Search Results: WW2 - United Front from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition. Small quarto (25cm); off-white cloth, calico grain and stamped in dark brown, in b/w pictorial dustwrapper, with b/w photo-illustrated endpapers; 291pp. Trivial soiling and wear to boards. Dustwrapper toned, especially along spine; creases, chips and minor tears, with some material loss to rear and spine extremities. Mild soiling throughout interior, else sound, Very Good or Better in Very Good dustwrapper. This book presents, through copious b/w photo-illustrations, a detailed look at Hollywood's role in the Allied efforts of WW2, from the early stirrings of war through newsreels, to the aftermath of worldwide conflict and a hopeful postwar future. Chapters cover G.I. training and informational films, war pictures real and fictional, Hollywood stars and the USO, and the use of "star power" to support the war effort on the home front.

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1936. First edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 30pp; ads at front and rear. Mild toning to spine and exterior extremities, else Near Fine. Issued as Number 6 in the "Reviewer's Library.

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1936. Octavo (20cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; maroon topstain; dustjacket; 439pp. Minor rippling to spine cloth, with a small streak of topstain dye to right edge of textblock and some bleed-through from same to upper edge of endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned, with a few small tears, and corresponding bleed-through and damp marks on verso; Very Good. Revolutionary novel of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, set within the socialist and anarchist milieu of pre-war Madrid. Sender, an anarchist and a Republican sympathizer, fled Spain in 1938 and became one of the best-known Spanish exile-intellectuals of the post-war period, publishing more than twenty books before his death in 1982.