Memoirs of an ambulance company officer
Rochester, Minn. Doomsday Press, 1940. First edition, one of 240 privately printed copies, 8vo, pp. [14], 226, [4]; photographic portrait frontispiece and 23 photographic plates; hand printed in Bruce Roger's Centaur Roman on 70 lb. Tweed Text stock, designed by James Eckman, title page and bordered initials in red and black; original blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, gilt slightly faded, else fine. Gift inscription from Smith to "R.D. Mussey" on upper free endpaper. This is possibly the son of lawyer and civil war general R. D. Mussey. Signed by Smith on colophon, without Eckman's signature accompanying it. An account of the horrors of WWI, bookended with emphatic appeals for US isolationism as WWII began to consume Europe. Item #50521
Price: $85.00
