A Time of War: Air Force Diaries and Pentagon Memos, 1943-45
Columbia: Bruccoli Clark, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. First edition thus, 1984. Quarto, cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 407 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, light soiling or discoloration to the dust jacket, also some rubbing or wear to the dust jacket. No signature or ownership marks of any kind, but Matthew J. Bruccoli's copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Near Fine / very good. Item #s0008174
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