Description
Copy right 1942. Hardcover is frayed and worn. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and binding is secure. Some of the pages are bent on the corners.
This vintage copy of “Man in Gray” by Eleanor Smith offers a window into the World War II home front experience. Published in 1942, the novel explores the challenges and sacrifices faced by families with loved ones fighting overseas. Smith’s vivid prose brings to life the era’s rationing, factory work, and ever-present anxiety of receiving dreaded telegrams. As a contemporaneous work, it captures the zeitgeist of wartime America with remarkable authenticity. This well-preserved copy shows signs of its age, yet the text remains crisp and inviting for readers and collectors interested in that pivotal period of 20th century history. While the frayed boards and bent page corners hint at past beloved readings, the secure binding ensures many more voyages into Smith’s poignant wartime narrative await future owners of this literary time capsule.