Four Weeks In The Trenches. The War Story Of A Violonist.
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [3], 85, [5]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over green cloth, with silver lettering on front board and spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author protected with a tissue-guard. Printer's device on title-page. Fritz Kreisler, world-famous violonist, served as lieutenant in World War I, until wounded by a Cossack's lance in a hand-to-hand fight before Lemberg. This book is the record of what he saw and experienced. It is a story of hardship and heroism as graphic as it is thrilling. This work is illustrated with 8 full-page b/w photographic reproductions of portraits and soldiers. Some age wear to dust-jacket, with head and tail of spine partly chipped. Some creasing and closed tears along edges. Dust-jacket in overall good-, binding and interior in very good condition. vg. Item #25859
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