Language: English
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1982
ISBN 10: 0385159110 ISBN 13: 9780385159111
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 531pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with chips. A tight and decent first edition of this (to cite jacket flap) "book about war-time politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force." Tipped to front pastedown is a 5" X 4" bookplate bearing a typed "In Commemoration of DeWitt S. Copp's Visit to Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama on 22 September 1982," below which Copp signs in black ink. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of N.W. Pinney, an Air Force flight instructor who served the 84th Basic Flying Squadron at Gunter Field, Alabama during World War Two.
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st ed. 531p. photos. Heavy. Jacket priced. Jacket rubbed. SIGNED on pasted in card on end paper. Fine/Very Good Copy. Signed by Author.