Description
The first edition of Doolittle’s Tokyo Raiders by Lieutenant Colonel Carroll V. Glines, signed by six members of Doolittle’s Raid, including General James H. Doolittle. Also signed by Tung-Sheng Liu, who helped save the raiders after crash landing in China.
Octavo, xiv, 447pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings on copyright page. Internally clean, a fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, faint shelf wear, a near fine example.
Signed by Tung-Sheng Liu on page 148. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the following Doolittle Raider’s: Colonel Carroll V. Glines (USAF), Lt. J. Royden Stork, Sgt. David Thatcher, Lt. Nolan Herndon, Sgt. Robert Bourgeois and the leader of the Doolittle Raid, Jimmy Doolittle, for which he received the Medal of Honor.
