foster captain john (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: VG+. Vintage Paperback 1st printing in VG+ condition. Mild tanning to the p aper , a few tiny dust spots.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Fine condition faux red leather boards with elaborately illustrated gold front cover perimeter and spine decorations, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering over a black block border. Includes Editor's Comment and Acknowledgments. Major chapter headings are as follows: Wisdom; Benjamin Franklin; History; Beauty and Business. "Sometimes it seems almost futile to try to write anything new because it has all been said before - and so well said. Of course, any such defeatism must lead to a dead end of accomplishment in terms of literary effort. Fortunately for the living and those to come, there are many bright new stars on the panel of contemporary writers. They are skillfully telling the story of these eventful days and their words will be read with relish by future generations. In fact, the printed word today is so prolific, and the competition with the book, the magazine and the newspaper is so great, future generations will require anthologies in great number to know what our bright literary stars have said. In this anthology there has bee no effort to be erudite, consistent, unusual or educational. The prime purpose is to amuse by exposing the reader to many things he has read before and may wish to read again. Perhaps that poem he [or she] HAD to learn, to pass freshman English, is here. He may even enjoy rereading it under different auspices. It is not possible to include only those things that appeal to him. If he dislikes poetry in any form, we hope he will please forgive us. Some of us like the "well-turned couplet." On the other hand, there are those who love Shakespeare, but just cannot understand how his hallowed words should appear with some of the more commonplace choices that have arrived in this selection. It takes all kinds you know - and we have tried to select all kinds of literature." - excerpt from Editor's Comment.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Presumed 1st Edition. Maroon boards with gilt titling on a black block to the spine. No dustjacket. this ? may? be a 'doctored' ex library copy as there are traces of something rubbed off the spine (? white tippex numbers? ) and No publisher's detail at the foot of the spine. Internally the inner hinges are strengthened with linen neatly, but again traces of a bookplate or similar having been removed from the front pastedown o/w the book is free of any marks and there are NO inscriptions, labels, stamps or similar. There is only a copyright date given but from other descriptions I am assuming that this is a First US edition. 320 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Epilogue & Appendix. " John Foster joined the US Navy early in 1942 and, after transferring to the marines and completing flight training, he joined the newly formed VMF222, the "Flying Deuces," at Midway. After a brief stop at Guadalcanal's Henderson Field, the squadron went into action at Munda and there began an odyssey which was to last until the end of World War II and which was to take the men of the Flying Deuces from Munda to Vella Lavella (where the Deuces participated in the first fighter sweep over Rabaul) to Bougainville, to the Green Islands, to Samar and finally to Okinawa. John Foster fought side by side with some of the great Heroes of the war - Pappy Boyington, Joe Foss, Robert Hanson, Zeke Swett and many others - and he records their personalities and exploits." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.