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Immediate Source of Acquisition
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Separated Materials
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Armed Services Editions Second World War book collection
Identifier/Call Number: 2013.001.w.r
Physical Description:
46 Linear Feet
(uncontainered)
Shelved upright
15 shelves x 3 feet (last shelf only two-thirds full)
Date (inclusive): 1943 September - 2003
Date (bulk): 1943 September - 1947 June
Abstract: This collection contains 1099 books from the Armed Services Editions books (ASEs) edited and printed by the Council on Books
in Wartime during and after the Second World War from 1943 to 1947. The collection includes some duplicates.
Physical Description: Some books have bent pages, tearing, loose bindings or covers, or other deterioration.
Physical Location: This collection is located in the Leatherby Libraries, Room B11A. Some materials are on permanent, rotating display in the
hallway of the Leatherby Libraries Lower Level.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Founding Director Andrew Carroll.
Arrangement
This collection is physically arranged in loose alphabetical order. The items are intellectually arranged in publication order
by series number.
Biographical / Historical
For further reading on the history of the Armed Services Editions, read
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us When World War II by Molly Guptill Manning, 2014.
According to Manning, the idea for the ASEs was presented by Malcolm Johnson of Doubleday, Doran, and Company book publishers
after a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel Ray L. Trautman (head of the Army's library section) and graphic artist H. Stahley
Thompson presented a proposal to the Council on Books in Wartime to "reconstruct the book" (p. 74). According to John Y. Cole
of the Library of Congress, in his 1984 book
Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions, Trautman developed the idea with help from Thompson and took it to Johnson.
At any rate, the idea eventually resulted in the formation of The Council on Books in Wartime in 1942 by the publishing industry
and the US War Department and the first series of ASEs, printed in September 1943, were sold to the government at cost with
a one cent royalty split between the author and the original publishing company (p. 79).
By 1947, a total of 1322 ASEs had been printed, produced in two sizes: 6.5x4.5 inches and 5.5x3 3/8 inches. Their bindings
were not glued but stapled, with Manning citing a newspaper account asserting that staples were favored because of the insects
in some locales with humid climates where soldiers may be deployed (p. 78). Additionally, they were bound on their short side,
with the belief that battle-weary soldiers would find the shorter lines of text easier to read.
The books initially carried a letter and a number. The letter designated the series (a new series was published each month).
For instance, When a Tree Grows in Brooklyn was D-117. After the 'T' series in April 1945, the books only carried a number.
On the inside back cover of each ASE, a list of that month's series was printed.
It is unclear why some titles were chosen and when, but some were rejected, such as George Santayana's autobiography
Persons and Places becuase the book "expressed a view deemed 'dubious as to democracy'" (p. 80). The books were printed at full length, with
only some titles abridged for length; these included a disclaimer on the front cover.
Manning discusses some of the more popular titles in her book and makes the claim that the ASE's helped rescue F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby from obscurity. She makes the assertion that Fitzgerald's now-classic title was a failure during his lifetime, but that it
became popular with servicemen after being printed as an ASE and the praise reverberated back home.
Toward the end of the war, the Council began including practical nonfiction to prepare soldiers for life after war. Examples
included
Twenty Careers of Tomorrow by Darrel and
Frances Huff and AP: The Story of News by Oliver Gramling, for men considering careers in journalism (p. 171, 173).
After the war, the Council and the War Department felt there was continued need and more series were printed until the final
series ran in June 1947, later changed to take on the appearance of ordinary paperbacks bound on the long edge. According
to Manning, the ASEs also may have also played a role in the growth of paperback books. According to
When Books Went to War, only two companies printed softcover books before the war. More publishing companies began printing paperbacks and sales
skyrocketed. In 1959, paperback sales exceeded hardcover books for the first time in American publishing history (p. 191).
Preferred Citation
If citing an item as part of the collection, or the contextual Armed Services Editions language contained in a single item
in the collection:
[Series number / Title / Author], Armed Services Editions Second World War book collection (2013.001.w.r), Center for American
War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
If citing the content of a specific book, follow the appropriate citation style guide for citing book and author.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Content Description
This collection contains 1099 books from the Armed Services Editions books (ASEs) edited and printed by the Council on Books
in Wartime during and after the Second World War from 1943 to 1947.
Included in these 1099 books are 580 titles and their duplicates. Of those, 562 are ASEs representing a sample of the 1322
originally printed. The other 18 titles include six Legacy Project Armed Services Editions created by the Legacy Project of
Andrew Carroll, as well as other books printed by various publishers. Some of those titles, specifically published by Kangaroo
Publishing, are labelled Armed Services Editions but are not part of the original series created by the Council on Books in
Wartime.
