Title
Omnibook (Overseas Edition)
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
Omnibook, Inc.
Date
February 1945.
Description
To design troop-friendly formats, Army Chief Librarian Ray Trautman experimented with Omnibook magazines. Omnibook was a small-sized periodical that published abridged books. Why not publish these abridgements individually, and even smaller? Here, a blank Omnibook was cut in half, and inside Trautman penciled, “This book, originally published in abridged form in Omnibook, the book magazine, is reprinted in this special edition for the Armed forces ….” With this prototype, Trautman launched the Armed Services Editions.
Source
From the Collection of Molly Guptill Manning