Sonolet, Louis

Tambour Battant! Memoires d’un Vieux Tambour (1792-1918)

Paris: Mame, 1922. "JOB" (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville). First. [French Drummer Boys at War]. Tambour Battant! Memoires d’un Vieux Tambour (1792-1918). Paris : Mame, nd. [1922]. Numerous full-page plates and vignettes in full color, as well as BW illustrations, by the incomparable JOB, with text by Louis Sonolet.  Octavo with colored pictorial cloth. Illustrated children’s book on the service of drummer boys in the French Army from the Revolution through World War I. Very good copy of a desirable and scarce work. Item #7

Price: $275.00