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Last Chapter
by Ernie Pyle
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1946. VG/VG. First Edition. Stated First Printing. The book is tight with solid hinges and green boards. Creases to spine ends. The textblock has "Buster Thompson June 1946" on the front pastedown, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages are toned. Black and white photos. The dust jacket is unclipped ($2.50) with wear to extremities and a few tiny closed tears. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 150 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
Ernie Pyle was a syndicated columnist and a war correspondent. Pyle's soldier-oriented dispatches from military theaters overseas were read by millions during World War II. In 1942, he won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished war correspondence.
Pyle was killed in action by a sniper on a Pacific island in April 1945, four months before the war ended. Last Chapter is a compilation of his columns/writings and was published posthumously.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4334
- Title
- Last Chapter
- Author
- Ernie Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 150
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- war correspondent, reporter, world war 2
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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