Great War Dust Jackets
Paperbacks & other pictorial book covers
A dumping ground for books without jackets which tend to be even more fragile than those on the rest of the site. If you know that any of these had a jacket originally then please let me know.
5 volumes from Hodder & Stoughton’s ‘Soldier Books’ series, all published in 1916. The British Library catalogue list 9 volumes in the series altogether. (‘Springboks’ from Kerry Trubee) (McCustra from JRF)
3 works on the African Campaigns from Kerry Trubee. Maskew Miller, Cape Town 1918, African Publications 1919 & Knox Publishing 1940
Cassell 1917. Humorous sketches.
Stockwell 1936 Novel set early in the war.
Cassell 1916. Cover by Bairnsfather. Home letters from an officer in the new army.
Longmans 1915 being the experiences of a prisoner of war.
Routledge 1918 20th Royal Fusileirs. Observations from the front.
Melrose 1917. Letters from the front
Privately printed 1921 (I doubt this ever had a jacket) from the author of ‘As from Kemmel Hill’
SPCK 1917. POW memoir
(from Kerry Trubee)
Privately printed 1923. Memoir of the 2nd & 3rd South Staffs.
Hodder 1916 by Mrs. StClair Stobbart. The fighting in Serbia and the retreat through Montenegro.
The Aeroplane & General Publishing Co 1918 The Red Baron’s autobiography
Jack 1915 (pseud. of Cyril Gull). Spies & a Sub off the coast of Norfolk.
Wells, Gardner 1916. Memoir/Novel of the Irish Rifles illustrated by Ruth Cobb
Memorials Commission 1929 From Neil Cournoyer
Herbert Reiach 1920
(from Neil Cournoyer)
Priv. Printed 1918. Memoir of 2 brothers in the 18th Div. A series of letters with
fine descriptions of front-
Fisher Unwin 1914. From the future explorer & educationalist. Issued simultaneously in hardback at 4/6
Grant Richards 1915
Jarrold 1915. A few simple tricks if you can find any dry matches!
Bodley Head 1916, 1917 & 1918. Humorous verses by Hampden Gordon with illustrations by Joyce Dennys
Gale & Polden 1921
(from Tom Donovan)
Everett 1916. Humorous verses.
Methuen July 1916 3rd ed. Poems by the Lt. Commander before & during the War
Country Life 1918. Humorous? Cartoons of hospital life.
Gale & Polden 1918
Fisher Unwin 1919. Paperback issue. Story of the 46th North Midland Division.
Western Daily Mercury 1917. War Correspondent.
Simpkin Marshall 1917 on behalf of the National Book Trade Provident Society. Stories, Poems & Cartoons.
Duckworth 1917. Cartoons
Unknown 1915. An ABC of the Allies
NY Times Mag. 1915 sold in aid of wounded soldiers. The story of a toy dog carrying the label ‘Woof! Je suis un Lion’ (from Fons)
Hodder 1915 (from Derek Johnson -
Hodder 1917 5th imp. (from Andrew Harrison)
2 Flying books from Renzo. John Murray 1917 & Newnes 1915
Newnes 1916
Jarrold 1919 (from Fons)
Privately Printed 1919 Contains a short history of the Units War record. (unrecorded in any library)
Electric Boat Co 1919. Anon. Fighting the U_Boats.
Newnes nd (from Andrew Harrison)
Sampson Low 1918
Simpkin Marshall 1915
Wells Gardner 1919. Letters from a Corporal in hospital to an unnamed nurse (from Andrew Harrison)
Hodder 1915
By Frederick William Bagnall. North Shore Press, Vancouver 1933. Served with the 14th Battalion CEF at 2nd Ypres. Described as the rarest Canadian memoir of the War (from Nick Fletcher)
George Philip for the Daily Mail 1916
Pearson 1915
Chambers (Edinburgh) 1918
Dawson (or Dobson) 1915