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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 229 pages including Hambleton's drawings; book very gently used, only tiny traces of shelf wear to cover edges, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ rubbed and chipped at hinge and spine ends, two short tears, looks decent and presentable with bright and colourful front and spine panels in black, blue, red and white, now in new mylar protector. Jack Hambleton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Canadian Edition. A Nice Solid Clean Book, , No Marks Or Inscriptions. Red Cloth Covered Boards With Dulled Gilt Title On The Spine And A Dulled Gilt Caricature On The Bottom Right Corner Of The Front. Minor Bumping To The Spine Ends And Tipsd. The Dj Is Complete Not Price Clipped And Is Shelf Aged. Blue And Black Illustrated With Chips To Spine Ends And Along Edges. Tips Are Knocked And There Is A Tiny Triangle Missing From The Rear Left Tip. A Little Scuffing To The Rear. Now Brodart Covered And Protected . Hambleton, Jack (illustrator).…

[1947], 1st Canadian Edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 229pp. Illustrations. There is a small bump on the bottom front corner and the dust jacket has minor edgewear and chipping. Illustrations by Jack Hambleton. Foreword by C.B. Price, Major-General. Locale. (Military--Canada, Military--Canada, Red Cross, World War 2). …

Condition: Fair. The book is both Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the end page-First Canadian Edition. 8vo - over 7þ" - 9þ" tall. - Some staining to the outer text block, otherwise this is a tight and unmarked copy with no DJ.- 229pp, vignettes. Author's experiences overseas as a Red Cross Welfare Officer.- Several black and white illustrations in the text. "The story of Jean Ellis's experiences overseas as a Red Cross Welfare Officer. Here, for the first time, is a report to Canada by one of the more than 500 girls who represented our Red Cross in Europe.".…

Hardcover. Condition: fair to good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First Canadian Edition. 229 pages. Illus., foxing ins bds & flylves, ink notation ins frontis, DJ foxed & soiled: edges worn, small tears. Signed by Jean Ellis. Scarce memoir. After Jean Ellis' husband died early in World War II, she joined the Red Cross Corps; eventually she was one of three women chosen for attachment to the first Canadian General Hospital set up in Normandy after D-Day. Jack Hambleton (illustrator).…

8vo. 229, [1] pp. Illust. title page, numerous illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Hambleton (minor rubbing, edgewear), still NF/VG copy, inscribed by the author to her husband Kenneth Osborne Wright (1911-2002), noted Canadian astrophysicist. First Canadian edition, stated & inscribed, of this memoir of serving with the Canadian Red Cross Corps during World War II. The writes about "dodging bombs in London, or shells in Normandy; writing letters for wounded men, or learning to bathe in a basin," all while caring for wounded soldiers in hospital wards, and maintaining morale.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Canadian Edition. 229 pages. Several black and white illustrations in text. "The story of Jean Ellis's experiences overseas as a Red Cross Welfare Officer. Here, for the first time, is a report to Canada by one of the more than 500 girls who represented our Red Cross in Europe." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Bookplate inside front board. Average wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A sound copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hambleton, Jack (illustrator).…