Stamp on the cover of Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber, 1944. The acronym NYPE appearing in the ship-shaped rubber stamp above stands...

About this time last year I noticed a lot of bookish people on Twitter talking about World Book Night . Founded in 2011 in the United Kin...

Last week I bought a copy of the 1945 Armed Services Edition of James Thurber’s My World—And Welcome To It .* I noticed that the last pag...

The 1945 Armed Services Edition of The Great Gatsby. One might say that this flimsy 5½ x 3⅞ inch paperback edition of The Great Gatsby ...

Reprinted editions of books popular in the civilian market, The Armed Services Editions were donated to GIs fighting overseas in World War I...

Armed Services Edition of The Postman Always Rings Twice . From my collection. Thanks to donations by the American public, the Victory B...

Title page from Webster's New Handy Dictionary , Armed Service Edition 717, printed 1945. In early August I received an email from ...