His First Book, Inscribed with a Sketch
Up Front. Text and Pictures by.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945].
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition. [8], 228 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. His First Book, Inscribed with a Sketch. Grey cloth printed in green. Spine a bit sunned and worn at ends, overall a very good copy without dust jacket.
Item #346263
Inscribed on the flyleaf beneath a pen-and-ink portrait of himself waving to the recipient:
“For Maury with regards from a friend Bill Mauldin”
UP FRONT was Mauldin's Pulitzer Prize-winning first book, featuring his immortal infantrymen, “Willie and Joe”.
