[Item #27897] Character "Bad" - The Story of a Conscientious Objector [Inscribed]. Harold Studley GRAY, ed Kenneth Irving Brown.

Character "Bad" - The Story of a Conscientious Objector [Inscribed]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; [i-xiv], 258pp; with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Generically inscribed by the editor on the title page, with his business card laid in: "With sincere regards, Kenneth I. Brown / 16 May 1934." Ownership names to front pastedown and endpaper, mild softening to spine ends, with spot of board exposure at lower corner of front board; Near Fine, Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, and dusty overall; Very Good+.

Narrative of Harold Studley Gray's career as a C.O. during WWI, told through his letters from prison. Gray worked as a YMCA volunteer in British prison camps at the beginning of the war, then refused to accept conscription upon his return to America in 1919, claiming it would "mar his relation to God." Gray was reputedly one of only two C.O.'s to be threatened with the death sentence for refusal to serve in the Great War, though he eventually was released from service with a dishonorable discharge. Includes much on his incarceration in Leavenworth and Alcatraz. Uncommon in jacket. SUVAK 407.

Price: $200.00

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