Front by Bill Maudlin (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. No Additional Printings Listed. Tan cloth book very good condition. No interior markings. 228 clean pages with black-white illustrations by the author. Jacket poor condition. Has multiple tears and chips. 2" chip on spine. Price not clipped. Will ship with a fresh protective mylar cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This hardcover book, published in 1945, is in Good condition. The cover is good with no stains or corner bumps, in spite of there being no dust jacket. There is a "This book belongs to." sticker on the back of the front cover, along with a name in pencil on the next page. There is a price sticker on that page, as well as one on the cover. The binding is tight, but the pages are warped from poor storage. I found extraneous pencil marks at the bottom of a few pages. The book comes from a smoke free home. I will ship the book with Media Mail through the US Post Office within 2 business days, usually sooner.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. 22. Inventory ID 658169. Hardcover Cloth 228 pages. Book Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1945. Nice tan colored boards with green embossing shows off the Willie and Joe characters on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks or highlights. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Bumped corners. Some stains to boards. Book has slight shelf wear with the usual yellowing to edges. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Classic book by the 23-year-old Maudlin of WWII cartoons that meant so much to GIs. Mauldin won a Pulitzer Prize for his wartime body of work. The first civilian compilation of his work, Up Front, a collection of his cartoons interwoven with his observations of war, topped the best-seller list in 1945. During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes . "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived and died in it. William Henry "Bill" Mauldin was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe. These cartoons were broadly published and distributed in the American army abroad and in the United States. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This hardcover book, published in 1945 by World Publishing through arrangement with Henry Holt, is in Very Good (much better than my other copy) condition. The binding and the spine are tight and strong. I found no markings or tears. There is a price sticker on the first page. There is no dust jacket. The book comes from a smoke free home. I will ship the book with Media Mail through the US Post Office within 2 business days, usually sooner.…

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. Copyright 1945. 228 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips, and is attached, but is in pieces.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A fully illustrated by the author memoir of being in the war. Book has brown boards and shows minor wear. Jacket shows fading and has some chipping and rips. Still attractive.

Reprint, 1945. A few spots of foxing; binding firm; dust jacket not price-clipped, but covered in clear adhesive film & fixed to boards Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.