Finding Aid for the Armed Services Editions Second World War book collection 2013.001.w.r

Andrew Harman

Center for American War Letters Archives

4/28/2022

Leatherby Libraries

Chapman University

Orange, CA 92866

speccoll@chapman.edu

URL: http://www1.chapman.edu/library/archives/

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.

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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.