Great War Dust Jackets
Heaven High Hell Deep by Norman Archibald Heinemann 1935. A fine Paul Nash design for this flying memoir + US ed. Boni 1935 in silver foil jacket (from JRF)
Roon by Herbert Asquith Hutchinson 1929 & 1930. Cheap edition. Novel by the poet & PMs son. A woman torn between romance & duty.
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse Dent 1917. Wonderful & exceptionally rare jacket.
Light by Henri Barbusse Dent 1919. The Follow-
Schlump by (Eric Schultz) Secker 1929 . A simple man at war with a vivid description of the German retreat.
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3 of Anthony Armstrong’s Humorous series. Jackets by Rene Bull & G L Stampa. Methuen 1926,1928 & 1932 (from JRF)
The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold Heinemann 1920. Novel This must have just leapt out at you in the shop!
The Soul of a Skunk by George Baker Eric Partridge 1930. A conscientious objector on his imprisonment
The Legion of the Condemned by Eustace Ball Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Novelisation of the screenplay by John Monk Saunders for the film starring Gary Cooper & Fay Wray.
Q Boat Adventures by Harold Auten Herbert Jenkins. Popular ed. (1920). Jacket by J. H. Hartley. One of the original commanders tells his story of these armoured ships.
Dutton 1918 rpt. (from David & Helen Pritchard)
Death in the Air by Wesley D. Archer Heinemann 1936 rpt. & 1933 original (from Peter Harrington). Probably genuine RFC memoir but the spectacular aerial photos were later shown to have been made using model aircraft!
Julian Messner 1935. With the AEF. Described as the antithesis of the novels of disillusion. (from Babylon Revisited)
Hurst & Blackett 1916. A Major’s letters to his mother from the front. His letters are so anodyne that she must have been astounded when he was killed.
With a Motorbike in the Bush by F J Ashley Blackie 1938. With a motorbike unit in East Africa written for young boys (from Kerry Trubee).
The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey Penn Publishing / G & D 1919. A millionaire slacker & the 2 women in his life. A popular melodrama.
Bobbs Merill 1932. Anon. Service in France with US Intelligence service.
An Airman Marches by H H Balfour Hutchinson 1933. With 43rd Sqd. over the front. The authors’ wide experience makes this a valuable source of information (from David & Helen Pritchard).
Heinemann 1929 -
Secker 1930. Standard series format for the 2nd ed.
McKay 1941. Book of the film.
Some of My Experiences in the Great War by Ashmead-
Simpson & Co 1919. Anon. The experiences of a voluntary unit on No. 16 Ambulance
train (from the Vergette-
From Chauffeur to Brigadier by C B Baker-
Air Defence by E B Ashmore Longmans 1929 The Commander of the London Air Defences gives an account of the raids on England during the War (from Dave Golemon)
Hodder 1921 Issued by Supreme command of the Italian Army. June 15 -
Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather Grant Richards 1916. His trench memoirs are as good as his cartoons.
Carry on Sergeant by Bruce Bairnsfather Bobbs-
Portrait of an Airman by Philip Arnall (Oliver Stewart) Bodley Head 1931 His time with 54 Squadron RFC. Memoirs masquerading as a novel.
Animal War Heroes by Peter Shaw Baker A & C Black 1933. Touching true stories of Horses, Mules, Dogs, Cats, Pigeons & even Geese.
The Querrils by Stacy Aumonier Methuen 1919. The troubles of a middle-
Bairnsfather; Fragments from his life by Vivian Carter Hodder 1916 with several previously unpublished sketches
Gone West by a Soldier Doctor Knopf 1919 Letters from the front (from Babylon Revisited)
Turkey in Travail by Harold Armstrong Bodley Head 1925. Written by a former POW (from Peter Lambert)
“Poilu” A Dog of Roubaix by Eleanor Atkinson. Harper 1918 later printing. The War from a dogs viewpoint. (from Babylon Revisited)
Bronco by Richard Ball Junior Country Life Library 1939 (from Fons) & Country Life 1930 alongside. The fictionalised life of a cavalry horse in the War who goes on to win at Olympia.
With the 10th Essex in France by Lt. Col. T M Banks Gay & Hancock 1921 (from Tom Donovan)
Mike of Company D by Don Aspden Scribner 1939 illustrated by Paul Brown. Mikes’ time in the Front Line (from Fons)
Hodder 1917 The cover picture is taken from the image by Matania as used in the ‘Sketch’ showing Cornwell standing by his guns at Jutland
Doran 1916 A report from the French Government on the forced labour of women in the occupied territories.
Simpkin, Marshall 1916. 6th imp. The author was the War Correspondent of the Daily News (from David Ainsworth)
Methuen 1915. from MW Books
Cassell 1916 (by E. A.) The diary of a Belgian nun & her fight against the Germans.
Murray 1927. At 1st & 3rd Ypres, Festubert, Loos, Somme & in Italy (from Tom Donovan)
Holding the Line by Harold Baldwin McClurg 1918. 1st Div. Canadian Exp. Force. (from JRF)
Dutton 1928 (pub. in UK as ‘Thus & Thus’)Short stories some set during the War & in the Balkans & Russia (from Babylon Revisited)
Hutchinson 1930. Anonymous diary of the Russian revolution.
Putnam 1917. Collected US edition (from David & Helen Pritchard)