THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD
JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT
Kenneth Collings
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Near FINE, bright & tight, but lacks dust jacket. "Editorial Copy" review slip pasted in. A beautiful copy. First Edition, 373 pages. "Vagabond in the Montana Rockies, seaman ~ more or less able ~ on a Central American fruit steamer, flying Marine bringing order out of the black chaos of the weird threatening jungles of Haiti, foreign correspondent with new and startling eye-witness views of Ethiopia and Russia, happy-go-lucky barnstormer putting to rout fifty ten-ton trucks with one airplane.... here, a man in his thirties sets down a whole crowded lifetime of exciting experiences." Author was a Marine Corps aviator in WWI and during the Occupation of Haiti. Book recounts his Marine Corps service and adventures in 23 countries. After publication of book, was lost at sea in 1941 when he went down on a British transport in the North Atlantic, torpedoed by a German submarine. His body later washed up on the Scottish coast.
OUT OF PRINT.
$65.00
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