Search Results: WWII Pacific and Japan from Catron Grant Books

Pacifica, CA: Pacifica, 1996 Pacifica, CA: Pacifica, 1996 302 pp with 16 B&W plates. Volume II of "The American Aces Speak." accounts largely from the South Pacific and China-Burma-India theatres. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright, undamaged save for light bumping to tail of spine. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Presdio Press, 2001 414 pps. plus 14 b/w photograph pages and map on the frontespiece. Text clean, bright, tight, and unmarked. Blak paper-covered boards with gold stamping, very clean with one minor nick in front upper orner. Ditto DJ. Apart from minor flaws, near fine condition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

U.S.A.: Crown, 1990 240 pp with one map and 8 B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Brown cloth boards with dark blue quarter-binding are clean and undamaged. DJ is intact, in mylar protection.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Chartwell Books Inc., 1980 64 pp with B&W and color illustrations and cutaway diagrams throughout. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Literary Guild, 1943 200 pp , maps of ship movements on endpapers. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red dye from boards has seeped onto the top edge a few pages. DJ is rubbed, moisture stained (only visable from inside.) #300852. 1st Edition.. Cloth. Good/Fair Minus. Book Club Edition.

John Wiley & Sons, 1995 242 pps. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Black paper boards with gold-stamping as new. Interior as new. DJ clean and bright with 2 minor closed tears. "A Japanese Officer's Eyewitness Account of the Last Great Campaign of World War II.". Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 5.5" x 8.5".

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980 Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980 224 pp with eight B&W plates. Leyte Gulf was the last of the great naval battles of WWll. The three-day battle (Oct 23-25, 1944) resulted in the destruction of the Japanese fleet as an effective fighting force. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black boards with silver-stamped titles are clean and undamaged. Dust jacket is bright and intact with light shelfwear. In mylar jacket. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book Club Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

University of Alabama Press, 1987 451 pp with B&W illustrations in text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Trade Paperback. Fine.

Simon And Schuster/ Pocket Books, 1990 249 pp. a young Flying Tigers pilot, shot down over Japanese -occupied territory outside Hong Kong, makes his way with Chinese compatriots through three hundred miles of enemy territory to Allied lines. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. First Printing.. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine.

Ballentine, 1970 218 pp with 16 B&W plates. AS a last ditch measure, starting in October of 1944 , 1228 Japanese pilots plunged their bomb-laden planes onto the decks of U.S. ships, sinking 34 and damaging 288 with heavy loss of life. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, Covers are bright and intact.. Second Printing.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus.

Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2012 174 pps. with several b/w photoragphs plus Ezequiel Oritz's hand-written dedication on half-title page.Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Front softcover with 2-color and 4-color photgraphs and orange and blue graphic treatments is tight and bright with minimal wear.. By Author on Half-Title Page. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9".

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003 540 pp with 32 B&W plates, 11 maps in text and maps on endpapers. Covers the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Guadacanal, with a strong empathisis on the personalities involved. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black paper boards with rust-colred quarter binding are clean and undamaged. DJ is clean, bright, intact with a little bumping to top of spine.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

War Department United States Government, 1945 War Department United States Government, 1945 Good. 4" x 5.5".. Good.

Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008 270 pps plus 12 B/Wplates. Text clean, bright, tight and unmarked. Blue and black paper-covered boards As New. DJ As New. This non-fiction book recounts the World War II experience of the crew and survivors of the famous U.S. Navy submarine, the "Tang.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 6"x9".

London: Routledge, 1994 xvi, 297 pp with 10 B&W plates and one map. Through access to documents unavailable to earlier esearchers, Professor Sheldon Harris details the activities of Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army, a formation dedicated to conducting bacterial warfare research on captive subjects in Manchuria in the 1930's and 1940's. He also shows ht the United States governmenr provided immunity post-war to the men so that the U.S. could acquire the results of Japanese expertise in bacteriological warfare. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged except for a short closed tear.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 464 pp with sixteen B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Beige cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean,with a tiny tear to the cloth on back board. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 Tokyo, Japan: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1975 464 pp with sixteen B&W plates. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Beige cloth boards with gold-stamped titles along spine are clean,with a tiny tear to the cloth on back board. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Three volumes cased. Vol.1 ((9" x 12") contains the original text in Japanese and the illustrations. Vols 2 & 3 are the English translations. The threevolumes are clean, tight and unmarked. Vol. 1 has a VG dust jacket. All are housed in a tan heavy corregated cardboard case with some rubbing to extremities. Cased Hardcovers. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1956 Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1956 Two volumes cased in cardboard, Volume I has a large foldout illustration of the anatomy of an airplane, photo illustrations of aircraft in three seperate views throughout, Maps on endpapers. Text in Japanese. Volume II has the English translation. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. . Red boards are clean and undamaged. Tanheavy card casing has light soil, sunfading. Cased Hardcovers. Very Good/Good.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1942 280 pp with photo of MacArthur frontis and B&W plates in text. Intrduction by Lowell Thomas. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red boards with god-stamped titles are clean and undamaged. Dust jacket has edgewearbut is clean and untact. Now in mylar wrapper.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.