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.

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, enlarged 2nd ed 1919 below & 1923? Re-issue, below left (from Andrew Harrison)

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

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

Both Herbert Jenkins 1918. Only these 2 collections of the famous trench magazines were published.. There were later gathered into the single volumes shown alongside.

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  UK, US & Australian 1sts. Cape 1939, Yale 1939 & Angus & Robertson 1939  . History of the German Raider which was  disguised as a Freighter and sunk 135,000 tons of allied shipping.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

below McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1929 (from James Calhoun)

The “Doc” and some others by Aesculapius Chambers (1917) Tales by a surgeon in the Royal Navy. The splendid jacket is by G F Williams.

With the Welsh by Fred Ambrose Western Mail 1917. Tales of the Welsh division (from JRF)

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

My Balkan Log by J. Johnston Abraham (Chapman & Hall 1922?) A Scottish surgeon with a red cross unit in Serbia

(from Geoffrey Miller)

War Wounds & Air Raid Casualties H K Lewis 1939. A series of articles from the BMJ largely referring to data from the Great War.

Simpkin, Marshall 1917

War Wings by Eustace Adams Grosset & Dunlap 1937 Air Combat stories for boys (from JRF)

Hodder 1915 (from Neil Cournoyer)

Herbert Joseph 1932. Revisiting Salonika, The Balkans, Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine (from JRF)

Winston 1929. A look at the causes of the War (from Between-the-Covers)

Heinemann 1924. Written by the officers of the Battalion (from Paul Meekins Books)

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

Assoc. Press NY 1919. The story of a French Subaltern of the Chasseur Alpine who was killed at the Battle of Saint Die (from Andrew Harrison)

Hodder 1914. Fine words about Belgium from the Great & the Good (for the Daily Telegraph Belgian Fund)

Hodder 1914 An excellent anthology from the leading authors & artists of the day - only 22 words from the Princess though!

Hodder 1915. The same format as Princess Mary’s book alongside.

Allen & Unwin 1917. Reprint of the journals written & published by members of the Mediterranean Fleet anchored off Tenedos in 1914.

Bodley Head 1936. 2nd Cheap ed. (f.p. 1933) Various authors, 2 of the stories concern the War.

A & C Black 1920. Illustrated by Martin Hardie (from David & Helen Pritchard)

David Clark. Glasgow 1916 Poems written for the ‘Outpost’ journal of 17th Batt., H.L.I.

Grosset & Dunlap 1935. Illus. By J. Clemens Gretter. Air stories for boys.