Queens Die Proudly by White, W.L - 1943

Harcourt Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 273 pages. Moderate wear to the covers, bookplate inside; pages yellowed; a good solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military History; Inventory No: 210266. .

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Missing. 7x5x1. First edition from 1943, ink-stamped 'Review Copy' on front endpaper. Dust jacket is missing. Navy blue cloth boards have a small amount of silverfishing and rubbed edges. Binding is good. Sticker scar on mapped front endpaper, and used bookplate on half title page. Pages are clean and unmarked, with light toning. 273 pages. LO

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943. Very Good condition. Light cover wear. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Endpaper maps of WW2's South Pacific. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright red on the spine. From the Kirkus review from June 1943: "He has done it again -- has W. L. White, author of THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. This time he has taken the incredible story of the Flying Fortresses in these terrific days when most of our air force in the Pacific died on the ground at Clark Field and elsewhere, leaving a handful of stalwarts and a few battle-scarred planes, Again -- as in the Battle of Britain - 'never have so many owed so much to so few' -- for these few held the southwest Pacific against incredible odds. Fatigue and momentary peril of death and hope destroyed and over-strained equipment could not defeat them. From the… Read More

Harcourt Brace, 1943T. hardcover. Good. 1.4000 in x 7.9000 in x 5.7000 in. Stated ""first edition"". Hardcover with good dust-jacket. Black cloth boards. Toning to some pages. Otherwise, clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home. 273 pages.Tearing and chipping to jacket, which comes in a mylar wrapper.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1943. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good. 5 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, minor shelf wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. Mil. Stax.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dark blue boards with red titles to spine. Some very light marks on rear board but overall nice and clean. Map End papers. Piece missing from top of ffep. Prev owner's inscrip in top corner of blank page facing half title page. Main text block clean, tight and bright. No jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1943. [x], 273pp [light chipping, rubbing and edge wear to dust jacket; 1943 ink owner inscription inside front flyleaf]. First Edition stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamish Hamilton and George Jaboor, 1944. Australian edition. 8vo, 223pp. A good hardback copy in chipped and faded dust jacket. Edges of boards a little worn and pages age-toned.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1944 (first Australian edition)/ 1943. Octavo; papered boards lightly sunned; leaves lightly browned; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper slightly tanned, marked, creased, chipped and torn with slight loss. The 'queens' are USAAF B-17s Flying Fortresses; from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines to Java, to Australia.

Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1943 Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1943 273 pp. The story of a Flying Fortress air crew during the air campaign in the World War II South Pacific. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dark blue cloth boards are clean and undamaged. DJ has fading to the spine, two closed tears. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.