A Soldier Erect, A Novel
by Aldiss, Brian W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0297003305
- ISBN 13
- 9780297003304
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1971. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (lightly rubbed, but no chips, tears, or creases). Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($6.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Novel of WWII British soldiers. Honestly recreates the far-fetched rumors, crude jokes, sex, and gambling of lonely soldiers on leave in Calcutta, India (the "capital of whoredom"). Also captures the bitterness of the fighting against the Japanese by the 14th Army in Burma "where it was men rather than machines that turned the tide." Bound in the original reddish cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. From the dust jacket: "In A SOLDIER ERECT Brian W. Aldiss has written one of the most irreverent and wildly funny books yet to appear about the way of World War II combat soldiers behaved - really behaved - while on leave in foreign countries." . First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Mikolaycak, Charles (dust jacket art). 8vo. 272pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021434
- Title
- A Soldier Erect, A Novel
- Author
- Aldiss, Brian W
- Illustrator
- Mikolaycak, Charles (dust jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297003305
- ISBN 13
- 9780297003304
- Publisher
- Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo. 272pp
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