doolittle jimmy (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Very good to fine with very good to fine dust jacket. Page 47 is creased at top corner. Dust jacket is very lightly bumped at bottom of spine. 340 pages with index plus 54 illustrations.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 574 pages, 48 pp of photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1332. . 2006. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Number 134 of only 195 copies SIGNED by author. Minor shelf/age wear. Minor bumping at edges. Otherwise VG.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. Inscribed by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, the first edition of Doolittle's Tokyo Raiders by Lt. Colonel Carroll V. Glines. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiv, 447pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. Offsetting to front free endpaper from laid-in newspaper article. Faint dust along top edge of the text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 on front flap, faint sunning to spine, a near fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the leader of the Doolittle Raid, Jimmy Doolittle, for which he received the Medal of Honor. Inscription reads: "To Donna Grimm: With kindest personal regards, and every good wish to you and your family. J.H. Doolittle." Gen. James H. Doolittle (1896-1993) was the recipient of the Medal of Honor for his raid on mainland Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Known as the Doolittle Raid, the long-range bombing raid utilized 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers, with the plan to land in unoccupied China. The bombing raid was successful and a major morale booster for the United States, four months after the surprise attack on Hawaii. Signed.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by co-author Carroll V. Glines on the front endpaper: "To John Carroll Collins / With best wishes and thanks for your interest in Jimmy Doolittle / Carroll V. Glines." Additionally SIGNED by Glines on the title page. The autobiography of James "Jimmy" Doolittle, an American military general and pioneering aviator. Doolittle received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan (now known as the "Doolittle Raid") during World War II. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small nick at the top left corner of the front panel of the dust jacket.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Very good. The Program for the Fortieth Birthday of the United States Air Force held in Washington, D.C., on August 1, 1947. The program is signed by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and Gen. Carl Spaatz. (illustrator). Program Pamphlet. Octavo, [1p.]. Printed on both sides, previously folded down center line. Light soiling to covers. Signed on the front cover by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and Gen. Carl Spaatz, along with three other dignitaries. The Air Force Day Banquet, held on August 1, 1947, took place at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. This event marked the first national observance of "Air Force Day," designated by President Truman six weeks earlier to honor the Army Air Forces on its 40th anniversary. The event was hosted shortly before the National Security Act of 1947, which created a separate military branch for the United States Air Force. Gen. Doolittle served as the master of ceremonies, and the featured speaker was General of the Army Air Forces, Carl Spaatz. Signed.

Kurzer Brief (1 S. 4 to, mit gedrucktem pers. Briefkopf ) mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert Carmel, CA 30.6.1988 Every good wish to you and yours. (dito : Grosses Original-Porträtfoto (in Uniform, 8 to) mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert Euro 245,-).

Signed vintage matte-finish studio photograph (stamp verso), shows James H. `Jimmy` Doolittle in an official chest-up portrait in his Air Force uniform, 8 x 10 inch, signed blue ballpoint ink "J. H. Doolittle", with some silvering, one mild vertical crease, and slightly waved to the edges - in fine condition. Accompanied by a photograph signed by Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934-2012), 8 x 10 inch, signed in golden ink, in very fine condition & a mounted photograph signed by Alfred Mason Gray Jr. (1928-2024), 11 x 14 inch, signed and inscribed on the mount in black felt tip, with mild signs of wear - in fine to very fine condition.