Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the lightly concave spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s initials and date on first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with price intact and mild surface wear and sticker residue. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America’s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
