So Becomes a Man

Xlibris Corp, 2006; 2007. Octavo in black cloth in black and tan pictorial dust jacket; 202 pages; 24 cm. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with faintest edgewear protected in mylar; o/w tight clean copy; cloth is clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of pages are clean; binding is tight and square; a very nice, collectible copy. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 1425726720; 9781425726720

In English. Association copy; inscribed twice on ffep and half-title page to Chuck Kane from J.F. Cody; also includes a five page typed autographed signed letter to Chuck Kane from Cody; also includes a copy of a black and white photo with Chuck Kane and J.F. Cody; Abstract: "United States Marine Bill White returns from the pages of Imitate The Tiger in which he fought in the snow of the far off northern clime of revolutionary Russia in 1918-19. He grows to full manhood in this sequel on the sunny tropic scenes of Haiti and Nicaragua during the Banana Wars of the 1920's, when some of the American news media demonized U.S. Marines as they would in Vietnam of the 1960's, and again in the Middle East of the 21st Century. After World War I the Marines dropped the slogan of "FIRST TO FIGHT", but in So Becomes A Man, Bill White and his brother Marines find they are, indeed, still first to fight. In this sequel to Tiger, there is also a tour in the Legation Guard in China, an exotic break between the Caribbean jungles and killer guerillas."