Guard of Honor
by Cozzens, James Gould
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; pp 631; VG-/VG-; grayish blue pictorial spine with ivory white text; dust jacket has sun faded exterior; slightly rubbed joints and fore edges; chip to front tail edge; mylar wrap; cloth has slight shelf wear to exterior; text block has light tone to exterior edges; decked fore edge; good binding. 1334834. FP New Rockville Stock.
Synopsis
for the ceremonial guard see Guard of honour Guard of Honor is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by James Gould Cozzens published in 1948. The novel is set during World War II, with most of the action occurring on or near a fictional Army Air Forces base in central Florida. The action occurs over a period of approximately 48 hours. The novel is chapterless in form, using three progressively longer parts entitled "Thursday", "Friday" and "Saturday".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1334834
- Title
- Guard of Honor
- Author
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...