SACO - The Rice Paddy Navy {Signed}

Signed first edition, first printing. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Pleasantville, NY: C. S. Palmer, 1950. 8vo., xvi+408pp., illustrated with numerous b/w plates, map endpapers. Foreword by rear admiral Milton E. Miles. Inscribed by Stratton of free endpaper: "For The Falmouth Enterprise, with all good wishes for your future success. Roy O. Stratton" The Falmouth Enterprise is a century-old local newspaper in Falmouth, Massachusetts, where Stratton resided. SACO was the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, a top secret operation of American and Chinese counter-insurgency fighters that successfully harassed the Japanese in the China Sea and on mainland China during World War II. Blue cloth with gilt tiles. Gilt a bit rubbed, mild scuff to the cloth. A very good copy. Scarce.