Separated Materials
Ten titles are on display in the Leatherby Libraries Lower Level hallway display case. Titles are rotated biannually.
Conditions Governing Use
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
- A-1 Leonard Q. Ross
The Education of Hyman Kaplan
- A-10 John R. Tunis
World Series
- A-13 H. L. Mencken
Heathen Days
- A-16 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand, and Stars
- A-18 Philip K. Hitti
The Arabs
- A-21 Herbert Agar
A Time for Greatness
- A-24 Herman Melville
Typee
- A-25 Rackham Holt
George Washington Carver
- A-26 Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
- A-27 Carl Sandburg
Storm over the Land: Profile of the Civil War
- A-30 Jack Goodman, ed.
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories
- B-33 Robert Frost
Come In and Other Poems
- B-45 P. Lowe
Father and Glorious Descendant
- B-50 Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow Dateline: 1941-1943
- C-61 Alan H. Brodrick
North Africa
- C-63 J. H. Robinson
The Mind in the Making
- C-64 Voltaire
Candide
- C-67 Max Beerbohm
Seven Men
- C-84 Herbert Quick
The Hawkeye
- C-88 Esther Forbes
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
- D-99 Mark Van Doren, ed.
The Night of the Summer Solstice
- D-108 Joseph Mitchell
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
- D-110 Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- D-117 Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- E-122 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seven Essays
- E-131 J. D. Ratcliff, ed.
Science Yearbook of 1943
- E-133 C. S. Forester
A Ship of the Line
- E-138 James Hilton
Random Harvest
- E-139 Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- E-142 Mary Ellen Chase
Windswept
- F-152 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night Flight
- F-153 Abraham Lincoln
The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln
- F-155 Negley Farson
Going Fishing
- F-159 H. L. Mencken
Happy Days
- F-161 William Beebe
Jungle Peace
- F-170 Ernie Pyle
Here Is Your War
- F-174 Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi
- F-176 E. B. White and K. S. White
A Subtreasury of American Humor
- F-178 William McFee
Casuals of the Sea
- F-179 James Norman Hall
Dr. Dogbody's Leg
- G-199 Donald Culross Peattie
Journey into America
- G-200 Gladys Hasty Carroll
As the Earth Turns
- G-201 T. R. Ybarra
Young Man of Caracas
- G-203 William Haynes
This Chemical Age
- G-204 Mary O'Hara
Thunderhead
- G-206 Martha Foley, ed.
The Best American Short Stories of 1943
- G-209 Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
- H-211 Corporal Thomas R. St. George
C/O Postmaster
- H-215 Stephen Vincent Benét
Western Star
- H-217 I. A. Richards, ed.
The Republic of Plato
- H-218 Donald Culross Peattie
Forward the Nation
- H-228 Kenneth Roberts
Captain Caution
- H-231 Franklin P. Adams, ed.
Innocent Merriment
- H-234 Marjorie Barrows and George Eaton
Box Office
- H-235 Felix Riesenberg
The Pacific Ocean
- H-236 Manuel Komroff
The Travels of Marco Polo
- H-240 Walter D. Edmonds
Chad Hanna
- I-241 Kay Boyle
Avalanche
- I-242 Keith Ayling
Semper Fidelis
- I-246 Emily Kimbrough
We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood
- I-258 Karl Baarslag
Coast Guard to the Rescue
- I-261 Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria
- I-264 Joseph Conrad
Victory
- J-273 Joseph Conrad
The Shadow Line
- J-277 Frank Graham
Lou Gehrig
- J-278 Ring Lardner
You Know Me, Al
- J-281 Constance Rourke
Davy Crockett
- J-283 Harvey Smith
The Gang's All Here
- J-292 H. M. Tomlinson
The Sea and the Jungle
- J-293 Agnes Morley Cleaveland
No Life for a Lady
- J-295 Irene D. Paden
The Wake of the Prairie Schooner
- J-296 William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair
- J-298 Walter D. Edmonds
Young Ames
- J-299 Sholem Asch
The Apostle
- J-301 Archer Butler Hulbert
Forty-Niners
- J-302 Carolyn Thomas Foreman
Indians Abroad
- K-1 Clarence Day
This Simian World
- K-3 Jack London
The Call of the Wild
- K-9 Ernest Hemingway
Short Stories
- K-12 Henry Beston
The St. Lawrence
- K-13 Stewart H. Holbrook
Ethan Allan
- K-15 Thorne Smith
The Stray Lamb
- K-16 O. Henry
Short Stories
- K-17 Meyer Berger
The Eight Million
- K-22 Henry Seidel Canby
Walt Whitman
- K-23 Marquis James
Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain
- K-26 Herbert Asbury
Sucker's Progress
- K-29 Oliver Gramling
AP: The Story of News
- K-30 Carl Van Doren
Benjamin Franklin
- K-31 Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy
- L-1 Rosemary Benét and Stephen Vincent Benét
A Book of Americans
- L-5 DuBose Heyward
Porgy
- L-6 Louis Untermeyer, ed.
