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Great War Dust Jackets

Grosset & Dunlap 1936. An anti-war novel about a timid book-keeper who becomes a killer

3 from the Blood-thirsty Brigadier. Cape 1930, Werner Laurie 1930 & Michael Joseph 1937

Scribner 1917. A young soldier tries to desert at Salonika

4 books from Coningsby Dawson. His authorship of ‘Love of an Unknown Soldier’ is revealed on the jacket of ‘Test of Scarlet’

Hutchinson 1930. Novel with graphic scenes of the Canadian Artillery in the last days of the war.

Angus Robertson 1933. With the Australian Light Horse (from JRF)

John Lane 1918. Essays & reflections on his time at the front.

Hodder 1917. Front line stories. (taken from Ebay. A poor quality picture but rare enough to merit inclusion).

Herbert Jenkins 1920. Humorous novel. The button was made from a magic lantern!

Scribner 1914. War journalism in Brussels, Paris & at Soissons

Hamilton 1936 (f.p. 1934). Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. A Collection of Flying stories both real & imagined.(from Renzo)

Doubleday 1930 & 1948 re-issue. True story of a stray Alaskan husky who won the Croix de Guerre with the ‘Blue Devils’ during the war. (from Fons Oltheten)

Bell 1934. A Caucasian Princess disguised as a man fights with the Russian army on the Austrian Front & later witnesses the Revolution.

Hamilton 1932. Memoirs of the leading Belgian flying ace and shooter down of balloons.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Constable 1936. The eminent American brain surgeon’s outstanding front line journal.

The Enormous Room by e e cummings Boni 1922. His incarceration at La Ferte Masse in Normandy. Modern Library ed. 1934 & UK 1st from Cape 1926 with an introduction by Robert Graves (from Anthony Sillem Books)

Doran 1938. US ed of the book below.

Florin Books 1937 Cheaper reissue (from Michael Taylor)

No Joke by Crascredo Country Life 1929. What passed for humour back then - the drawings are OK though.

With the 9th Light Horse by Major T. Darley Hassell Press. Adelaide 1924. 1st unit ashore at Gallipoli then in Sinai - Palestine Campaign (from JRF)

Morrow 1929 Jacket by C. C. Snell (from William Erti)

Letters from Helles by Sir Henry Darlington Longmans 1936. Lt.Col. 1/5 Manchesters describes his time at Gallipoli (from David & Helen Pritchard)

The Queen of Spies by Thomas Coulson Constable 1935. The life of Louise de Bettignies (from Tom Donovan)

History of the 60th Division by Col. P. Dalbiac Allen & Unwin 1927 With the 2/2 Londons in Macedonia, Sinai & Palestine (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Naval Operations Vol. III Longmans 1923. One of 9 vols. In this part of the Official History of the War

Hodder 1919 Minesweeping with the Royal Navy (from Andrew Harrison)

12 Years in the Foreigh Legion by A R Cooper. Angus & Robertson 1933 (Pub. In UK by Jarrolds as ‘The Man who liked Hell’) Joined the legion before the War & returned to it after serving in the Dardanelles (from Andrew Harrison)

John Murray 1931. (by R. G. Coulson) Occupation of the Rhineland (from Tom Donovan)

Duckworth 1916

Longmans 1938 2nd (revised) edition

And all for what by D. W. J. Cuddeford Heath Cranton 1933. A sadly shattered jacket on this rare account of an officer’s time on the Western Front with the Highland Light Infantry (from Roger Joye)

Secker 1916 (by T. W. H. Crosland) from the Vergette-Whitehorn collection

Blue Ribbon Books 1932 Tie-in with the Greta Garbo movie - front & back covers

Follow the Leader by Clyde Brion Davis Farrar & Rinehart 1942. Novel of a US infantryman & his subsequent rise to fame. Memorable description of scenes on a troopship (from Fons)

Italy during the World War by Salvatore A. Cotillo Christopher Publishing, Boston 1922

Grosset & Dunlap (1941) showing Gary Cooper in a still from the film. (dealers often list this ed. as 1922, 19 years before the films release!)

Hurst & Blackett 1936 2nd imp. Illustrated by the author. This sadly forgotten but finely written memoir details the author’s service with the Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli.

Privately printed. Oxford 1921 Wrappers only but this outstanding memoir by Major Crum of his time with the KRRC & setting up of a sniping school is too important to be lost elsewhere.

Hodder or Doran 1917. The inside story of Germany at War (from JRF)

Cape 1922. Cumming’s account of his time with the 91st & 110th Brigades.

British Campaigns in Africa & the Pacific by Edmund Dane Hodder 1919 (from Geoffrey Miller)

Funk & Wagnalls 1922 (from Royal Books)

Sampson, Low 1919. An official War correspondent looks at the role of the AIF in the battles of 1918 (from Nick Fletcher).

Little, Brown 1934. Illustrated by Richard Bartlett (from Fons)

McClelland Stewart 1916 (UK printing / Canadian issue) With 2nd Bt. CEF at Ypres & Ploegstert Wood