Persian Gulf Command, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations, map. Fine in fine DJ. Pages: xiv, 420.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy of the first edition.

Clean, firm hinges, sharp corners, clean boards. DJ has touch of wear to top front corner o/w in NF+ condition. BP/WWII.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth covered boards with red/white lettering front and spine with red/white shield to front. This copy is NEAR FINE in a VG , unclipped ($2.00) DJ, illustrated by Bruce Mitchell. Review copy with review slip laid in. Exterior is rich, clean, and with very minimal rubbing to extremities. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tight. Illustrated. Preface by James Thurber. DJ has obverse small tape repairs at spine bottom and back top. Other modest edge chips. Back has two stray green marks and is modestly sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. First Edition. 170p. Blue cloth. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Originally pieces written for The New Yorker, here for first time consolidated, VG/G as dj has many chips, 1st edn, signed by author on frp, ill, 140pps, small 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bruce Mitchell (illustrator). First Edition. Account of the vital work done by the PGC in getting military supplies through Iran to Russian forces fighting Germany, akin, says the author (who spent nearly a year in Iran), to trying to supply all of Greater New York using the Coney Island scenic railway. Stated first printing (first edition). Small hardcover, full green cloth, red & white titling. Light wear to book, small spot to top edges of boards; jacket shows light rubbing, rear panel a bit grubby, spine faded, minor edgewear. Text clean; xvi, 140 pages; b/w illustrations. Size: Duodecimo.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. xiii, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; as new copy, A new history of the long-overlooked WWII theater in Iran and Iraq, its unrecognized significance, and its impact on local society and politics. This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Random House (NY) 1945, first printing, 140 pp, photos, very good with torn/repaired photo page, hardcover, no DJ,

Yale (New Haven) 2018, first edition, first printing, 420 pp, photos, very good, DJ,

First edition, first printing, of this narrative of American efforts to transport supplies across Iran during the Second World War. The Persian Gulf Command was charged with routing lend-lease material to the Soviet Union via the "Persian corridor". Joel Sayre (1900-1979) achieved fame as the chief screenwriter for Gunga Din (1939). The foreword is written by the American humourist James Thurber (1894-1961), Sayre's childhood friend. Octavo. With half-tone coloured insignia frontispiece and 4 half-tone photographic double-sided plates, title page lettered in red and black. Original green cloth, spine lettered in white and red, front cover lettered in red and with insignia blocked in white and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Minimal bumping and rubbing; minor rubbing and creasing to unclipped jacket, very faint toning to spine: a near-fine copy in like jacket.