SCALPEL, SWORD AND STRETCHER: Forty Years of Work and Play.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original dark red cloth with titles in black to the spine. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of fading to the spine. The contents with toning to the endpapers and some occasional light foxing to the preliminary pages and page edges are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout.

Signed and inscribed by Colonel (later Major-General) Robert J. Blackham in black ink to the front free endpaper "Leslie Lan**agin / Esquire / with every / good wish / from / the author / Feb 2nd 1934". The autobiography of Robert James Blackham (1868-1951) of the Royal Army Medical Corps, recounting his experiences in Ireland, India (including the Tirah Campaign), and the First World War.