Devil Pay by Robin Moore, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Nearly Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Youngblood was a mercenary and gunrunner, with a storied career of violence and criminality. Myriad stories abound of his interactions with Castro (Fidel and Raul), Che Guevara, and the aftermath of both the revolution and the Bay of Pigs debacle. Very nearly fine in near fine dw with wear and shallow chipping to the spine edges. INSCRIBED by Moore on the front end paper, and dated on Valentine's Day, 1963, where Moore has drawn a heart around the date. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Coward McCann, New York. 1961. 320 pages. First edition, first printing. Book is about fine with slight toning along panel edges. $4.50 price intact on DJ flap with 5 open chips. This is a signed association copy, by author Robin Moore. Moore, ever the flamboyant author who was the son of the man who founded the Sheraton Hotel chain, was Harvard-educated, and where he became close pals with Robert F. Kennedy. He then went on to pen the best sellers the Green Berets and The French Connection, among others, the latter of which translated incredibly well to the silver screen. Moore's inscription on the front endpaper reads: For ___, As we sit (so often and in a bittersweet mood we seem to do this) at Idlewild waiting for a plane to take me away. Love, Robin. Idlewild, March 30, 1961. All things point to this being an intimate association copy as the dated inscription coincides with the publishing of this new title. Mr. Moore's inscription reads as though the two of them are waiting together at the airport for him to leave, again, from the airport that would be renamed JFK, in NYC, in tribute to Moore's close pal's brother's assassination. Ironically, this very story tells the story of a hired American mercenary tangled-up in Castro's revolution; and this book's inscription is dated only 17 days before Moore's Harvard pals would order the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. It makes you wonder where Mr. Moore was headed to, after penning this inscription at the airport, for a book chronicling the firsthand secret exploits of an American soldier of fortune intertwined with the Castro brothers, and who it turns out would be the focus of a failed coup attempt by the author's Harvard pals, just seventeen days later. Hmmm. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Coward McCann, 1961. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Jack Youngblood directly on the front free endpaper. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket has small edge chips and a few closed tears reinforced with clear tape. SEE OUR PHOTOS. NOT price clipped ($4.50). The jacket is protected by a removable Gaylord clear-plastic sleeve (jacket temporarily removed to reduce glare in photos). NOT a library discard. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Much on his interactions with Fidel and Raul Castro, Che Guevara, Batista, General Jose Pedraza, Senator Rolando Masferrer, the Cuban revolution and the Bay of Pigs. Illustrated with map. Bound in the original silver-stamped dark gray cloth. Complete with dust jacket. From an AI overview: "Jack Youngblood was an aviator who flew for Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution and wrote a book about his experiences titled The Devil to Pay, co-written with Robin Moore. The Devil to Pay is a 1961 book that details Youngblood's experiences as an aviator in the Cuban Revolution. The book covers topics such as gun running, smuggling, and the drug connections in Cuba after Castro's rule. Youngblood was also featured in a Time magazine article about pilots who flew to Cuba. In the article, Youngblood claimed that an anti-Castro group owed him $16,000. He also said that he had no loyalties and only worked for money.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 320pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.