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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1981, first edition, inscribed on half-title page by Jackson. 4to; 308 pp. Brown cloth boards, 397 illustrations, including 104 full-color plates. Glossy multi-color illustrated dust jacket, surface handling wear. Book and jacket design by Leslie Stevenson Fry and Linda Diane Schifano. Fine in a near fine-very good + dust jacket. Provenance: Inscribed, ""For Bill Clark - and the good old 5th Phib -- friend Harry Jackson - 1981"". Harry Jackson (1924-2011) was assigned as a sketch artist to the V Amphibious Corps, Marine Corps at 18. (Grimes). Dwight D. Eisenhower presented the Presidential Unit Citation to the 4th Marine Division consisting of: .V Amphibious Corps. (Chapin, 36). Resources: Contemporary Western Artists, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Judd's Inc., Washington D.C., 1982. Harry Jackson, Artist Who Captured the West, Dies at 87, William Grimes, New York Times. 4-28-2011. The 4th Marine Division in World War II, 1st Lieutenant John C. Chapin USMCR, Washington D.C., 1945.