Grace S. Richmond

The Enlisting Wife

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1918. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 16mo. hardcover in red cloth with paper title label. First separate printing of this piece that first appeared in the original Life magazine. 39 pp. Frontispiece illustrations. A bright, clean copy, 1921 ownership signature front free endpaper. The wife of a World War I lieutenant, rather than trying to get letters to him through the censors and the military channels, writes them instead in her "little blue book" for him to read when he comes home. Fine. Item #E25394

Price: $22.50