The Naked and the Dead

Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Co, 1948. First edition, first printing, with the publisher's logo, the circled `R' on the copyright page
Description: pp722, frontis. map. 8vo. Original cloth, chipped at spine ends and lower edge of boards. Edges spotted, owner name on fly, inner hinge starting. An only fair copy in the dust wrapper (slightly rubbed and chipped), and with `$4' on top front flap, but a necessary item in any collection of landmark American fiction of the 20th Century