Rare WWII book – U.S.S. Neosho – Fat Girl – HC – 1943 – privately printed

first hardcover edition of Fat Girl, the story of a doomed WWII tanker whose crew fought heroically against overwhelming odds. The story was initially published in the Saturday Evening Post, and reprinted here in 1943, by a private press exclusively for the American Brake Shoe Company, in 1943. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. clean interior; no writing within. Exterior shows light soiling and scuffing. Uncommon.