A Day Of Battle

New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. , Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1938. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, small chips and edge wear. "Sheean served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War. Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939) , into English. Sheean wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963). He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis while he was there. Vincent and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean were friends of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen; they spent time together on Ragged Island off the coast of Maine during the summer of 1945. " (from Wikipedia) .