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman
- L-10 Stephen Leacock
Happy Stories Just to Laugh At
- L-12 Frances Eisenberg
There's One in Every Family
- L-14 Evelyn Eaton
The Sea Is So Wide
- L-15 Herman Melville
Omoo
- L-18 Carl Crow
400 Million Customers
- L-20 Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians
- L-22 George W. Gray
Science at War
- L-23 Hervey Allen
Bedford Village
- L-24 Joseph Shearing
The Lady and the Arsenic
- L-27 Robert Graves
I, Claudius
- L-28 Thomas Mann
Selected Short Stories
- L-29 Irving Stone
Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh
- M-1 A. E. Housman
Selected Poems
- M-3 Saki (H. H. Munro)
Selected Short Stories
- M-4 Robert Benchley
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; or, David Copperfield
- M-5 Agnes Repplier
Père Marquette
- M-8 James Stevens
Paul Bunyan
- M-9 John D. Ratcliff, ed.
Science Yearbook of 1944
- M-12 Angus McDonald
Old McDonald Had a Farm
- M-15 Dane Coolidge
Fighting Men of the West
- M-18 Robert J. Casey
Such Interesting People
- M-20 A. R. Beverly-Giddings
Larrish Hundred
- M-21 Henry B. Hough
Country Editor
- M-23 Lillian Hellman, James Thurber, Elliott Nugent, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields and Sidney Kingsley
Four Modern American Plays
- M-24 M. Lincoln Schuster, ed.
A Treasury of the World's Great Letters
- M-25 Christine Weston
Indigo
- M-26 M. R. Werner
Barnum
- M-27 Clark McMeekin
Show Me a Land
- M-28 Captain Charles Grayson, ed.
New Stories for Men
- M-30 Konrad Heiden
Der Fuehrer
- M-31 F. Van Wyck Mason
Stars on the Sea
- M-32 Helen MacInnes
While Still We Live
- N-1 Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger
- N-2 S. J. Perelman
The Dream Department
- N-3 Stephen Vincent Benét
America
- N-4 Bruce Barton
The Man Nobody Knows
- N-6 Carl Sandburg
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
- N-11 Dorothy B. Hughes
The Fallen Sparrow
- N-12 Donald Hough
Snow Above Town
- N-13 Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
- N-14 W. Somerset Maugham
The Summing Up
- N-16 Charles A. Siringo
Riata and Spurs
- N-18 Theodore Pratt
Thunder Mountain
- N-19 Lt. H. E. Riesenberg
I Dive for Treasure
- N-20 Jack Iams
Prophet by Experience
- N-21 Donn Byrne
Hangman's House
- N-22 Clyde Brion Davis
The Great American Novel
- N-23 Constance Robertson
Fire Bell in the Night
- N-24 Robert Standish
Bonin
- N-25 James Newman and Edward Kasner
Mathematics and the Imagination
- N-27 Leslie T. White
Look Away, Look Away
- N-30 C. M. Sublette and Harry Harrison Kroll
Perilous Journey
- N-31 Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
- N-32 Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- O-1 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Selected Poems
- O-2 Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
- O-3 John Mulholland
The Art of Illusion
- O-5 W. H. Hudson
Tales of the Pampas
- O-6 Edward H. Faulkner
Plowman's Folly
- O-7 Guy Gilpatric
Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War
- O-8 Arthur Kober
My Dear Bella
- O-11 Cornelia Goodhue
Journey into the Fog
- O-13 Anne Terry White
Lost Worlds: The Romance of Archaeology
- O-14 Bob Hope
I Never Left Home
- O-15 Ernest K. Gann
Island in the Sky
- O-17 W. R. Burnett
Nobody Lives Forever
- O-20 John Russell
Selected Short Stories of Adventure
- O-23 Robert Sturgis
Men Like Gods
- O-24 Joseph Hergesheimer
The Three Black Pennys
- O-26 Constance Helmericks
We Live in Alaska
- O-28 M. R. James
Selected Ghost Stories
- O-30 Zofia Kossak
Blessed Are the Meek
- O-31 Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
- P-2 William Chambliss
Boomerang
- P-9 Hobert D. Skidmore
Valley of the Sky
- P-10 Benny Goodman and Irving Kolodin
The Kingdom of Swing
- P-11 H. R. Hays
Lie Down in Darkness
- P-14 Frederick Way Jr.
