Great War Dust Jackets

Constable 1918. His time with the Lafayette Escadrille.

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!

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)

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)

Poetry Bookshop 1916. Wrappers by C. Lovat Fraser & hardback issue 1920

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

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

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

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

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

(from Nick Fletcher).

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

 moving description of 1st Ypres.

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

(from Babylon Revisited)

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)

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.

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

Arthur Barker 1932. .

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

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

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

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

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

Stokes 1919 Recently acclaimed novel of socialist/pacifist honeymoon couple caught in Belgium at the start of the War

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

from Andrew Harrison

Stokes 1936 (from Fons)

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.

Cassell 1921 At Ypres after the War

Hodder nd Yellow jacket rpt. (1930s) (from Andrew Harrison)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

Howe 1929. Novel of the US parachutists in the war

(from Peter Harrington)

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)

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

Putnam 1924 One Scots Guardsman on another.

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)

Winston (Philadelphia) 1914.(UK edition Collins, same jacket). Hackwood’s biography of Kitchener’s career to date.

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

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

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)

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

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

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.