Great War Dust Jackets

No Man’s Land by Vernon Bartlett Allen & Unwin 1930. Novelised account of the Ypres salient by a wounded soldier. Stunning jacket is unsigned

The Sons of Cain by James Warner Bellah Appleton 1928. American Major in London at the time of the Armistice

Letters from France by C E W Bean Cassell 1917. Australian War Reporter at Poziers & Mouquet Farm

Gallipoli Mission by C E W Bean Aust.War.Mem.1948. Picture of Zeki Bey on the jacket by G.W.Lambert. Account of the Aus.Historical Mission to the battlefields in1919.

Tales of the War by A L Bartley Clyde Cockrell 1935. Memoir of the battle of the Meuse-Argonne by a rifleman in the US 90th Division (from William E.)

The First Canadians in France by F McKelvey Bell Doran 1917 (from JRF)

The Unknown Soldier by Vernon Bartlett Stokes 1930. The US edition of Bartlett’s ‘No Man’s Land’ below

Little Grey Ships by J J Bell John Murray 1916. Jacket by Charles Dawson. Stories about the Minesweepers & Patrol boats of the Fleet.

Fighting Lines by Harold Begbie Constable 1914 2nd issue (the 1st was in picture wrappers), War verse, widely anthologised at the time although difficult now to see why. (jacket signed E.N.)

Under the Periscope by Mark Bennett Collins 1930. (fp 1919) from their uniform series ‘Books of the Great War’. Lightly fictionalised account of submarine warfare.

Canada in War-Paint by Ralph Bell Dent 1917. With 1st Canadian Inf., Ontario Reg. (from Neil Cournoyer)

Spies Break Through by A Bauermeister Constable 1934. Memoirs of a German Secret Service officer

Behind the Firing Line by Harold Begbie Newnes (1914/5?). Strangely this work from the War Correspondent is not to be found in the British Library, COPAC or ABE - withdrawn perhaps?? (from Roger Joye)

Der Tag by J M Barrie Hodder 1915. A War play (from Roger Joye)

Gods of Yesterday by James Warner Bellah Appleton 1928 by the Kipling of men who fly!!

Arnold Bennett - Lord Raingo Doran 1926 and The Pretty Lady Cassell 1918. Both novels set in Wartime London

An unusual French edition of Hay’s ‘First 100,000’ (from Fons)

Grosset & Dunlap n.d.. (from Fons).

Bonjour Soldat by Verner Beck Stratford 1931. A humorous journey through the world war with the American artillery.

Liberty by Arnold Bennett Hodder 1914

Horses in the Sky by Larry Barretto John Day 1929. Cover by F. E. Warren. Four US ambulance drivers on the Aisne.

The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett Hutchinson 1918. An unsatisfactory life is redeemed by the coming of War (from George Simmers & The Bodlean)

Hunting the Hun by James Belton Appleton 1918. With the Canadians at Vimy Ridge (from the Vergette-Whithorn Collection)

Various books by Ian Hay (Beith)

Too Fat to Fight by Rex Beach Harper 1919 Jacket by T D Skidmore. The story of a soldier who made good in the end (from Fons)

My War with the United States by Ludwig Bemelmans. Modern Library ed. 1941 Illustrated by the author. His time as a German in the US army during the War (from Fons)

Youth at Arms by Leonard Barnes Peter Davies 1933 Poetry

Mud & Khaki by Vernon Bartlett Simpkin, Marshall 1917 cheap ed. (sl. smaller than the 1st of April that year) Short stories

A Crusader in France by Ferdinand Belmont Dutton 1917

Doubleday 1917. Arguments against ending the War early.

L.P.M. The End of the Great War by J. Stewart Barney Putnam 1915 Jacket by Clarence Underwood. Novel. A scientist aims to end the War early by means of a startling invention (from Babylon Revisited Rare Books)

Eve in Khaki : The Story of the Women’s Army (WAAC) at home & abroad by Edith Barton & Marguerite Cody Nelson 1918

A General Sketch of the European War by Hilaire Belloc Nelson’s Continental Library 1915 Jacket by Septimus Scott

(from John Marrin)

Alston Rivers 1915. The Genesis of the Royal Australian Navy (from JRF)

We Did not Fight ed. By Julian Bell Cobden Sanderson 1935. Experiences of War resisters (from Peter Harrington)

 

A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War by D H Bell Faber 1929 re-written by Henry Williamson

Bodley Head 1931

Harper’s 1920. An unusual case where the picture on the jacket differs from that on the cloth binding below (from Fons)

Blackwood 1923 Trench warfare on the Asiago plateau from the senior admin. officer on the staff of the 48th Div. (from David & Helen Pritchard)