Great War Dust Jackets

Some Rupert Brookes. The 1st of 1914 & other poems (from eBay), the more usual jacket from a 1916 printing & the 2nd Collected edition from 1928. All Sidgwick & Jackson  (Poems from 1911 was jacketless until the 12th printing)

Blackwood 1915, Hodder 1926, Houghton Mifflin 1928 & Blackwood 1916 . Although published during the war, The Thirty-Nine Steps is more about the build up to it. Hannay’s 2 subsequent adventures, Greenmantle & Mr. Standfast, did however pitch him into the War.

Smith, Elder 1916. Superb jacket by Fred Leist.

Gollancz 1930 (by Anthony Burrage)

Brilliant descriptions of Passchendaele & Cambrai.

Houghton Mifflin 1928 rpt.

Reilly & Britton 1917 Jacket by H M Stoops. Adventure yarn about fighting the Hun in the Sargasso Sea

Odhams nd. Jacket by J. Abbey. A Tale of espionage during the War (not listed in BL or COPAC) (possibly a rpt. under a different title?)

John Murray 1920 (fp 1919) With 25th Royal Fusiliers against Lettow-Vorbeck (from eBay)

Nelson 1921. Condensed edition.(from Tom Donovan)

Methuen 1918. Fine memoir of the early months of the War (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Eric Partridge 1931 3rd ed.

(from David & Helen Pritchard)

Several novels by Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

2 re-issues from Smith, Elder 1916 & 1917 to match ‘Action Front’ alongside. Jackets by Fred Leist (from David Ainsworth & Andrew Harrison)

Scapa and a Camera by C. W. Burrows Country Life 1921. Photographing the scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow

Doran 1919 (from Chris Johnson)

2 John Brophy War Novels & an Anthology. Dutton 1928,  Macmillan 1934 & Dent 1929 (from JRF)

Nelson 1914 - 1919

24 vols. The jacket changing to the Buchan image from vol. 18 onwards.

Gollancz 1929 (trans. from the French) Foch’s Aide-de-Camp discusses the War with him (from Andrew Harrison)

The copy of 1914 & other poems alongside is from Sidgwick & Jackson Sept.1916 14th imp. Glassene wrapper, solander box & suede cover but not mentioned in Keynes or the BL (from Andrew Harrison)

Allen & Unwin 1915 The two words seem to be permanently synonymous (from MW Books)

Collins 1939 illustrated by Anne Bullen (from Fons)

Stockwell 1920 with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Illustrated by the author.(from JRF)

Allen & Unwin 1935 The author’s experiences in the Balkans during the War (from Geoffrey Miller)

Scribner 1917 (from David & Helen Pritchard)

Kelly 1918. The memoirs of a Wesleyan Methodist Minister at the front (from JRF)

Faber 1934. From professional roller skater to War photographer to internment at Ruhleben to Scapa Flow.

Burrows 1923 At Gallipoli, Suvla Bay & Cambrai.

Constable 1931. Appointed to the Danish Embassy in Petrograd, the author was responsible for the fate of Austro-Hungarian prisoners but was himself imprisoned. (from Larsen Books)

G & D 1918 (by Annie Edith Jameson). A soap opera of torn loyalties (from Fons).

Dutton 1930 3rd imp. (from R Bryan Old Books)

2 copies of an unusual title for this site. McClurg 1920 & Methuen 1921. Burroughs did serve in the US army but not in the Great War. In this adventure Tarzan does do battle with the Germans in the same campaign as that described in Francis Brett Young’s ‘ Marching on Tanga’

Dutton 1915. Of interest only in that the front and rear of the jacket are the same.