Pilotin' Comes Natural
- P-16 Ernest Haycox
Trail Town
- P-17 Hilda Lawrence
Blood upon the Snow
- P-18 Arthur Loveridge
Many Happy Days I've Squandered
- P-19 Erskine Caldwell
Stories by Erskine Caldwell
- P-20 Captain John D. Craig, ed.
Danger Is My Business
- P-22 Irvin S. Cobb, ed.
World's Great Humorous Stories
- P-23 Joseph Shearing
Aunt Beardie
- P-25 Herschel Brickell, ed.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Short Stories for 1943
- P-26 E. B. White
One Man's Meat
- P-27 Anya Seton
Dragonwyck
- P-29 Charles A. Beard
The Republic
- P-30 Ernie Pyle
Brave Men
- P-31 Harlow Shapley, ed.
A Treasury of Science
- P-32 Catherine Drinker Bowen
Yankee from Olympus
- Q-1 Cornelia Otis Skinner
Excuse It, Please!
- Q-3 David Ewen
The Story of George Gershwin
- Q-4 Hugh Gray and Lillian R. Lieber
The Education of T. C. Mits
- Q-5 Max Shulman
The Feather Merchants
- Q-6 Mel Heimer
The World Ends at Hoboken
- Q-9 Sherwood Anderson
Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson
- Q-10 A. A. Fair
Give 'Em the Ax
- Q-14 Lord Dunsany
Guerilla
- Q-15 R. A. J. Walling
The Corpse Without a Clue
- Q-19 Zane Grey
The Heritage of the Desert
- Q-20 John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins
Devil on His Trail
- Q-22 Mary Reisner
The House of Cobwebs
- Q-23 Donal Hamilton Haines
Luck in All Weathers
- Q-26 Margaret Case Harriman
Take Them Up Tenderly
- Q-27 A. J. Cronin
The Green Years
- Q-28 Ross McLaury Taylor
The Saddle and the Plow
- Q-29 Kenneth Roberts
The Lively Lady
- Q-30 Clark McMeekin
Reckon with the River
- Q-32 Lillian Smith
Strange Fruit
- Q-35 Eugene O'Neill
Selected Plays of Eugene O'Neill
- Q-36 John Jennings
The Shadow and the Glory
- Q-37 Rachel Field
Time Out of Mind
- Q-38 Alexander Laing
The Sea Witch
- Q-40 Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
- R-1 G. B. Stern
The Ugly Dachshund
- R-2 John Keats
Selected Poems of John Keats
- R-4 Dorothy Parker
Selected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
- R-5 Robert Benchley
After 1903—What?
- R-6 William H. Roberts
Psychology You Can Use
- R-7 Norman Corwin
Selected Radio Plays of Norman Corwin
- R-9 Jacland Marmur
Sea Duty
- R-12 Roderick Peattie
Geography in Human Destiny
- R-13 David Garth
Bermuda Calling
- R-14 Sir William Cecil Dampier
A Shorter History of Science
- R-16 D. W. Brogan
The American Character
- R-17 Emily Kimbrough and Cornelia Otis Skinner
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
- R-19 Edmund Gilligan
The Gaunt Woman
- R-21 Katherine Anne Porter
Selected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
- R-22 Margery Sharp
Cluny Brown
- R-23 Deems Taylor
Of Men and Music
- R-26 David L. Cohn
Combustion on Wheels
- R-27 Gwethalyn Graham
Earth and High Heaven
- R-28 Herbert Best
Young 'Un
- R-29 Clifford Dowdey
Gamble's Hundred
- R-31 Bennett Cerf
Try and Stop Me
- R-35 Sumner Welles
The Time for Decision
- R-36 Thomas B. Costain
For My Great Folly
- R-37 Lloyd C. Douglas
Disputed Passage
- R-38 W. E. Woodward
The Way Our People Lived
- R-39 Henrietta Buckmaster
Deep River
- R-40 Samuel Hopkins Adams
Canal Town
- S-1 Major William A. Aiken, ed.
