Title: Les Campagnes Ardentes: Impressions de Guerre.
Description: Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1917]. [1917]. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED TO WORLD WAR I PHILANTHROPIST MILDRED BLISS - Octavo, bound in gray boards titled in gilt on a gilt-ruled label on the spine with the original front wrap & spine bound in. The lower sections of the binding are stained and the spine is rubbed & darkened. The edges of the covers are slightly darkened. Half-title, title, [1] leaf, 256 & [1]pages plus colophon & 1-page publisher's catalog. The bottom edges of the preliminary pages, pastedowns & endpapers are very lightly stained and/or rippled. Good.
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A great association copy inscribed by the author to America art collector and World War I philanthropist Mildred Bliss: "A Madame Bliss / en hommage respectueux."
Mildred Barnes Bliss [1879-1969] was an American art collector and philanthropist and one of the cofounders of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC. While living in Paris at the start of the First World War, Bliss and her husband helped found the American Ambulance Field Service [later the American Field Service] in France, to which they donated an entire section of 23 ambulances and three staff cars. They opened and equipped a central depot in Paris for the distribution of medical and surgical supplies and clothing. As vice-president of the Comite Franco-Americaine pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere, Mildred Bliss also helped establish centers in France for the care of Belgian and French children orphaned or displaced during the war. For her work during the war she was made a chevalier of the French Legion.of Honor.
A Mildred Bliss/Dumbarton Oaks book label is mounted on the front pastedown. Good .
Keywords: MILITARY; WORLD WAR I; LES CAMPAGNES ARDENTES: IMPRESSIONS DE GUERRE; LEWIS MIREPOIX; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; ASSOCIATION COPY; MILDRED BARNES BLISS; AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR; COFOUNDER, AMERICAN AMBULANCE FIELD SERVICE; VICE-PRESIDENT, COM
- Book number: 94834
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