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Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST
Lot Number:
5927912
Category:
A82 - History and Biography
SIGNED BOOK-`THE BLUE MAX` BY THE AUTHOR JACK HUNTER
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Signed in two places and dated 1965 with dedication. Book is hard bound, medium format, 1964 dated 1st edition, 320pgs. Hunter was born in Hamilton, Ohio, on June 4, 1921. Hunter was the son of a paint color evaluator at DuPont; ironically he is color blind. He graduated with BA in journalism from Penn State University in 1943. During World War II he joined the infantry, but when he could not recognize tracer colors he was transferred to counter intelligence in a move that spared him the fate of all others in his infantry class - death on Omaha Beach during D-Day. Because he spoke German (having taught himself and then studied it in college), Hunter was sent to Germany just after the war ended. The Allies had discovered that some high-ranking Nazis had gone underground and were waiting until the political atmosphere settled down, at which point the Nazis would infiltrate the new German government. As a 24-year-old lieutenant, Hunter, disguised as a Lithuanian black marketeer, engineered a sting called "Operation Nursery" which resulted in the arrest of over 1000 Nazis in a single night. (See Stars & Stripes [1]article, March 31, 1946). He was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war, he worked in various journalistic capacities, as a public relations executive for Dupont, and as a speech writer in Washington D.C. His first novel was The Blue Max, and the publisher remarked that, as a new author, they would not spend the money to have an artist paint a color cover for his book. Hunter volunteered to paint it himself, which eventually became a hobby and then a part time profession. Jack D. Hunter is the author of 16 novels, but The Blue Max continues to be the most popular to this day. He now lives in St. Augustine, Florida. For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm. Condition: 7
Opening Bid Amount:
$20
Current Bid Amount:
$77
Total Bids:
8
Next Required Bid:
High Bid ---- $77 Bid Placed: 5/9/2008 9:34:07 PM
Losing Bid - $70 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:54:03 PM
Losing Bid - $65 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:54:03 PM
Losing Bid - $50 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:53:39 PM
Losing Bid - $45 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:53:39 PM
Losing Bid - $33 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:53:12 PM
Losing Bid - $30 Bid Placed: 5/1/2008 9:53:12 PM
Losing Bid - $20 Bid Placed: 4/26/2008 12:25:36 PM
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