Battle Cry by Leon M. Uris - 1953

Cover is worn and stained, inside pages are clean & tight!

Allan Wingate, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. 3rd Impression. 505 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Tape marks to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Allan Wingate, UK, 1956. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Reprint. Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding is loosening but fully intact. Spine slightly cocked. Moderate uniform browning. Jacket: Moderate wear, hole cut out of spine but titling unaffected. Prior Bookseller sticker or stamp. Edges foxed and browned. Boards warped,small brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Jacket protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap..

LONDON: ALLAN WINGATE, 1954. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed and lightly marked, spine sunned and marked, ink inscription to front free endpaper, pages lightly mellowed. Clean throughout. Good.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 505pp. Black cloth hard cover with red title and decoration Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Impression.. 1953.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Fair. [6], 505, [1] pages. Signed by the author on the first end paper. Cover worn and soiled. Tears at spine. Edges rubbed. Somewhat shaken. Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976). When he was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines and fought as a radioman in combat on Guadalcanal and Tarawa from 1942 through 1944. Coming out of the service, he worked for a newspaper, writing in his spare time. Esquire magazine bought an article in 1950, and he began to devote himself to writing. Drawing on his experiences in Guadalcanal and Tarawa, he produced the best-selling Battle Cry, a novel depicting the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Hardback. Presentation copy, signed by Leon Uris/gift inscription/worn and soiled black cloth with red design on front and red lettering; 505 pages; On spine/vertical tear at top spine, soil at bottom spine/some soil on front bottom .