Savo. The incredible Naval Debacle off Guadalcanal by Newcomb, Richard F - 1963

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Has.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Four U.S. heavy cruisers sunk in a night battle, August 9, 1942, by an inferior Japanese force; the defeat crippled support and supply efforts for Guadalcanal for some months. A very good copy, spine head & tail very slightly worn, book plate removed from front paste-down, in price-clipped dust jacket with somewhat worn edges. (278p., 46 illus., 2 maps, casualties, Orders of Battle, biblio., index.)

Sydney: Ure Smith. 1963. 1st Aust ed., xvi, 237, b/w plates, prev. owner's inscr., top edge dusty, or. bds., v.g. in chipped, rubbed d.j.

Ure Smith, Sydney. 1963.. 1st Australian ed., xvi,238pgs, 16pgs of plates, orig cloth in d/w. V.good copy. Japanese naval force struck a crushing blow to Australian & American ships on the morning of August 9, 1942. .

1961. First Edition. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 278 cm. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt embossed decoration. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.