Irwin Arthur Bruce (4 results)

HARD BACK BLACK. Condition: VERY GOOD. JACKET: WORN DJ. vivid gold gilt lettering to spine. very clean endpapers and endpages. discoloring to bottom right corner of front cover, bottom left corner of rear cover and to bottom of edges. pencil writing and underlining to title page which states " file under". yellowing to edges of pages, otherwise pages are very clean. black illustrations. DATE PUBLISHED: 1983 EDITION: 220.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. New and Revised edition, 2nd printing ; 819 pp. ; illustrated ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0684162709 :; 9780684162706 LCCN: 79-17303 ; OCLC: 5196845 ; LC: SB453; Dewey: 635.9/0973 ; green boards with gold lettering, in color photograhpic dustjacket ; nicks to dustjacket ; ownership stamp on front flyleaf ; Encyclopedic information, arranged in topical order, revised to serve the increasingly urbanized American populace, with emphasis on small, privately owned lots ; large thick volume ; VG/G. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Original wraps show moderate to heavy chipping and staining. Pages are tanned with some tidemarks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.