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The Gambardier by (Frederick Lushington) Benn 1930. Edward Thomas’ battery commander. Jacket by R. Hartman

Gun Fodder by J F Snook Allen & Unwin 1930. Sgt. in Essex Reg. DCM. Served at Ypres, Loos & Somme.

Knopf 1927. The story of a farmer’s son at war, told in the local vernacular. A symbol of the average Joe in the War.

John Hamilton 1933. 3rd pr. Novel. US aviator becomes engaged before going to France but feels unworthy of his fiance when he returns.

6 works of fiction by Elliott White Springs, the much decorated US Air ace and later highly successful businessman.
Flew with the 85th Sq. RFC & 148th Aero Sq. Won the DFC & DSC. 16 victories.

Heinemann 1928. Young American Air hero
returns home to many disappointments. Set
largely in the Southern States.

A Socialist at War. From a machine shop in small town America to Chateau Thierry in France. 1st Pub. in 1919, the copy on the left is a Hutchinson Popular Library ed. from 1921 & the central one seems to be self-published from 1933 (from Fons). It appears to have been very popular in Germany hence the Berlin ed. of 1924 on the right. The jacket below is from Sinclair’s ‘Lanny Budd’ series about the intrigues of big business & the machinations of the Peace Conference. Viking 1940’

Watt 1918. Jacket by C. W. Gage. A novel of German arrogance ‘kultur’ & conceit. (from Babylon Revisited)

Hamilton 1933. The last year of the war flying Fokker D VII’s with Jagdstaffel 34 & 35. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Harper 1918. A young man at the Front following on from Richard Davis’ ‘The Deserter’

Philip Allan 1931. A nurse at the front, illustrated by the author. Below. Minton Balch NY 1931 (from JRF)

(See illustrations from this book)

Returned Soldiers Ass. of NSW 1917. Edition de Luxe of 200 copies. Issued each year from 1916-1920 to commemorate the Gallipoli landings containing poems, stories & photos.

I can think of no other example of a jacket covering a leather binding! (from Nick Fletcher).

A Captain Departed by A W Smith Peter Davies 1934 & Yale 1935 (Jacket by Paul Laune). Little known memoir by Capt. later Major A. W. Smith from his enlistment, through the Western Front at Ypres, to post-war in India.

Putnam 1940. The concluding part of the Nobel Prizewinner’s great novel which covers the Great War & the Russian Civil War which followed. The WW1 parts are mostly in the previous vol. ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ but I’ve not seen a copy!

John Winston 1930. The story of the Kentucky boy who single-handedly captured a German Machine Gun Battalion.

Below the Watchtowers by Margaret Skelton Leonard Parsons 1926. Anti-war novel about a group of English & German students who are separated by the War. Jacket sadly unsigned.

Houghton Mifflin 1917. An American ambulance driver at the front (from Dave Golemon)

Mitre Press 1930. Impressions and Reminiscences of a young officer with the 1st Leinster’s around the Med.

‘Bird Up!’ By ‘Spotter’ Alexander Ouseley 1930. Novel. Absorbing incidents in the trail of the anti-aircraft forces.

(from Nick Fletcher)

Contact by Elliott White Springs Sears 1930 in a G & D jacket (from Dave Golemon)

Those were the Days by Osbert Sitwell Macmillan 1938 Jacket by John Farleigh. Novel set in London before, during & after the War.

John Hamilton May 1934 4th pr. Jacket by W. E. Johns (from Andrew Harrison)

Doran 1926 (from Fons) Novel set in an English seaside town on the eve of War

Odhams 1922 (by Aubrey Smith) One of the great classics of life in the ranks. He served with the London Rifle Brigade (1/5 Bt. London Reg.) from 1915 onwards winning the MM & Bar.

Heinemann 1928. Biography of the Maj. Gen. based on his diaries & private papers (from Tom Donovan)

Int. Fict. Lib. 1929. A Cambridge man, wrongfully accused of murder, escapes from prison to find redemption at the front.

Blackwood 1916 (by Major H A Stewart). The diary of a supply officer with the Army Service Corps. Cyril Falls liked the photo’s! The rare jacket mimics the cloth beneath.

Privately Printed 1919 in an edition of 200 copies. Only in wrappers but I didn’t want this important book to be lost elsewhere. ‘Bumble Bee’ has identified himself as the Wine expert Andre Simon in the above inscription. Although clearly involved in front line action most of his descriptions are of his rest billets! With the 50th Northumbrian Division.

Dent Wayfarers Library 1916. A novel about a lady doctor who joins the RAMC disguised as a man!

Scribner 1918 with Silhouettes by Jessie Gillespie. The author worked with the YMCA as part of the AEF (from Fons).

Dutton 1917. True story of an Irish terrier, a kind-hearted Tommy & a heartless Hun (from Fons).