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Schiffer Military History, 2000-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

It was the biggest gamble of World War II, but Lt. Co. Jimmy Doolittle's legendary bombing raid on Tokyo gave America the morale boost it needed in the wake of Pearl Harbor. This is the full story as told by the Doolittle Raiders' official historian. Carroll Glines is also the author of Attack on Yamamoto. Num Pages: 272 pages, 35 photos. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 718. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

West Chester, PA.: Schiffer Military History, 1991. Reprint . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv + 258 pp., b/w photos, appendix (roster), chapter notes, index. America's Daring First Strike Against Japan. This is the Schiffer reprint edition. Laid in on the f.f.e.p. is a 4.5" x 7" Doolittle Raiders bookplate signed by Ed Sayler, Tom Griffin, David Thatcher & R.E. Cole. On the next page opposite the half-title p. is tipped in a 5" x 7" b/w photo of R.E. Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot, plane #1) signed by Cole. Cloth bound hard cover book in near fine cond. The d/w is v.g. or better cond.

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Signed by the author and Doolittle's co-pilot R. E. Cole, Crew#1. As new in dust jacket.

xiv + 258 pp., b/w photos, appendices (bib.), notes, index. America's Daring First Strike Against Japan. Signed twice each by 3 of the Doolittle Raiders. Signed on the half-title p. by Harry C. McCool, Nav. plane #4; J.R. Stork, Co-Pilot, plane #10; & Jack A. Sims, Co-Pilot, plane #14. There are 2 photo sections and each of the 3 Raiders has signed their name again on a photo. This is a first edition from Schiffer but a reprint of the book done earlier by a different publisher. Cloth bound hard cover book & d/w both in near fine cond.

A square solid tight clean very carefully read copy. This copy has one light cotner bump, minr edge wear to the jacket. This copy has been signed by Glines. This copy includes a copy of a photo, dated Feb 85 that pictures Barry Goldwater and Doolittle on the same speaking platform, a copy of an A.C. Greene column about Texas Aviation, Texas Sketches. Also included is a program for the Jalonick Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series, held at the McDermott Library Auditorium in Dallas, dated July 10, 2004 featuring Glines as speaker. The program is also signed by the author. 258 pages, text and photos. Re-issue of the author's book first published in 1988.

xiv + 258 pp., b/w photos, appendices, notes, bib., index. One of the best histories of the Raid. First pub. in 1988 this is a Schiffer reprint. Signed on the half title p. by 6 Doolittle Raiders: Frank Kappeler, Tom Griffin, David Thatcher, Chase Nielsen, Davy Jones, & Jacob D.[DeShazer]. Also signed on the p. opposite by Thomas H. Cline, one of the 2 test pilots to fly a B-25 off of the USS Hornet. There's a sl. bleed thru the half-title p. on a couple of the sigs. Cloth bound hardcover book in fine cond., d/w in fine cond.

Signed by seven crew members on title page (Bower, Griffin, McCool, Stark, Potter, Wildner and one other) , and by 25 orther airmen and airwomen on other pages. Six crew members (Bower, Griffin, Pohl, Sims, Stark and Wildner) have signed on sticky notes ("Carver Conty Title Guarant") on back endpages. 50th Anniversary Edition, with pastedown on front endpages saying book is compliments of Schiffer Publishing. Ex-owmer name also on front endpage -- Jim Duffy, who apparently had connections with the crew. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and bright. Black cloth cover with little or no wear. Dustjacket has minor wear to edges, but otherwise glossy and fine. ; 6.36 X 1.13 X 9.18 inches; 272 pages; Signed by Collection of Signatures

octavo. 258pp A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a mylar wrapper. SIGNED by title page by four men involved in the raid. Bill Bower, pilot 12) J.R.Stork, Tom Griffin (Nav#9) and Carroll V. Glines. 50th Anniversary Edition.