Great War Dust Jackets

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Harper 1919. Fantasy novel of dead American soldier who can make contact with his wife (from Brian Busby)

Arrowsmith 1929 At Verdun with the 170th Infantry.

Hale 1940. Koningsberg blockade runner & in East Africa

(from Kerry Trubee).

Hodder 1916. A Chaplain at the Front.

Melrose 1918. The popular singer’s account of his time entertaining the troops in France for which he was knighted. Written as a memorial to his son, killed at Poziers in 1916

Thornton Butterworth 1934. The first part of the Fleet Admirals memoirs.

Duffield 1927 (from William Erti)

Hale, Cushman & Flint 1935. With the Cossacks in the Caucasian Native Cavalry Div. On the Eastern Front 1916-1917 ( from White Eagle Books)

Hutchinson 1927. A Major in the Turkish army gives his side of the story (from David & Helen Pritchard)

John Lane Bodley Head 1919 UK & US 1sts. Humorous stories imagining the German Rulers as US immigrants (UK ed. from Roger Joye)

4 books from the Vergette-Whitehorn Collection. Hugh Kingsmill’s ‘Behind Both Lines’ Morley 1930. With the Drake Batt., capture & subsequent imprisonment. Fritz Kreisler’s short spell in the trenches from Houghton Mifflin 1916, some spooky goings-on amidst the Seaforth Highlanders. Eneas Mackay, Stirling 1933 & Lambert’s time in the 2nd. Batt. HAC from 1917 - 1918. John Long 1930

Lawrence 2 forays into the War. Above Secker 1923 and Selzer 1923. Below Secker 1924 See George Simmers research blog for a perceptive discussion of both books.

Cape & Harrison Smith NY 1931 trans. from the German. A novel of a soldier’s mental disintegration under the pressures of War (author’s name, Koppen, is misspelt on the jacket) (from Dave Golemon)

below Faber 1931

Appleton NY 1918. The editor of ‘Le Matin’ gives his picture of France at War.

Bobbs-Merrill 1919 A novel of Pennsylvanian villagers in 1917 one of whom goes to France as a War correspondent & dies on the battlefield (from Between-the-covers)

Melrose 1917 2nd imp. Jacket by J. Abbey. Road building for the army.

Cape 1937

Putnam 1937 German sabotage in the USA during the War (from Geoffrey Miller)

Hutchinson 1928 Jacket by B. Wallace. Novel. An airman struggles to come to terms with the postwar world with tragic consequences.

C. W. Daniel 1939. A front-line narrative by a member of the London Rifle Brigade rendered wholly in dialogue.

Hutchinson 1931 Jacket by Youngman Carter.

Daily Telegraph 1914 (by John McFarland Kennedy)

Rich & Cowan 1935. The foreign affairs of the US government from its Secretary of State 1915-1920.

Century Co. NY 1919. Novel. The War forces a young lady to earn her living by posing nude for a Parisian sculptor (from Babylon Revisited)

Rich & Cowan 1933. At Jutland, on the North Sea Patrol, meeting Lloyd George etc. (from Andrew Harrison)

Ivor, Nicholson & Watson 1935. Autobiography of the War, the Russian Revolution & beyond ( from David Ainsworth ). The authors real name was Stephen Lawford Childs.

Both copies Bobbs-Merrill 1918. Ultra patriotic novel about a young war bride whose soldier husband is killed without knowing she is carrying his child. Jacket by Charles Dana Gibson

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941.. The admirals account of the campaign in 1915.

McBride 1925. Novel set largely in Berlin in the last days of the War.

Dutton 1919. Wartime reflection (from John Etheridge)

Macmillan 1921 (fp 1919) Keynes uses his experiences of the Peace conference to argue against punitive sanctions being imposed on the Germans.

Unwin 1918. A leading social reformer he enlisted & rose to the rank of Sgt.Maj. and was awarded the MM after being killed in Delville Wood in 1916 (from JRF)

Speciality Press, Melbourne 1921. A record of service by a private in the 5th Batt., A.I.F. (partial jacket using the original jacket image stuck onto card!)

