Guard of Honor
by James Gould Cozzens
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948 Unclipped dust jacket with $4.75 price intact. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Grey boards with title on spine. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Closed tear to bottom front of jacket and upper rear jacket panel. Slight rubbing to each of the ends of the jacket spine panel.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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
- Genesee Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100974
- Title
- Guard of Honor
- Author
- James Gould Cozzens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Date Published
- 1948
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.