No Letters for the Dead by Gale Wilhelm. First Edition, 1936. Unusual dust jacket still intact. Notes below.
The dust jacket on this book is of unusual design, consisting of three elements: (1) a wrap-around paper band, partially printed on foil, bearing the author's name and the book title on the front and a large Random House logo on the rear, and covering about one-third of the book's exterior; (2) a clear (and quite thin) acetate overlay, covering the entire book (although now somewhat shrunken with age); and (3) two normal jacket flaps, printed on foil, the front with a blurb about the book, the rear with the author's portrait photo and a one-paragraph biography. Both flaps appear to have been attached to and covered by the acetate (the rear flap is still attached, but just barely; the front is loose, but effectively held in place by the acetate).
