With a deep desire to help end suffering and the encouragement of Dr. Joe, Cherry Ames is leaving childhood and all that is familiar behind to go to nursing school.
Cherry Ames, Student Nurse
**By Helen Wells**
**Illustration by Ralph Cruiby Smith**
**213 pages**
**1943, appears to be a first edition and the dust jacket is the early version with the yellow spine, but several Cherry Ames stories that followed are listed on the jacket**
**3/4 inch thick, 5 1/8 inches wide, 7 1/2 inches tall**
**Hardcover with dust jacket**
**Dust jacket is missing pieces, has tears, creases and rubs. Book is in very good condition, binding and pages are firm, brown tweed cover has edge and corner wear but is in overall very good condition**
**Grosset & Dunlap**
P-316
