"I Saw The Fall Of The Philippines" by Carlos P. Romulo - 1943

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dark green lettering on green covers. 8vo, 323pp. Spine sunned. VG-.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1943. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black lettering on green covers in a pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 323pp. The dust jacket is torn and has been partly tape repaired. A harrowing story of war's horrors.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. Hardcover. fair, ex-lib.. ciii, [4], 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Some soiling inside hinges. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Name in ink inside front board. Boards and spine scuffed, soiled, and worn. Carlos P. Romulo, one of the most decorated Filipinos of all time, told the story of the Filipino-American defense against Japanese invasion and aggression. Because he worked as both MacArthur's aide-de-camp and chief public relations officer, he was privy to what was occurring around the Philippines. The author was a Filipino editor, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and personal aide to General MacArthur. The War Department requested that certain statements be deleted. "The request came to late for the book to be reset. These deletions are indicated by heavy black lines". This printing is a rare example of specific military censorship during the Second World War. Derived from a Kirkus review: In charge of press and… Read More

Harrap. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Parts of the jacket are attached to the boards and to the first few pages. Some library markings and scarring. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. good, fair. 323, illus., slight discoloration inside boards and flyleaves, DJ worn and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. The author was a Filipino editor, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and personal aide to General MacArthur.

George G Harrap & Co London 1943. ex lib, minimal markings, 199pp illus, G+(sl cocked, corneers bruised, edges worn, v sl tears to spine head & foot, boards rubbed sunned & soiled)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. VG+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. The original price of $3.00 is still present on the front flap. The book includes a taped in piece of paper that has the Colonel's signature on it. DJ shows some scuffing and spotting and there are two tears present - both on the front. The largest one is in the upper left and you can see a darkened area where someone had taped it underneath (the tape dried out and fell off) and there is a smaller tear near the lower right corner. Green cloth boards underneath the clean with the only issues being a couple light corner bumps. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown but there is no handwriting in the book, at least on the pages. The only bad part in the book is where this signature is taped in: the half title page has a newspaper clipping of the Colonel's… Read More

George G. Harrap, Australia, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover. 288 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: George G. Harrap, Australia, 1943. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and minor chips and/or tears. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Inventory No: 24030309..

Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. Wear to cloth at top edge of boards.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8x6x1. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. In tattered, price-clipped DJ. Detailed account of Bataan and Corregidor. The War Department censored certain statements in the text - parts are blacked out. 16pp b/w photos. *** 323pp. First Edition.