"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
An Army Woman In The Philippines. Extracts from Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands.
Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1914. [Military Letters] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, dated 1914 only (some remaindered copies were over-stamped with the date 1916). Octavo, pp.183, with full-page photographic plates inserted. Handsomely bound in recent half red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR [Fort Leavenworth, 1918] TO HER PUBLISHER, Captain Franklin Hudson, explaining this gift of a privately bound copy; "It has been a pleasure to put a new dress on this copy of my book which you so ably published; the work done in The Army Service Schools book bindery for your personal library." Ironically, given the inscription, the book came to us with covers detached and required rebinding. Fort Leavenworth is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington and served as the logistical HQ for American Expeditionary Forces at the time of the inscription. Some toning to edges and title page, otherwise a crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Item #42709
Price: £85.00
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