Description

Complete set in 15 volumes, hardcovers in blue cloth with spines lettered in gold, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jackets. Includes Supplement and General Index volume (Castle Books reprint edition, circa post 1970). All volumes but Index illustrated with photographs and maps, many folding. All volimes stated first editions (first printings) but for vol. 12 which is a stated second printing and Index. Titles as follows: 1. The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943.; 2. Operations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943; 3. The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942; 4. Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942; 5. The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943; 6. Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944; 7. Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944; 8. New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944; 9. Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, January 1943-June 1944; 10. The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945; 11. The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945; 12. Leyte, June 1944-January 1945; 13. The Liberation of the Philippines, Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas 1944-1945; 14. Victory in the Pacific, 1945; 15. Supplement and General Index. Three volumes bear previous ownership names, with one stamped on title and with small label affixed thereto. Volumes 8 through 14 are blacked out on bottom edge with marker, with some light bleed onto inside lower margins; with volumes 9-14 having front free end-papers neatly excised. All books are clean tight with no underlining or marking to text.. Dust-jackets, but for vol. 15 (Index Vol.) protected by old clear acetate wraps. Numerous unused post cards and other relevant pictures laid-in loose. Very good complete set in very good+ dust-jackets. Media mail only. No priority or International orders without prior consent.