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1929. First edition. [ix], 199pp. and a frontispiece. Mary Borden (1886-1968) was an American-British novelist and poet whose work drew on her experiences as a war nurse. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, she used her own money to equip and staff a field hospital for French soldiers close to the Western Front in which she served as a nurse from 1914 until the end of the war. The Forbidden Zone is a fictionalised and experimental memoir in which she mixes prose and poetry to give an account of her experience during the war. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a small gold illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and some damp or insect marking on the rear board and down the rear spine edge. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing on the first and last few pages, including a few faint marks on the title-page. A name and address has been written on the front free endpaper.
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