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Great War Dust Jackets

Heinemann 1928. MO with 3rd Grenadiers, he was twice wounded.

Knopf 1936. Novel in the form of a journal kept by an English doctor throughout the War

Reilly & Britton 1918. Foreign Legion at Dixmude, Gallipoli. Croix de Guerre & POW

Murray 1929. 1st Dorset Reg. In France & Flanders. This copy inscribed to Sir Arthur Bryant

Hodder 1938 rpt., Hodder 1932, Pearson 1916 & Pearson 1917. 4 of ‘Taffrail’s’ (Henry Dorling’s) many Naval Stories

Doran 1920. Chaplain with 165th US Inf. Jacket by Will Andrews (from JRF)

Cassell 1924 (not in BL). Officer thought killed at Galipolli returns to find his wife married to fellow officer who shot him!

Cassell 1934. Superb Deco jacket by Holland. Novel telling how seven war survivors fared in peacetime.

Grant Richards 1917. Jacket design by ( R. M. Savage?) repeats that on the cloth beneath.

Wilding 1932. Personal memoir. Jacket by the author’s brother, John. (a nicer copy from the Pritchards)

Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Jacket by Skrenda. Officer marries lowly but pretty girl; a war wound leads to paralysis & amnesia; he is locked up at home by his mother who disapproves of the marriage but love triumphs in the end.

Hurst & Blackett 1919. (from Tom Donovan). At Charlevelle during the German Occupation

John Day 1934. Autobiography of an English Colonel in Africa, at the front & Imprisonment (from NYPL digital library (see link on home page)

Murray 1935. Scarce continuation of Douie’s autobiography. From the Armistice onwards. Inscribed to the author’s brother.

MacLean Publishing 1931. From Bishop & Barker to MacLaren & Rogers.
(from Nick Fletcher)

Hodder 1917. Fictionalised auto-biography of Sub.Lt. David Munro

Sun Dial Press 1937 (from Fons) A fine example of recycling - see Leonard Nason’s ‘Fighting Livingstones’ on p.22

Wooden Swords by Jacques Deval Viking (1st)(lower left) Grosset & Dunlap rpt. 1930(left) & Lit. Guild 1930 (below from Fons). A comical account of War service by a near-sighted Frenchman. The War as a farce. (from Babylon Revisited)

Marshall Jones 1919. With the American Mission Motor Transport Corps driving trucks for the French Army

Jarrolds 1930 Winning the VC with the Royal Highlanders at Parvillers in 1918

Heinemann 1928 (later issue jacket?) from David & Helen Pritchard

Priv.Pr. 1938 (Capt. J.C.Dunn). Memoir of his time as MO with 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers with Graves & Sassoon.

Allen & Unwin 1920 With the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East, with Illustrations by James McBey.

Sands & Co 1919. A Franciscan Friar with our troops on the Somme (Vergette-Whitehorn Collection)

Fisher Unwin 1918. A blend of truth & fantasy based on Dunsany’s brief time at the front as a Capt. with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Doran 1918. Government Cameraman & later Capt. With KOYLI on the Somme

Pincher Martin by Taffrail Chambers 1916

Bell 1917 1st Colonial edition (f.p. Murray 1917) (from Adrian Harrington) & Doran 1917 (from Babylon Revisited) The title story sees Holmes unmasking a German spy in our midst.

Dodd Mead 1942 illustrated by Paul Brown. A fictionalized story of a horse in Major Downey’s regiment (from Fons)

Macmillan 1915. Mother of the last War poet, Geoffrey Dearmer, she worked in a field hospital in Serbia before succumbing to Enteric Fever after only 4 months.

Blackie 1934 The author relates his many years at sea including his time on HMS Castor during the Battle of Jutland (from Geoffrey Miller)

J. Patenaude (Ottawa) 1938. The first vol of the Canadian Official History Aug 1914 - Sept 1915

Whittaker 1915 2nd imp. All you ever wanted to know about Subs, Mines, Torpedos etc.

Bobbs-Merrill 1929. A mystery novel set in France during the War (from Babylon Revisited)

Sands & Co 1917 ‘Stories founded on incidents the truth of which has been vouched for by other Red Cross workers’

Melrose 1919. The diary of a German U-Boat Commander, Freiherr von Spiegel, trans. by Capt. Barry Domville (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Constable 1930. Autobiographical novel of a young Canadian Gunner in the ‘Suicide Corps’

Robertson & Mullins, Melbourne 1936. The memoir of the Captain of a troop transport vessel taking Australians to England & Egypt. He was torpedoed but survived. (from Andrew Harrison)

John Lane 1918. A novel concerning the pro- & anti- war sentiments in the US during the War. (from William Reece & Co)

Hodder 1914. The inside story of German Diplomacy & her desire for world conquest (from Andrew Harrison).

Hodder 1935, third imp. Novel based on the salvaging of the scuttled German Fleet.

Constable 1919. A soap opera showing the effect of the war on the life of the Blount family

Collins 1936.How we entertain ourselves in wartime. From pig-sticking & polo to hunting & shooting.