1943 MaGraw-Hill Book Company; hardbound; good condition with very minor soiling on front board (pic); no dust jacket.
 
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"When Ralph Stein reported for basic training at Camp Lee, Va., he might well have been mistaken for Private Finch.  In private life he had been a gadget collector, although for a living he had drawn funny pictures of funny people....In the Army he had hoped to avoid people by concentrating on such gadgets as 105-mm howitzers or half-track engines.
 
Harry Brown, meanwhile, had been sent to Fort Belvoir, VA.  He was a poet suddenly enmeshed in a giant System;  he had left a sedentary writer's life for the hand-begriming, back-breaking Corps of Army Engineers.  Such a fate would try any poet's soul..."