THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE FIFITH DIVISION U.S.A. The Red Diamond (Meuse) Division During The Period Of Its Organization And Its Operations In The European World War, 1917-1919 -

Privately Printed. Hardcover. Very Good. 106 pages. Signed by author,inscribed, & dated on title page. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to covers, text & illustrations are very clean.

No dust jacket; Front and back covers show some wear with discoloration and a couple of bent corners; Inside front cover has a previous owner's name in ink center of page; Pages are clean; Binding is tight.

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and… Leer más

This beautiful memoir has a 3/4 binding with marbled dark blue boards and gilt edges. Inside of both boards and flyleaves also beautifully marbled. It is a first edition with a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Minimal scuffing along the sides of the spine, edges and corners. Pages tight and clean. Illustrations by author's brother Charles Huard, who was the official painter to the Sixth Army in France--12 illustrations and a full-page pen-and-ink sketch of a French soldier opposite the frontispiece. Bookplate inside the front cover reads "Edmund Lincoln Baylies" (1857-1932), who was a NY lawyer and member of NY high society during the Gilded Age. A very good copy and fine addition to any library.

Montabaur-Frankfurt, Germany: Printing Office Martin Flock, 1919. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 92 pages. Soft cover bound in salmon colored wrappers. The binding is worn and bumped, and the spine ends are chipped. Bottom corner bumped and creased. Scuffing along the fore edge of the front cover. A sound copy. The text is toned. The two leaves for pages 63-66 have large creases at the top right, affecting the text. Signed by an officer on the front cover. Signed "A. F. Kingman" who is listed in the rear of the book as 2nd Lt / 1st Lt. Capt. Early markings (presumably by Kingman), have pencil notations in the list of names, some marginal notes reading "KIA" for those killed in action. Scarce.

Privately Printed. Hardcover. Very Good. 106 pages. Signed by author,inscribed, & dated on title page. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to covers, text & illustrations are very clean.

No dust jacket; Front and back covers show some wear with discoloration and a couple of bent corners; Inside front cover has a previous owner's name in ink center of page; Pages are clean; Binding is tight.

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and… Leer más

This beautiful memoir has a 3/4 binding with marbled dark blue boards and gilt edges. Inside of both boards and flyleaves also beautifully marbled. It is a first edition with a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Minimal scuffing along the sides of the spine, edges and corners. Pages tight and clean. Illustrations by author's brother Charles Huard, who was the official painter to the Sixth Army in France--12 illustrations and a full-page pen-and-ink sketch of a French soldier opposite the frontispiece. Bookplate inside the front cover reads "Edmund Lincoln Baylies" (1857-1932), who was a NY lawyer and member of NY high society during the Gilded Age. A very good copy and fine addition to any library.

Montabaur-Frankfurt, Germany: Printing Office Martin Flock, 1919. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 92 pages. Soft cover bound in salmon colored wrappers. The binding is worn and bumped, and the spine ends are chipped. Bottom corner bumped and creased. Scuffing along the fore edge of the front cover. A sound copy. The text is toned. The two leaves for pages 63-66 have large creases at the top right, affecting the text. Signed by an officer on the front cover. Signed "A. F. Kingman" who is listed in the rear of the book as 2nd Lt / 1st Lt. Capt. Early markings (presumably by Kingman), have pencil notations in the list of names, some marginal notes reading "KIA" for those killed in action. Scarce.