The Ravens

Crown Publishers, 1/1/1987. Hardcover. Acceptable/good. 1.5000 inches 8.3000 inches 5.5000 inches. Ex-Library Hardcover with usual markings, stamps, stickers, pocket, etc. Free end paper missing.

1987, 1st edition, fine condition, with a fine dust jacket, with a priced unclipped dust jacket flap, published by Crown Publishers, New York, 420 pages. During the height of the Vietnam War, when the North Vietnamese were using the Ho Chi Minh Trail trough Laos to infiltrate South Vietnam, a handful of elite Air Force pilots, known as Ravens, and their unarmored prop driven aircraft, their mission fly low and slow over the Ho Chi Minh Trail spot the North Vietnamese and direct American Air strikes against the enemy, at this they were most successful, this is their story. Illustrated with photographs, tipped in is a High School photo of one of the Ravens shown in the photographs, a chronological history of Laos, an extensive notes and bibliography section, a glossary of terminology, and a list of Ravens including those who did not make it home. Scarce and more so in this nice condition! .

1987-01-08. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

Pocket. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0671673165 New Condition. . New.

Pocket. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK. 0671673165 Like New Condition. . Fine.

2000-06-04. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

1995-02-06. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. Account of forward air controllers flying small civilian aircraft, directing American airstrikes into "neutral" Laos. SIGNED & INSCRIBED to 'Larry', evidently at the Oshkosh EAA Fly-in in 1996 by the author and FIVE OF THE PILOTS: H. Ownby, Jim Hix, Carl Goembel, 'Papa Fox' [Ron Rinehart], and Jim Stanford. Second printing of this later edition; first published eight years earlier. Hardcover, black cloth spine over plum boards, silver titling. General wear & rubbing, hinges tender; jacket shows some edgewear, short tears, chip. Text clean; xv, blank, 420 pages; index, bibliography, glossary, b/w photos, map endsheets.. Inscribed by the Author. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.

1989-04-08. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

1989-04-08. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society, 1995 Published by the Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society. Hardback book and unclipped dust jacket [$25.00] in near fine condition. Inscribed by the author and also by Ron "Papa Fox" Rinehart, on half title page. Also includes a letter written by the author to someone named "Mike," discussing a screenplay by the author, called "The Reunion.". Inscribed by Author(s). Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

1989-02-04. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

New York: Crown, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. 420 pages, 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 inches.

Book is in EXCELLENT to NEAR MINT condition in VERY GOOD + Dust Jacket From the author of Air America, this is the story of elite Air Force pilots fighting a secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War. Crown Publishing, 1987, First Edition, First Printing, 420 pages Book is in almost like new condition. Appears to be unread. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear, without tears. Pages all bright, clean and tightly bound.

Published and distributed by Asia Books, 2000-01-01. 3rd. Paperback. Used:Good.

Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society. Hardcover. 096463600X New Condition. . New.

Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society. Hardcover. 096463600X Like New Condition. . Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Slight shelf wear to bottom of boards, and DJ shows evidence of minor rubbing. Overall a clean tight copy.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York:: Crown Publishers, Inc.. (1987).. First edition. "Their mission [was to] fly low and slow, spot the enemy, and direct the winged artillery of American air strikes from adjacent South Vietnam, Thailand, and U.S. aircraft carriers." Fine copy in dust jacket. .

NY: Crown Publishers, 1987. 420pp. B&W illus. Chronology, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. NF hardback, very faint minor spotting to fore-edge, otherwise clean & tight/NF DJ, light edgewear. Signed & dated (2000) with a personalized inscription by Christopher Robbins on the half-title page.. SIGNED with a personalized INSCRIPTION by Author. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Slight shelf wear to bottom of boards, and DJ shows evidence of minor rubbing. Overall a clean tight copy. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Published and distributed by Asia Books. PAPERBACK. 9748303411 Like New Condition. . Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Slight shelf wear to bottom of boards, and DJ shows evidence of minor rubbing. Overall a clean tight copy.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Crown. Hardcover. 0517566125 New Condition. . New.

Crown Publishers / Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; Second Printing. Hard Cover. 096463600X . SIGNED by Christopher Robbins on the half title page, not on a bookplate, but directly on the page (without any inscriptions to anyone) ; Tight, clean and crisp. A name neatly inked to rear of front endpaper and a faint hint of shelf wear to dustjacket with a tiny tear to bottom, otherwise in excellent condition and now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. As New. ; 9.50 X 6 X 1.70 inches; 420 pages; Signed by Author .

Pocket, 1989-07-01. Mass Market Paperback. Used:Good.

Crown, 1987-10-14. Hardcover. Ships fast, we use tracking!.

