Great War Dust Jackets

Appleton 1918. Mystery novel concerning the German secret service in 1918 (from Babylon Revisited)

Appleton 1917. Intrigue surrounds the assassination of a duke

(from Babylon Revisited)

Grosset & Dunlap 1926. Film from Gibbs’ novel ‘The Yellow Dove’ about a plane that makes secret flights over the enemy.

(from Mike’s Library)

Blackwood 1928. A memoir of Young-Herries of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

Appleton 1930. Canadian novel of a young man’s transition from idyllic village life to the front line.

Allen & Unwin 1918. A Major in the Army Service Corps gives a day-by-day description of the whole campaign.

Cross & Jackman 1925. The diary of an RFA Officer in Palestine.

Class 1902 by Ernst Glaeser Viking 1929. Jacket by Paul Wenck. Growing up in Germany during the War. Described as the Home Front equivalent of ‘All Quiet’

Below. 2 variant 1sts from Secker 1929

Bodley Head 1917 (2nd ed.),1917 & 1919. Freeman & Bennett’s satirical view of the War in the style of Pepys’ Diary. Illustrated by John Kettlewell.

The Story of the 29th Division by Capt. Stair Gillon Nelson 1925 A Record of Gallant Deeds below his History of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Nelson 1930

Doran 1919

Little, Brown 1926 & Hutchinson 1926 (from Andrew Harrison) An anti-war novel showing how a family adjusts to its returning children after the War.

Doran 1926. A novel covering 30 years through the War & the Russian Revolution (from Fons)

Otto Babendiek by Gustav Frenssen Harrap 1930 An autobiographical novel partially dealing with his War experiences (from Fons)

The Pastor of Poggsee by Gustav Frenssen Harrap 1931. Jacket by J Gower Parks. German novel set in a village during the War.

Chatto 1919 (by John Galsworthy). A satirical novel about Government War Propaganda on the home front.

Melrose 1917 2nd ed. A rather optimistic view of the War’s likely conclusion.

Champion, Melbourne 1919. Jacket by Percy Leason.

(from JRF)

Through the Serbian Campaign by Gordon Gordon-Smith Hutchinson 1916. The retreat of the Serbian army as told by this War correspondent (from Andrew Harrison)

Methuen 1918 Short stories by a Lt. In 1st King Edwards Horse.

Constable 1919 2nd ed. The 1st edition, of a few months earlier, was heavily criticised by the PM Herbert Asquith. This edition was hurriedly issued with a stinging reply from French.

Hodder 1931 The definitive History of the Fifth written by its Commander (from Nick Fletcher)

Sampson, Low 1931. A novel dealing with the horrors in Moscow during the Red Terror.

Oliver & Boyd 1941. Orderly officer with the 9th Highland Batt., Royal Scots & attache to the King of Belgium. A friend of Churchill & Earl Haig.

Ivor, Nicholson & Watson 1936. Chief of the Tank Corps 1916 - 1918 (from John Etheridge)

Constable 1932. Similar view to that given in ‘The Kaiser’s Coolies’ of collapse from within. The author served below decks on the battleship ‘Nassau’

Macmillan 1928. A history of spying from Ancient Greece to the Great War (from Between the Covers)

Philip Allan 1930

Macmillan NY 1930. Jacket by Charles Gardner. War-time romance involving a French girl & Jack Amory of the Ambulance Corps.

(from Babylon Revisited)

Nisbet 1926. A record of 9 years relief & reconstruction work by the Quakers throughout the War areas.

Skeffington 1919. The effects of the War on bird life. (from Leakey’s Bookshop Ltd.)

Arthur Barker 1954. Memoir by the Commander of the 5th Army during the March retreat 1918.

Doran 1918 (possibly by Grace Gates). Letters from a YMCA canteen worker (from Fons)

Simpkin Marshall 1917. From the log-book of Petty Officer Cowie during the ships engagement & sinking at the Dardanelles in 1915 (from Scarthin Books)

Scribner 1918. The first US aviator killed whilst flying the Stars & Stripes on 16th April 1917 in N-124 Escadrille (from Bob Liska at Colophon Books).

