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Description

Heading: (Nimitz, Chester W.)
Author: Weller, George
Title: Bases Overseas: An American Trusteeship in Power
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harcourt, Brace & Company
Date Published: 1944
Description:

With illustrated endpapers. (8vo), original brown cloth, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition.

Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "For Admiral Nimitz from George Weller - November, 1944." Presentation copy from the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist, journalist and dramatist, inscribed to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Nimitz played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief: United States Pacific Fleet and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during the second world war.

Condition

Wear and toning to jacket with some minor chips and tears to edges, light wear to cloth with corners lightly bumped, some pages with light creasing at bottom corners; very good.

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Inscribed to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Name: Inscribed to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
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