Great War Dust Jackets

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Heinemann 1917. His 3rd vol. Of War Poetry
Secker 1921. Contains some war poems
Cape 1927
Cape 1929. 1st issue of his unreliable memoir
Hodder 1918, Doran 1925(from Babylon Revisited) & Hodder 1919 . 2 volumes of Montague Hainsselin’s Naval stories
Noel Douglas 1930 & Morrow 1930 (from Fons Oltheten) A gruesome narrative of trench warfare
Hutchinson 1930. Teacher at the Front. Very bitter!
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Peter Davies 1935. Personal memoir
Macmillan 1919 2nd Scots Guards
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John Lane 1927 (from Tom Donovan) & 1939 (from JRF)
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Constable 1916 (from JRF)
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New Library 1918. An american in the French Flying Corps
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Nicholson & Watson 1936. Jacket by Eugene Hastain. Novel dealing with the retreat of the Serb Army through Albania
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John Hamilton. Both copies Nov.1935 2nd prs. Lower jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. Authors time from being shot down in an ‘Albatross’ Scout Plane to his return to England
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Collins 1917. German Atrocities (from George Simmers)
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Cape ? (by J. L. Gray) (from JRF)
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Dent 1929. Jacket by Margaret Ferguson. A ghost story that reinterprets the war (from Hollett & Son)
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Wright & Brown 1932 (f.p. Hodder 1917)
Jacket by G P Micklewright. ANZAC troops on the Western Front written in Scots dialect!! (from Nick Fletcher)
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Constable 1918. His time with the Lafayette Escadrille.

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Pearson 1917. Articles from the ‘Daily Express’ (from JRF)
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Houghton Mifflin 1916. The adventures of an American in the British Army

Faber 1931. Lt. & Cpt. 15th Royal Welch Fusiliers. Nov. 1915 - July 1916. His description of the scene in Mametz Wood will stay with you for a long time!

 

Bodley Head 1935. Officer escapes from a German prison camp & takes up with a prostitute in Berlin
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Houghton Mifflin 1918. Author joined the Royal Berkshires in 1915 & commanded a tank at Arras & Ypres. One of the first such descriptions (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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John Murray 1924 (by Ralph Hamilton). Lt. Col. Hamilton was commander of the 106th Brigade, RFA when he was killed nr. Amiens in 1918. One of the great classics of the war & exceedingly rare in its jacket

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Hamilton 1933. Jacket by E. M. T. Woodrofe. A Sapper in the Royal Engineers
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Poetry Bookshop 1916. Wrappers by C. Lovat Fraser & hardback issue 1920

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Cassell 1919 (by W. J. Harvey). Night fighting & Bombing reprinted from ‘The Daily Mail’ (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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Blackwood 1930 (f.p.1916). Major Hay at Mons before his capture (from Michael Taylor)

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Harper Bros. 1934. Gray’s letters during his trial & subsequent imprisonment (from Neil Cournoyer)

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Doubleday 1928. America’s first air ace with 18 victories and the DFC (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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Priv. Pr. 1977 (500 copies). Batt. Commander with the Royal Berkshires. One of the war’s great classics.

(from Nick Fletcher).

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Morgan & Scott 1917. Stories of the war as told by soldiers visiting the Cardiff Christian Rest, including a

 moving description of 1st Ypres.

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French 1937. A play about a pacifist who is sent home from France to an asylum

(from Babylon Revisited)

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Abingdon 1919. Training at Ellington Field, sent to the front on 8th November 1918 but too late so went back and died of a severe cold a few weeks later

(from Colophon Books)

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Skeffington 1921
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Edward Arnold 1920. Day to day account of the 10th Infantry Bde, 4th Div. (from Tom Donovan)

Dent 1930. Classic Rifle Brigade Memoir by the Headmaster of the Whitgift School who also wrote several school-based novels.

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Ponsonby 1917 D Company, 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Arthur Barker 1932. .

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Little Brown 1920. Novel of a returning soldier traumatised by the War.

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Collins 1930 (fp.1919). Fictionalised account of his time with the Bristol Fighters (22nd. Sq.) in 1917. Re-issued as part of the ‘Books of the Great War’ series

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The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek Heinemann 1930 & Doubleday 1930 (from Peter Harrington). The Rabelaisian adventures of a Czech soldier behind the lines.