Bodley Head 1917. Jacket by A.H.Fish. Humorous tales of a society lady & the War’s effects on her socialising.

Holden 1927 A fairly routine love story enlivened by some realistic military scenes. below US ed. Sears 1927

Allen & Unwin 1930. A novel dealing with counter-revolution under the Soviets.

Fisher Unwin 1916. Their campaigns in Gallipoli & the Balkans

(from Vanessa Parker Rare Books)

Methuen 1915. British Naval organisation in the early days of the War packed full of useful statistics.

Hodder 1918 without jacket & below

Hodder 1920 in jacket.

Hodder 1930. His collected poetry.

Hodder 1932. The collected Rough Rhymes.

Hamilton ‘Ace Series’ 1935 (f.p. 1932)

(by Robert Knauss). Imaginary Air battles over the Western Front.

McKay 1929. Collected stories by Springs, Hall, Gibbons & others.

Melrose 1916 Reflections of a French Army Chaplain.

Hutchinson 1930. A love story set against the background of War.

Broadway Publishing 1916. A series of witty observations of several European cities by the noted American journalist (from Fons).

Boni & Liveright 1918 (US edition of ‘Men in Battle’ (from Weybridge Books)

Doubleday 1935 1st US

Benn 1930. Staff Cpt. with the 110th Inf. Bgd. (4th Batt. Leicesters). Vitriolic about the literature of disillusionment (‘ a flood of pornography’)

Aviation Book Club 1939

Blackwell 1919 in wrappered boards. Jacket by Jacob Kramer. Tales of life in the Barnbow Shell Filling factory near Leeds.

Bobbs-Merrill 1918. WW1 humour from the renowned sports writer (from Babylon Revisited).

Henkle N.Y. 1934 A lightly novelised account of the author’s experiences in the Balkans & WW1

(from Dave Golemon)

O’Sullivan Publishing, Chicago 1933. History of the 42nd Division.

Priv.pr. Somerset 1920? (by Eric P. Kingzett, Captain, Queen’s Regiment). Wrappers. At Suvla Bay.

Swarthmore Press 1920. The life of Marguerite McArthur who died at Etaples in 1919 while working for the YMCA.

Peter Davies 1934 History.

(from Grant Morrow).

Talbot Press / Constable 1917. The Irish attitude to the War.

Saunders P.A. 1918 2nd ed. Based on a series of lectures.

Putnam NY 1934. Landau ran the La Dame Blanche espionage network behind German lines.

Rich & Cowan 1933. Commander British Adriatic Squadron 1916-17

(from Hawthorn Books)

Harold Shaylor 1930 trans. by Agnes Platt. Novel based on the author’s time in the so-called ‘Black Army’ in Germany just after the War.

John Lane (NY) 1919. The extraordinary story of the woman who joined the 179th tunnelling company (from Maggs).

Doubleday 1921 The US army Signal Corps & its work in the War.

Hurst & Blackett 1937 (fp 1934) The adventures of a double agent in Russia during the War (from MW Books)

Harcourt Brace 1934. A Hungarian interned by the French.

Barse & Hopkins 1916. Part of ‘The Big War’ series.

Hutchinson 1921 2-vols. The Diary of a Military Attache 1914 - 1917 (from Jeff Leser)

Aviation Library 1939 (fp Hamilton 1933 same jacket). Biography of the famous flier

Newnes 1936. First pub. as ‘A Naval Lieutenent’ by Etienne in 1919. Life in a light cruiser throughout the War.

below Methuen 1919

Thornton Butterworth 1935 Vol.2

Burt 1919 A romance of the RFC involving love, treachery & flying.

Melrose 1920 (from Seamus Taaffe)

Hodder 1928 (Retitled ‘They Also Serve’).

Allen & Unwin 1928

Duffield 1928. Novel. Life in Russia during the War & Revolution.

Scribners 1942. Jacket by Edward Shenton. The story of the legendary War horse who served through the Great & Russian Civil Wars (from Fons)

Putnam 1935

Methuen 1919. The story of an H.A.C. Siege Battery.

Arthur Barker 1933. From the fields of Wiltshire to Picardy. Much admired but now rare novel.