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Walk on the water.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Pulp L48 1952	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

239 p.; 19 cm.

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Note

"A Brutal Novel of Men and Women in War."--From front cover.
"This is the roll call of a squad of infantrymen sweating out a terrifying action in the Pacific jungle. [...] It is also the story of a tender love that two gallant people -- a brave sergeant and a warmhearted nurse -- flaunted in the face of death."--From back cover.
Plot features a gay soldier in the squad and the ways in which his comrades relate to him.
This was Leveridge's only novel. It was first published by Farrar, Strauss and Young in 1951. In 1958 it was published under the title The Last Combat (New York: Pyramid Books).
With b&w head-shot photograph of author by Eric Hartmann on back cover.
Cover art by Stanley Zuckerberg.

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Binding (note)

Paperback, with color illustration on front cover depicting handsome U.S. Army sergeant sitting in tent with his arm on shoulder of beautiful nurse.

Call Number

Berg Coll Pulp L48 1952

LCCN

52038416

OCLC

1648636

Author

Leveridge, Ralph, 1922-

Title

Walk on the water.

Imprint

[New York] : New American Library, [1952, c1951]

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Binding

Paperback, with color illustration on front cover depicting handsome U.S. Army sergeant sitting in tent with his arm on shoulder of beautiful nurse.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy with Metropolitan Book Shop, Inc. (NYC) bookmark laid in.

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Added Author

Hartmann, Eric. Photographer

Zuckerberg, Stanley, 1919- Illustrator

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Pulp L48 1952