Great War Dust Jackets

Roads to Glory bt Richard Aldington Chatto 1930. Short stories.  2 splendid jackets by Paul Nash

Nothing of Importance by Bernard Adams Methuen 1917. This rather dull jacket covers what for me is the finest memoir of the war. A truly compassionate man

Men Who March Away by Henry Andover Eyre 1934. Novel. Shows the disruption in the lives of young men at the front. Jacket unsigned

Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington Chatto 1929. A savage debunking of the concept of heroism.

All Else is Folly by Peregrine Acland Coward McCann 1929.’The first really authentic work of imaginative writing to come out of the war’ Ford Madox Ford

Haunting Years by W L Andrews Hutchinson 1930. 1/4th Black Watch at Festubert, Somme & 3rd Ypres.

The Whistlers’ Room by Paul Alverdes Secker 1929. One of the finest German novels of the war concerning a group of soldiers suffering from wounds to the throat

Changed Men by Paul Alverdes Secker 1933, who put a bit more effort into this one! Short stories.

The New Elizabethans by E B Osborne Bodley Head 1919. Brief biographies of 24 literary men who fell in the War, amongst them Charles Sorley, Alan Seeger, W. N. Hodgson & the Grenfell brothers. The only text anywhere on the jacket is that on the spine. It must have been a hard book for the shops to shift!  With no illustrations in the text & at 16/- it seems a trifle dear when in the same year you could get the ‘39 Steps’ for only 1/-. ( Delving further into my own collection I find this 1st ed. existed in 2 states - the other having photographs & a more elaborate binding, so it may have had a pictorial jacket? Was it even more expensive?)

For Remembrance by St John Adcock Hodder 1918  

A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich Houghton Mifflin 1924 (fp 1914) Letters from her retirement cottage in the Marne Valley describing the battle (from Fons)

From the Front by C E Andrews Appleton 1918. Early American poetry anthology

Georgian Poetry 1918-1919 Ed. By Edward Marsh Poetry Bookshop 1919. Just one of the series as an example

McBride 1918. A much finer jacket for the US edition. (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Herbert Jenkins 1918. Rpt. Of the Trench magazine.

Hodder 1915 (from Neil Cournoyer)

Cassell 1915 Ed. by C. E. W. Bean. The jacket has a central oval cut away to reveal the pictorial cloth underneath - late Victorian jackets were occasionally used in this way (from Nick Fletcher).

The Cruise of the Raider Wolf by Roy Alexander US & Australian 1sts. Yale 1939 & Angus & Robertson 1939 (The UK 1st is plain text) . History of the German Raider which was  disguised as a Freighter and sunk 135,000 tons of shipping.

Farrar & Reinhart. 2nd US ed. Jacket by Lyle Justice (from William Erti)

The Three Things by M R S Andrews Little Brown 1917 (f.p. 1915). A popular sentimental novella.

Green Envelopes John Murray 1929. Fictional letters from the front

Canada in Flanders by Max Aitken Hodder 1916, 1917 & 1918. The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

“Johnnie” of Q.M.A.A.C. By Agnes Anderson Heath Cranton [1920] The memoir of Elizabeth Johnston of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

Eveleigh Nash 1930 Variant jacket (from Roger Joye).

Farrar & Reinhart 1940. 2 War stories

Jarrold 1915. Poems, stories & pictures, many on the theme of blindness, issued to raise money for St. Dunstans.

Great Short Stories of the War Ed. By Edmund Blunden Eyre & Spottiswoode 1930. One of the first collections of its type.

And We Are Civilized by Wolfgang Ackermann Covici Friede 1936. An officer in the Austro/Hungarian army, he paints a very bleak picture of morale amongst the troops (from Dave Golemon)

The Rhineland Occupation by Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen Bobbs-Merrill 1927. Units of the AEF in Germany after the War.

And Behold We Live by James Adderley Constable 1918. Papers of a wounded soldier

The Peak of the Load by Mildred Aldrich Constable 1919 3rd vol. of her War letters.

Everyman at War Ed. By C B Purdom Dent 1930 One of the earliest and best anthologies of Soldier’s memoirs.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Made in the Trenches. Ed by Sir Frederick Treves & George Goodchild Allen & Unwin 1916. Sold in aid of the Star & Garter Fund for disabled soldiers & sailors.

Arthur Innes Adam Bowes & Bowes 1920. Letters from a Captain in the 1st Cambridgeshires killed near Bapaume. Compiled by his mother.