A LOST COMMANDER: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. ASSOCIATION Copy, previously owned by Florence Nightingale's goddaughter, Ruth Florence Verney & SIGNED by Verney at the top of the ffep. [12], 299, [5 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-1/2". Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt & green stamping. Green eps. No dust jacket. Cloth quite dull & faded. Shaken, with mull showing at the front hinge. Letters & newspaper clippings [about Nightingale] affixed to preliminary & terminals leaves. A Good copy only. Item #52197
Ruth Florence Verney was Florence Nightingale's god-daughter, the Verney family being closely connected to Nightingale by work, and as noted above, by the marriage of her sister, Parthenope, to Sir Harry Verney. The Verney family known today for their work in maintaining Nightingale's legacy after her death.
Apparently Verney 'loaned out' this copy of LOST COMMANDER, as the letters included thank her for her generosity... one such begins, "Dear Miss Verney, I have kept this book much longer than intended -- for contrary to my intention - I have read it twice. ..."
Price: $150.00