Margaret Bourke White. Shooting the Russian War. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1942.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1942. 1st. First Edition. square 4to. . 298 pp. Black & white photographs by the author. Original Tan cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. jacket, not price clipped original price of 2.75. This is The uncommon first printing in dustjacket. Bourke-White arrived in Moscow in May, 1941 two months prior to Germany invasion of the Soviet Union launched in late June of 1941. The Hitler fantasy was entitled Barbarossa. Maggie a graduate of Cornell in 1929 was the only non-Russian to be awarded a photographer's "passport". Maggie was a famous photographer for Life Magazine since its inception in 1936, rare in dust jacket, signed by a neighbor and friend in 1942, Miriam Kaduk in law to Erskine Caldwell (Maggie was his second wife) with her book plates, else very good, chipped dj, lacking one inch off the bottome of the spine, some tear closed and repaired, but complete, good. a rare book in dj

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Margaret Bourke-White. SHOOTING THE RUSSIAN WAR ( signed ). Simon and Schuster, New York, 1942.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 1942,Tan cloth hardcover with red star on front board with black & red letters to the spine and red page edge, with the rare dust jacket, 298 page book. Authored and Illustrated by Margaret Bourke-White with black & white photography by her.The first female photo journalist to get a passport to enter Russia to report the war. This scarce copy is signed and inscribed by her on the first blank page. Condition : Very Good with a bottom corner rub and a small front hinge split only at the top edge . Dust jacket is price clipped but Very Good and complete no rips or missing pieces. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.