Mary Booth – With the B.E.F. in France – First Edition 1916
£475.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘With the B.E.F. in France’ published by The Salvation Army in 1916.
First edition. Octavo. pp. xi, 120, with 3 pages of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Adjutant Booth and 6 photographic plates. Original printed grey wrappers, with black border and vignette, priced sixpence to upper cover.
A well-preserved example, the wrappers showing only light rubbing to extremities and a few minor marks. Very good.
A scarce and immediate account of women’s service on the Western Front, written by Adjutant Mary Booth during her attachment to the British Expeditionary Force. Her narrative records work in frontline hospitals and casualty clearing stations, as well as the quieter duties behind the lines—carrying messages, tending the wounded, and assisting in the burial of the dead. The accompanying photographs reinforce the physical and emotional demands placed upon these volunteers.
Issued as part of the Salvation Army’s wartime efforts to support and promote female service units, the work stands as one of the earliest extended first-hand accounts by a woman serving with the B.E.F.
A quietly powerful and increasingly uncommon survival.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘With the B.E.F. in France’ published by The Salvation Army in 1916.
First edition. Octavo. pp. xi, 120, with 3 pages of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Adjutant Booth and 6 photographic plates. Original printed grey wrappers, with black border and vignette, priced sixpence to upper cover.
A well-preserved example, the wrappers showing only light rubbing to extremities and a few minor marks. Very good.
A scarce and immediate account of women’s service on the Western Front, written by Adjutant Mary Booth during her attachment to the British Expeditionary Force. Her narrative records work in frontline hospitals and casualty clearing stations, as well as the quieter duties behind the lines—carrying messages, tending the wounded, and assisting in the burial of the dead. The accompanying photographs reinforce the physical and emotional demands placed upon these volunteers.
Issued as part of the Salvation Army’s wartime efforts to support and promote female service units, the work stands as one of the earliest extended first-hand accounts by a woman serving with the B.E.F.
A quietly powerful and increasingly uncommon survival.