Houghton Mifflin 1930

Dent 1930. With the 20th (3rd Public School) Batt., Royal Fusiliers on the Somme & in Nyasaland.

Smith, Elder 1916. Parchment bound collection of front line letters of an Officer in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders to his parents. Somewhat sanitised but a good account of life in the line.

Rich & Cowan 1935. Fuller’s contentious views on the Army from the Boer War to WW1.

Peter Davies 1930 (from David & Helen Pritchard).

Bodley Head 1925

Blackwood 1917 (by Brig.Gen. Count Gleichen). His expanded diary of his time with the Brigade.

(from David & Helen Pritchard).

Duckworth 1917. A collection of numerous amusing anecdotes from the front. Interesting jacket design using an Active Service envelope.

Sampson Low 1928. Illus. by J. Morton Sale. Spying & Intrigue in India during the War (from Babylon Revisited).

Constable 1918 3rd imp. Various observations on men at the front largely written during the Somme Offensive in 1916.

Dodd Mead 1919. War Correspondent & Lt. with the RNVR on American destroyers.

Simpkin, Marshall 1918. Short stories. Goodchild served with the 328th Siege Batt., RGA. He was gassed & invalided with shell-shock.

Heer 1931. Novel (from Fons).

Hutchinson 1936. A stout defence of his father by the Field Marshal’s son.

Doran 1918. Gibbons was a journalist with the Chicago Tribune. The book tells of the US entry into the War. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his bravery in the field.

(from Babylon Revisited).

Privately Printed (1920) by (Walter Gardner) Copy no. 76. Served in the ranks with the HAC & then commissioned in the RE with the 172nd Tunnelling Company at Hill 60.

(cloth binding only)

Cassell 1931

Feakins NY 1923 Limited edition.

Erskine Macdonald 1917 in soft covers only. The first 100 days with the 4th Royal Fusiliers until his wounding at 1st Ypres.

Herbert Jenkins 1937

Lovat Dickinson 1935. Mostly in South Africa but some WW1

(from Snookerybooks S.A.)

Hodder 1918. Two and a half years as a POW in Germany.

Methuen 1919 (from Roger Joye)

Burt 1915

Houghton Mifflin 1916 Deluxe edition of 500 copies. Reminiscences by members of the American Ambulance Unit.

John Murray 1918. Flying memoirs

Hodder 1918 War-time stories. The author served with the 10th Hussars & was killed whilst fighting in Russia in 1918. (from John Etheridge).

Heinemann 1920 Gibbs tells the truth about the War (from Grant Morrow).

Jarrolds 1932 Novel. From the Victorian age to death in Flanders.

Blackwood 1932. With the Grenadiers at Omdurman, through the Boer War & on to Commanding the 37th Div in WW1.

Heinemann 1916. The French Marines from Oct.- Nov. 1914. Part of the ‘Soldiers Tales of the Great War’ series.

John Lane 1915

John Murray 1919. Naval History.

Harper Bros. 1918

Houghton Mifflin 1928. Novel concerned mostly with the Polish Revolution of 1863 but with a coda at the time of WW1. The author was Sir John’s brother.

Blackwell 1934 The memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (from JRF)

Harper 1930. Stories with a fantasy element from this Norwegian author - no connection with the Roger Corman film of the same name!

(from Between the Covers)

Stokes 1917

below Burt 1917? (from Grant Morrow).

Angus & Robertson 1917 3rd ed. by Leon Gellert.  Poems. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay (from the Grisly Wife Bookshop).

Murray 1939. Commander NZ Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli & 2nd Anzacs. Considered to be cold & aloof after his leadership at 3rd Ypres.

Dodd, Mead 1919 (from Royal Books) & Murray 1919. An account of the Allied Army Commission to Northern Germany after the Armistice.

2 of Gibson’s many volumes of poetry ; these both inscribed to Laurence Binyon.

Macmillan 1925 & 1930

Hutchinson 1940. Counter intelligence work in the US during the War (from Peter Harrington).

Frederick Muller 1939. Novel based on his wartime experiences (from Grant Morrow)

Odhams 1920. On staff of Caspian Naval Expedition & dispersal of Dunsterforce.

(from White Eagle Books)

Heinemann 1919 (from Blackwell’s)