A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison signed by Captain Robert Dolby 1st 1917

DOLBEY, Captain Robert V. A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison. (signed)
 
London, John Murray, 1917.
 
First edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 248, [6] publisher’s advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Original red cloth, lettered in black, in the original printed dustwrapper. Some loss and chipping to jacket, especially at head of spine and edges, with corresponding fading to cloth where exposed; spotting to text block; a few light marks to endpapers; overall very good in very good minus jacket. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper from the author to friends, dated July 1917. With the printed compliment slip, “With the Author’s Compliments.”
 
An early First World War memoir by Captain Robert V. Dolbey of the Royal Army Medical Corps, covering his service with the British Expeditionary Force during the opening campaigns of 1914, including the retreat from Mons, the Marne, and First Ypres, and subsequently his captivity in a series of German prisoner-of-war camps. He was held at Crefeld, Minden, Sennelager bei Paderborn, and Guetersloh before his eventual return home. The work combines front-line medical experience with a detailed account of conditions in German camps. 
 
Copies in the original dustwrapper are uncommon, and this example is further enhanced by a contemporary presentation inscription in the year of publication, together with the survival of the author’s printed compliment slip.