A Grizzly From The Coral Sea

LEA, TOM [CONVERSATION AND PICTURES BY]

Publication: Carl Hertzog, 1944, El Paso

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 295 copies. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, colored and pictorial front and rear endpapers, 32 [2] pp., illustrated. A brief tale about the aircraft carrier the U. S. S. Hornet during World War II in the South Pacific. Tom Lea, at the time, was a Life magazine war correspondent. Lowman 25 says "This book records a conversation in a Chungking restaurant concerning a mountain, a silver coin embossed with the head of a grizzly bear, and a certain General Quarters aboard the carrier Hornet just out of Bougainville." Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top edge of the front cover panel and a tiny closed tear to the top edge of the rear cover panel.

Inventory Number: 45613