Mildred Aldrich
A Hill Top on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3 - September 8, 1914.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. 187 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7.25", is bound in dark green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in excellent condition, with firm binding and clean and bright interior. Volume has map endpapers and is illustrated with a frontispiece, a medallion portrait of the author by Theodore Spicer-Simson, and all four called-for photographic plates. Dust jacket has separated at rear spine panel edge and is now preserved as one piece in mylar cover.
This memoir by American journalist and writer Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) offers an epistolary account of her experiences of the outbreak of the First World War, specifically the first weeks of the invasion of France. The author's house, called La Creste at Huiry, thirty miles east of Paris, with its clear view of the Marne valley, offered her a birds-eye view of the first Battle of the Marne.