2006, ISBN: 9780553052480

An article in AMERICAN HERITAGE, Volume IX, No.3 April 1958. Color pictorial boards, very good, 112p., many color and bw. photos of Yokohama prints & the Perry scroll and fleet. RARE … Meer...

An article in AMERICAN HERITAGE, Volume IX, No.3 April 1958. Color pictorial boards, very good, 112p., many color and bw. photos of Yokohama prints & the Perry scroll and fleet. RARE An article in American Heritage on Perry, with lovely color illustrations taken from Japanese drawings & Japanese color woodcut prints. Articles: Japan's first long look at the We- st, a portfolio; Tensions ease between ship & shore, & Perry igoes sight-seeing, American technology & military methods amaze the Japanese, Japanese wrestlers, American minstrels enliven the treaty-making, a Lilliputian locomotive delights perry'shosts. Nicely done. * ., 0, New York 1958, American Heritage. Color pictorial boards, very good, 112p., many color and b.w. plates of the Perry scroll, fleet, woodblock prints, Yokohama-e &c. Nice work. An article in American Heritage on Perry, with lovely color illustrations taken from Japanese drawings & Japanese color woodcut prints. Articles: Japan's first long look at the We- st, a portfolio; Tensions ease between ship & shore, & Perry igoes sight-seeing, American technology & military methods amaze the Japanese, Japanese wrestlers, American minstrels enliven the treaty-making, a Lilliputian locomotive delights perry'shosts. Nicely done. * ., 0, New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xviii, 238 pages. Illustrations. Index. Robert Lee Scott Jr. (12 April 1908 - 27 February 2006) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and a flying ace of World War II, credited with shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft. Scott is best known for his autobiography God is My Co-Pilot about his exploits in World War II with the Flying Tigers and the United States Army Air Forces in China and Burma. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1932, Scott completed pilot training at Kelly Field, Texas. Colonel Scott flew 388 combat missions from July 1942 to October 1943, shooting down 13 Japanese aircraft to become one of America's earliest flying aces of the war. Scott was ordered back to the U.S. in October 1943 to become deputy for operations at the Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida. He returned to China in 1944 to fly fighter aircraft equipped with experimental rockets directed against Japanese supply locomotives in eastern China. He then went to Okinawa to direct the same type of strikes against enemy shipping as the war ended. In this autobiography, he recaps his career as the right-hand man of Gen. Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame and adds information about his adventures since the end of that war. Most absorbing are his tales of the near-realization of two dreams of his youth: retracing the route of Marco Polo from Venice to Beijing and walking the Great Wall of China. He did not accomplish the first adventure in its entirety because of political considerations; he did achieve the second at the age of 76, disguised as a Chinese for part of the journey. Also entertaining are Scott's stories of his years in the peacetime Air Force, for, like his mentor Chennault, he is given to speaking his mind. Rich with frank anecdotes of a life dedicated to flying, General Scott's story is full of vitality and driving energy--just like the great fighter pilot who lived it., Bantam Books, 1988, 3<

1988, ISBN: 9780553052480

New York: Bantam, 1988. 238 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. Author of 'God Is My Co-Pilot'. "In a richly generous account of his background and career, … Meer...

New York: Bantam, 1988. 238 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. Author of 'God Is My Co-Pilot'. "In a richly generous account of his background and career, (the author) writes of his family's patient forbearance with their son's determination to become a flyer - including the hair-raising episode of young Robert's first flight in a human-powered glider in a leap off a neighbor's roof, and his much later, absolutely last-ditch battle to get into the fledgling U.S. Army Air Corps. Concurrent with the grueling training that followed, Scott set himself to pursue - and won - his beloved lady, Kitty Rix. Once officially accepted by the Air Corps, he seized every opportunity to fly, volunteering for all kinds of extra duties, including danger-filled airmail runs in the dead of winter. By the time World War II broke out, he had built up an astounding number of flying hours, and, desperate to get into combat, was able to talk himself into the Pacific bomber command - although he had never actually flown a bomber. But Scott was first and foremost a fighter pilot - and he proved it from his first day in the combat zone of the Burma-China theater. With Chennault's famed Flying Tigers he earned a reputation as a one-man air force, recording twenty-five kills by the time he was removed from that theater of battle. He writes with utter frankness of his bitter fight with one of Chennault's detractors; much of his subsequent sojourn in the Pentagon was devoted to extraordinary, and certainly extracurricular, maneuvering designed to get adequate weaponry out to the beleaguered command he had had to leave in Burma. Scott's all-out approach to living is the basis not only of his lifelong love affair with flying but of his characteristic commitment to walk the entire length of the Great Wall of China - an ambition achieved at the age of seventy-two, disguised for a good part of the way as an unlikely six-foot-three Georgia-born Chinese." Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds.. Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+., Bantam, 1988, 3<

1988, ISBN: 9780553052480

New York: Bantam, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii, 238 pp. First printing. Previous owner bookpla… Meer...

New York: Bantam, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii, 238 pp. First printing. Previous owner bookplate on the front free endpaper. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The jacket has a 1/4" closed tear at the head of the front panel., Bantam, 1988, 3<

ISBN: 9780553052480

Bantam. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library cop… Meer...

Bantam. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Bantam, 2.5<