John h craige (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by W. W. Norton, New York, 1941. 211 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. THE justly famous âsoldier and sailor, too, â is the hero of the latest volume in the series which offers the American citizen information about the various factors in his countryâs defense. The United States Marine Corps is the land- fighting arm of the Navy. Some of the Marinesâ most spectacular feats of arms have been performed, however, while they have been detached for duty with the Army. And it is impossible to understand the tasks of this âtop-notch fighting organizationâ without going into the history of the Marines and outlining something of their effectiveness. So Captain Craigeâs little book becomes not only a presentation of facts âthe citizen should knowâ but also the repository for some interesting historical anecdotes.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. A bit of foxing or light staining on titlepage, very good lacking the dust jacket. Account of Haiti by a white American Marine captain who later headed the police there.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Lightly worn near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Account of Haiti by a white American Marine captain who later headed the police there.

Hardcover. Zustand: At Least Very Good. At Least Very Good. Reprint. DJ title "Black Bagdad : The Arabian Nights Adventures of a Marine Captain in Haiti", from A.L. Burt's "Crescent Library" featuring the evocative DJ artwork of Walter Cole and a copyright date of 1933. Black cloth w. title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, 8vo size (8 inches tall), colored endpapers, top edges stained yellow, pp. 276. Volume w. minor bumps and bottom edge of lower board shelf rubbed w. some minor loss to cloth, vintage bookseller's tag pasted onto rear pastedown, price intact DJ w. a touch of foxing to rear panel, some minor chips, light wear and stains. A clean copy. From the front flap ''No one has seen Haiti more intimately than Captain Craige of the United States Marine Corps. For a number of years, he was loaned to the Haitian Government and served as a white officer of the black troops of that republic. His first duty was in a wild and mountainous interior district nearly half as large as the state of New Jersey. Here the inhabitants shuffled on the sides of their feet. Some of them had peanut-heads and could not straighten their knee-joints. Captain Craige, learned their language on which he is an authority. He went to their dances, attended their funerals, studied their weird, primitive, religion, the voodoo. The natives called him Papa Blanc, White Father. Voodoo rites, cannibalism, black magic, wangas were all part of his daily routine.".…