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Men Without Guns. Illustrated with 137 Plates from the Abbott Collection of Paintings Owned by the United States Government
MACKENZIE, DeWitt (text); Clarence Worden [Maj]; Norman T. Kirk (fwd); John Steuart Curry, Fred Shane, Robert Benney, Lawrence Beall-Smith, et al (artwork)
Published by The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia 1945
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First printing (regular issue). Quarto (33cm). Tan cloth hardcover, with gilt spine title and stamped cover decoration in green; xii,47 numbered pages of text followed by 52 unnumbered leaves of color plates (reproducing 137 artworks). Mild dusting to covers, else a tight, clean, Very Good copy; lacking the presum…ed dustwrapper (no jacketed example has been seen by us). WW2-era collection of American artworks depicting non-combatant medical forces in wartime service. Features work by John Steuart Curry, Fred Shane, Manuel Tolegian, Ernest Fiene, Franklin Boggs, Robert Benney, Joseph Hirsch, Lawrence Beall-Smith, Howard Baer, Francis Criss, Peter Blume, and Marion Greenwood.
