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Hamilton 1935. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw
Harrap 1932. Flying tales for boys
Hamilton 1933. Jacket by W. E. Johns. Once definitive account of German air aces
Hamilton 1937. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw
Constable 1917. Edward Thomas’ first trade book appearance
Hutchinson 1935 later ed.
Scribner 1926. Memoir of the US Marine Corps & a later issue
3 Novels by Edward Thompson. Benn 1930, Benn 1932 & Knopf 1927
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Hutchinson 1937
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Hamilton 1935. Fiction. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw (from Renzo)
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3 copies of Sutherland’s book. On the left , Angus & Robertson 1935 (from Nick Fletcher), centre Hamilton’s Aviation Book Club 1938, and on the right Hamilton 1936 with jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. The author served with the 67th Squadron (Australian) RFC in Palestine.
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Stokes 1918, 1919 & 1919. Illustrated by William Breck . Humorous letters from a doughboy to his girl back home. Both the author & illustrator served with the AEF
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Hamilton 1936. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. 2nd vol. In the fictional Lynx series (from Renzo)
Lane 1919. Letters from Gallipoli & France
(On Active Service Series)
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Garden City 1924 rpt.ed.
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Ingpen & Grant 1928. The 2nd ed. First pub. 1922 under their old name of Selwyn & Blount (gray jacket), here with 2 extra poems. Jacketed copies of ‘Poems’ & ‘Last Poems’ are extremely rare but do exist!
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Harrison 1917 (by Robert Sturges) from Tom Donovan
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Farrar & Rinehardt 1930 (from Fons)
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Stokes 1919. Mable replies

Potter 1933. Captain in the RFA 2/22nd London Howitzer Batt. In France, Salonika & Palestine
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Benn 1929. A journey in the middle-east at the end of the War.

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Doubleday 1929. A history of the submarine service in the War. The UK ed from Heinemann 1929 shows subtle variations in the art work (from Nick Fletcher)

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Second Battalion Assoc. 1942. A History of the 2nd Battalion, AIF, 1914 - 1919
(from Nick Fletcher)
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Lane 1920. Also from the On Active Service Series

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Allenson 1918. Chaplain - Captain to the NZEF Dec 1914 - Aug. 1915 (from Roger Joye)

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Heinemann 1916 (Soldier’s Tales of the Great War vol.4) by a French M.O. (Joseph Subin) in the Expeditionary Corps (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

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Stanley Paul & Co 1928. Yesterday & Today on the Western Front (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

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Meador Publishing (Boston) 1936. Stories of the War from an officer in the 320th Inf., 80th Div. AEF (from William Erti)

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Elkin Mathews 1931. Novel from the German of a young lady from Alsace who becomes a nurse tending the wounded at Metz. Written in diary form.

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Hodder 1932. Originator of the tank
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Oxford 1928. Letters & Diary of Major Stuart-Wortley who flew with 22 Sq. Bristol Fighters RFC

Blackwood 1919. ‘On Active Service’ series
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Little, Brown 1932 Autobiographical novel of a Hungarian peasant boy sent off to War (from Fons)

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(Hutchinson 1931?) (from Geoffrey Miller)

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G & D 1926 (fp Little Brown 1926) Novel. Zina Renner tries to cope after her husband is reported missing at the Front (from Fons)

Methuen 1917. War correspondent
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Hamilton 1935 (by Vigilant)
Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw
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Bodley Head 1920 from the ‘On Active Service Series’

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(by T. S. Stribling) Reilly & Britton. Chicago 1917. Jacket by Herbert Morton Stoops. ‘A naval novel for Boys & Men set in the Sargasso Sea’

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Hurst & Blackett 1939. The authors time as a POW in a German camp & a coal mine. Remarkably scarce.

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Dutton 1930 (f.p. 1920) Bruce the Collie is drafted to carry messages at the Front & comes home a hero (from Fons)

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Garden City 1927 (fp Doubleday, same year) The story of the larger-than-life Count who converted his schooner into a raiding vessel & sunk numerous allied ships.

(from Double H Books).

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Cecil Palmer 1920. With the 30, 63 & 72 squadrons over Mesopotamia where Lt.Col. Tennant was the CO (from Bob Liska).

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