Armed Services Editions
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Armed Services Editions were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II. From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than
US Serviceman Nunzio Antonio "Jim" Giambalvo reads an Armed Services Edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Armed Services Editions were printed in pairs, one atop the other, to make most efficient use of the digest magazine presses. This rare "two-up" of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Country Lawyer by Bellamy Partridge was never cut apart by the printer, and its edges remain untrimmed.
William Faulkner
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spe
Faulkner in 1954
Faulkner was influenced by stories of William Clark Falkner, his paternal great-grandfather and namesake.
Faulkner as a cadet in the Canadian RAF, 1918
During part of his time in New Orleans, Faulkner lived in a house in the French Quarter (pictured center yellow).