[Rarebooks] fs: Scarce WWI trench memoir, in DJ

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10942 )  McBride, Herbert W[es]. (1873-1933). THE EMMA GEES.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, (1918). Original cloth, 
Duodecimo, [xx], 219 pages, black and white photographs, maps. Near fine in 
a very good dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Riveting first-hand narrative of a "Hoosier machine gunner in Flanders 
and France." Captain McBride was a professional American soldier who joined 
the twenty-first Canadian Infantry Battalion of Machine Gunners (Emma Gees) 
early in World War I, hoping to see what a "regular war" was like. He got 
what he was looking for all right, and here describes it in detail for the 
benefit of fellow Americans soon to be sent "over there" by their own 
government. Classic battlefield memoir in very scarce dust jacket. Bound in 
dark orange cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, 
endpaper maps. Minor extremity rubs. Jacket has some edge chips, short 
closed tears, and some surface soil....... $250.00
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