Great War Dust Jackets

Collins 1917. With Smuts in East Africa.

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

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

Dutton 1920 (from Fons)

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

Collins 1938

below Dutton 1927 (both 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.

below Heinemann 1931. A short story.

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

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)

Cape 1934. Along with Lewis’ ‘Sagittarius Rising’, the outstanding novel of the Air War drawing on the author’s experiences flying over the Western Front with 40th & 86th Squadrons. Yeates died from TB 5 months after this book was published.The manuscript was corrected by Henry Williamson whose forward is included in the 2nd impression of Nov. that year. The book was in such demand amongst WW2 pilots that copies were said to be changing hands at £5 each.

Cape 1961 re-issue with a new forward by Henry Williamson.

Dent 1916 (by Fitzwater Wray better known as the translator of ‘Under Fire’). From St.Malo to the Battlefields by bicycle to observe the changes brought about by the War.

Sampson Low 1918. The unsung work of the Fishing Fleet during the War.

Century Co. 1919 Tales of an orderly in the US Medical service. (from Peter Harrington).

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

Dent 1931. The Campaign in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to keep out the Turkana & Abyssinian raiders. An excellent account.

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

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

Harrison Smith 1934 (from Bob Liska at Colophon Books).

Hutchinson 1937. A staff officers view of the War in East Africa.

Cassell 1918 & 1919. Some particularly evocative watercolours accompany these Naval narratives.

Viking 1938 & Secker 1938 The 4th volume in Zweig’s ‘The Great War of the White Men’ sextet. (UK ed from Stephen Ferdinando)

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

Methuen 1931

Mellifont Press 1935

(f.p. John Long 1932)

Methuen 1930

Fisher Unwin 1914. A journalist with the first report from Louvain to the Aisne (ex-IWM, cut down from the original)

Collins 1919 1st illustrated edition.

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1933. Famous escapes down the years.

A.L.Burt 1915 (f.p. Century Co)

An American diplomat in Paris travels in the War Zone.

Little. Brown 1918. A look at the causes of the War & its progress in the Near East.

Hogarth 1927 Jacket by Vanessa Bell. The War is most noticeably felt in the middle section of the book.

Privately Printed 1926

William Faro 1932. The life of Fritz Joubert Duquesne.

left Knopf 1936, above Gollancz 1935

A journalist’s view of the start of the War.

Small, Maynard 1918. US War Correspondent’s tale of a baseball player who goes to the front.

G & D 1928. Tale of a Bavarian widow & her 4 sons in the War. (Filmed by John Ford).