Peleliu Landing. | SIGNED

TOM LEA

About this Item

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1945. 4to. [iv], 34 pp. 10 full-page plates after drawings by Lea. Marine Corps green herringbone cloth, pictorial endpapers from a photograph by Lea. | Complete with the eight-page Life Magazine color insert laid-in (in envelope). | De Luxe Edition, no. 90 of 500 copies. SIGNED by Lea. | Inscribed (not by Lea) to the Norwegian book dealer Tryggve Møller: For Tryggve Møller on the occasion of his first visit to Texas. Here is a book written by a Texan, presented by a Texan, and here presented to you in Texas. May you soon return. Dallas Texas June 17th 1948 . | A fine copy! | As a war correspondent for Life magazine, Lea was present for the first 32 hours of the Marine s assault on Peleliu Island. His text and sketches brilliantly capture the terror and shock experienced by the Marines in those first few critical hours. Hertzog s choice of type face, paper and binding is integral to Lea s narrative and sketches and one finds it difficult to imagine that one could stand without the other. Certainly this work must be counted as one of Hertzog s greatest achievements, who later commented about the book: The most daring, exciting, and innovative volume produced in Texas to that time.» Katherine Simmons said of this masterpiece: All the agony and shock of the Marine landing on Peleliu Island are in Lea s narrative. The black and white of the sketches he drew before my hand steadied are stark and poignant beyond the paintings he later made from them for Life magazine….

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peleliu Landing. | SIGNED
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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