Description
First edition of Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen.
Octavo, xvii, 221pp. Light green cloth, title stamped in blue on spine and front board. Same date listed on title page and copyright page. Light fading to endpapers, some foxing to front and back boards, unmarked text block, a very good example. In publisher’s dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine, a few small closed tears along top and bottom edge, a very good example.
Mister Roberts was adapted into a Tony Award-winning play just two years after this edition was published. The popular story has also been adapted into a film twice, once in 1955 and again in 1984, and a television series in 1965.
