Books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for any. Both UK pounds and US dollars (exchange rate to be agreed) accepted. From the distinguished WWI Fiction Collection of Barry Maurer, with his laid in bookplate (see our catalogue 150). Author COBB, Humphrey Book Condition Used Binding Hardcover Place of Publication New York: The Viking Press, Date Published 1935. It remains one of the most widely known anti-war novels of the pre-WWII years. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering. Sidney Howard undertook a dramatic adaptation of some note in 1935, but the 1957 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick did much to remind the post- war public of its virtues. Signed, in ink, by the author on the first blank. It was preceded by five hundred promotional copies of printed sheets bound in wrappers, untitled. Item #WRCLIT75556 First published edition of the author's first and only novel, an account of the victimization of three French line soldiers by commanders intent on saving their own reputations. After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them. Second issue jacket, with reviews for the book printed on the jacket verso.

Spine and top edges a bit sunned, gilding has a bit of patina, as usual, otherwise a very good or better copy in lightly spine-sunned dust jacket with a bit of minor fraying at the lower edge toward the spine and trivial edgewear. /rebates/2f97808203088452fPaths-Glory-Cobb-Humphrey-08203088462fplp&.

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