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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jack Hambleton (illustrator). 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 229 pgs, text drawings by Jack Hambleton. Stated first edition. Presentation from Jean Ellis on front free endpaper. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor edge rubbing on corners and bottom of spine. Interior is clean and tight. Unclipped DJ is worn with chips on , rear panel, spine and top edges; folds are worn and torn. Now in mylar sleeve. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author joined the Canadian Volunteer Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) as a Red Cross worker, and six months later was posted to Europe as a welfare officer during WWII. This is a charming story of the good work she and the others did, while also describing in a light way, what her life was life while serving overseas. A different kind of war story, but still compelling and real. Presentation from author: "To Mrs. Keith Hutchinson - This is what happens when you send a V.A.D. to war! Jean Ellis". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hambleton, Jack (illustrator). 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 .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. 229pp, vignettes. Authors experiences overseas as a Red Cross Welfare Officer. Merdium wear, soft corners. Signed to a UK visitor in 1963. 400g. Signed by Author(s).

[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).

Hardcover. Condition: fair to good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Jack Hambleton (illustrator). 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.

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. Hambleton, Jack (illustrator). 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.