Description
The signed first edition of War In Korea: The Report Of A Woman Combat Correspondent by Marguerite Higgins.
Octavo, 223, [1]. Gray cloth, title printed in red on the spine. Stated “First Edition” on the copyright page. Illustrated endpapers. Complete with 29 photographic plates. Rubbing to tips of the spine, white ink blemish at head of the spine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, closed tears at head and heel of the spine, shelf wear, wrinkled edge along front cover, a scarce jacket.
Signed on the title page: “With regards / “Maggie” Higgins.”
Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in 1942. Higgins covered World War II in Europe, reported from the Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and later covered the Korean War, where she was one of the first reporters to enter Seoul after its liberation in 1950. She won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1951 for her Korean War coverage. Higgins also reported from Vietnam and the Soviet Union. She joined Newsday in 1963 and died in 1966 from leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease often transmitted by sand flies, which Higgins contracted while on assignment in Vietnam.
