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Great War Dust Jackets

Richards 1930. Novel. Super jacket but I cannot decipher the artists name

Poetry & Naval reminiscences from Lt. Commander Hilton Young .Sidgwick 1919, Jack 1920 & Methuen 1924 (1st illustrated ed.)

OUP 1937 ? Bristol Fighter Squadron 22 (from Tom Donovan)

UK & US eds. Gollancz 1932 & published as ‘Bloody Years’ by Viking 1932. Prisoner of the Turks after being shot down at Ctesiphon during Mesopotamian Campaign.

2 variant US jackets from Viking Press 1936 (from Fons Oltheton)

Allen & Unwin 1931. Might not be too complimentary of the brass hats!

Coward-McCann 1928 & re-titled G & D rpt. 3 dog stories at least 1 set in the war.

Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1935. Founder of the Over-seas League. Reminiscences of Lawrence of Arabia & the Propaganda Ministry. Inscribed to Colonel J. B. Dodge

Ronald McDonald 1935. One of the better AIF Unit histories, at Gallipoli & on the Western Front 1915 - 1918 (Australian War Memorial).

Collins 1917. With General Smuts in East Africa.(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Errol G Knox 1935. (reputedly only 200 copies printed) Jacket by Gerald Muir. 3 Squadron flew RE 8s on Artillery Observation duties in 1917 - 1918
(from Nick Fletcher)

Collins April 1930 6th imp. Reprinted in the same format as Ralph Scott’s ‘A Soldier’s Diary’ q.v. (from Nick Fletcher)

Arnold 1928. Unit histories are nearly always under plain wrappers but this is unusual (from JRF)

Grosset & Dunlap 1929 Photoplay ed. Illus. With scenes from the film (from Babylon Revisited)

Appleton 1934. A collection of true spy stories (from Babylon Revisited)

Dutton 1920 (from Fons)

Blackwood 1922 (f.p. 1919). 8 British officers escape from the Turks.

Cape 1934. Novel drawing on the author’s experiences over the Western Front with 40th & 86th Squadrons. The manuscript was corrected by Henry Williamson

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Heinemann 1930. Good description of the campaign between Smuts & Lettow -Vorbeck in East Africa.

Collins 1938 (from Fons).

Simpkin Marshall 1917. Work in an army hospital (from Neil Cournoyer)

Macauley 1934. Jacket by Corinne Boyd Dillon. A 14 year old girl serves on the Eastern Front throughout the War with a Cossack regiment.

Ivor, Nicholson & Watson 1932. Hungarian War novel. Identical jacket to the US edition from Doubleday.

Stockwell 1931. ‘The tragedy, humour & pathos of Gallipoli’ (from JRF)

Harold Vinal 1928 A Princetown man’s view of the War in sonnet form. Jacket by Park (from Babylon Revisited Books)

Cassell 1920 Popular ed (fp 1918) A sensitive soul is brutalised in the German Army but is redeemed before his death. Well written novel.

Duffield & Green 1932 Jacket by Nat Falk. His life before, during & after the War (from Mike’s Library)

Methuen 1939. A Ruthenian peasant in the Austrian army during the first 6 weeks of the war based on the author’s experiences. Winner of the Polish Academy prize. (from Fons)

Edward Arnold 1932. Fairly routine Divisional History.

Mellifont 1937 Paperback (f.p. Jarrolds 1928) (from David Ainsworth)

Mellifont Press 1935

(f.p. John Long 1932)

Eveleigh Nash 1921 2nd imp. Assistant Secretary at the Military section this book was seen by Cyril Falls as an attack on Haig (from Tom Donovan).