Nicely Inscribed WWI Memoir
Ambulance 464: Encore des Blessés
Publication: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. First Edition.
Notes: The author, best remembered for his documentary films about daily life in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, here presents his memoirs of being a teen-aged American volunteer ambulance driver during the First World War. This copy has a long inscription to a friend who helped Bryan with the book.
Ambulance 464 was published while the war was still ongoing, with the US beginning to throw its weight into the conflict. The book is illustrated from Bryan's photographs and begins with an introduction by Lyman Abbot. xx, 220, [10: ads] pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, stating "... Published April, 1918" on the copyright page). There is minor bubbling to the cloth at the outside edge of the front cover, else very good, lacking the scarce dust jacket. This copy is inscribed, "May 7, 1918. Never did a man work more faithfully for a friend, Dick Stillwell, than you worked upon this book for me. I will not forget the long hours which you spent upon it, criticizing and proofreading. I cannot repay you now as I would like—All that I can do is to give you this, my first book. Julien H. Bryan." The recipient was probably the archeologist Richard Stillman, who was Bryan's classmate at Princeton (both class of 1921).
Item No: #364380
Price: $300