Page 32

Great War Dust Jackets

Cassell 1916 Macmillan 1916 Donohoe 1917 The effects of the War on an English village

Bodley Head 1929, Coward-McCann 1928 & G & D 1928 (from Fons). Jacket by Wendell Galloway. Realistic novel of 8 members of the AEF in France. Wharton served with the 111th Infantry

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 1939. Naval officer in the Baltic

Cassell 1917 Macmillan 1917. Jacket by C. Allan Gilbert (from Babylon Revisited) The effects of the War on the Catholic church.

Angus & Robertson 1935. Jacket by Dorothy Wall. Further adventures with 56th Batt. AIF in Egypt & Western Front
(from Nick Fletcher, Aus.War.Mem.)

1st Australian ed Angus & Robertson 1932,UK 1st John Hamilton 1928 & 2nd (Australian) ed. Angus & Robertson 1935.
Australian airman’s account of his capture by and escape from the Turks (he escaped with Alan Bott (‘Contact’) (from Nick Fletcher)

3 from Rebecca West. UK 2nd ed. Nisbet 1919 (same jacket as 1st.) & US 1st. ed. Century & Co. 1918. 3 ladies care for a soldier with shell-shock induced amnesia. War Nurse published anonymously.Cosmopolitan 1930

Cassell 1916 (from Ebay)

Angus & Robertson 1920. Jacket & Illustrations by David Barker. The author served with 13th Batt. AIF & wrote a history of them. A generally light-hearted view but with useful descriptions of trench life & gas warfare. (from Nick Fletcher)

Angus & Robertson 1933. Australian memoir (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Benn 1928. Doubleday 1928 At the war where Mr. Blettsworthy loses a leg (from Babylon Revisited)

Hutchinson 1932 Macmillan 1933

Allen & Unwin 1931. UK issue of previous book. Novel set on the Russian Front.

Hodder 1918. Stories of the life of an artillery squadron of the RAF by one of its Captains (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Macmillan 1931 Biography of Canada’s War Minister (from Neil Cournoyer)

Country Life 1919 & Doran 1919. The history of tank warfare up to the end of the War. (both from David & Helen Pritchard)

Harding & More 1921 Chaplain with the 47th & 49th Div. With a forward by Rowland Fielding

Collins 1924 Cheap ed. Cassell 1917

Scribner 1915 (from Chris Johnson), Appleton 1918, Scribner 1923 & Grosset & Dunlap rpt. (above) & Macmillan UK 1918 (below)

Duckworth 1930. Artillery memoir

(Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Daily Chronicle 1915. Essay

Hard Lying by Capt. L B Weldon Jenkins 1926 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

John Smith 1917. A Chaplain at the Front (Vergette-Whitehorn collection)

Hodder 1915 with a preface by Queen Alexandra . Ed. by Vivian & Williams (from Andrew Harrison)

Chambers 1938. An aerial gunner over the Western Front with the RFC. ‘Arch’ Whitehouse was the author of numerous books on the Air war.

Gale & Polden 1924 Limited to 200 copies, Lt. Col. Whitton’s 2 vol. history of the Royal Canadians from 1760 - 1922 (from JRF)

Herbert Joseph 1932. A V.A.D. In Salonika (from JRF)

Nisbet 1915 (f.p. 1909 but updated to include the present War). Agnes Weston set up the Royal Sailors Rest in Portsmouth. She was known as the Mother of the Navy.

Privately printed NZ n.d. Major Wilson’s time with the New Zealand Forces.

Hodder 1915

Century Co. 1915 Play subsequently made into a film in 1916 with Nazimova & Richard Barthelmess (from Babylon Revisited Books)

John Hamilton 1936. Jacket by Stanley Orton Bradshaw. 4 stories, some set in the War.

Seeley 1929 History of the Royal Tank Corps 1916 - 1919

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Cassell 1917 The War in South Africa by the Commander of the Royal Naval Armoured car division.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)