Close to Glory by Weithas, Art - 1991

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1992. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings.

Austin: Eakin. very nice copy . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1991.

Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1991. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped ($24.95). A clean, tight copy. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with WW2 photographs, sketches and drawings. Appendix. Index. Bound in the original blue boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. The compiler of this book, Art Weithas, was the original designer of YANK magazine. The dust jacket flap has a bio of him which says his art is represented in the collection of the Coast Guard, as well as several other military and nonmilitary art museums. On the front endpaper is a "Special Autographed Copy" bookplate. It is inscribed: "To George Gray... a fellow artist with many thanks for our association with the Coast Guard." [In the early 1980s George Gray founded The Coast Guard Art Program (CoGAP). He served as CoGAP's chairman for more than twenty… Read More