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Author: Steinbeck, John
Title: Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
Place: New York
Publisher: Viking
Date: 1942
Item # : 206005
Sale Number   470
Lot Number   428
Sale Name    
Fine Books in All Fields - Fine Literature
Sale Date   01/05/2012
Price realized   $ 1200
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Description:
185 pp. Illustrated from 60 photographs by John Swope. 8½x6, decorative blue cloth stamped in black and white, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Inscribed and signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper "For...(?) six lessons from Madame, John." Written by Steinbeck for the U.S. Army Air Forces, with all royalties from its sale going to the Air Forces Aid Society Trust Fund. Goldstone-Payne A18.a.
Condition:
Rubbing to jacket extremities, a little wear along top edge, 1" closed tear to rear panel; volume spine leaning, ends rubbed, small bumps/tears to top edge of boards; about very good in very good and bright jacket.
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