A Wartime Whitman
- S-2 William Saroyan
Dear Baby
- S-3 Ludwig Bemelmans
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
- S-4 James Gould Cozzens
Castaway
- S-5 James Thurber
My World and Welcome to It
- S-7 Richard Sale
Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep
- S-9 Mark Twain
Selected Short Stories of Mark Twain
- S-10 Dorothy Baker
Young Man with a Horn
- S-11 Frank Sullivan
A Pearl in Every Oyster
- S-13 Thomas Beer
The Mauve Decade
- S-14 Evelyn Eaton
In What Torn Ship
- S-15 Alexander Laing
Clipper Ship Men
- S-17 Donald Hough
Captain Retread
- S-18 William MacLeod Raine
Guns of the Frontier
- S-22 H. Allen Smith
Lost in the Horse Latitudes
- S-24 Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Ox-Bow Incident
- S-25 Fred Lieb
The St. Louis Cardinals
- S-26 Algernon Blackwood
Selected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood
- S-27 Donald Culross Peattie
An Almanac for Moderns
- S-29 Edgar Snow
People on Our Side
- S-30 Harlan Hatcher
The Great Lakes
- S-33 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Yearling
- S-34 Merrill Denison
Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey
- S-35 William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Esmond
- S-36 Joseph Stanley Pennell
The History of Rome Hanks
- S-37 Francis Hackett
Henry the Eighth
- S-40 Jean Stafford
Boston Adventure
- T-1 Cornelia Otis Skinner
Dithers and Jitters
- T-3 George Papashvily and Helen Papashvily
Anything Can Happen
- T-4 David Ewen
Men of Popular Music
- T-5 John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
- T-6 Timothy Fuller
This Is Murder, Mr. Jones
- T-7 Oscar Levant
A Smattering of Ignorance
- T-8 Louis Untermeyer, ed.
The Fireside Book of Verse
- T-10 Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Men Against the Sea
- T-11 Henry Tetlow
We Farm for a Hobby and Make It Pay
- T-13 Robert Benchley
Benchley Beside Himself
- T-15 Robert M. Coates
The Outlaw Years
- T-18 Henry James
Daisy Miller and Other Stories
- T-19 Rosemary Taylor
Ridin' the Rainbow: Father's Life in Tucson
- T-20 Eugene Cunningham
Pistol Passport
- T-21 Max Brand
Riders of the Plain
- T-23 William Sloane
The Edge of Running Water
- T-24 Frank Graham
The New York Yankees
- T-25 Burns Mantle, ed.
The Best Plays of 1943–1944
- T-26 Howard Fast
Freedom Road
- T-27 Ben Lucien Burman
Blow for a Landing
- T-28 Bennett Foster, Ray Nafziger, C. K. Shaw and Seth Ranger
Wolf Law and Three Other Stories of the West
- T-29 Esther Forbes
The General's Lady
- T-31 Walter Karig and Lieutenant Welbourne Kelley
Battle Report
- T-32 Louis Bromfield
The World We Live In
- T-33 A. J. Cronin
The Citadel
- T-38 Peter Freuchen
Arctic Adventure
- T-39 Kathleen Winsor
Forever Amber
- 656 George Lowther
Adventures of Superman
- 658 Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems
- 659 Joseph Dunninger
What's on Your Mind?
- 660 Henry Beston
The Outermost House
- 661 Roderick Peattie
Look to the Frontiers
- 662 John P. Sousa III
My Family, Right or Wrong
- 667 Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not
- 668 Thomas Beer
Mrs. Egg and Other Barbarians
- 669 Guy de Maupassant
Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
- 670 Luke Short
Gunman's Chance
- 672 Jack London
White Fang
- 673 H. Allen Smith
Low Man on a Totem Pole
- 675 Dorothy Cameron Disney
The 17th Letter
- 676 Paul Eduard Miller, ed.
Esquire's Jazz Book (1944)
- 677 Walter D. Edmonds
Selected Short Stories
- 679 C. S. Forester
The Captain from Connecticut
- 682 James Stokley
Science Remakes Our World
- 684 John J. O'Neill
Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
- 686 William Targ, ed.
Western Story Omnibus
- 687 Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
- 688 Ellen Glasgow
Barren Ground
- 689 Edison Marshall
Great Smith
- 690 John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
- 691 Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers
- 692 Douglas Rigby and Elizabeth Rigby
Lock, Stock and Barrel
- 694 Martin Flavin
Journey in the Dark
- 695 Ruth McKenney
The McKenneys Carry On
- 696 E. B. White
Quo Vadimus? or The Case for the Bicycle
- 697 Arthur Kober
Thunder over the Bronx
- 700 Frederic F. Van de Water
A Home in the Country
- 701 Rose Franken
Another Claudia
- 702 Earl Wilson
I Am Gazing Into My 8-Ball
- 703 John Steinbeck
The Pastures of Heaven
- 704 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere's Ride and Other Poems
- 705 James Thurber
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
- 706 Ernest Haycox
Deep West
- 707 Clarence Budington Kelland
Arizona
- 709 C. S. Forester
To the Indies
- 710 Barry Benefield
Eddie and the Archangel Mike
- 711 Mignon G. Eberhart
Wings of Fear
- 713 Vardis Fisher
The Golden Rooms
- 716 Walter Blair
Tall Tale America
- 717
Webster's New Handy Dictionary
- 718
Webster's New Handy Dictionary
- 719 Sgt. George Baker
The Sad Sack
- 720 Edmund Gilligan
Voyage of the Golden Hind
- 725 Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Pitcairn's Island
- 726 Frederic Ramsey Jr. and Charles Edward Smith
Jazzmen
- 727 Ngaio Marsh
Death and the Dancing Footman
- 728 Paul Gallico
Farewell to Sport
- 729 William Howells
Mankind So Far
- 731 Colonel John W. Thomason Jr.
