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Item #BB2271 [First World War] [Ambulance no. 10] With the American Ambulance Field Service in France : Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front [Association Copy]. Leslie BUSWELL.

[First World War] [Ambulance no. 10] With the American Ambulance Field Service in France : Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front [Association Copy]

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Printed only for private distribution [Houghton Mifflin], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce privately printed issue of these letters from a First World War ambulance driver sent from the front. Crown 8vo (180 x 115mm): xvi,129,[1]pp, with photographic frontispiece, tissue-guarded title page, 14 photographs and numerous line drawings in text. Publisher's red cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards printed in red, paper label to spine titled in black, fore- and bottom edges edges untrimmed. Pepperrell family armorial book plate to front paste-down, tiny pencil name of A. P. Andrew (A. Piatt Andrew of Gloucester, Mass, one of the ambulance drivers listed on p. 125) to fly-leaf. Two light marks to covers, else Fine. Fine. Item #BB2271

A trade edition appeared in January, 1916, identifying the author as Leslie Buswell. More commonly encountered in that edition, under the title Ambulance No. 10. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

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