Search Results: Titles starting with N from Oriental Bookstore

1st Edition. Published by the United States Marine Corps during what appears to be the mid 1940s. 4to large format illustrated wraps. 9x 12 inches. Blue covers with yellow lettering and an illustration on the front cover and the Marine Corps seal over the Chinese flag on the back cover. oversize, Stapled softcover. VG: 48 pages, duotone. photographs. profusely illustrated with photographs and a few drawings, original order blank tipped-in. A letter is printed on the first page from Major General K.E. Rockey of the USMC explaining that this booklet is a compilation of pictures which cover the everyday lives and experiences of the Marines in North China; and that the first units landed in September 1945. Black and white photographs of general goings-on in the lives of the marines in North China at that time: photos of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, marines at the American Embassy, photos of their arrival met with enthusiastic crowds with a caption that reads, "Welcome glorious allies!". Story of… Read More

12mo illuswraps Card covers with no dust wrapper as issued. Unread. Second edition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of V-J day. NF: 76pp. Black and white photo frontispiece The author wrote the poems whilst held prisoner at the Japanese pow camp Cabantuan, Philippines, where he died. His work was found buried under a hut after the camp was liberated.