Sue Barton Nursing Series - group of 3 books (Visiting Nurse, Rural Nurse, Neighborhood Nurse) by Helen Dore Boylston - 1939 - 1949

SUE BARTON SERIES, group of 3 books (Visiting Nurse, Rural Nurse, Neighborhood Nurse)

ABOUT THE BOOKS AND CONDITION:

VISITING NURSE, #3-- Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Stated 13th Printing, November 1949). Hardcover with gray boards and red titles, 244 pages. Very nice dust jacket protected with mylar cover; colors bright; a small amount of wear to corners and edges. Book is clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Endpapers are slightly toned, but text pages are white with no toning. RURAL NURSE, #4--Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (Stated 24th Printing, 1939). Hardcover with gray boards and red titles/decorations, 254 pages. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Ex-school library, with the expected labels and markings. Glue residue inside back cover where card pocket was removed. Toned pages are clean and unmarked. NEIGHBORHOOD NURSE, #6--Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Stated 12th Printing, 1949). Hardcover with gray boards/red titles, 236 pages. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Pages toned, clean and unmarked. Binding tight, with a slight lean.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Sue Barton is the heroine in this series of seven nursing novels written by Helen Dore Boylston between 1936 and 1952. Originally published by Little, Brown & Co, it had many reprints by other publishers both foreign and domestic following its initial publication. The series follows Sue Barton through her nursing training and her work and personal life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Helen Dore Boylston (1895–1984) was the American writer of the popular Sue Barton nurse series and Carol Page actor series. An only child, Helen Dore Boylston attended Portsmouth public schools and trained as a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Two days after graduating, she joined the Harvard medical unit that had been formed to serve with the British Army in WWI. After the war, she missed the comradeship, intense effort, and mutual dependence of people upon one another when under pressure, and joined the Red Cross to work in Poland and Albania. This work, often in isolation and with little apparent effect, wasn't satisfying. Returning to the U.S., Boylston taught nose and throat anaesthesia at Massachusetts General for two years. During this time Rose Wilder Lane read Boylston's wartime diary and arranged for it to be published in the Atlantic Monthly.

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Major Felten, also "Felton" (1904–1975) was an American visual artist and illustrator, active in the 1930s-1950s. He became known for his dramatic posters and book illustrations.