The Forties from Catron Grant Books

Random House, 1949 314 pps. Moderately toned endpapers with dedication by Saturday Evening Post editor, Ben Hibbs to screenwriter, Nunnally Johnson. Top of pages stained grey..Text is clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Black cloth-covered boards with blind embossing on cover plus orange label with black title, and gold printing on spine tight and bright; flawlwss. Orange DJ with black graphic… Read more about this item

Robert M. McBride and Co., 1945 127 pps. Collection of b/w cartoons. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. White paper-covered boards with red-striped border, 3-color cartoon and black title is clean, tight and bright with minimal wear. Matching DJ is somewhat toned; minimal wear. In protective mylar.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus.… Read more about this item

The Encore Press, 1943 pp. 657 -800. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, toned. Covers are intact but rubbed.. Softcover. Fair. 5.5" x 7.5 ". Periodical.

Little Brown & Co, 1943 xiii, 177 pps.Text clean, tight, toned but unmarked. Light orange-brown cloth boards and dark green printing on spine have 2 bumped corners but are otherwise clean and VG. "An Atlantic Monthly Press book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5 3/8" X 7 3/4".

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1944 250 pps. B/W spot illustrations throughout. Text clear, tight and unmarked. Some waterstaining on upper right-hand corner of pages. Red cloth cover also with corner stains. Spine fading. Gold stamping Good. Bittersweet memoirs of pre-WWII Paris by a journalist.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Duvoisin, Roger. 6" x 8.5".

Doubleday, 1945 1`82 pp . A wonderful account of the screwballs and celebrities that comprised Saloon Society in '40's New York. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black cloth boards are undamaged. Dust jacket is clean and bright withlight edgewear. Original price of $2.00. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1947 New York: Random House, 1947 311 pp. Short stories from the Post including Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth." Signed on flyleaf by Ben Hibbs with a dedication to Nunnally Johnson ( screenwriter Grapes of Wrath, How to Marry a Millionaire.) text is clean, tight, unmarked. Black boards with green pastedown title are clean… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw Hill, 1972 300 pp with 24 B&W plates.text is clean, tight and unmarked.red cloth bords are bright and undamaged. Dust jacket is intact with a little edgewear. Now in protective mylar.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Random House, 1949 314 pp. Twenty stories by William Saroyan, Paul Horgan and others. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Inscription on FFP "To Nunnally (Nunnally Johnson, screenwriter) from Pete (Pete Martin, Saturday Evening Post writer) Black cloth boards are bumped at extremities, a little cocked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Printing.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945 225 pp with B&W cartoons throughout the text. Already the best-known cartoonist of WWll, Bill Mauldin was only twenty-three when he wrote this book. A bookplate on the free front endpaper says "A Book of the Month Club Selection Donated to the Armed Forces by the Book of the Month Club." Text is… Read more about this item

New York: Creative Age Press, 1942 Text is clean but has two wrinkled but intact pages, tight and unmarked save for a dedication on the flyleaf. Turquoise blue cloth booards are clean and bright, bumped at spine ends. Endpapers have maps, front endpaper has some notations in ink. DJ is intact but tattereed. In mylar jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item