AN ERNIE PYLE ALBUM: Indiana to Ie Shima by Miller, Lee G

New York, N. Y.: William Sloane and Associates, 1946 Edge wear, with bottom edge and corners starting to fray. Gift inscription in ink on the ffep.. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

William Sloane Associates, Inc. NY, 1946. Hardcover. Good. Good Hardcover. 1946 Wm. Sloane. Ex-library with typical indications. Cover has corner rubbing and spotting near top edge. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding.

New York, NY: William Sloane Associates, 1946 William Sloane Associates, New York. 1946. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); missing small pieces at head and tail; wear to tips; wear to spine shoulders and flap folds. Green cloth boards and spine with red lettering on the spine and front board. 157 pp 4to. The author was a close personal friend of Pyle before and during the war. This book is a graphic biography or a great newspaperman and soldier's best friend in the field. This book is written for those who want to know more about the life and death of Pyle. Pyle is best know for his constant coverage of the World War II as a War Correspondent from the London Blitz, to North Africa, to Sicily, to Anzio, to D-Day, to Guam and Okinawa, and his final assignment in Le Shima. This book contains many never before… Read More

Sloane CONDITION: g/worn.

New York: William Sloane Assoc., 1946. 1st Edition . Gray Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear/soiling to covers, bookplate inside front cover, text clean and unmarked; nice sound copy. The Ernie Pyle story, from "Indiana to Ie Shima". Hundreds of B&W photos tracing the career of the great journalist.

William Sloane, N.Y. 1946, 1946. F . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First Printing. 159 pp., all photos with captions, small 4to, hardcover in dj. VG copy in badly tattered dj. $10 .

NY:: William Sloane Associates,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Black and white photographs throughout. Stated first printing. Previous owner's book-plate on dedication page, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear, clear tape repair along the front spine edge) dust jacket. .

New York: Sloane, 1946. 1st ptg.. hardcover. Book: Good/DJ: Fair. 4to.. 157 pp. 7 3/8 x 10. Gray cloth covered boards, stamped in red on front and spine. Worn at corners. Gray dj, well worn.

New York: William Sloane, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Story in b/w photos and text of famous war reporter from his childhood to his death in 1945 covering the war in the Pacific. 159 pages. Small bookstore sticker on front pastetown. Dust jacket has edgewear with small chip and tears, dustiness and scrapes on rear panel. Price intact on flap.

New York: William Sloane Assoc., 1946. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/No Jacket. 7" x 10. 159 pages. Gray cloth with red lettering. Very clean tight book with an ever so small spine cock. No marks or stamps. Frontispiece has photo of 1944 sculpture. After Ernie Pyle was killed one of the many telegrams that came to his widow was signed simply A Soldier's Wife: and it said I knew him not, but I loved him. A great many people felt that way and there also many who both knew and loved him. In preparation for a book of Ernie's life hundreds of photographs of him came to light. Far too numerous to be used in the book yet so interesting in scope and variety it seemed wrong to leave them in their obscure resting places. Libraries, government files, wallets of friends on on their walls and in shuttered shoeboxes of half-forgotten mementos. Hence---for those friends who knew Ernie, and for those who knew him not this album, with a brief text to bridge the gaps in the story as the pictdures… Read More