Up Front
by Bill Mauldin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1945 Henry Holt and Company, New York. 1945. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light dust soiling to upper board edges; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Good +; missing small pieces at head, tail, and bottom of rear panel; light toning panels and spine. Olive cloth boards and spine with green lettering on spine and Joe and Willie drawing on front board in green. 228 pp 8vo. This is one of the most famous books to emerge from WWII. Joe and Willie cartoons were created from Mauldiin's experiences as a front line combat participant. A true picture of Americans at war. There are 161 pen and ink cartoons of GIs with their usual gripes and complaints usually set in France or Italy. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Reviews
On Jul 10 2007, SDENNEY said:
This is the story of World War II as seen through the eyes of 'everyman GI' Joe and Willie. "He knows, as no one can who hasn't been there, that Willie and Joe, with their unshaven faces, their damp, soggy fatigue suits, their shoulders sagging under rain-soaked combat packs, are our fighten men, the guys who have been up front in France, or Italy or Burma, for a couple of straight months or years. Mauldin knows their gripes, their jokes, their opinions, their fears, and he records their talk with the most pungent accuracy. He has caught their life so vividly that it is no wonder he is their favorite." Do you remember Willie & Joe in the newspapers or Stars & Stripes? Or did your Dad or Granddad talk about them?
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Details
- Seller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 017079
- Title
- Up Front
- Author
- Bill Mauldin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Bill Mauldin, World War II, cartoonist, World War II in Europe, Stars and Stripes newspaper, combat journalist, Joe and Willie, Humor in Uniform, World War II in Italy, World War II in France, political cartoons,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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