JONES, James.
The Thin Red Line.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1962.
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“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul": First Edition of The Thin Red Line; Finely Bound
First edition of Jones’classic sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, blind ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
“The Thin Red Line is an ironic, disciplined war novel, plainly an attempt to show exactly what infantry combat was like in the Pacific” (Vinson, 733). British historian and military writer John Keegan nominated The Thin Red Line as, in his opinion, one of only two novels portraying Second World War combat that could be favorably compared to the best of the literature to arise from the First World War (the other was Flesh Wounds (1966) by British writer David Holbrook). Paul Fussell said that it was "perhaps the best" American WWII novel, better than A Walk in the Sun and The Naked and the Dead. The novel has been adapted for cinema twice, first by Andrew Marton in 1964, then by Terrence Malick in 1998.
The Thin Red Line.
$850.00
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