Buswell, Leslie. Voorhies, Marian Hart [1896 - 1985] - Former Owner — AMBULANCE NO. 10. Personal Letters from the Front
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1916. 1st Edition Thus. Red-brown cloth spine with brown paper-wrapped boards printed in brown; tan paper spine label printed in black. No dust jacket. Now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper. xxii, [2], 155, [1] pp. Illustrated with inserted plates containing b/w photographic images, with a few intratextual b/w reproductions of sketches. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8" Initially issued privately under the title, "With the American Ambulance Field Service in France," Buswell's letters offered one of the first published accounts of life on the front as experienced by American ambulance drivers during WWI. A folded, tipped-in leaf at the rear requests donations for the Service Fund and advertises the need for additional volunteers. Square & tight. Minor extremity wear. PO name ["Marian Hart Voorhies"] inked to top of ffep. A VG - VG+ copy.