My Buddy: World War II Laid Bare by Hanson, Dian - 2014

Koln, Germany: Taschen GmbH, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large oblong quarto bound in faux blue leather, blind-stamped, with raised gold lettering and small oval pictorial paste-down at center of front cover. All edges gilt. 320 pages. Foreword by Dian Hanson, Introduction by Scotty Bowers and "Buddies" by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn printed in English, German and French. Additional texts consisting of excerpts from James Jones, E.B. Sledge Gore Vidal, et alia also in three languages. Illustrated throughout with black and white contemporary photographs, several color photographs and color advertisement and propaganda posters. First edition with colophon page "Blue Leatherette" edition, though no printing stated. No previous ownership marks. A volume in the Michael Stokes Collection. A clean, tight, and internally unmarked copy. Some incidental rubbing to raised gold stars on cover from shelving. A near fine copy. A large, heavy volume, Priority and International orders will require additional postage calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .