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SMITH (Lesley)
Four Years Out of Life.
1st USA Ed., [vii]+302pp., frontis. & 39 woodcut illustrations by the author. VG in chipped dw. NY: Minton, Balch, & Co.
1931
#67309
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Highly evocative & superbly illustrated account of a middle class girl, used more to the tennis court than work, who enlisted as a probationer nurse in 1914 when her male friends started to be killed & served as a VAD in France from Nov. 1915. Atmospheric descriptions of life on & off duty. Orig. blue cloth, VG in chipped dw (illustrated with her woodcut 'Sister's Lines' which also appears as the frontis.) Scarce, especially in dw. See illustration on our website.
£165
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