The Wild Flag; Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good. A review copy of the first edition, first printing of The Wild Flag: Editorials from The New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters by E.B. White.. Octavo, xiii, [3], 187pp. Blue cloth, silver flower stamped on front cover, title stamped in silver on spine. The first printing, with matching 1946 dates on the title and copyright pages and no mention of later printings. In the publisher's illustrated dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, light sunning to the spine, short closed tear along top edge, a very good example. Publisher's review copy slip laid-in. A collection of White's wartime and immediate postwar editorials from The New Yorker, The Wild Flag argues for international cooperation and a system of federal world government in response to the destruction of World War II and the emerging atomic age.