, 1981. Hardcover. 233 pages. Illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear. More
Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1987. 185, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, sticker residue on front cover. More
University of Utah, Salt Lake CIty, UT: The Association for Asian Studies, 2001. Trade paperback. v, [2], 323-622, [14] p. List of References. Footnotes. Glossary. Secondary Sources. Illustrations [in text, map, and in advertisements]. More
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI: The Association for Asian Studies, 1993. Trade paperback. vi, [2], 739-1031, [34] p. List of References. Footnotes. Illustrations [in text and in advertisements]. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 26 cm. 189, [3] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. DJ edges worn and small pieces missing. More
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, [1943]. 24 cm, 308, illus., some soiling, staining, and wear to boards. More
Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, [1943]. First Edition. 24 cm, 308, illus., endpaper maps, boards worn, soiled, and stained, discoloration inside hinges, address sticker ins front flyleaf. More
New York. Harper & Row. 1981. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [10], 323, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Maps. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price clipped. Bookplate on half-title page signed by Thomson. Foreword by John King Fairbank. Presents a comprehensive survey of the two-hundred-year relationship between the United States and East Asia. James Claude "Jim" Thomson Jr. (b. Princeton, New Jersey, September 14, 1931 d. August 11, 2002) was an American historian and journalist who served in the government, taught at Harvard and Boston Universities, served as curator of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism. He received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1961 under the direction of John K. Fairbank. Thomson was China specialist on the staff of the National Security Council headed by McGeorge Bundy. Peter William Stanley[1] (born 1940) is an American historian and academic administrator who served as the eighth president of Pomona College. A scholar of Asian studies, his tenure at Pomona coincided with a substantial increase in the college's endowment and prestige. John Curtis Perry also known as John Perry (born 18 July 1930) is an East Asian and Oceanic studies professor and historian. He is the Henry Willard Denison Professor Emeritus of History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Perry has written several history books and articles on topics including Pacific Asia-US relations, the American occupation of Japan, and American expansionism toward the Pacific Ocean. His writing style has been characterized for artfully conveying history to the general reader with pith, wit, and clarity. More
New York: Random House, 1961. First Printing. 427, illus., maps, endppr maps, notes, index, fore-edge scratched & soiled, green ink name ins fr bd, DJ worn: sm pieces missing. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 345, [1] pages. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Endpaper map. Source Notes. Bibliography, Appendix Index. Ink notes and underlining on several pages. DJ flaps cut off and laid inside front board. USS Lanikai, was a schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht commissioned into the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy. The ship was built as MY Hermes by W. F. Stone of Oakland, California, in 1914, for the Williams-Diamond Company, agents for the trading company Jaluit-Gesellschaft of Hamburg, Germany. Lanikai was taken into the United States Navy at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, under charter from Luzon Stevedoring Co., on 5 December 1941, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant (and future admiral) Kemp Tolley in command. The author was commanding officer of the Lanikai, which was commissioned as a U.S. navy ship on 5 December 1941; her real mission was to provoke the Japanese to sink her, thus triggering U.S. entry into World War II. The book detailed the schooner's 4,000-mile trip to Java, then the final 900-mile leg to Allied lines in Australia. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 345, [1] pages. Illustrations. Front endpaper map. Source notes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. DJ is price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Nice inscription, signed by Charles Adair, formerly commanding officer of the U.S.S. Lanikai on half title, written at Annapolis on Christmas Day 1973. Adair later achieved the rank of Rear Admiral. It was inscribed to a United States Army Colonel and noted that the Lanikai was the only commissioned ship in the United States Navy to operate under sail in the combat zone! When World War II broke out, he was serving with the Asiatic Fleet based in the Philippines. Eventually, he led three officers and 18 sailors in an escape from Corregidor aboard an 80-foot schooner. The story of the escape was told in the book "The Cruise of the Lanikai," written by fellow officer Kemp Tolley, who later retired from the Navy as a rear admiral. The book detailed the schooner's 4,000-mile trip to Java, then the final 900-mile leg to Allied lines in Australia. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 345, [1] pages. Illustrations. Tabular data. Occasional Footnotes. Endpaper map. Source Notes. Bibliography, Appendix Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley (29 April 1908 – 28 October 2000) was an officer in the U.S. Navy and is the author of three books and numerous articles on U.S. Navy activities in the Pacific, China, and the Soviet Union. USS Lanikai, was a schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht commissioned into the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy. The ship was built as MY Hermes by W. F. Stone of Oakland, California, in 1914, for the Williams-Diamond Company, agents for the trading company Jaluit-Gesellschaft of Hamburg, Germany. Lanikai was taken into the United States Navy at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, under charter from Luzon Stevedoring Co., on 5 December 1941, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant (and future admiral) Kemp Tolley in command. The author was commanding officer of the Lanikai, which was commissioned as a U.S. navy ship on 5 December 1941; her real mission was to provoke the Japanese to sink her, thus triggering U.S. entry into World War II. The book detailed the schooner's 4,000-mile trip to Java, then the final 900-mile leg to Allied lines in Australia. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 345, [1] pages. Front endpaper map. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Source notes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. DJ has some wear, edge tears and soiling. Inscribed and dated by the author on the dedication page to Uri and Senia Olkhovsky!!! USS Lanikai, was a schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht commissioned into the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy. The ship was built as MY Hermes by W. F. Stone of Oakland, California, in 1914, for the Williams-Diamond Company, agents for the trading company Jaluit-Gesellschaft of Hamburg, Germany. Lanikai was taken into the United States Navy at Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, under charter from Luzon Stevedoring Co., on 5 December 1941, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant (and future admiral) Kemp Tolley in command. The author was commanding officer of the Lanikai, which was commissioned as a U.S. navy ship on 5 December 1941; her real mission was to provoke the Japanese to sink her, thus triggering U.S. entry into World War II. The book detailed the schooner's 4,000-mile trip to Java, then the final 900-mile leg to Allied lines in Australia. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1987. 96, wraps, illus., notes, covers and spine somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. More