The Thin Red Line.

Jones, James

Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1962

About this Item

First edition of Jonesâ sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographicÂendpapers. Presentation copy, lengthily and humorously inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Vytas Valaitis- Whom I seem to keep running into with cameras in his hands Best Till Next time! James Jones 5 Mar '63 NYC."Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leonard Slonevsky. â The Thin Red Line is an ironic, disciplined war novel, plainly an attempt to show exactly what infantry combat was like in the Pacificâ (Vinson, 733). British historian and military writer John Keegan nominated The Thin Red Line as, in his opinion, one of only two novels portraying Second World War combat that could be favorably compared to the best of the literature to arise from the First World War (the other was Flesh Wounds (1966) by British writer David Holbrook). Paul Fussell said that it was "perhaps the best" American WWII novel, better than A Walk in the Sun and The Naked and the Dead. The novel has been adapted for cinema twice, first by Andrew Marton in 1964, then by Terrence Malick in 1998.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Thin Red Line.
• Publisher: Charles Scribnerâ s Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition