1952 · Garden City
by WOUK, Herman (novel); SMITH, Lawrence Beall (illustrations)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Deluxe Illustrated Edition. First Printing, a review copy with the publisher's printed slip laid in. Octavo; navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver and light blue on spine; dustjacket; 494pp; illus. Faint soil to boards and text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped (likely by the publisher), lightly worn along the edges, with soiling on verso; a presentable, Very Good+ to Near Fine example. The first illustrated edition of Wouk's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and basis for the 1954 Edward Dmytryk film starring Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson. (Inventory #: 17768)