VGC plus. Severn House Publishers, 1992.First UK edition-first impression. Black hardback (two small dents and nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj (a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover, two small marks inside the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark and nick on the outer edges, small creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 344pp.Price un-clipped. A collectable and scarce first UK edition. This is another paragraph Book Description: First in the author's five-volume series The Corps, SEMPER FI sets the stage for WW II. It is the '30s, and we meet the old corps, as it existed between WW I and WW II -- on station in Shanghai, at Quantico, in Washington, all nicely contrasted with civilian life stateside. But the calendar is moving relentlessly toward a fatal day in 1941. When it comes, we understand why nothing could ever be the same again -- and what it's going to take to win the awful conflict into which we have been bloodily and unpreparedly thrust.