Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo (signed)

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. INSCRIBED / SIGNED twice directly on the front free endpaper by former Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy Jr., Executive Officer, USS Pueblo. The first signature is "Eddie M." Below that he has signed in full. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Laid-in is the author's business card, with a color photo of this book's dust jacket front panel on the reverse side. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips or fading. NOT price clipped ($8.95). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. With 16 pages of maps, captioned ship diagram, and b/w photos. 1971. First printing with "First Edition" so stated on the copyright page. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. From the dust jacket: "Second in Command, The Uncensored Account of the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, by its Executive Officer, former Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy, Jr." From the publisher: "USS Pueblo (AGER-2) was a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the 'Pueblo incident' or alternatively, as the 'Pueblo crisis.'". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Edward R. Murphy Jr. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (x), 452pp. + 16 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …