first edition Hard Cover
1929 · New York
by Hopper, James
New York: The John Day Company, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Maxwell, John Alan. First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, pencil name & date on front endpaper. 1929 Hard Cover. xxi, 281 pp. 8vo. Original light brown cloth, gilt titles. A war correspondent for Collier's Weekly in France during World War I writes about men who won the Army Congressional Medal of Honor. Only 90 of the 2 million soldiers met the qualifications to receive it, 28 of whom died in the process. A full list of recipients precedes the text. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Alan Maxwell. (Inventory #: 2201708)