Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WORLD WAR I.) Stars and Stripes. 50 issues bound in 2 volumes. Folio, library cloth; brittle as usual, some wear along original folds, very minor marginal dampstaining. France, 8 February 1918 to 31 January 1919.

Additional Details

The famous newspaper published "by and for the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force." The staff featured several notable New York journalists, including Harold Wallace Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Grantland Rice, and Franklin P. Adams. A nearly complete run of the first year, lacking only #4 (1 March 1918) and #42 (22 November 1918).