Baa Baa Black Sheep.

BOYINGTON, Colonel Gregory "Pappy".

Item Number: 126892

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Anne, Kathy, Anne Elizabeth, and Christopher Jones- With your friends Old Black Sheep One’s, best for the New Year- Sincerely, Pappy Boyington Jan. 1, 1977.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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.