Bibliofiili nurgake: THIS IS A WARTIME BOOK

Leidsin riiulist toreda raamatu, vanaisa Hakani enda pärandus. Iseenesest oli tegu jutukoguga, pealkirjaks The Pocket Book of Adventure Stories, välja antud 1945 USA-s. Tiitellehel on logo: kotkas lendab (suuna järgi otsustades lausa pikeerib), küüniste vahel raamat ja nokas loosung: BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS. All on tekst:

THIS IS A WARTIME BOOK. This original edition, prepared especially for pocket books, is printed from brand-new plates made from large, clear, easy-to-read type, and complies with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials. F-2

Lõpus on üks lehekülg pühendatud keskkonnasäästlikkusele :P Muide, kui tol ajal kulus sõduri üle mere saatmiseks kuus 81 tonni kraami, kui palju siis praegu kuluda võiks?

WHY YOU MUST SAVE ALL KINDS OF PAPER

Each month, 35,000,000 V-boxes go overseas to the armed forces. It requires 81 tons of supplies a month to send a soldier overseas, and these supplies are all made wrapped or tagged with paper.
Your wastebasket scraps can help supply the needed wrappiing and packaging materials - if you make sure they are collected.
Blood plasma is needed for treating the thousands of wounded and sick left in the wake of war. Every precious bottle of plasma is wrapped in corrugated paper and boxed in heavy brown paperboard.
Your corrugated cartons and cardboard boxes can go into blood plasma containers - if you make sure they're collected.
Civilian use of paper and paperboard products has been seriously curtailed to meet all military demands for these products. Before normal civilian needs can be met again thousands of tons of waste paper will be needed by the mills.
Your old magazines and books can help meet present vital needs - if you make sure they're collected.
Industry's conversion to peacetime production and the demobilization of the armed forces will require vast supplies of paper.
Your old newspapers can help return nation to peacetime pursuits - if you make sure they're collected.
EVERY scrap of EVERY kind of waste paper is needed today.
U.S. VICTORY WASTE PAPER CAMPAIGN
SAVE A BUNDLE A WEEK, SAVE SOME BOYS LIFE


Raamatu tagaotsas leidus ka POCKET BOOK sarja bestsellerite nimekiri 1945. aasta märtsi seisuga, kus leidus nii mõndagi põnevat, näiteks:
You can't do business with Hitler, Douglas Miller
Defense will not win the war, Lt. Col. W. F. Kernan
The coming battle of Germany, Wm. B. Ziff
Vogue's Pocket Book of home dressmaking
U.S. foreign policy, Walter Lippmann
AAF - official guide to the U.S. Army Air Forces
The Pocket Book of boners, illustreerinud Dr. Seuss