Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small, compact, paperback books printed by the Council on Books in Wartime for distribution within the American military during World War II. Books on LibraryThing tagged Armed Services Edition. This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 01:34. Free shipping. $75.00 +$9.99 shipping. [3], This book is omitted in the principal source for this table (Manning, 2014), but it is listed in, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Stories by Katherine Mansfield: A Selection, The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; or, David Copperfield, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Short Stories for 1943, Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson, Selected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Selected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Wolf Law and Three Other Stories of the West, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems, Prodigal Genius: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Double Indemnity and Two Other Short Novels, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories, Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories, The Great God Pan and Other Weird Stories, The Ransom of Red Chief and Other Stories, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories, The Theory and Practice of Earning a Living, The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories, The Saturday Evening Post Stories, 1942–1945, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Armed_Services_Editions&oldid=995851652, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. After the draft was reinstated in the U.S. in 1940, millions of young soldiers found themselves in barracks and training camps, where they were often bored. The book is currently a resonably solid reading copy with no loose pages. The head of the Army's Library Section, Raymond L. Trautman, sought to remedy this by purchasing one book per soldier, but when that failed, librarians launched a nationwide book collection campaign. [citation needed] 1,225 were unique titles and 99 were reprints of titles issued earlier in the series. [4], Distribution of ASEs began in October of 1943 and continued until 1947. This page was last edited on 23 December 2020, at 06:12. Housman (Armed Services edition) by A. E. Housman: book 1015: The Corpse in the Snowman by Nicholas Blake: book 1031 Most of these books were printed in unabridged versions. To appease some publishers' concerns, a legal commitment was made that prevented the domestic distribution and post-war resale of surplus books, and educational and scientific books were excluded. As W. W. Norton and his colleagues at the Council on Books in Wartime had hoped, the Armed Services Editions helped create a generation of men accustomed to having a book perpetually at hand. The only complete collection of all ASE books is held at the Library of Congress. The books would predominantly be current publications, being popular novels, books about the war, humor, occasional classics, and specially prepared anthologies. Antique 1871 German - Simons - Familien Bibel - Bible. Guptill Manning, Molly. [2], The CBW appointed Philip Van Doren Stern, a printing expert and former Pocket Books executive, as project manager. [6], The distinctive covers bore the description, "Armed Services Edition: This is the Complete Book – Not a Digest." [17], Books distributed in the U.S. military in World War II, the draft was reinstated in the U.S. in 1940, "How Books Designed for Soldiers' Pockets Changed Publishing Forever", "Publishers Gave Away 122,951,031 Books During World War II", "Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions", "Literature Re-enlists In the Military; Pilot Project Is Sending Books to American Ships And Troops Abroad", "As Popular as Pin-Up Girls: The Armed Services Editions and American Print Culture, 1943–1947 (Master's paper)", School of Information and Library Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Books Go To War: The Armed Services Editions of World War Two, Armed Services Editions Collection at the Library of Congress, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armed_Services_Editions&oldid=990880710, United States home front during World War II, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2018, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. This group collaborated by eliminating royalty payments and arranging for … The Library has a special collection of about half of the 1324 books issued for the American armed forces overseas during World War II.
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