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Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. William Brinkley. William Clark "Bill" Brinkley (September 10, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an American writer and journalist, best known for his 1988 novel, The Last Ship , and his 1956 novel, Don't Go Near the Water , which was later adapted to film in 1957 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water . The Last Ship is slated for a 2014 television adaptation. [4] Contents. Early life and education [ edit | edit source ] Brinkley was born in Custer City, Oklahoma on September 10, 1917, the son of a minister. The youngest of five children, Brinkley attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. [5] Naval service [ edit | edit source ] Brinkley was a commissioned officer in the United States Navy during World War II, where he served in Europe and the Pacific, primarily in public relations duties. [6] Career [ edit | edit source ] After graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1940, Brinkley went on to work for The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Afterwards, Brinkley was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1941 to 1942 and from 1949 to 1951. He was also a staff writer, correspondent and assistant editor and for Life magazine from 1951 to 1958. Brinkley was also a member of the National Press Club until his death in 1993. [7] In 1948, after his tenure as an officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Brinkley wrote and published his first novel, Quicksand , in 1948. In 1954, Brinkley wrote his only non-fiction book, The Deliverance of Sister Cecelia , a biography of a Slovakian nun based her memoirs as recited to him. The novel was later adapted into an episode of Climax! in 1955. In 1956, he went on to write the best-selling novel and perhaps his most prominent work, Don't Go Near the Water , a comedy about U.S. Navy sailors serving in the South Pacific during World War II. Don't Go Near the Water would later be adapted into film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Don't Go Near the Water . Don't Go Near the Water was released in theaters across the United States in 1957 and became both a critical and commercial success. [8] [9] [10] In peacetime Lieutenant Commander Clinton T. Nash had been in charge of a Merill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane office in the Midwest. Not long after Pearl Harbor he had been commissioned directly from his brokerage office without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training. William Brinkley, Don't Go Near the Water , Chapter 1. [11] In 1961, Brinkley wrote and published The Fun House , a comedy novel set in the offices of a picture magazine, similar to that of Life . The following year, in 1962, Brinkley wrote and published the novel, The Two Susans , which was followed in 1966 by The Ninety and Nine , a novel detailing life on board a United States Navy LST operating in the Mediterranean Sea and at Anzio during World War II. [12] In 1971, Brinkley moved to McAllen, Texas and would live there until his death in 1993. Throughout the 1970s, Brinkley only wrote one novel, Breakpoint , a novel about tennis, published in 1978. Brinkley's 1978 novel about tennis, Breakpoint , was followed by Peeper , a comedy novel about a voyeur in the small Texas town of Martha, Texas, near the Rio Grande. Peeper was written by Brinkley and published in December 1981. In March 1988, Brinkley wrote and published his last work, The Last Ship , a post-apocalyptic fiction novel dealing with the sailors of the USS Nathan James (DDG-80), a fictional United States Navy guided missile destroyer, which survives a brief, full-scale global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. [13] [14] [15] Later life and death [ edit | edit source ] On November 22, 1993, after suffering from a major depressive disorder for over several years, Brinkley died by suicide at his home in McAllen, Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, at the age of 76, from an of barbiturates. He was survived by his wife, Jean Brinkley, along with his sister, Virginia McCabe, his brother, Paul Brinkley, and his stepson, David Shelander. [16] Don’t Go Near the Water. Dont Go Near the Water is a lighthearted, comedic war novel, dealing with public relations officers in the United States Navy during World War II. In the novel, the officers are assigned to the fictional Pacific island of Tulura, which became the advanced headquarters of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Racial Issues in Entertainment Media. In the 1950s notions of racial inequality that had been taken for granted before WWII began to surface in entertainment media. In examples of popular television, film, and novels I find subtle and not so subtle influences where race relations become an underlying theme. In three different types of popular media from the era, Don’t Go near the Water (a novel published in 1956), Giant (a film produced in 1956), and I Love Lucy (a television show premiering in 1951) I come across the themes of race and how each deals with and interacts with interracial marriage. Don’t Go near the Water is a novel about public relations officers in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during WWII. One such officer, Ensign Siegel, falls in love with a beautiful and intelligent girl named Melora, a native to the islands. At first Siegel is drawn only to Melora’s exquisite beauty, but soon after he learns to prize her fine mind and personality and appreciate her company. Throughout the novel many differences in each person are pointed out. These differences portray how each character interacts with another introducing the idea of