1942 The Moon is Down

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, later state. 

With large period on p.112 omitted, and with the following two lines added at the bottom of the copyright page: "Printed and Bound in the U.S.A. by/Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tenn." 

With the publisher's original price-clipped dust wrapper.

'The Moon is Down' is a military novella that was written by American author John Steinbeck to encourage resistance movements in occupied countries. 

Based on Norway during World War II, the story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with Great Britain and Russia.