Condition Pink [*SIGNED*]

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, slight wear at spine ends, minor soiling to top edge; jacket a bit rubbed, a few tiny edge-tears, a couple of itsy-bitsy chips at top of spine, another at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED (to Los Angeles progressive political activist Frank Wilkinson) and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A "super-patriotic satire" about a self-styled "General" who "recruits a citizens' militia called COUNTERFORCE to defend Southern California against a rumored sneak attack across the Mexican border by one hundred thousand Red Chinese 'suicide troops.'" Cooley was a radio news broadcaster who also became one of the first full-time TV producers, beginning in 1937 on the Don Lee Broadcasting System’s Experimental Station, W6XAC in Los Angeles. Signed by Author .