Click for full-size.
Up Front
by Mauldin, Bill
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Fair
- Seller
-
Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945 225 pp with B&W cartoons throughout the text. Already the best-known cartoonist of WWll, Bill Mauldin was only twenty-three when he wrote this book. A bookplate on the free front endpaper says "A Book of the Month Club Selection Donated to the Armed Forces by the Book of the Month Club." Text is clean, tight and unmarked., there is a dedication (not by author) on the front endpaper. Grey boards, with a Willy and Joe cartoon in green, are VG, lightly soiled. DJ is intact but as chip missing from spine and considerable rubbing.. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Fair. BOMC.
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?
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 300366
- Title
- Up Front
- Author
- Mauldin, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War Two; The Forties;
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Books must be returned in the condition in which they were sold. No returns on books valued at less than $9.00.
About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
This Book’s Categories
Collecting the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Born in the midst of the Great Depression, the theme of the 1939 World’s Fair was “The World of Tomorrow” - a theme that captured the hearts of a generation. Check out the maps, souvenirs, and other ephemera on Biblio!
Is your family bible valuable?
While they may have sentimental value, bibles passed down through the family are not often worth a lot of money. Learn more...
