VICTOR CHAPMAN'S
LETTERS FROM FRANCE
[Memorial Edition]
Victor Chapman
Macmillan, May 1917., VG. First Edition. Memorial Edition with a bookplate
reading: "The Gift of John Jay Chapman. Memorial Edition".
JJC was Victor's
father and the editor of this book. Bound in glossy dark blue boards with
heraldry device on front cover. A nice, firm copy with virtually no wear.
Lettering on spine darkened, but spine & covers are uniformly dark & glossy.
Neatly-written signature of owner at top of front flyleaf, opposite Chapman's
bookplate. Title page slightly adhered to frontispiece photo just at seam
where an old separation was mended. Page still opens OK and is not loose.
Inconspicuous bit of scuffing to front board. Photographs, 196 pp. 5 pp of ads
at end of book. Chapman was a recent graduate of Harvard University (A.B.'13)
who was studying architecture in Paris when war broke out. He immediately
enlisted as a private in the French Foreign Legion and transferred to the
Aviation Service a year later. He was breveted a pilot in January of 1916 and
was assigned to the legendary Escadrille Lafayette that April. Two months
later he was dead, shot down northeast of Douaumont on June 23. Awarded both
the Medaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre.
$215.00
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