Chatto 1930. Short stories. 2 splendid jackets by Paul Nash
Gollancz 1934. No doubt stylish but
hardly a patch on the US version alongside
Methuen 1917. This rather dull jacket covers what for me is the finest memoir of the war. A truly compassionate man
Eyre 1934. Novel. Shows the disruption in the lives of young men at the front. Jacket unsigned
Chatto 1929. A savage debunking of the concept of heroism.
Coward McCann 1929.’The first really authentic work of imaginative writing to come out of the war’ Ford Madox Ford
Hutchinson 1930. 1/4th Black Watch at Festubert, Somme & 3rd Ypres.
Grosset & Dunlap after 1926. Jacket by Wendell Galloway. There are at least 2 other variant jackets for this title.
Secker 1929. One of the finest German novels of the war concerning a group of soldiers suffering from wounds to the throat
Secker 1933, who put a bit more effort into this one! Short stories.
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?)
Garden City Pub. 1929 after Covici-Freed ed. Same year. Fine but Unsigned jacket
Houghton Mifflin 1924 (fp 1914)
Letters from her retirement cottage in the Marne Valley describing the battle (from Fons)
Appleton 1918. Early American poetry anthology
Constable 1918. Papers of a wounded soldier
Dent 1930 One of the earliest and best anthologies of Soldier’s memoirs.
(from David & Helen Pritchard)
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).
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)
Little Brown 1917 (f.p. 1915). A popular sentimental novella.
John Murray 1929. Fictional letters from the front
Hodder 1916, 1917 & 1918. The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Heath Cranton [1920] The memoir of Elizabeth Johnston of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary
Corps.
Eveleigh Nash 1930 All the major Trench newspapers in 1 volume
(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.
Eyre & Spottiswoode 1930. One of the first collections of its type.
Covici Friede 1936. An officer in the Austro/Hungarian army, he paints a very bleak
picture of morale amongst the troops (from Dave Golemon)
