WW1 BOUND BOOK OF STARS AND STRIPES NEWSPAPERS

WW1 Stars and Stripes was printed for the Doughboys from February 2, 1918 to June 13, 1919. On January 7, 1926, the National Tribune, an independent veterans newspaper, took over the rights to Stars & Stripes, and printed a complete, bound folio edition of each and every copy printed during WWI. This example appears to be like new, and comes with the original shipping container. Near Mint World War I During World War I, the staff, roving reporters, and illustrators of the Stars and Stripes were veteran reporters or young soldiers who would later become such in the post-war years. It was published by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919. Harold Ross, editor of the Stars and Stripes, returned home to found The New Yorker magazine. Cyrus Baldridge, its art director and principal illustrator, became a major illustrator of books and magazines, as well as a writer, print maker and stage designer. Sports page editor Grantland Rice had a long career in journalism and founded a motion picture studio called Grantland Rice Sportlight. Drama critic Alexander Woollcott's essays for Stars and Stripes were collected in his 1919 book, The Command Is Forward. The Stars and Stripes was then an eight-page weekly which reached a peak of 526,000 readers, relying on the improvisational efforts of its staff to get it printed in France and distributed to U.S. troops.