Situation Normal, First Edition (20 results)

SNAFU by Gordon L. Rottman. 2014 Osprey Publishing hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. v/g,tight clean hardback,no inscriptions.2013,1st edition.376,pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine (fault). No Jacket. 1st Edition. Storage bend on pages 282-298.

Papers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean, stapled papers, no inscriptions, 10 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography.

(1944). First edition, first printing. Very good minus: faint foxing to endsheets, light use, soiling; in yellow cloth with black and red stamping; in a fair dust jacket: soiled, worn, nicked, torn, with chipping to upper edges and a substantial loss (over one-third) to rear panel. First book from the soon-to-be world-famous playwright records firsthand material Miller was commissioned to collect for the film GI JOE: "It is what I wrote when I tried to find out what this Army meant to a lot of guys who were being soldiers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Yellow cloth titled in red and black. No additional printings. Slight fray to spine head, some soil/toning to cloth. Unmarked, tight and square. The DJ in mylar is chipped, with shallow losses to edge, toned, and lightly soiled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing. A Very Good first printing, lacking the jacket. The yellow clothbound case is modestly soiled. A previous owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper, and a stain from high acid paper, now gone, laid in on the half title and the facing page. 179 pages. 5.75" x 8.5". The Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller's (19152005) first booka nonfiction account of his research into war correspondent Ernie Pyle, whose work served as inspiration for the 1945 film The Story of G.I. Joe. Miller says, "What is continued here is a record of what I saw, written in barracks, guest houses, and mostly on trains between camps. I started this record after my first day in my first camp when I felt that nobody was noticing the things I saw going on there. I still feel that way." A detailed and honest account of the life of American soldiers during WWII, from the mundane to the heroic. .

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 179 pages. The first book from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning play"Death of a Saleman." A clean and tight very near fine copy in yellow cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket with some very light wear. A very nice copy.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 179. A very good copy without dj. Author's First Book. Scarce. Jensen A1a. This is material gathered for production of the movie "GI Joe".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Dustjacket has some chips along some of the edges - see image. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. ; First Edition copy. Book is in pristine condition. This is a non-fiction book written by Arthur Miller based on his travels to various U. S. Army camps to gather material for the film," The Story of G. I. Joe." Miller was hired by Hollywood to conduct research for a "non-Hollywooded" film about the American infantryman, based on the work of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. A collection of Miller's observations while visiting various Army training camps, including infantry, tank corps, and parachutist centers. Miller records the gripes, fears, and hopes of soldierswhat they thought about their training and what they expected when returning home. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Very good or better with corners a bit bumped and some light soiling at the edges in about very good dust jacket soiled and wear at the edges and tape reinforced to the interior of the jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in and letter laid in. The author's first book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, yellow cloth lettered in red and black; bookplate; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with slight edge-wear to extremities, reinforced on verso. First edition of Miller's first book, with material gathered for the film production of "GI Joe." A handsome copy signed by Miller on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 179pp. Modest soil, wear at the spine ends and corners, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Miller on the front fly. His first book.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 179 pages. In Good plus condition. Yellow spine with black and red lettering. boards have mild shelving wear, stains throughout, bending wear along the spine head and tail edges, and light fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges. Textblock has splitting to gutter from the title page to page 179, stains on the front end-page, pencil marks on the front pastedown, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Arthur Miller on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1392111. Special Collections.

179 pp. 8vo, publisher's lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A bright copy with a little use to the extremities of the spine and the rear panel; in a dust-soiled jacket with a few small chips. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page. Author's first book.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Miller on the title page. Chipped dustjacket. Very Good condition in a Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Miller's first book describing his experiences researching the war correspondence of Ernie Pyle in preparation for a film script. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page without inscription. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and smudging and tape mending to verso. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, mild soiling to edges and patch of red discoloration to top of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Miller's first book, the story of his research into Ernie Pyle's war-time correspondence to help with the production of William Wellman's 1945 film, The Story of G.I. Joe.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Arthur Miller was tasked with compiling information about the writing of Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle and the wartime experiences of American infantrymen for director William A. Wellman's 1945 adaptation "The Story of G.I. Joe," although Miller's work would ultimately go unused for the film. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. A couple of tiny splashes on the top right corner of the front board. Jacket lightly toned on the spine panel, with a few faint scuffs on the front and rear panels. Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],179,[3]pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial wear to lower board edges, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges, and a faint, shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), with two tiny tears at crown, and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright, very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin (8" x 10.5"), written by Miller in 1943, relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center, staple holes at upper left corner, with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good+. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book, based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up), which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war, about their training, daily life, their hopes, dreams, and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps, training, living, and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts, honest-to-God true facts, to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" (p.1). The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe, to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller's version was ultimatley not produced, likely due to ideological differences and his leftist political leanings. The typescript, written the year before Situation Normal was published, summarizes the conception of the book, detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film, and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order, and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" (typescript, p.5). A superlative copy of an important debut. Signed.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],179,[3]pp. Signed by Miller in blue ball-point pen on the title page. Spine ends gently nudged, some trivial wear to lower board edges, with a hint of sunning to upper board edges, and a faint, shallow stain to lower edge of rear cover; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), with two tiny tears at crown, and a faint vertical crease along left joint; a bright, very Near Fine example. Laid into this copy is an untitled seven-page carbon typescript on onionskin (8" x 10.5"), written by Miller in 1943, relating details about the book's conception; horizontal fold at center, staple holes at upper left corner, with two neat punctures along left margin; Very Good+. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book, based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang "SNAFU" (Situation Normal: All Fucked Up), which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war, about their training, daily life, their hopes, dreams, and why they are fighting. Miller visited several Army camps, training, living, and interviewing soldiers and taking down the unvarnished truth of his discoveries. "I was the person fate picked out of Brooklyn to go among the soldiers and pick up enough facts, honest-to-God true facts, to make a soldier picture which soldiers could sit through until the end without once laughing in derision. A picture that would properly end all soldier pictures" (p.1). The film in question was William A. Wellman's The Story of G.I. Joe, to be adapted by Miller for Lester Cowan from Pyle's 1943 book This Is Your War. Miller's version was ultimately not produced, likely due to ideological differences and his communist sympathies. The typescript, written the year before Situation Normal was published, summarizes the conception of the book, detailing his early meetings with Ernie Pyle over how his work would be translated into film, and what they wanted to accomplish. "I bring up the idea that it would be a shame to show this massive canvas without reducing what is chaos to at least an inkling of purpose and order, and of course he agrees. But we both feel that to lard on ideology where there is no ideology would be to wrap the truth. You can't have soldiers talking about four freedoms when all they want is to go home. Myself I curse the press and the million textbooks that turn out the billions of words and never add up to an excuse for dying" (typescript, p.5). A superlative copy of an important debut. Crandell A1.