Books Including 1943 First Printing "Guadalcanal Diary" by Richard Tregaskis
Item Details
An assortment of vintage books. This collection features a first printing of the World War II memoir Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis, published in 1943 by Random House. The other titles in this collection are A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy (Harper & Brothers, 1913), Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed by Elizabeth Longford (Harper & Row, 1964), a Modern Library edition of Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust (Random House, c. 1951), and Roget’s International Thesaurus (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1954). All are hardcover volumes bound in full cloth-covered boards.
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Number of Books | 5 |
Condition
- to poor; corner and edge wear; wear and markings to cloth; shaken bindings; page yellowing; markings including pen marking to bottom page edges of Guadalcanal Diary; Hardy book is ex-library and has missing and torn pages; general moderate to heavy wear throughout.
Dimensions
- measures Queen Victoria.
Item #
17NYC075-608-001
