Mission Lemay Story by Lemay Curtis Mackinlay Kantor (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Slight water damage. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location 7-C-36*.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Autobiography of General Curtis E. LeMay, detailing his military career and experiences.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. UNCLIPPED DJ, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light Bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Corner clipped from front flap. Gutter code reads "G45" on page 581. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Curtis LeMay was one of the most influential and controversial figures in American military history, particularly known for his role in strategic bombing during World War II and his strong advocacy for the use of nuclear weapons. Mission with LeMay: My Story provides insight into his military philosophy, his leadership during crucial moments of conflict, and his controversial strategies, including the firebombing of Japan during WWII. Dust jacket has tear, bumps, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Inscribed by Kantor to a Ludwig C. Lewis, who was formerly an insurance industry executive and signed January 1966. Blue boards with gilt lettering and a red title block on spine. End papers are dark blue and and are free from owner's names and bookplates. Inscription is on the half title page in ink. This book is square and tight, thought it has a slight roll. The text block is fairly clean given the age of the book. There is some remnant glue stain near the spine at the bottom of the text block. This is likely a manufacturing defect. Text pages and text black do have toning. DJ has shelfwear and a 1.5" tear at the seam to spine. No edition stated. Inscribed by Author(s).

Later printing (per lack of edition/printing statement upon copyright page per Doubleday & Company practice) SIGNED BY AUTHOR GENERAL LEMAY. xiv, 581 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with light soiling and slight toning; a few nicks; minor tears, and some bumping at edges; front flap has two small stains at top right and retains publisher's printed price; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; spine decorated with bright gilt and red stamping; several unobtrusively slender patches of discoloration at boards' top and bottom edges; two small black stains at rear board's bottom center. Text block's fore-edge lightly toned; several small stains to top edge with a few leaves fractionally affected at top margins; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good+ dust jacket with Curtis E. LeMay's blue ink signature on the front flyleaf. With blue endpapers, Foreword, four sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, and Index. Autobiography of legendary US Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay. Although without any ownership marks, the book was acquired from the estate of WWII and Korea veteran Colonel Clark Olmsted Thornton, PhD. (1917-2004) of Northport, Alabama which, in turn, provides a provenance of connection via career overlap to General LeMay. Joining the Army Air Corps prior to Pearl Harbor, Thornton saw action in Africa and Europe participating in four WWII airborne invasions including D-Day and served as Air Advisor to 82nd Airborne Division commander Major General James Gavin. Awarded ten major battle stars, five oak leaf clusters, the Belgian Fourragere, the Dutch Lanyard, and a Presidential Citation, Thornton's career included two tours at the Pentagon and staff assignments to the Secretary of Defense as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff before concluding his thirty-year career as the Professor of Aerospace Studies and head of Air Force ROTC at the University of Alabama.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed 1st edition. This signed first edition has boards bound in blue cloth with straight edges and pointed corners. Spine is uncreased with lightly a wrinkled head. Gold gilt lettering. Text block is square with deckled pages. 581p. Previous owners name is present on plate on front paste down. Blue ink date present on upper edge of front fly leaf. You can find LeMay and Kantor's signature in blue ink on blank page following front fly leaf. Interior is otherwise unmarked with white pages including several glossy tipped in pages including b/w photos. Aged Dust Jacket is unclipped and has moderate cover wear. Edges are heavily creased with foxing fore edge. Closed tears present at top edge. Over a great collectible copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Excellent vintage condition. Inscribed and signed by LeMay on flyleaf. Evidence suggests this is an early printing of the first edition. Definitely not a book club edition. Book binding is tight. No marks. Dust jacket is not clipped, bearing the price $7.95. Jacket shows mild age toning. Jacket is protected in archival Brodart cover. Please see all pictures and message me with any questions. Customer satisfaction guaranteed. Will be shipped with care. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. SIGNED! Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. Sm 4to Hardcover. 581pp. B/W photos. Signed by author on first blank. Good book and Acceptable dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. (WWII, world war 2, military history, USAF, autobiography) Inquire if you need further information.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. This work is the story of a history-making general, written in collaboration with an author of international fame. General Curtis E. LeMay, USAF (RET) has been synonymous with development of military aviation for many years. He worked continuously at his task as a four-star general, on active duty, longer than any other four-star general in our history. Photographs and an index are included. This copy is clean and solid. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, flat signed on the half-title page. Dust jacket is in mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This work is the story of a history-making general, written in collaboration with an author of international fame. General Curtis E. LeMay, USAF (RET) has been synonymous with development of military aviation for many years. He worked continuously at his task as a four-star general, on active duty, longer than any other four-star general in our history. Photographs and an index are included. This copy is clean and solid; some chipping to the jacket, now in fresh mylar. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the half-title page. Picture of the book's owner with LeMay and Jimmy Doolittle is laid in. Signed by Author(s).

revised edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 581pp., b/w plates, index, Very nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket of the first US edition.