NY: Crown, 1987. (1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE / Near Fine. As new except for slight softening to top of spine (book and jacket) and two small dents in top edge, 1 folded page corner. "While America and the rest of the world watched the Vietnam war on television, a handful of elite Air Force pilots, wearing anything but uniforms and piloting unarmored, small, prop-driven aircraft, fought a secret war..." in "the other theater - a small nation called Laos, next door to Vietnam, bordered by the Ho Chi Minh Trail..." 420 indexed, annotated pages, illustrated with photo sections and map endpapers, and containing Glossary and Bibliography. ISBN: 0517566125.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group, 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Overall a clean tight copy.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xi, [1], 420 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Chronology. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Some wear to DJ edges. Christopher Robbins (19 November 1946 - 24 December 2012) was a British writer and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 bestseller Air America, a non-fiction book which was made into a film in 1990. It is about the secret airline run by the CIA for covert operations during the Vietnam War. He later specialized in investigative work-especially about the CIA-writing pieces for the Observer Magazine. During the 1970s, prior to the publication of his bestseller, Robbins was just a freelance journalist. In 2008, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Another book of his, The Empress of Ireland won the Saga Award for wit. Robbins has compiled a remarkably detailed and gripping log on the US Air Force pilots who flew in defense of the small landlocked nation that borders on China as well as Vietnam. Known as Ravens, these officially nonexistent volunteers served six-month tours of duty in the so-called Steve Canyon Program. From remote outposts in Indochina's ""other theater,"" they flew hair. raising, low-level missions in prop-driven spotter planes to direct air strikes on North Vietnamese troops and supply columns on the Ho Chi Minh trail or into Laos. The scruffy Ravens had few allies, confining rules of engagement, and long odds against escaping antiaircraft fire or random rifle fire. Robbins offers an unsparing account of a dirty, clandestine conflict with little glory, albeit valor to spare. The heart and soul of his narrative are the Ravens--as brave and engaging a band of brothers as ever flew hostile skies. A fine tribute to unsung heroes.

Crown, 1987-10-14. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Good. Used book in good condition. Has wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. 100% guaranteed. 120518

Atlanta: Edgar Allan Poe Literary Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Second Printing. Hardcover. 096463600x . Illus. , end paper maps, dust jacket not price-clipped, slight spine lean. Book is inscribed and signed by Craig Morrison, a Raven, pictured in and mentioned throughout book, inscription reads "For ----- ----- I hope this book adds to your understanding of America's role in the conflict in Southeast Asia. Best wishes Craig Morrison, Raven 49/20, 1969-1970". Inscribed on the blank page opposite the half-title page. ; 420 pages; Signed by Biographee .

1987-01-08. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!

London: Bantam Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0-593-01047-7 .

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Pub, 1987. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square tight solid carefully read copy. This copy has some light soil to the edges of the text block, a smallish see thru type stain to the top edge of the text block. The priced jacket has some lightish rubbing wear else fine. The story of the men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. I am probably wrong but I think that the Mel Gibson movie "Air America" was at least partially based on this book. A very nice copy. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY..

Crown, 1987., 1987. 1st ed. First Edition. 420p. Photos. Jacket Priced. Fine/Fine Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. fair to good, very good. 420, illus., endppr maps, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, ink/red ink underlining on a few pg.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Inscribed note by the author bound in. First edition, 1985. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 420 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. With inscribed & signed hand-written note bound in between front flyleaf and half-title page.

New York:: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. The Dust Jacket is only lightly rubbed. No chips. No tears. No creases. NOT price clipped (19.95). NOT a Book Club edition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with 24 pages of photos. Endpaper maps of the Laos theater of operations, 1966-73. Bound in the original rose boards with a black cloth spine, lettered in silver. Sharp corners. Chronology. Chapter notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page.. First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. xi, 420pp..

Very Good. Used book in very good condition. Some cover wear, may contain a few marks. 100% guaranteed. 120518

Crown. Hardcover. 0517566125 Like New Condition. . Fine.

Crown, 1987-10-14. Hardcover. Like New. Like New Condition! Tracking & Delivery Confirmation included. Ships within 24 hours!

Pocket, 1989-07-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Published and distributed by Asia Books, 2000. Paperback. Good.

NY: Crown. Good in Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0517566125 . Some small stains on front cover, minor wear to dust jacket edges, one short tear to jacket at head of spine ; Illus. , end paper maps, dust jacket not price-clipped. Book is inscribed and signed by Ron Rinehart, a Raven, mentioned throughout book, inscribed on the half-title page. On page opposite is a gift inscription (not by Rinehart) writ large; 420 pages; Signed by Biographee .

US: Crown Publishers, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6 x 1.7 inches. First Edition. First Printing. Book club edition. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean. Binding is tight. Faint wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is clean, bright, and unmarked with slight edgewear. Dust jacket is in protective mylar cover.

Crown. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover, photos, maps. 0517566125 . Book Very Fine with NO defects, No notes, names, or ANY markings. Not remaindered. DJ VF, not rubbed, no cuts, tears or nicks. Not price clipped ($19.95) ; Great copy. ; 420 pages .

Bangkok, Thailand: Asia Books, 2001. Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Good +. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail.

NY: Crown, 1987. 1st printing. VG/VG dust jacket, 3 small stamped Chinese symbols on front endpaper/pastedown, light rubbing to covers/dust jacket. xii, 420 p., photos, maps on endpapers, glossary, biblio, index, 8vo;