Description
First edition of Return of the Enola Gay, signed by Paul W. Tibbets.
Octavo, 339pp. Black cloth, title in silver on spine. Solid text block, appears unread. In the publisher’s dust jacket, metallic gray, faint shelf wear, near fine. Signed by Paul Tibbets on frontispiece photograph, dated “11-10-01.”
Brigadier General Paul Tibbets (1915-2007) is best remembered as the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress, known as the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.