Search Results: World War II Fiction

Harper and Row. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1963. First American Edition. Hardcover. Name on first flyleaf. Stated first edition. Chipping and wear to dust jacket. ; 319 pages .

London: Jonathan Cape. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 2010. 1st edition UK; First Printing. Hardcover. 022408738X . Book As New. NO notes. No markings of ANY kind. DJ not price clipped (£14.99) with base of spine lightly bumped. ; 194 pages .

Old Library book, Has wear and little tear. Dirt marks on cover and jacket ends are stuck to inside. Green fabric on boards with red and blue design with revolutionary guns and drum on front.

London: Chapman And Hall, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, 314 pages, blue cloth; nicked at head of spine, otherwise crisp Waugh's first novel inspired by WWII, and the first of his Sword of Honour trilogy.

Boston: Little, Brown And Company, ( 1952 ). First American Edition. Hardcover. fine, crisp/very good. 12mo, 342 pages, reddish cloth; second state of dj with the original price clipped and replaced with a rubber-stamped $3.50, rear panel toned, water spot at top edge of rear fold, lightly worn at folds. Waugh's first novel inspired by WWII, and the first of his Sword of Honour trilogy.

New York, NY Exposition Press, 1959. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Ed, so stated. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ: Book shows minor evidence of wear to extremities; barest hint of spine-lean; edges of page block slightly darkened with age. Dustwrapper shows rubbing; tiny chips head and heel of spine and at front bottom corner; quarter inch closed tear top rear face and near bottom front corner; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 174pp. Hardback with DJ. A Rollicking Novel of G.I. Life in the CBI. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1965). First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a small hole along the spine edge and small chips at the spine tips. A novel that takes place on the last day of World War II. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper in 1965.

Synopsis: A landmark novel that ranked #1 on the New York Timesbestseller list for five months straight, Gentleman's Agreement speaks to the pervasive nature of prejudice after World War II—an issue just as relevant today as when the book was first published
Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment in history, his editor at Smith's Weekly Magazine assigns Phil a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. In order to experience anti-Semitism firsthand, Phil, a Christian, decides to pose as a Jew. What he discovers about the rampant bigotry in America will change him forever.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with light wear at the crown and a little rubbing at the extremities. Nicely Inscribed by the author. Novel of a French family under Nazi-occupation.

Comments: Signed by Shaw on the second blank page with tissue guard laid over. Bound in blue full leather with design and lettering stamped in gilt. All edges in gilt. Gray moiré endpapers with ribbon place marker. No d-j issued.
Synopsis: The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.

New York: Knopf, 1944. Hardcover. The author's first novel. Winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. 269 pp. First edition stated on copyright page with no additional printings noted. vii, 269 pp. Fine book (binding square and tight, no markings) / Very Good dust jacket ($2.50 price not clipped; chip missing at top of spine, light edgewear, especially at spine and flapfold extremities). A clean, solid copy.

Red on Boards with minor scuffing and a blue banner with gold lettering . Minor wear. Book Signed by previous owner.

FIFES AND DRUMS 1917 little tear, some markings and wear.WIKIPEDIA PAGE SAYS These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war. They are presented to the public in the belief that men and women in every corner of the Union will find reflected in them some of the love and aspiration they themselves are experiencing for their re-discovered country.

Lovely book in pretty good condition but has a reddish stain on back cover. minor wear. Little writing inside cover.A Pastoral is a poem which describes the scenery and life of the country.

This book is in great shape one little spot on front. faded red color on boards. Stamped by library inside covers. 1942 movie Wikipedia says Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther,[3] it shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is affected by World War II. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, its supporting cast includes Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney and Henry Wilcoxon.[4]