The Valor of Ignorance
by LEA Homer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909 blue buckram with gilt title and US seal to upper board, top edge gilt, light rubbing to corner tips, 4 digit pen number to fep otherwise tidy unmarked copy with some minor isgns of age, 344pp + rice paper maps, port frontis with tissue guard, port frontis has light crease to bottom, 1909 first edition in I-M issue, author predicted Japanese imperialist aims in the East and the Pacific and how they were in a position to detsroy the US naval force in the Pacific , and of the unpreparedness, militarily and politically of the US state. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004581
- Title
- The Valor of Ignorance
- Author
- LEA Homer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- America American Military Study Japanese Threat Invasion Prediction Warning Pre-war Policy Japanese Imperialism
- Bookseller catalogs
- MILITARIA non-fiction;
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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