Great War Dust Jackets
The Searcher by Velona Pilcher Heinemann 1929 & Doubleday 1929 (from Babylon Revisited)
A Play with illustrations by Blair Hughes-
A Subaltern on the Somme by Max Plowman Dent 1928. Should be familiar to those of you who remember the old Charlotte Robinson catalogues
Not So Quiet by Helen Zenna Smith Marriott 1930 by (Evadne Price) Nursing memoir
The Further Side of No-
Women of the Aftermath by Helen Zenna Smith John Long 1931. After the war a wife is beaten by her wounded soldier husband (from George Simmers)
The first 3 substantial collections of Wilfred Owen’s poetry -
Trench Yarns by Peter Cassell 1916. Humorous stories (from JRF)
Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander Powell Scribner 1914. War correspondent’s view of the Zeppelin attacks on Antwerp & the flight from Louvain.
Slanting Lines of Steel by E. Alexander Powell Macmillan 1933. Jacket by Norman Rudolph (wraparound repeat design). War Correspondent in the later stages of the war
Purple Patches by T. H. Prince Jackson & O’Sullivan 1935. A rare Australian account
of life as a sapper with 3rd Field Co. Aus. Engineers, AIF at Gallipoli & on the
Western Front 1915-
(from Nick Fletcher, Aus.War Mem.)
Escape of a Princess Pat by George Pearson Doran 1918. As it says 15 months in the hands of the Huns!
Canadians at Ypres (from Paul).
With the Zionists in Gallipoli by J. Patterson Hutchinson 1916.(Colonial issue) Exploits of the Zion Mule Corps in 1915 (from Nick Fletcher)
Gallipoli Today by T. Pemberton Ernest Benn 1926. Work of the Imperial War Graves Commission at Gallipoli. (from Nick Fletcher)
Behind the German Lines by William le Queux Daily Mail 1917. Fictionalised ‘confessions’ of Lt. Col. Otto von Heynitz of the 16th Uhlans
Burt 1916. Part of a long series of juvenile novels which sees the young scouts in Russia, Germany, The Balkans, England, on the Marne, at Verdun & at the Victory.
Our Young Aeroplane Scouts series by Horace Porter Burt 1915
Falsehood in Wartime by Arthur Ponsonby Dutton 1928. An expose of the lies told during the War (from Fons)
Fire-
Cortina Co. 1917. French military language for the US forces.
Private Peat by Harold Peat Bobbs Merrill 1917
Vive la France by E. Alexander Powell Heinemann 1916 (from Roger Joye)
Secret Shame of the Kaiser by William le Queux Hurst & Blackett 1919. Spoof memoirs (from Roger Joye)
Four Days by Spenser Pryse Bodley Head 1932 Record of an Official Mission in NE France (from Roger Joye)
The War Dog by Edward Peple Dutton 1918. Poem. Jacket by Harrison Fisher. Altogether now, a big Ahhhhhh!! (from Fons)
Big Game, Boers and Boches by V. Prescott-
Pursuit by Roland Pertwee Houghton Mifflin 1930 A love story beginning in London during a Zeppelin raid and moving to the Western Front.
Huts in Hell by Daniel Poling Christian Endeavour World 1918.
With the AEF at the Front.
The Amazon by Elliot Paul Liveright 1930. 4 women are accidentally sent to the Argonne Front in the Army Signal Corps causing consternation amongst the opposing Germans!
With the Judeans in the Palestine Campaign by J. Patterson Macmillan 1922 (from David & Helen Pritchard)
O.C.Beds. Yeomanry by Sidney Peel OUP 1935 Commanding the Bedfordshires at Loos &
on the Somme 1914-
Glory & Downfall by General Polovtsoff Bell 1935 A Russian staff officer in the Caucasus in 1917 (from Jeff Leser)
Your Old Battalion by Henry Weston Pryce Cornstalk 1926 Australian verse (from Bong Bong Street Books)
Flight into Hell by Edwin Parsons John Long 1938. The author flew with the Escadrille from Jan. 1917 (from JRF)
The Enemy by Channing Pollock G & D 1926 Novel from the play about a Viennese family & their friends during the War (from Fons)
Shadows around the Lake by Guy de Pourtales Knopf 1938 The vicissitudes of War and its impacts on a family in Geneva (from Fons)
Stretchers by Frederick Pottle Yale 1929 The work of Evacuation hospital No.8 (from JRF)
Iron Rations by Hesketh Pearson Cecil Palmer 1928. Jacket by Doris Palmer. Personal experiences of the Mesopotamian & Persian Fronts lightly disguised as short stories.
Trench Artillery A.E.F. By P. H. Ottosen Lothrop, Lee. Boston 1931. The personal experiences of the Trench Mortar officers.
Letters & Poems by Harold Parry W H Smith 1918 (from JRF)
Salonika and After by Collinson Owen Hodder 1919
Silhouettes of Mars by Major W. G. Peterson Bodley Head 1920 from the ‘On Active Service Series’ (from David & Helen Pritchard)
Love on Leave by Jessie Pope Pearson 1919. Short stories by this writer of much light
War verse. Do the milk churns imply that she’s a simple fur-
Hutchinson later issue (from Nick Fletcher). The continued publication was probably to cash in on Pollard’s recent success as a thriller writer.
My Escape from Donnington Hall by Gunther Pluschow Bodley Head 1922
Frederick Stokes 1931 in 2 vols. Memoirs of the C.in C. of the American Expeditionary Forces.
Below Knopf 1931 Simmering rebellion below decks in the German High Seas Fleet. Trans. by Margaret Green. Published in the UK by Faber.
Hodder 1918. War Correspondent in Salonica.
McClurg (Chicago) 1916 by Randall Parrish. Jacket by The Kinneys. Naval yarn involving Blockade running & piracy (from Babylon Revisited)
Faber 1933. Trans by A W Wheen. Novel detailing the collapse of Germany & its forces in the last months of the War.
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine by Charles Powels Auckland 1922 (from JRF)
