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Harpers 1928. Novel of English Cavalrymen fighting the Arabs in Mesopotamia down to the last man!

3 Patrick MacGills’. All Herbert Jenkins 1916, 1917 & 1918. Outstanding description of the Battle of Loos in ‘The Great Push’.

Why have so many copies of Soldier Songs retained their jackets, whereas The Red Horizon & Fear are just impossible to find?

Compton Mackenzie’s War Memoirs. Cassell 1929, 1931, 1932 & Chatto 1940. Greek Memories was supposedly withdrawn on the day of publication leading to Mackenzie’s prosecution for revealing State secrets but is less scarce than the following volume.

Grosset & Dunlap rpt. After 1916 (from Ebay)
Novel of the experiences of a newly trained troop in France. Graphic trench scenes.

Peter Davies 1930 (by Private 19022). An unexpurgated limited ed. was printed the previous year by the Piazza Press as ‘The Middle Parts of Fortune’ by Frederic Manning. Hemingway described this novel as ‘The finest & noblest book of men in war that I have ever read’. (The design is on the cloth binding, but as the original jacket was clear glassine then this is what you’d have seen)

Arthur Pearson 1917, 1917 & 1918. 3 of Margerison’s many volumes of Naval War stories.

Routledge 1936 (from Nick Fletcher) & Newnes 1936.(from Renzo). With 40th Sq. In France flying Nieuport 17 C-1’s (the BL cat. suggests the Routledge ed. as the true 1st.)

‘Mc Scotch’ is the pseudonym of William MacLanachan.

Murray 1930 (f.p. 1919). A doctors view of the Western Front with religious overtones. Oddly the jacket by Arthur Rouse seems to show the Scottish Highlands!

Heinemann 1936 showing a still from the film with Madeleine Carroll

Davies 1943. A superb late issue jacket

Constable 1918. Jacket by James McBey. Account of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force to mid-1917

(from Nick Fletcher).

Hutchinson 1929. A US private in the Rainbow division tells of St. Mihiel & the Argonne.

Readers Library 1929. An unlikely romance set in Alsace during the War from the film by Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz). Despite being Oscar nominated it seems no copy of this film is known to exist which makes the stills inside doubly valuable.

Spalding 1921. 5th Batt at Ypres, the Somme, Arras & Cambrai

Chapman & Hall 1929. Prize-winning novel. The publishers liked this cover so much they used it again for Hornsey’s ‘Hell on Earth’

Bodley Head 1918. Letters from the Western Front Summer/Autumn 1917 (from Roger Joye)

Simpkin Marshall 1918. Poems by 2nd Lt. S. B. MacLeod (from Roger Joye)

Duckworth 1917. Animals rise up against their human masters who have become lower than they by waging war.

Harper 1918 Jacket by R. K. Ryland. French novel. A bullet passes through the heads of 2 soldiers killing the first and passing his personality to the second whereupon he goes home and woes the first mans’ wife.

2 Books from Michael MacDonagh on the Irish Troops in the War. The first volume goes through Mons, Gallipoli & Loos. Hodder 1916 (from Andrew Harrison) & Hodder 1917

Gundy (Canada) 1916 (from Adjala Bookshop)

Winston 1916. (by Logan Marshall). Fantasy novel in which the Germans cross the channel & win the War

Into the Blue by Capt. Norman Macmillan Duckworth 1929 Flying Sopwith Strutters & Camels with 45th Sq. RFC (from David & Helen Pritchard)

From all the Fronts by Donald Mackenzie Blackie 1917. Profiles of various military leaders with some vignettes from the front.

His Story of the Great War. Blackie 1920 is alongside.

Macmillan 1936 A British-born soldier in the Prussian 6th Dragoons (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Cassell 1928 The first novel to deal with the British Secret Service in the War.

Lippincott 1917. Tips for US soldiers on Trench Life, Gas, Rats etc. (from Mike’s Library)

Doran 1930 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Sifton Praed 1931 The first 15 years of the Mechanisation in the British Army (from Tom Donovan)

T. M. Miller (Cape Town) 1920. The life of Harold Howse by W. M. Macmillan (from JRF)

The Dandy Hun by Constantin Maglic Bodley Head 1932. Detailing the Austrian’s escapes & adventures

(from Geoffrey Miller)

Memories of Four Fronts by Lt.Gen.Sir William Marshall Ernest Benn 1929. The General at La Bassee, Egypt, Suvla & Salonika (he succeeded Gen. Maude)

Cassell 1929 Another novel of Wartime spying (from Hollett & Son)

Cape 1930. From hunting in the Shires to 3rd London Yeomanry. Lost a leg & transferred to 56 Sq., RFC (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Smith & Hass NY 1933 A novel giving a section to each of the 113 members of the company (from Dogs of War Booksellers). (Published in the UK by Gollancz)

Grosset & Dunlap 1917 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Putnam NY 1930 in jacket (from Between-the -Covers)

Stockwell 1927 Having seen her 3 previous suitors come to sticky ends Nurse Gwenn finds true love at the Front.