Great War Dust Jackets
My Mystery Ships by Gordon Campbell Hodder 1928. Often seen in the more pictorial jacket as in the later edition seen alongside. Hodder 1932
A Passionate Prodigality by Guy Chapman Ivor, Nash & Watson 1933. With 13th Royal Fusiliers on the Somme. Should be in everyone’s top 10!
Vain Glory by Guy Chapman Cassell 1937. The usual jacket & an additional over-
At G.H.Q. By John Charteris Cassell 1931
The Woman of Knockaloe (Barbed Wire) by Hall Caine Dodd, Mead 1923, filmed in 1927 as ‘Barbed Wire’ with Pola Negri & Clive Brook who are shown on the above jacket for the Readers Library edition of 1927. Set in Normandy, a German POW falls in love with a French farm girl.
Mars by Alain Cape 1930 US & UK eds. From NYPL digital library (see link on home page) Essays on War
Private Spud Tamson by R W Campbell US ed. Appleton 1915 & a UK one from Blackwood 1917 14th imp. Humorous War Stories. Slightly redrawn for the US version but Spud still looks somewhat deranged!
The Mixed Division Hutchinson 1916. Humorous stories
The Kangaroo Marines Cassell 1915. With the aussies in the Dardanelles, Turkey & the Near East.
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Barbarians by Robert W Chambers Burt 1917 Novel. A later issue has a less Holmes-
In Secret by Robert W Chambers Doran 1919. A mystery novel set on the Swiss border during the War.
The Deepening Stream by Dorothy Canfield Random House 1930 (f.p. Harcourt Brace 1930). A young couple go to France to do their bit but return home disillusioned (from Fons)
The Girl Philippa by Robert W Chambers A. L. Burt rpt. of Appleton orig. 1916. Romance set in Belgium between British secret service operatives (from Babylon Revisited)
On Safari by F C Juta & Co., Cape Town 1917 (from Kerry Trubee)
Ten Months on a German Raider by John Cameron Doran 1918
A Generation Missing by Carroll Carstairs Heinemann 1930 1st & 2nd editions. Both jackets by William Orpen. An American in the RFA & 3rd. Grenadiers (1st imp. From William Erti)
Good Hunting by William Guy Carr Hutchinson 1940. 2nd follow-
Doubleday 1929. Jacket by Courtney Allen (from William Erti)
Victor Chapman’s Letters from France Macmillan NY 1917. From the French Foreign Legion to the Lafayette Escadrille where he became the first US airman to be killed in the War (from JRF)
Suttonhouse 1935 by Russell Gordon Carter. A Warhorse from Wyoming (from Fons)
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-
The Sepoy by Edmund Candler Murray 1919. How the various types of Indian troops performed in the War. Might be considered a rather patronising view these days!
War Over England by L E O Charlton Longmans 1936 (Jacket by John French) The story of the Zeppelin Raids and predictions for future Wars
Steady Drummer by Stanley Casson Bell 1935. Classic personal memoir with the 1st E. Lancs in the Balkans & erecting the memorial to Rupert Brooke on Skyros
The Drama of 365 Days by Hall Caine Heinemann 1915 Essays on the first year of the War reprinted from the Daily Telegraph.
A Roumanian Diary by Hans |Carossa Secker 1929. A German Doctor on the Roumanian Front
One against England by Ernst Carl Dutton 1935 Autobiography of a German Spy with the truth about Kitchener’s death & a plot against the British fleet (from Kaya Books, Canada)
The Cannoneers Have Dirty Ears (by Robert J. Casey) Sears 1927 33rd US Inf. Div. A rare view of a US artillery man at the Front.
Hodder Dec 1929 rpt (from Andrew Harrison)
Roux the Bandit by Andre Chamson Gollancz 1929. Sadly forgotten but major French novel
Tommies Two by Blanche Wills Chandler Sampson Low 1917. Novel
Hodder 1936 3rd ed. (fp 1932) from Andrew Harrison
Hodder 1917 Notes from the front by the Spanish author of ‘Among the Ruins’ (from MW Books)
Picture Advertising Co. 1917 Compiled by Capt. G. L. Campbell (from Bob Liska)
Davis Printing, Chicago 1918. Flew with the RFC in France from Dec. 1915 until he was shot down in Oct. 1917. He subsequently returned to the US to recruit more pilots.(the image on the cloth cover shows through the hole in the jacket)