(x) + 291 pp + ads. Many full page illus & plates. Inscribed on the first fly "Barbara Seaman Anderson, with the affectionate regards of her old friend Louis Livingston Seaman February 24 1906." Book was written while Seaman was a Major in the services and the "silent foe" refers to disease, which according to statistics of previous wars, is responsible for 80% of mortality, compared to 20% for bullets. O.D. green cloth cover with gilt and red cross to center is clean, some edge/corner wear, spine tips a little rubbed and spine gilt faded. Interior frontis plate and title page just starting to loosen at bottom gutter, contemporaneous account of the book's publication inserted with consequent heaving foxing on those two pages, otherwise clean and unmarked.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author