TIME AND CHANCE Written illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge New York: John Day, (1947). First edition. Inscribed, dated 1952 in 'Santa Fe', and SIGNED by the author/illustrator to the half-title page. An artist's memoir, generously illustrated with full-page and small, brown and white half-tone plates, and with numerous large vignette pen-and-ink scenes, soldiers, cultures and people from the various places he traveled including, India, Africa, China, the Philippines, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Germany, and more. Includes portraits of Douglas MacArthur and Pearl S. Buck. Balridge was a war correspondent and artist in WWI, and was in the National Guard to repulse Pancho Villa in 1916, a stretcher bearer in the French Army, joined the AEF, was a major illustrator for the Stars And Stripes newspaper, a prominent magazine cover illustrator, and then traveled the world. A touch of rubbing to the lower shelf-edges, else very good plus in black linen with yellow and pink embossed titles to the spine; in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with a collage of persons with a self-image illustration by Baldridge to the front panel, slight soiling to the rear panel, rubbing at the spine and flap folds, nicks and tears to the upper and lower spine edges, shelf-edge nicks and tears, and reinforced to the verso of the spine with brown paper support-tape. Octavo; 432 pages; plus preliminary and rear pages of art plates. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!