(London): Duckworth, (1973). First edition. SIGNED BY BAINBRIDGE, "Best wishes, Beryl Bainbridge" (not to anyone in particular). A pyschological novel about the struggles of a repressed dressmaker and her sister to look after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier during WWII (inspired by..... Item #51994 More
(San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942). First edition. One of 750 copies. Issued to raise funds for WWII relief efforts. Includes recipes from Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Cecil B. De Mille, Lillian Gish, Fannie Hurst, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Christopher Morley, Cole Porter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington, et al. 4to metal..... Item #72111 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944. First edition. 15-page poem to Carson McCullers, written while both writers' husbands were serving overseas. Thin, stapled selfwraps (with flaps). Name on first blank otherwise near fine with some tanning, as usually seen. Item #48200 More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (1965). First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "with fond regards/ Anthony." Although not indicated as such in the book, this copy is from the collection of Walter Sullivan. Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern..... Item #72569 More
(No-place: Privately printed for W. L., 1979). First edition thus: a 1979 facsimile of the original which was first published May 1944 in an edition of 250 copies by Grasshopper Press. Cunard's poem about the French Resistance during World War II. This designated "second printing" was limited to 200 copies..... Item #34661 More
(Adak, Alaska: Intelligence Section Field Force Headquarters, 1944). First edition. "In Honor and Memory of the Men of the North Pacific Theater Who Died so that a Continent Might Be Free." Hammett, who was stationed in the Aleutians Islands was assigned to help compile an accounting of the Aleutian Campaign..... Item #49126 More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1941. First UK edition. A man injured while fighting during WWI finds his way on the verge of WWII. The book is good to very good with very minor wear in a good or better, aging and wilting dust jacket with a number of small..... Item #56014 More
(New York): New Directions, (1944). First edition. In the publisher's "Poets of the Year" series. "Here in clever, biting verse, is a rousing satirical attack on Hitler and his gang and the things they stand for."--dust jacket flap. Plain stapled paperwraps in printed rust-colored dust jacket. There was a simultaneously..... Item #46944 More
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New York: New Directions, 1943. Approximately 5.5 x 3.5" tan card with printed apology from Laughlin beginning "I am extremely sorry that the difficulties of wartime production have so long delayed the publication schedule of the POETS OF THE YEAR books. Please be assured that we shall complete the 1943..... Item #72526 More
New York: Rinehart and Company, (1948). First edition of the author's first book. SIGNED on small label laid in the book. Acclaimed as one of the best to come out of WWII. A Burgess 99 title, "It remains Mailer's best, and certainly the best war novel to emerge from the..... Item #49367 More
New York: William Sloane Associates, (1946). First edition. Near fine with lightly bumped spine ends. In a near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and shows a few rub marks, several closed tears along the top and two tiny chips to the top of the spine. Item #51597 More
London: Michael Joseph, (1978). First edition. The fourth volume in the British comedic writer's war memoirs, this one spanning the landing in Salerno, Italy on Sept. 23, 1943 to his being wounded four months later. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his copious penciled notations..... Item #72628 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition of the journalist and author's first novel. A WWII veteran returns to Sicily after the war to work as a geologist and search for his lost love. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Colonel [Egbert] White/ the finest commanding officer/ of..... Item #71889 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning play set during World War II. Premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on April 29, 1940, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Bright and near fine in like dust jacket with only mild rubbing to spine ends and tips. With..... Item #54810 More
Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1978. First edition. Styron's tribute to Warren. Number 197 of 250 SIGNED copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). Black-and-white frontis photograph of Warren. Plain white heavy wraps and blue dust jacket with printed paper label. Fine. Item #54474 More
(Washington, D.C.): Harcourt, Brace for the United States Armed Forces Institute, (1944). First edition thus: War Department Educational Manuals issued from the 6th and 5th revised editions, respectively, of Untermeyer's massive work first begun in 1919. Includes critical commentary on and selections from the work of nearly 200 poets.Two volumes..... Item #71935 More
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1952). First U.S. edition. In dust jacket with price clipped and "$3.50" stamped beneath, being the presumed second state of the jacket, preceding those with printed price. [Note: It seems unlikely jackets with a printed "$3.50" price precede those clipped and with a rubber-stamped "$3.50"..... Item #72654 More