power differences based on race, class, military rank, education, and gender. During war soldiers occupying countries often used their power to take advantage of the innocent native girls making promises they never intended to keep, and leaving them behind when the war ends. For example in Don’t Go Near the Water an officer tries to take advantage of Melora assuming she is an ignorant and poor villager, but he ends up being the one swindled when she records his words on tape and Siegel helps her blackmail him into paying for a new schoolhouse on the island. On the other hand some soldiers would make an effort to cross the race, class, and education barriers to actually get to know these girls. In Don’t Go Near the Water Ensign Siegel gets to know Melora and falls in love with her personality and intelligence, he even begins to think about marriage. But Siegel is subjected to the reality that despite being an educated and well to do man where he comes from in the U.S. here on the island he is no one. He hasn’t studied at a school in Europe, and his rank in the military means nothing to these people and so without any credentials he has to prove to Melora’s father he is worthy of her. As Siegel gains the respect of Melora’s father and begins to think about a possible life with Melora he realizes she has too many responsibilities to leave her world even for him. He decides to stay on the island with her, crossing the racial barriers and becoming something in her world, leaving America behind. Ensign Siegel marrying Melora and staying on the island with her is a completely new idea in the 1950s. He leaves everything he has in the U.S. and ignoring the rules of his society, marries a native islander. Marrying someone of a different race in American society during the 1950s was greatly frowned upon and unaccepted, and in some states illegal. But Siegel breaks the rules of his society and stays with her crossing the race barriers and becoming an example of the possibility of interracial marriage despite it being unaccepted in American society. The film Giant was produced in 1956 in the post WWII era and follows the story of a young wealthy couple cattle ranching in Texas. Throughout the film we see how differently the Mexican-Americans in Texas are treated and the injustices done unto them because of so called “racial differences”. In one scene Bick is angry at his young wife Leslie for going into the poor Mexican-American village and helping a woman with her sick child, but Leslie tells him “I don’t think you understand there was a child dying, he needed help.” To Leslie the idea of not treating someone with care and consideration simply because of their color is unheard of and she refuses to change her ways despite Bick’s demands. Near the end of the film however Bick’s son marries Juana a Mexican-American women who is intelligent and educated as well as beautiful. Although Juana has crossed the class barrier by being educated in a good school and working as a nurse she is still not accepted as equal by most people in Texas and is often ostracized and treated in a degrading way. Her husband Jordan fights for her honor when she is not-allowed into a party they were invited to because of her Mexican-American background. Bick himself has a hard time accepting that his son’s son, the third generation of his patrimony is of mixed race. But his views are finally changed at the very end when he fights the owner of a diner who is trying to throw out a Mexican-American man and his family saying, “we don’t serve your type here”. Bick fights the man and sorely loses but the point is made. The Film shows that crossing the racial barriers in the states that have had these unwritten rules for generations bring violence and hatred. However despite that, interracial marriage is possible and can be accepted. Also although there were laws against Mexican-Americans as Bick was growing up those laws were changed because all men deserve to have equal rights despite race or class differences. I Love Lucy was a popular comedic television show in the 1950s about a woman Lucy, played by Lucille Ball, and her husband Ricky. The show aired from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957. At the time I Love Lucy was aired on television interracial marriage was not an openly accepted idea. I Love Lucy was one of the first shows to introduce and support the idea and to illustrate the success of such relationships. Ricky Ricardo (Lucy’s husband) being Hispanic and married to a white woman was an unusual thing to see on television. Ricky crossed classes through being an educated man with a steady well paying job who could support the lifestyle that was expected in the era. However many areas in the United States in the 1950s had laws discouraging or flat out restricting interracial marriage. Therefore having Lucy, a famous American sweetheart of film, be married to Ricky, a Hispanic of Cuban heritage, on national television was a statement challenging all those who were against interracial marriages. All of these media outlets subtlety make statements about interracial marriage and the breaking down of race barriers. In Don’t Go Near the Water and Giant they illustrate the violence and hatred that can come up when dealing with interracial relationships. Many families would no longer recognize their sons or daughters after they married someone of another race. I Love Lucy however shows how successful an interracial relationship can be, violence never once comes up in the show at all. Did the success of an interracial marriage in the 1950s depend on where they lived? In Don’t Go Near the Water they lived together on an island, and in I Love Lucy the couple lived in the northern state of New York which was more accepting to interracial couples. In Giant the couple lived in Texas which mostly did not accept other races as equal. Why did the acceptance of interracial marriage change between then and now? And where is interracial marriage still not accepted? Now even forty or more years later there are some people who still do not accept interracial marriage, but today unlike during the fifties and sixties we do not restrict the civil rights of those in our own country we respect that all men are created equal, and that each deserves the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley. . Book Very Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name on inside. Jonathan Cape. Condition: Fair. