The Naked and the Dead
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948.
Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, 721pp. Same year as first edition, lacking publisher's seal on copyright page, in dustwrapper with unclipped price of $4.00 and author's youthful photograph by G. Maillard Kesslere on rear panel. Tight, cloth bright, clean of owner's.....