TESTAMENT OF YOUTH by Brittain, Vera - 1938

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Cream cloth covered boards and lettering with dark blue labels to front and spine. Toning to page edges, paste downs, and end papers. Some bumping to spine ends and corners. Top edge coloured black. Spine shaken. some penciled notation - all erasable and non-interfering with the text. Some dog-ears and an outline of a paper clip on first page. Tight, clean copy; 661 pages. Brittain's first memoir, 'Testament of Youth' begins with her intention to enter the University of Oxford which is interrupted by the incidence of the First World War. The memoir mainly covers her position as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse in London, Malta, and France. Once the war is over, she returns to Oxford to complete her degree and finds herself writing as a journalist for Time and Tide, as well as lecturing for the League of Nations. Concluding with her tour of the defeated Germany in 1923 and the meeting of her husband in 1925, Testament of Youth leaves off for 'Testament of Experience' which was published in 1957. This edition is very scarce!. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8" x 5 1/2".