UP FOR BID IS A LARGE "COFFEE TABLE" BOOK PUBLISHED IN 1950, "LIFE'S PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II". THIS WAS MY GRANDFATHERS BOOK, AND HE DID PURCHASE IT IN 1950.
THE INSIDE STATES, "THIS BOOK IS COMPOSED OF THE FINEST WORK PRODUCED BY PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PAINTERS DURING WORLD WAR II. MUCH OF IT WAS PUBLISHED IN "LIFE" UNDER THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF WARTIME MANAGING EDITOR JOHN SHAW BILLINGS AND OF DANIEL LONGWELL, WHO SUCCEEDED HIM AS MANAGING EDITOR IN JUNE 1944, WHEN MR. BILLINGS BECAME EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME INC. PUBLICATIONS. SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT OF LIFE'S PHOTOGRAPHERS WAS THE TASK ABLY PPERFORMED BY WILSON HICKS."
368 PAGES, SOME COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS/PAINTINGS AND FULL OF BLACK & WHITE WARTIME PHOTOS.
BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION FOR IT'S AGE. OF COURSE THERE IS SOME WEAR TO THE COVER, BUT NOT MUCH AT ALL. BINDING IS IN PERFECT SHAPE, NO LOOSE PAGES. THERE IS SOME "FOXING" AND OTHER MARKS ON THE PLAIN WHITE PAGES IN THE FRONT AND INSIDE THE COVERS, SOME YELLOWING. THE INSIDE PAGES ALL SEEM PERFECT, NO MARKS THAT I COULD FIND AS I PAGED THROUGH. THE BOOK SMELLS A LITTLE MUSTY, AS OLD BOOKS DO, BUT TO ME, THAT IS A GREAT SMELL! NOT EVEN SURE MUSTY IS THE RIGHT ADJECTIVE, IT JUST SMELLS LIKE A OLDER BOOK!
THIS BOOK IS PERFECT FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN WORLD WAR II MEMORABILIA, LIFE MAGAZINE FANS, HISTORY BUFFS, COLLECTORS OF OLD BOOKS, OR SOMEONE THAT LOVES OLD PHOTO'S!
PAYPAL ONLY ACCEPTED. WILL ONLY SHIP WITHIN THE U.S., PLEASE NO INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS.
