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5 months ago'Lust for Life': The Van Gogh book designed to fit in pockets of US soldiers during the Second World War
These 1944 wartime copies of Lust for Life are scarce and the few which do survive, like our example, tend to be bashed up, because they were often kept in the pockets of US uniforms. The thin pages have browned after more than 80 years, since paper was in short supply and the books were only intended to last for the duration of the war.