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. . Good dust jacket. Random House. Condition: Good. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Hinge starting. Stamped on inside. Random House. Condition: Good. Don't Go Near the Water. William Brinkley. Published by Random House Inc (T) (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: VERY GOOD. Quantity available: 1. Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s). Random House Inc (T), 1956. Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Don't Go Near the Water. William BRINKLEY. Published by Random. Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD. Quantity available: 1. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Random. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House (1956) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. Nice copy, clean and tight. Unclipped DJ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages Very Good has quite a bit of wear, small chips and tears. 24-2. Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Seventh Printing. Don't Go Near the Water William Brinkley. William Brinkley. Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. 1956. Softcover. Condition: Good. Book. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Signet (1958) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Light edge wear to the covers. Reading creases to the spine. Hint of page toning. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Signet, 1958. Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. (#D1458). Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Book, USA. (1958) Used - Softcover Condition: FA to G. Quantity available: 1. 318 pgs. "This is the hilarious novel that all America is laughing with - the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. An Avon Production, presented by M-G-M, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn." Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" Tall. Signet Book, USA., 1958. Soft Cover. Condition: FA to G. Seventh Edition. Paperback. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Brinkley, William. Published by Signet. 1957 (1957) Quantity available: 1. 1st prtg. #D1458.PB. Movie tie-in. G+. Mod. spine slant though lightly read; 1-2 in./light-mod. fore-crnr stain throughout. Good example of the cv art. Signet. 1957, 1957. Don't Go Near the Water. William Brinkley. Published by Buccaneer Books, Incorporated. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 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Buccaneer Books, Incorporated. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. (#D1458). Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Book, Canada. (1966) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. 318 pgs. "This is the hilarious novel that all America is laughing with - the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. An Avon Production, presented by M-G-M, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn." Store stamp inside! Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" Tall. Signet Book, Canada., 1966. Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Paperback. Don't Go Near The Water (Movie Tie-In) Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Books # D1458, dated November 1957. 50 cents cover price. (1957) Used Condition: VG. Quantity available: 1. 318 pages. Humorous novel about the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. Movie tie-in edition with painting of a ship and cast credits on front cover, small facial photos of Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn on back cover. Almost tight, unmarked copy with slight spine cock, inside covers are white, pages are lightly age-toned, red page edge staining is bright, reading crease on front cover, very light on spine. Signet Books # D1458, dated November 1957. 50 cents cover price., 1957. Condition: VG. First Paperback Edition. Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley, First Edition. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Hinge starting. Stamped on inside. Random House. Condition: Good. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. (#D1458). Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Book, USA. (1957) Used - Softcover Condition: G to VG. Quantity available: 1. 318 pgs. "This is the hilarious novel that all America is laughing with - the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. An Avon Production, presented by M-G-M, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn." Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" Tall. Signet Book, USA., 1957. Soft Cover. Condition: G to VG. First Edition By This Publisher. Paperback. Don't Go Near The Water. Brinkley William. Published by Signet Books, New York, NY (1957) Used - Softcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. Signet Books No.D1458, first paperback edition; the basis for the MGM film which starred Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn; written by a reporter who spent four years on acitve Navy duty; a very funny novel of a group of public relations men "who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island"; this copy is Near Fine with a fait reading crease, otherwise bright and unmarked; a very entertaining rea. Signet Books, New York, NY, 1957. Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Don't go near the water. William Brinkley. Published by A Random House Book (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. The story concerns a unit of land-locked mariners for who the immortal naval watch-word Don't Give Up The Ship became Don't go near the Water. Book is in good shape. Price negotiable. A Random House Book, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by NY:Random, 1956. (1956) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. F-/NF. 1st edition, 1st printing. Book has light spine crease. Price clipped jacket has 3/4 inch tear at top of spine and minor wear elsewhere. We offer a LIFETIME GUARANTEE. See KHBOOKS for details. NY:Random, 1956., 1956. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. (#D1458). Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Book - NAL / New American Library, Canada. (1957) Used - Softcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. 318 pgs. "This is the hilarious novel that all America is laughing with - the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. An Avon Production, presented by M-G-M, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn." >>> Name written at top first page. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" Tall. Signet Book - NAL / New American Library, Canada., 1957. Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st). Mass Market Paperback. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Blue cl., white design on cover, stamping on backstr. 373pp. Former owner's name on endpapers. Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Dk. blue cl., white designs on cover and backstr., sl. faded. 372pp. Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New York (1958) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Very good (light foxing to foredge and bottom edge, dusting to top edge light wear to board and spine extremities) in very good, mylar-covered dust jacket with minor wear to edges and fading to pastedowns and endpapers. NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. Random House, New York, 1958. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, NY (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good Plus. Quantity available: 1. A handsome copy bound in blue cloth covers.373 pages. Light rubbing to some edgews. A few blemish spots to covers. Owner's ink name inside front cover. Otherwise a tight, clean, complete copy with clean internals. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Random House, NY, 1956. Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Brinkley, william. Published by random house (1956) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. very good - fine book, very good + jacket small corner chips, fold rubbing, some fading. random house, 1956. first edition. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. First edition, first printing (stated), hardcover. Blue cloth. 373 pages. Very good with head of spine bumped and endpapers lightly tanned, in a good dust jacket with edgewear at spine and corners, sun-darkened spine and light rubbing at the folds. Original price of $3.95 still present. Mylar cover on jacket. "The side-splitting story of an intrepid task force of dedicated naval officers who made almost everything but sea duty." Basis for the movie of the same name starring Glen Ford. Random House, New York, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Don't Go Near The Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket rubbed with tears in jacket and tatter to edges.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Random House, New York, 1956. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Printing/First Edition. Don't Go Near The Water. BRINKLEY, William. Published by Random House (1956) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. First Edition, First printing. Near Fine book in a Good dustjacket. Random House, 1956. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Brinkley, William. Published by Penguin, GB (1959) Used - Softcover Condition: VG- Quantity available: 1. Owners label on title page. Penguin, GB, 1959. Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Thus. DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. BRINKLEY, WILLIAM. Published by RANDOM H0USE, NY (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: VG. Quantity available: 1. RANDOM H0USE, NY, 1956. HARDCOVER. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. FIRST EDITION. Don't Go Near The Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Signet Books/New American Library, New York, New York, U.S.A. (1957) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. The book is very good with light edge wear, a half inch split at top of spine and a half inch split at bottom of spine. Signet Book # D1458. Signet Books/New American Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1957. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Don't go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Jonathan Cape, London (1957) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. Wraps are browning but still attractive. No chips or tears. Boards are light blue cloth and very clean, sharp and square. Rare to find this edition in America. Made into fine film. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Jonathan Cape, London, 1957. Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First UK Edition. Novel. