Rare Aviation Books

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

LAWSON, Captain Ted W.

Garden City, New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. Octavo, dark beige cloth with red spine lettering and embossed illustrated plane on front cover, endpaper maps, [iv], 222 pp., frontispiece, eight double-sided plates. Inner hinge split and tender, some foxing, dust-jacket worn and chipped, otherwise a good copy in dust-jacket. The first-hand account of the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo in 1942. Captain Ted W. Lawson piloted one of the planes during the operation. He provides information on the secret preparations that led to the mission as well as the raid itself. Item #3099

Price (AUD): $80.00