... And a Few Marines
- 732 John Selby
Starbuck
- 733 Albert Maltz
The Cross and the Arrow
- 735 Gerald Johnson
A Little Night Music
- 736 William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up and Other Poems
- 737 Robert Nathan
The Enchanted Voyage
- 738 Gustav Eckstein
Lives: Animal Studies
- 739
Soldier Art
- 740 Sgt. Frank Brandt, ed.
Cartoons for Fighters
- 741 John O'Hara
Pipe Night
- 744 Timothy Fuller
Harvard Has a Homicide
- 745 H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
- 746 Francis Wallace
Kid Galahad
- 750 John Steinbeck
Cup of Gold
- 752 Arthur Henry Gooden
The Valley of Dry Bones
- 756 E. C. Abbott and Helena Huntington Smith
We Pointed Them North
- 757 Meyer Berger
The Eight Million
- 760 Ngaio Marsh
Died in the Wool
- 762 Rhoda Truax
Joseph Lister
- 763 Carl Carmer
Listen for a Lonesome Drum
- 764 Frederic Prokosch
The Asiatics
- 765 William McFee, ed.
World's Great Tales of the Sea
- 766 James M. Cain
Double Indemnity and Two Other Short Novels
- 767 Edgar Allan Poe
Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
- 769 Clarence Day
Life with Father and Mother
- 770 Evelyn Eaton
Quietly My Captain Waits
- 771 Lloyd Lewis
Myths after Lincoln
- 772 Virginia Woolf
The Years
- 773 Gene Fowler
Timber Line
- 774 Philip Wylie
Night unto Night
- 775 William March
Some Like Them Short
- 776 Rupert Brooke
Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
- 777 Gustav Eckstein
Canary
- 778 Hiram Percy Maxim
A Genius in the Family
- 781 Frank Graham
Lou Gehrig
- 782 Ring Lardner
You Know Me, Al
- 783 George Chamberlain
The Phantom Filly
- 785 Dorothy B. Hughes
The So Blue Marble
- 787 Howard Fast
Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel
- 790 Paul B. Sears
This Is Our World
- 792 Glenway Wescott
Apartment in Athens
- 793 Theodore Pratt
The Barefoot Mailman
- 794 John Steinbeck
The Long Valley
- 798 Ione Sandberg Shriber
Pattern for Murder
- 799 John O'Hara
Butterfield 8
- 802 Isak Dinesen
Winter's Tales
- 803 Walt Coburn, Bennett Foster, Seth Ranger, Johnston McCulley and Cherry Wilson
Five Western Stories
- 804 C. S. Forester
Commodore Hornblower
- 806 Carl Carmer
The Hudson
- 807 Monte Barrett
Sun in Their Eyes
- 808 Paul de Kruif
Men Against Death
- 809 Bernard Jaffe
Men of Science in America
- 810 Herbert V. Prochnow, ed.
Great Stories from Great Lives
- 811 Louis Bromfield
Mrs. Parkington
- 813 MacKinlay Kantor
Author's Choice
- 814 Thomas B. Costain
Ride with Me
- 815 John Van Druten
The Voice of the Turtle
- 816 Richard Harding Davis
In the Fog
- 817 John O'Hara
Pal Joey
- 818 Joel Sayre
Rackety Rax
- 819
The New Yorker's Baedeker
- 820 John Masefield
Selected Poems of John Masefield
- 821 Richard Shattuck
The Half-Haunted Saloon
- 822 Bill Mauldin
Up Front
- 823 Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
- 824 John Mills
Electronics Today and Tomorrow
- 825 William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
- 826 Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in Samoa
- 828 Dorothy B. Hughes
The Delicate Ape
- 830 Arnold Bennett
Buried Alive
- 831 Tom Powers
Virgin with Butterflies
- 832 Thomas L. Stix, ed.
The Sporting Gesture
- 833 Charles Alden Seltzer
Square Deal Sanderson
- 835 Ira Wolfert
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
- 837 Ernest Haycox
Sundown Jim
- 841 Edison Marshall
The Upstart
- 843 Margaret Irwin
Young Bess
- 845 Louis Bromfield
Pleasant Valley
- 846 Frank Graham
McGraw of the Giants
- 847 Ralph Temple
Cuckoo Time
- 848 Whit Burnett, ed.