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Blue w/black and white lettering, dropped anchor vignette. Price clipped DJ is chipped head and heel of spine, light uneven sunning. Book is lovely, no marks, no wear to speak of anywhere. "The side splitting story of an intrepid task force of dedicated naval officers who made almost everything but sea duty!" (from the jacket blurb). Random House, New York, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. The Ninety and Nine. A novel about the United States Navy in World War II by the author of 'Don't Go Near the Water. William Brinkley. Published by Doubleday & Company (1966) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good + / Very Good + Quantity available: 1. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 393 pages, black cloth. A very good plus, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white, with a gift inscription from a previous owner on the front endpaper and slight soiling at the top fore-edge. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with rubbing at the flap folds and spine edges, and with the original price present. Doubleday & Company, 1966. Hardcover-- cloth. Condition: Very Good + / Very Good +. First Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. William Brinkley. Published by Random House (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Stated First Printing. NOT price-clipped. DJ is mylar protected and very clean. Very Nice. Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the water. Brinkley, William. Published by Cape (1957) Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa Contact seller. Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. The jacket is marked and torn. One rubber stamp. Soundly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Cape, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House [1956], New York (1956) Used Condition: good. Quantity available: 1. 21 cm, 373, illus., some wear and soiling to boards, pencil erasure on front endpaper and table of contents. Random House [1956], New York, 1956. Condition: good. First Printing. Don't Go Near the Water. BRINKLEY, WILLIAM. Published by jonathan cape london 1957 (1957) Quantity available: 1. first edition 350pp VG (sl cocked, owner's inscription on ffep, sl foxing to ep's, front corners sl bruised) lacks d/w. jonathan cape london 1957, 1957. Don't Go Near The Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New Yok (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good + Quantity available: 1. Clean blue cloth boards with white title box on spine. No fraying, very little wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, blue topstained page edges, a few spots of fading to top edges. No names, writing or bookplates. 373 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has some edge and corner chipping. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Military. Random House, New Yok, 1956. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Jonathan Cape, London (1957) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. 352 pages. chipping to the top and bottom of the spine section of the dust jacket, age toning of the paper of the dust jacket, small partial burn mark on the left-hand side bottom edge of the spine section, 2 inch tear at the top right of the rear panel; top edge of text block tinted dark blue, front edge of text block foxed, internally clean, no other damage to describe.Clipping of the dustwrapper to all corners. A satiric novel of United States Navy and their occupation of a Pacific island during World War II. . Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0213141. Jonathan Cape, London, 1957. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Don't Go Near the Water - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Brinkley, William. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good+ Quantity available: 1. First edition/first printing in very good+ condition with the spine gently separating in a nearly fine, gently rubbed dust-jacket. A handsome copy; Random House, New York, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Don't Go Near the Water. BRINKLEY, William. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. Basis for the movie; previous owners stamp on ffep.; 373pp. Bright copy. Random House, New York, 1956. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG++. First Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. Brinkley, William. Published by Penguin Books (1959) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. 1959 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression : Very good+ clean tight copy with classic orange cover. Penguin Books, 1959. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Don't Go Near the Water. William Brinkley. Published by Random House, New York (1956) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Stated First Printing. There is a slight lean to the spine and mild fading to interior boards, otherwise it is tightly bound with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, no bookplates or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The pages are lightly tanned. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with mild rubbing and a few small chips. (see photos). Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Hilarious novel and basis of 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Gia Scala. Set on a remote Pacific island during the waning days of World War II, this classic humor novel about the public relations sector of the Navy follows the adventures of a group of young officers, commissioned without the corrupting influence of any intervening naval training, as they bravely face wartime adversities with comic ingenuity. Random House, New York, 1956. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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