brown wilburt 1900 1968 (2 résultats)

First edition, first printing (with publisher's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIDOW. xiv, 233 pages. Hardcover: H 26cm x L 17.5cm. Dust jacket well toned with light soiling and stains; several tears and some bumping at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth. Martha Brown's nine-line ink inscription date May 19, 1969 on front free endpaper; the book was published posthumously as Major General Wilburt S. Brown passed on December 13, 1968. Newspaper clipping from May 19, 1969 taped to rfep with another clipping from December 1969 taped to rear pastedown; also laid-in at rear endpapers is University of Alabama News Bureau press release promoting book's publication; additionally laid-in at front endpapers is brochure for May 1973 General Wilburt S. Brown Memorial History Conference at the University of Alabama. Interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0817351000.

Third edition revised (as stated upon title page) DATED, INSCRIBED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO USMC MAJOR GENERAL W.S. BROWN. i-iv, 1-54 pages. Staple-bound paperback: H 25.75cm x L 20cm. Blue paper covers with slight toning and soiling. Light vertical crease to publication's center strongest at front cover and diminishing towards rear. Author's nine-line ink inscription "20 July 1962 | To Major General W.S. Brown, | A true Marine, and the finest field commander under whom | it has ever been my privilege and pleasure to serve. With | sincere respect of the author - | Norman W. Hicks | Major USMC | 1st Bn, 1st Marines | Korea - 1951" at top of title page (i.e. page i). Interior pages are otherwise clean. Slight rust to staples but binding is firm. Typescript-style text. Inscribee is USMC Major General Wilburt S. Brown (1900-1968) who was married to Martha Stennis Brown (1911-1998), a relation to Mississippi U.S. Senator John C. Stennis; General and Mrs. Brown are interred in a family plot in a Newton, Mississippi cemetery; book was acquired from the Columbus, Mississippi estate of a sister of Mrs. Brown.