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Great War Dust Jackets

Melrose 1932. Jacket by Youngman Carter. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Heinemann 1918 , Scribner 1917 & a later issue. Captain Nobbs’ memoir of his time with the London Rifle Brigade (re-titled for the US market) ,he was blinded at Leuze Wood on the Somme & became a POW (US eds. from Tom Donovan & JRF)

Blackwood 1919 (by Capt. G H F Nichols) 82nd Bde. RFA. The March Retreat and advance

Walch 1925. Jacket by H.G.Kelly, a member of the unit. History of the 12th (Tasmanian) Inf. Batt. (from Nick Fletcher)

Both Simpkin Marshall 1918. Humorous stories (the latter from the Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

A batch of Leonard Nason’s popular war stories in their muscular American jackets

Marlboro’ Publishing, Plymouth 1938. Humorous naval stories, most of which were published in 1927. Not strictly Great War but the deco jacket by S. Bassett is too good not to have.

Grosset & Dunlap 1931. An original from them rather than the usual cheap reprint

Cape 1939. Staff Officer. Quite common in its jacket despite the late publication date! (from Tom Donovan)

US & UK 1sts. Little Brown 1929 & Hamilton 1931. Jacket art by A. Vimnera & W.E.Johns respectively. A novel based on the authors service in the Escadrille. Authors of the ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ novels (from Renzo Paganuzzi)

Heinemann 1917. Stories of the Merchant service in War & Peace

Chambers 1919. With the 5th Batt. Royal Scots in the 29th Div.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Scribner 1927. Jacket by Margaret Thorniley Williamson. The experience of black soldiers in the war as told through their songs.

Bodley Head 1919. Although 43 years old at the outbreak of War, ‘Saki’ joined the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, & as a lance sergeant was killed by a German sniper near Beaumont-Hamel in Nov.1916. The last story in this collection was written at the front.

Jenkins 1936. History of the Royal Engineer Tunnelling companies (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Gollancz 1930. Fantasy novel about how the war might have gone if we’d beaten the Turks at Gallipoli.

Faber 1932 2nd imp. above & 1st imp below. MO with 4th Royal Irish Dragoons, 9th Lancers & 20th Light Div. (from Tom Donovan & Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Cape 1924. A Veteran recovers after the experiences of the Somme

Grosset & Dunlap 1916. The hero defuses a potential holy war fomented by the Germans (from Fons).

Doran 1926

Erskine Macdonald 1917. A collection of Songs, Rhymes & Parodies (from Roger Joye)

Sampson Low 1932. Much on the introduction of the convoy system in the War.

A L Burt ed. (1916 onwards) by Coll

Melrose 1920. This rare memoir is from the Churchill Book Specialist and is yours for a mere £1075

Stockwell 1931. Rare stretcher bearer’s diary with the 21st Div. Detailed & immediate (from the Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Blackwood 1922 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Macmillan 1928. Play set partially at the Front

The 11th Battalion The Queen’s by Capt. E W J Neave Brixton Press 1931. Part of the 41st Div. Their service from 1916 - 1919 including the taking of Flers on the Somme (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Scholartis Press 1929

Readers Library 1925 ‘Battle, Intelligence services & War-dazed women’ Novelized from Wall’s play for the film.

Harrison Smith 1932 A Venezuelan Soldier of Fortune who fought with the Turks at Van.

Dutton 1929 (fp 1927) The story of an Indian trained carrier pigeon in the War (from Fons)

Privately Printed 1952. Rather late but rare memoir of service with the 3rd Coldstream Guards in 1918 & on to the Occupation of Germany (from JRF)

Hutchinson 1928 A fairly routine Regimental History.

Hodge 1939. The Glasgow Territorials in the Great War.

The First Three Months by Capt. E. J. Needham(3rd Batt., Northamptonshires) Gale & Polden 1936. An indispensable memoir of the War’s early stages. The outer jacket is completely plain but is, I believe, original.

Shall Angels Weep Again by Mary Needham Herbert Joseph 1936. War memoirs of the wife of the War Correspondent, Henry Needham who met his death in the air with Lt. Warneford. She was a director of the Committee for devastated France.

Cape 1933. Nichols’ pacifist thoughts on this and the coming war. He has written in the front of this copy ‘We need a new word for war - a word trailing no clouds of glory’

Denis Archer 1935. Probably the best anthology of War experiences with over 150 excerpts.

Grant Richards 1917 The first of Nevinson’s 2 anthologies of War paintings. Only the frontispiece, which is hand signed in all copies, is in colour.

Bodley Head 1922 The author served with the 76th Battery, RFA, 6th Poona Div. at the 5 month siege of Kut in 1916.

Venture Library 1931 (fp Longmans 1916) Illustrated tales of the ‘Emden’, Jutland, the RFC etc.(from Fons).

Burt 1929 (f.p. Little, Brown 1919). On a voyage from NY to London a detective suspects another passenger of transmitting propaganda documents to Germany (from Fons) (pub. In UK as ‘Strange Case of Jocelyn Thew’)

Burt 1921 (f.p. Little, Brown 1920) In attempting to bring peace with the Central Powers our heroine saves the Allies from disaster & also finds true love.

Little, Brown 1921 (f.p.1920) A novel of impersonation in the German army in East Africa & with the Norfolks in England.

Little, Brown 1918. Novel about a Swede who spies for the Germans on a mission to England (pub. In UK in 1919 as ‘Mr. Lessingham Goes Home’