Time to Be Young
- 850 Joseph Shearing
The Lady and the Arsenic
- 851 Bram Stoker
Dracula
- 852 John P. Marquand
Wickford Point
- 853 Adria Locke Langley
A Lion Is in the Streets
- 854 Samuel Shellabarger
Captain from Castile
- 855 Rosemary Benét and Stephen Vincent Benét
A Book of Americans
- 856 James Thurber
My Life and Hard Times
- 857 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lyrics and Sonnets
- 858 Maude Smith Delavan
The Rumelhearts of Rampler Avenue
- 859 Conrad Richter
Tacey Cromwell
- 860 Stefan Zweig
The Royal Game
- 861 Charles Nordhoff
The Pearl Lagoon
- 862 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
- 863 Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Gray Champion and Other Tales
- 864 André Maurois
Ariel: The Life of Shelley
- 866 Erskine Caldwell
Tragic Ground
- 871 John Collier
Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales
- 872 S. J. Perelman
Crazy Like a Fox
- 875 Walter D. Edmonds
Mostly Canallers
- 876 Jack Iams
The Countess to Boot
- 879 John D. Weaver
Wind Before Rain
- 880 Henry D. Thoreau
Walden
- 884 Harry Leon Wilson
Ruggles of Red Gap
- 885 Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
- 886 Edmund Gilligan
White Sails Crowding
- 887 Owen Wister
The Virginian
- 889 M. G. Kains
Five Acres and Independence
- 891 A. J. Cronin
Hatter's Castle
- 892 B. A. Botkin, ed.
The Sky's the Limit
- 893 Frederick Bodmer
The Loom of Language
- 894 Margaret Leach
Reveille in Washington
- 895 Juliet Lowell
Dear Sir and Dumb-Belles Letters
- 896 Jack Goodman and Alan Green
How to Do Practically Anything
- 900 D. D. Beauchamp
The Full Life and Other Stories
- 901 Vachel Lindsay
The Daniel Jazz and Other Poems
- 902 John Weaver
My Bitter Half and Other Stories
- 903 Walter Bernstein
Keep Your Head Down
- 904 Boris Sokoloff, M.D.
The Story of Penicillin
- 905 James Norman Hall
Lost Island
- 907 Will Cuppy
The Great Bustard and Other People
- 908 Max Brand
The Fighting Four
- 909 Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
- 911 Sinclair Lewis
Mantrap
- 912 Richard Connell
Ironies
- 913 Irving T. Marsh and Edward Ehre, eds.
Best Sports Stories of 1944
- 920 Robert Goffin
Jazz
- 921 Ben Hecht
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories
- 922 Thorne Smith
Rain in the Doorway
- 925 Homer
The Odyssey
- 926 Aldous Huxley
The Gioconda Smile and Other Stories
- 927 Elliot Paul
The Last Time I Saw Paris
- 928 Hugh Walpole
Fortitude
- 929 George R. Stewart
Names on the Land
- 930 Leonard Ehrlich
God's Angry Man
- 931 Samuel Hopkins Adams
A. Woollcott: His Life and His World
- 932 Hugh MacLennan
Two Solitudes
- 933
The Bedside Tales
- 934
The Best from Yank, the Army Weekly
- 936 Joe (The Markee) Madden
Set 'Em Up!
- 938 Francis Russell Hart
Admirals of the Caribbean
- 939 Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love Poems
- 941 Harry Brown
Artie Greengroin, Pfc.
- 942 Bruce Marshall
The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
- 943 Vera Caspary
Bedelia
- 946 James Gunn
Deadlier Than the Male
- 948 Marione Derrickson, ed.
Laugh It Off
- 953 Thorne Smith
The Passionate Witch
- 955
The New Yorker Profiles
- 956 William Colt MacDonald
Cartridge Carnival
- 957 Ronald Kirkbridge
Winds, Blow Gently
- 958 H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods
- 960 Herbert S. Zim
Rockets and Jets
- 962 John D. Ratcliff, ed.
Science Yearbook of 1945
- 963 Frank Graham
The Brooklyn Dodgers
- 965 Herb Graffis, ed.
Esquire's First Sports Reader
- 966 James Hilton
So Well Remembered
- 967 Jack Gaver and Dave Stanley
There's Laughter in the Air!
- 969 Sinclair Lewis
Cass Timberlane
- 970 James Thurber
The Thurber Carnival
- 971 W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge
- 973 Stuart Cloete
Against These Three
- 974 Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The City of Trembling Leaves
- 975 Herbert Clyde Lewis
Gentleman Overboard
- 979 John O'Hara
The Doctor's Son and Other Stories
- 981 Ogden Nash
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- 983 Oliver Weld Bayer
An Eye for an Eye
- 986 Irving Crump
Our United States Secret Service
- 987 Charles Alden Seltzer
"Beau" Rand
- 988 Richard Powell
Lay That Pistol Down
- 989 William MacLeod Raine
Who Wants to Live Forever?
