[First Edition] Black Baghdad (in rare DJ) A U.S. Marine's memoir of Haiti in the 1920's Craige, John H. [Used - Very good] [Hardcover]

[First Edition] Black Baghdad (in rare DJ) A U.S. Marine's memoir of Haiti in the 1920's Craige, John H. [Used - Very good] [Hardcover]
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Product Description

A.
L.
Burt & Co.
, New York.
1933.
276 pages.
First printing of the A.
L.
Burt edition, preceded by the Minton, Balch edition.
Rare DJ is chipped and tattered.
Book is tight and clean.
Black cloth stamped with cream titles.
Light shelf-rubbing to cloth along top edges.
Endpapers tanned in gutters.
Laid-in is an original book advertisement for this title, from 1933.
A memoir of a U.
S.
Marine Captain on loan to Haiti to help train their soldiers, before ultimately being tapped to run their police department in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city.
From learning the language, the people, the land, the culture and of course, voodoo, Captain Craige fills the pages with anecdotes and exotic observations while shedding light on a U.
S.
serviceman's take on Caribbean "Banana Wars," during the 1920's.

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