Up Front by Bill Maudlin

H. Good.

Hardcover Cloth 228 pages. Book Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First edition Second printing 1945. Nice tan colored boards with green embossing shows off the Willie and Joe characters on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's name written on inside endpaper. Book has Slight shelf wear with the usual yellowing to edges and pages. Remains of the original dust jacket included in a plastic bag. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Classic book by the 23-year-old Maudlin of WWII cartoons that meant so much to GIs. Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work. The first civilian compilation of his work, Up Front, a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945.
During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors,… Read More

Henry Holt and Company, 1945. No Additional Printings Listed. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Tan cloth book very good condition. No interior markings. 228 clean pages with black-white illustrations by the author. Jacket poor condition. Has multiple tears and chips. 2" chip on spine. Price not clipped. Will ship with a fresh protective mylar cover.

New York: Henry Holt, 1945. Book. Illus. by Maudlin, Bill. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York; Holt, (1945) no publication date or edition stated. 8vo. Decorative cloth binding, 228 pp. Classic book by the 23-year-old Maudlin of WWII cartoons that meant so much to GIs. Previous owner bookplate inside from board. Dustjacket heavily worn at spine and along edges, in protective mylar cover..

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. Book. Illus. by Maudlin, Bill. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Early Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Henry Holt, August 1945. First edition, seventh printing, stated. 8vo. Decorative cloth binding, 228 pp. Classic book by the 23-year-old Maudlin of WWII cartoons that meant so much to GIs. Tongue-in-cheek humor. Previous owner inscription. One page has short tear (does not affect text). Dust jacket is worn at extremities with 2"-chip top of spine and large chip at rear. Very good in fair dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

rub to foredge gilt

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.