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Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders
by Glines, Carroll V. [Jimmy Doolittle]
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
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About This Item
Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. The first edition of Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders by Lieutenant Colonel Carroll V. Glines, signed by six members of Doolittle's Raid, including General James H. Doolittle. Also signed by Tung-Sheng Liu, who helped save the raiders after crash landing in. Octavo, xiv, 447pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. Internally clean, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, faint shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by Tung-Sheng Liu on page 148. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the following Doolittle Raider's: Colonel Carroll V. Glines (USAF), Lt. J. Royden Stork, Sgt. David Thatcher, Lt. Nolan Herndon, Sgt. Robert Bourgeois and the leader of the Doolittle Raid, Jimmy Doolittle, for which he received the Medal of Honor.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15038
- Title
- Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders
- Author
- Glines, Carroll V. [Jimmy Doolittle]
- Illustrator
- The first edition of Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders by Lieutenant Colonel Carroll V. Glines, signed by six members of Doolittle's Rai
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- signed Matthew Ridgway, I could never be so lucky again Doolittle, General Matthew Ridgway, Signed General Matthew Ridgway, Ridgway's Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II, The Korean War Ridgway
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- Shelf Wear
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Inscribed
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