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Guadalcanal Diary [Buy it!] | Richard Tregaskis | USD 10.00 (Thu May 16 17:12:31 2024) | Abebooks | Books by White/Walnut Valley Books | [publisher: Random House, New York, NY] Hardcover Random House, New York. 1943. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the front pastedown in pencil. Book Condition: Good+; suntoning to spine; light soiling to boards; bumped tips; wear through fabric on lower front tip. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with red and black lettering on spine and Marine Corps emblem in red on front board. Maps as endpapers. Tinted text block top. 263 pp 8vo. A new chapter in the history of America by a news correspondent who landed on Guadalcanal with the first detachment of United States Marines. He describes the occupation by our forces of the tiny seven-mile strip that included the invaluable airfield built by the Japs, and of our magnificent defense of that strip against innumerable attacks by superior air, land and sea forces. A clean very presentable copy. [Winfield, KS, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1943] Show/Hide image |