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U-Boats Westward by Ernst Hashagen Putnam 1931. The story of a German Submarine Commander (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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Century Co 1916 (2nd ed) Some fine photos & drawings of the French forces around Arras & the Somme (from Nick Fletcher)

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Bodley Head 1928. The story of Ohanus Appressian with the Russian Army during the War
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Stokes 1919 Recently acclaimed novel of socialist/pacifist honeymoon couple caught in Belgium at the start of the War

 

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Hutchinson. later printing (1919?) f.p. Hurst 1916

from Andrew Harrison

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Hamilton 1934 2nd ed (no colour pics. inside). Jacket by Leonard Bridgman. The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille.
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Stokes 1936 (from Fons)

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Harper Bros. 1922 & G & D 1922 (from Andrew Harrison) Grey leaves behind the purple sage to tell the story of a returning, badly wounded soldier who tries to save his fellow townsfolk from the decadent ways he finds they have fallen into.

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Arnold 1931. POW memoir

Cassell 1921 At Ypres after the War

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Hamilton 1933. Adventure novel about fighting the Germans in Africa.
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Hodder nd Yellow jacket rpt. (1930s) (from Andrew Harrison)

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Little, Brown 1928. Looking back at the Great War Generals (from Andrew Harrison)

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Harrap 1929 (above) Dial Press 1929 (below). Stories of nurses on War work in Belgium (from Fons)

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Allen & Unwin 1924. Play set in an RFC Mess & a front-line trench in Sept. 1918. Revived as an ITV play in 1963 (see here)

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Hutchinson 1930
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Blackie 1915 How a Scots Terrier, a Poodle & a Wire-Haired Terrier won the War. Illustrated by the author (from Fons)

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Brentano’s 1929 A semi-autobiographical novel of an officer candidate, a Fahnenjunker, at the Battle of 3rd Ypres.

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Sidgwick 1917. The first of only 2 collections published in the poets’ lifetime (from Bloomsbury Book Auctions)

Lovat Dickson 1935. War letters from an Officer in the 4th Ox. & Bucks 1914-1918
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Sidgwick 1917 F W Harvey’s 2nd book of poems, this one written from a German prison camp (recounted in his memoir ‘Comrades in Captivity’) He was a lifelong friend of Ivor Gurney.

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Howe 1929. Novel of the US parachutists in the war

(from Peter Harrington)

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Cape 1927 Lightly fictionalised front-line narrative generally regarded as a truthful rendition. With an intro by H G Wells recommending it to young boys. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

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Herbert Jenkins 1917 (f.p. Dryden 1915) Short stories from the popular Romantic novelist (from J & M Books, Liverpool)

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Covici Fried 1932 with the AEF
(from Paul).

Putnam 1924 One Scots Guardsman on another.

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Murray 1938 2nd imp (fp 1935) A thorough biography of the Commander of the 2nd Army from the Boer War to his role as High Commissioner in Palestine (from Andrew Harrison)

Hale 1929. Novel. Son of a Polish immigrant joins up, becomes a major & makes a fortune.
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Winston (Philadelphia) 1914.(UK edition Collins, same jacket). Hackwood’s biography of Kitchener’s career to date.

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Burt 1918 (reprint of the Britton ed. same year). A love story involving nurses at the front (from Fons).

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Edward Arnold 1927. French & Spanish expansion into Morocco during the War (from Larsen Books)

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Milton Bradley 1922. Illustration by William van Dresser. The book was supplied in a box of which this is the front (from Fons)

John Murray 1927 2nd imp. Supposedly previously suppressed version of events. (from Andrew Harrison)

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(below).Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1924. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman (from Fons)

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Dutton 1920 Stories of the US flying operations in the war from this aerial observer & POW (from Wolf’s Head Books)

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Heinemann 1916 (by Capt. Arnold Gyde) Jacket by Stephen Gould (vol.6 of the ‘Soldiers Tales of the Great War’ series) From Mons to the Marne & the Aisne.

Cassell 1930. German memoir
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