LOT 3007
29th March 2022
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LOT 3007
MILITARY. - Dorothy LAWRENCE. Sapper Dorothy Lawrence. London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1919. First edition, 8vo (184 x 119mm.) 5 photographic plates. (Lacking front-free endpaper, ink mark on p.65, ink note verso frontispiece.) Original green cloth (small marks to upper cover). Note: an account of the author's experiences on the front line near Loos where, having elaborately dressed up as a male soldier, she undertook mining work with the Royal Engineers. Fearful of the consequences she soon gave herself up and, arrested and interrogated as a spy, she was eventually deported back to England.
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