Baa Baa Black Sheep.

BOYINGTON, Colonel Gregory "Pappy".

Item Number: 145255

Fresno: Wilson Press, Inc, 1958.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece black-and-white photograph of ‘Pappy’ Boyington by Douglas Q. White. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Oct. 6, 1979 To Bob Occhipinti – With Black Sheep Greetings – From – Pappy Boyington.” Additionally inscribed by Masajiro ‘Mike’ Kawato on the half-title page, “Oct 6 1979. To Bob. Masajiro Kawato” [in Japanese characters]. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. . Jacket design by Ben Fedder, Inc.

Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all—the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. "Certainly the best of the personal stories of a fighter to come out of World War II ... honest, exciting and humorous" (Los Angeles Herald Express).