Fine Copy in Dust-Jacket, Signed

Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1918].

Price: $450.00


About the item

First edition of the author's first book. 35 illustrations in black-and-white by G. William Breck ("Bill Breck") 27th (N.Y.) Division. 62 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine Copy in Dust-Jacket, Signed. Pictorial boards. Very fine in fine pictorial dust jacket.

Item #261473

Signed on the ffep, “Edward Streeter / New York June 27 1919” and below a drawing of a solider”s head, signed by the illustrator (“Bill Breck”).
Streeter's first book and first in the Dear Mable series of letters written home by a barely-literate soldier in WWI. Streeter wrote Father of the Bride in 1949.