- 993 Stanley Frank, ed.
Sports Extra
- 995 Frances Crane
The Amethyst Spectacles
- 1000 Paul Eduard Miller, ed.
Esquire's 1945 Jazz Book
- 1002 Darrell Huff and Frances Huff
Twenty Careers of Tomorrow
- 1005 George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man and Two Other Plays
- 1006 Rafael Sabatini
The Birth of Mischief
- 1008 George Russell Harrison
Atoms in Action
- 1009 A. J. Cronin
The Green Years
- 1011 Jack London
Best Short Stories of Jack London
- 1022 Bliss Lomax
Rusty Guns
- 1023 Virgil Thomson
The State of Music
- 1024 Mark Van Doren
Liberal Education
- 1027 Earl Schenck Miers
Big Ben
- 1030 Charles Alden Seltzer
"Drag" Harlan
- 1032 Douglas E. Lurton
Make the Most of Your Life
- 1040 John Embree
The Japanese Nation
- 1043 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
- 1044 Harland Manchester
New World of Machines
- 1046 Gontran de Poncins
Kabloona
- 1049 Alice Tisdale Hobart
Oil for the Lamps of China
- 1050 Bennett Cerf, ed.
Modern American Short Stories
- 1054 A. J. Cronin
The Stars Look Down
- 1057 Cornelia Otis Skinner
Excuse It, Please!
- 1059 David Ewen
The Story of George Gershwin
- 1063 David Dietz
Atomic Energy in the Coming Era
- 1066
The New Yorker Reporter at Large
- 1068 John J. Floherty
Inside the F.B.I.
- 1076 R. N. Linscott
Comic Relief
- 1077 Louise Dickinson Rich
We Took to the Woods
- 1079 Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton
The Story of the Great Geologists
- 1080 Leo Tolstoy
Tales by Tolstoy
- 1087 George Gamow
Biography of the Earth
- 1089 Ladd Haystead
If the Prospect Pleases
- 1090 Robert S. Dowst
Straight, Place and Show
- 1098 Lawrence Treat
V as in Victim
- 1102 Captain Harry C. Butcher, U.S.N.R.
My Three Years with Eisenhower
- 1105 John F. Wharton
The Theory and Practice of Earning a Living
- 1113 Konstantin Simonov
Days and Nights
- 1114 Stephen Vincent Benét
John Brown's Body
- 1115 Christopher Isherwood
Prater Violet
- 1122 Carl Sandburg
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg
- 1126 Carl Crow
The Great American Customer
- 1141 Clarence E. Mulford
The Bar-20 Three
- 1142 Mark Van Doren
Shakespeare
- 1143 Lee R. Steiner
Where Do People Take Their Troubles?
- 1145 Christina Stead and William Blake, eds.
Modern Women in Love
- 1151 Ogden Nash
Many Long Years Ago
- 1156
The Dark Ship and Other Selections from the New Yorker
- 1171 Harold Hart, ed.
Top Stuff
- 1183 Will Ermine
Outlaw on Horseback
- 1184 Luke Short
Coroner Creek
- 1194 Jonathan Stagge
Death's Old Sweet Song
- 1209 Vera Caspary
Stranger Than Truth
- 1225 John P. Marquand
B.F.'s Daughter
- 1238 Inglis Fletcher
Toil of the Brave
- 1243 William Wister Haines
Command Decision
- 1245 Bergen Evans
The Natural History of Nonsense
- 1273 Elliott Arnold
Blood Brother
- 1293 Richard Lockridge and Frances Lockridge
Think of Death
- 1322 Ernie Pyle
Home Country
- LP-1 Andrew Carroll
War Letters
- LP-2 Allen Mikaelian
Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present
- LP-3 William Shakespeare
Henry V
- LP-4 Sun Tzu
The Art of War
- LP-5 Christopher Buckley
Wry Martinis
- LP-6 John A. Gable, ed.
The Man in the Arena
- S212
Psychology for the Fighting Man: What You Should Know About Yourself and Others
- S216 Rudolf Modley
A History of the War: In Maps, In Pictures, In Words
- 284 Philip Van Doren Stern
The Pocket Book of Adventure Stories
- 1-TLP/VFW Andrew Carroll
War Letters (abridged)
- Robert Ripley
Ripley's Believe It Or Not
- Marion Hargrove
See Here, Private Hargrove
- James Hilton
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
- G.K. Chesterton
The Pocket Book of Father Brown
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
- R.M. Barrows, E.X. Pastor, eds.
The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines
- Ranger Department, United States Army Infantry School
Ranger Handbook
- John Y. Cole
Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945)
Books and reading
Miniature books
Rare books.