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Hodder 1947 (f.p.1940). Spy story featuring the double lives of a double agent (pseudonyms of Adelaide Manning & Cyril Coles) (from Fons).

Literary Guild of America 1941

(from Fons)

Hurst & Blackett 1932 & 1936 (f.p.1935)

Hodder 1919 Part of a series of novels. The Canadian edition alongside, McClelland & Stewart 1919 subtly changes the grammar of the title.

A. L. Burt (after Doran) 1917 & Hodder 1919 (Cheap ed.) Novel. The author was a Major & Chaplain with 43rd Cameron Highlanders (from Fons).

Sampson Low 1916 (2nd imp.) & Sampson Low 1916. American War reporter attached to Sir John French’s Headquarters

Robertson & Mullens 1942. Jacket by Gerald Muir.
Highest scoring Air Ace of the Australian Flying Corps (from Nick Fletcher)

Quality Press 1938. The author served with the 66th East Lancs Div., Army Service Corps (from Tom Donovan)

Angus & Robertson 1941. Biography of the Air Observer/Gunner Ernest Mustard who flew with the Air Ace Ross Smith (from Nick Fletcher)

Doran 1915. Novel. US war correspondent in the Russian lines meets woman revolutionary & becomes fervent pacifist (from Fons).

Grosset & Dunlap 1918 (revised ed) Impressions of the War written near the front (from Fons)

Heinemann 1935 (from David Ainsworth)

Epworth Press 1919. Life in the trenches & its religious parallels!

Williams & Norgate 1928 revised ed. (fp 1923) How Germany obtained supplies prior to her collapse

(from David Ainsworth)

Duckworth 1931 An Austrian incarcerated for the duration tells the rare story of British internment.

Angus & Robertson 1933. A small section deals with his time in Gallipoli (from Andrew Harrison)

Thornton-Butterworth 1st UK 1923 - 1931 (top) & Scribners 1st US 1923 - 1931 (below) Churchill’s masterful history of the War

(from The Churchill Book Specialist - $12,000 / set)

John Murray 1916 A prewar German plot to extend their Empire from France to the Persian Gulf (from Geoffrey Miller)

John Long 1937 Little known novel tracing the lives of a group of young men through the War. About 1/3rd of the book is set at the Front.

John Murray 1920. With the Gold Coast Regiment in East Africa against von Lettow-Vorbeck. A classic covering a period not recorded in the Official History

Nelson 1916 (fp 1903) The earliest copy I’ve seen in a jacket. Obviously not a WW1 book but its plot of the discovery of German plans to invade England, which is said to have led to the building of the Naval base at Scapa Flow, prefigures the War so closely it can be seen as the precursor of all WW1 literature (from Adrian Harrington Rare Books)