CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.


From A Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. 8vo (235 x 160 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, original dust jacket panels tipped in, typed note from Cushing's secretary and Cushing's bookplate tipped in, review slip laid in. Faint soiling to covers, slight rubbing to spine. Dust jacket supplied from another volume. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY CUSHING.Provenance: Walter Miles (bookplate);WITH: CUTLER, ELLIOTT CARR. A Journal of the Harvard Medical School Unit to The American Ambulance Hospital in Paris. New York: Privately Printed, [1916]. 8vo (232 x 158 mm). Original paper-covered boards. Slight bumping to corners, offsetting to a few leaves, likely from newspaper clippings. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY CUTLER;WITH: CUSHING, HARVEY and HATCH, J. PHILIP. Concerning Base Hospital No. 5. Boston: Barta Press, [1920]. 4to (270 x 205 mm). Original blue paper-covered boards. Minor bumping to corners of covers. FIRST EDITION.FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED BY CUSHING, "For Walter Miles from his colleague Harvey Cushing. May 8, 1939." Cushing kept a journal throughout his service in World War I. "This book is made up of extracts from Dr. Cushing's voluminous War Diary ... The volume covers the period from March 1915, when Dr. Cushing first went to Europe to the Ambulance Americaine with a Harvard Unit, until November 14, 1918 ... The book is illustrated with Dr. Cushing's photographs, maps and pencil sketches of contemporary events." (Cushing Bibliography). Collection is accompanied by a copy of Goodwin and Royer's Walter Miles and His 1920 Grand Tour of European Physiology and Psychology Laboratories (Akron, 2010). Cushing Bibliography 22.