Davis jr benjamin o (44 risultati)

Condizione: acceptable. All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condizione: Acceptable.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Printing. DJ has some light wear around the edges.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Good/Good. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Good/Good. (1991). . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 442 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, shelfwear, label on ffe . Black & White Photographs (illustratore).

First printing (not stated). xviii, 421 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight bumping to spine ends; rear flap's top corner is creased. Blue cloth with silver stamping to spine. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains fairly crisp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Autobiography of United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron Tuskegee-trained pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden with a Foreword by Lt. General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. {MilHist-Shelf#3} ISBN 0817308563.…

First printing (not stated). xviii, 421 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Blue cloth. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Autobiography of United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron Tuskegee-trained pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden with a Foreword by Lt. General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. {MilHist-Shelf#1} ISBN 0817308563.…

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American: An Autobiography, by Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., published by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1991. The life story of one of the great figures of American military history, in his own words: the son of the Army's first Black general, Davis endured four years of enforced silence from his classmates at West Point, graduated in 1936, and went on to command the Tuskegee Airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group in combat over North Africa and Europe in World War II. He then helped lead the integration of the newly independent Air Force, held major commands in Korea, Taiwan, Germany and the Philippines during the Cold War, and became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. A candid account of race, duty and leadership, and an essential primary source on the Tuskegee Airmen and the desegregation of the armed forces.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991, First Edityion, 8vo., 442 pages, photos. Book and jacket in fine condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with silver lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 442pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight, attractive second printing of this memoir of the first black general in the U.S. Air Force.

Condizione: Fine/Fine dj. 442pp. black & white photos.

Reprint (first published 1997) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xviii, 421 pages. Paperback: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Glossy paper covers; minor wear at spine head and at covers' corners; faint vertical crease to spine. Author's shaky blue ink signature "Chuck 'A-Train' Dryden" on page ii; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy. Autobiography of United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron Tuskegee-trained pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden with a Foreword by Lt. General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. {MilHist-Shelf#4} ISBN 0817312668.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition/2nd Printing. Inscribed and signed by author on frontispiece; Textblock and binding immaculate and tight; Dust jacket, in mylar, lightly edge and corner rubbed. 421p., including index. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Photos (illustratore). Inscribed & Signed by Author. Hardcover.…

Third printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page; first published 1997) DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xviii, 421 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed with bumping/creasing at edges. Blue cloth with silver stamping to spine. Faint small stain to text block's bottom edge with short swath of red marker adjacent to spine. Author's five-line blue ink inscription "Feb. 27, '99 | To Glen Cook, | God bless, always! | Chuck 'A-Train' Dryden | 99th Ftr Sqdn" on frontispiece page in a rather shaky hand (as Dryden was 78 years old in February 99). Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Laid-in at front endpapers are a card for Dryden's book signing and two brochures regarding Dryden as a guest speaker on February 27, 1999 at Tinker Air Force Base. Autobiography of United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron Tuskegee-trained pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden with a Foreword by Lt. General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. {MilHist-Shelf#2} ISBN 0817308563.…

Second printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xviii, 421 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; spine sunned; light bumping/curling at edges. Blue cloth; spine heel lightly bumped; spine retains vibrant silver stamping. Author's five-line black ink inscription "Sept. 25, 1997 | To Buddy, | God bless, always! | Chuck 'A-Train' Dryden | 99th Ftr Sqdn" on frontispiece page. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Autobiography of United States Army Air Forces 99th Pursuit Squadron Tuskegee-trained pilot Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden with a Foreword by Lt. General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. {MilHist-Shelf#5} ISBN 0817308563.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Missing. Signed by author under photo opposite title page. Blue hardbound without jacket. Owner's names, book plate on first page. Text unmarked, gentle wear. Signed by Author.

Condizione: FINE. 2nd printing. Autobiography of the first black West Point graduate in this century who was also the first black assigned to the Army Air Corps. He went on to lead the 332d Fighter Group - the Tuskegee Airmen - during WWII., and had a distinguished career, eventually retiring as a 3 star general. Nevertheless he and wife also had to battle discrimination and segregation not only in civilian life, but on military bases. Foreword by L. Douglas Wilder, governor of Virginia. Photographs, index. x, 442 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo in dust jacket. B&W photographs. Condition: trace of removed sticker to upper corner of front flap of DJ with offset smudge to first free endpaper; inked names to half-title page; else near fine in fine DJ. Pages: x, 442. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean tight copy. No dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 2002 1st ed. thus. SIGNED boldly by author on frontis. p. 421pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Fine. A moving memoir by a member of the famous Tuskegee Airmen Charles Dryden (1920-2008). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. With the '1' in a number line. The memoirs of a famous African American aviator and Civil Rights activist. A fine copy with embossed seal of noted activist John W. Rogers, whose copy this was.

Condizione: new.

Paperback. 8vo. Stiff red wrappers. 442pp. Near fine. Advance galley. Memoir of the first black general in the air force.