colonel beirne lay (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Good, firm copy of the First Printing with some rubbing to blue cloth boards and a sticker removal blemish on the front pastedown. Times Libraries, Inc. stamp on the first endpaper. 141pp 12mo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Spine is rubbed so that lettering is hard to read, light rubbing to front cover. otherwise a clean and presentable copy, with a solid binding. Dust jacket is in pieces. Note in pencil on endpaper: "Lt. Walt Duer flew as my copilot at Victorville, CA 1945.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Important account by the former C.O 487th Bombardment Group (H) and joint collaborator for the Novel, Twelve O'Clock High. 1st Edition 1945 141pp., Interesting inscription on the front endpaper from someone with a family connection to the author and a lot more importantly a pencil inscription by the author's brother "Major John Hunter Lay USA Flying Corps" at the end of his printed letter which is the Epilogue to the book. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners and spine titling faded, no dw., else very good condition.

Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. No. 88 of 195 limitation, signed by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle and also by Colonel C. Ross Greening. Oblong, 25.5 by 34 cm. Unpaginated, 58 leaves, with 50 numbered color plates, and text explanation on facing page, which is generally the verso of the preceding plate. Also half-title and final leaf have color illustrations and are essentially color plates, thus arguably bringing the total number of color plates to 52. Four smaller illustrations, in color, on title and text pages. James Harold Doolittle, better known as Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993) was an American war hero and aviator best known for the Doolittle Raid, an air raid on the primary islands of Japan just a few months after Pearl Harbor, but also before and after achieved a good number of aviation firsts. He also was a general in the U.S. military. This book celebrates Doolittle's experiences primarily during the Second World War, mostly through vivid pictures but with accompanying text that explains the visual depictions with a breezy, easy-to-read manner. Col. Greening (1914-1957), who was the primary force behind this hagiography, was himself a pilot and participated in the Japan Raid under Doolittle, among other heroic wartime exploits. The cover of this limited edition has gilt impressed lettering and an illustration of an old air controller's tower. Hardcover. Cloth (Linen). Plastic comb spiral.