Michener's South Pacific, jacket front cover

            I just finished reading "Tales of the South Pacific," which was James Michener's first book.  This was one of the best books I've read.  I've read several of Michener's later novels, but wanted recently to read a book set in the Pacific, and happened to have this on my shelves.  A couple years ago I this copy on the "used book sale" shelf at Naperville Public Library.  Picking it up, it looked like a first edition, and though I didn't have much interest in his first book, I did enjoy reading the other Michener novels, so I bought it for $1.  I think it is actually a facsimile reprint of the first edition - it is in too good condition to be an actual 1947 first edition.  The dust jacket is a reproduction of the first edition jacket, except for the zip code for the publisher (zip codes weren't used until the 1960s).  The front of the hardcover has artwork similar to the third printing of the first edition.   I wasn't that interested in reading this particular Michener work since I had seen the movie version of "South Pacific" and I imagined that the book was a collection of romantic stories about the lives of Americans serving in the Pacific Theater of WWII.  I was wrong - this was much more than that.  If you haven't read it, I recommend it highly.
   

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