Thirty Seconds over Tokyo Hardcover - 1944

New York, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. True account by U. S. Army Captain & pilot who participated in the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, Japan, in WWII, crashed over the Chinese coast, lost a leg, & was saved during a daring rescue. In 221 pages with 16 pages of black-and-white photos + photo frontispiece of the author. Basis for the 1944 movie of the same name with Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, & Robert Mitchum. Orig. published in 1943, this is the first reprint edition from Blue Ribbon Books from 1944, identical in all aspects. Tan cloth-covered boards are stamped with a darker brown plane design to front, replicated on the spine, with dark brown lettering. Decorative endpapers show Japan & the coast of China. Condition is VG+: very clean, pages appropriately tanned (wartime paper quality & age), binding tight & square, pages tanned, commensurate with age & wartime paper quality, but completely unmarked. Just a hint of rubbing to extremities. The semi-clipped DJ (with reprint notice at bottom of front flap) is VG- (minus): bright & colorful with slight darkening to spine, rubbing to all extremities, some minor chips, short tears, & creases; looks lovely protected in new mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.