Generals Die in Bed

by Charles Yale Harrison 

First edition, fourth printing, signed and inscribed.  New York:  William Morrow & Co., 1930  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Tan cloth covers with orange inked title.
• Boards show some wear, smudges, stains, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has orange text and is darkened with frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  
• Decorated end papers/ pastedowns show little sign of age or wear.
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered foxing, as at pg. 143.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have ink at head, some foxing to untrimmed fore edges, some edgewear at foot.  See photos.  
• PS2025.0703

269 pages. 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches

A Very Good copy overall of the fourth printing of this novel of war on the Western Front in 1918.  Publisher's mustard cloth binding with orange inked title on top board.  Exposure and wear to the boards, much fresher in the interior and unmarked.

Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954) was a Canadian-American writer and journalist.  In 1917, he enlisted with the 244th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.  After several months in a reserve battalion in England, Harrison transferred to the Royal Montreal Regiment and was sent to the Western Front.  On August 8th, 1918 Harrison participated in the first day of the Battle of Amiens, during which he was wounded in the foot; he spent the rest of the war recuperating.

Harrison's novel, originally serialized in 1928, was published in novel form in 1930.  First published in June 1930, the novel was reprinted several times in rapid succession.  This copy is from the Fourth Printing in September 1930.  While criticized for its anti-war stance and uncomfortably frank descriptions of warfare, it enjoyed commercial success.

Fourth printing, September 1930.  Signed and inscribed by the author to Eddie Royce.  Ed Royce was a journalist who wrote "A Scene from the Cotton Strike"(1933) for Western Worker, a Communist publication in California.  

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