SALUTE TO THE MARINES

VG--/VG--. Light chipping, rubbing & darkening of spine to jacket, which is in mylar. Interior pages uniformly acidified, as book was printed on cheap wartime paper. Rear flap of jacket lists cast of movie; rear panel of jacket shows five stills from the movie. Frontispiece photo (poor quality). (NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943). 210 pages.

"This is the saga of Sergeant-Major Bailey of the United States Marines. When you meet him down in the south-west Pacific Island, just as the Japs were about to pounce upon them, he already had given thirty years of service to his country in his beloved corps.

Bill Bailey was as tough as they come in that famous fighting service. As husbands and fathers go, he was no great shakes, perhaps, but as a fighting man he was tops. What he did during those tragic weeks before Bataan, when Tojo's minions were swarming over the Philippines, will be remembered with a thrill of pride by every American. Sergeant Bailey stands for the fighting Marine of this war just as surely as Sergeant York represented the fighting doughboy of the last war.

If you like action, thrills, gallantry, humor and heroic courage then this is your dish. Love and moonlight, frankly, take only second place. Like the great motion picture which it was novelized, this book is a tale you won't easily forget. It is, truly, a heroic SALUTE TO THE MARINES"

SCARCE wartime book, especially in jacket.

$55.00