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Great War Dust Jackets

The classic RFC memoir in 3 variant covers. The 1st UK ed. Davies 1936, a change of colour for the 1938 reprint &1st US ed 1936

Heinemann 1918. Jacket by Helen McKie. On the Somme.

Cassell 1929 & Ivor, Nicholson 1933. His War-time speeches & Vol.1 of his ubiquitous memoirs.

Lane 1921. Novel. From Clown to Brigadier-General !

Chatto 1930. Nursing memoir. Jacket painting by H. S. Williamson

Faber 1938. One of the finest other ranks memoirs. Royal Irish Rifles at Mons & 1st Ypres

Heath Cranton 1933. Infantry man on Mesopotamian, Western & Russian Fronts. Illustrated with the most bizarre collection of photographs I’ve ever seen!

Maskew Miller (Cape Town) 1930. Biography of Sir Henry Lukin, wounded at Ulundi in the Zulu War and commanded the SA troops at Delville Wood

John Lane 1918. US ed. A weak man gets toughened up in the army. (From George Simmers)

John Lane 1920. A mathematician offers himself for service for the benefit of his son’s military career.

Bodley Head 1916. Englishman enlists in the French Army, is wounded & returns to the village where he taught

Werner Laurie 1937. Fictionalised account of the authors service with the Wellington Batt.,NZEF. Won the DCM but lost his left arm at the front. Became a Labour MP.
(from Nick Fletcher, Aus.War Mem.)

Returned Soldiers League 1935 (by Rowland E. Lording)
Strikingly grim cover art prob. by Frank Dunne. Fictionalised account of service in Egypt & Western Front with 30th Batt., AIF. Wounded at Fromelles in 1916 (from Nick Fletcher)

Chapman & Hall 1919. Later issue. Spy story of a German Officer in the British Navy

John Lane 1919. Jacket by William van Dressen. 2 stories are WW1 based.

Doran 1917

Nelson’s Continental Library 1917 (pub. In France ) Jacket by Blampied. (from Andrew Hall).

Hutchinson 1920. More of the General’s Memoirs (from Peter Harrington)

Secker 1937. Strongly anti-war history of chemical warfare

Constable 1918. How to win the next war, confidently first published in Germany in 1917 (from Nick Fletcher)

Hamilton 1937. Biggles-like air war fiction with Stanley Orton Bradshaw illustrations (from Nick Fletcher)

Hindenburg by Emil Ludwig Heinemann 1935. A very readable account of the Generals career after his recall from retirement in 1914.

Robert Scott 1919. Palestine 1917 -18 with the Dorset Regiment.

Allen & Unwin 1930. Partly autobiographical novel set in barracks & hospital units near the front

Jarrolds 1915 (from JRF)

Witherby 1938 The link between armaments & food and the mistakes made during the War (from Andrew Harrison)

John Murray 1916. Poems & sketches from the 1/4th Black Watch

Regimental Headquarters 1926 by Lt. Col. J. H. Lindsay who was wounded on the Somme in 1916.

Hodder 1916. Morale boosting short stories from the front. Jacket by Helen McKie.

Bodley Head 1919. A love story the middle section of which sees our hero in the trenches. The jacket illustration looks like a Wilfred Nicholson but is unsigned.

Liveright 1940. Jacket by Max Ree. Novel of a young American soldier in the War. The author was a Russian veteran who appeared in several early films (from Babylon Revisited).

Robert Scott (1920) Sketches of the Campaign in the Holy Land.

Selwyn & Blount 1933. Director of Air Organization at the War Office after service in the RFC as a Wing Adjutant (from Nick Fletcher).

Little, Brown 1930 Autobiographical novel of a German submarine commander inc. The Battle of Jutland (from Fons)

Robert Scott 1920. Mostly historical but does include the present War.

Wells, Gardner 1920. A series of letters from the soldier to an unnamed nurse (also came in pictorial boards)

Harcourt, Brace 1939 (from John Etheridge)

Allen & Unwin 1918 in stiff card covers. Important Nursing memoir by the niece of Olive Schreiner.

International Fiction Library 1918. Novel (from Fons).

Herbert Jenkins 1918. Lance Corp., 5th Batt.,Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Killed 31st July 1917 in Flanders. His last posthumous volume of verse.

Williams & Norgate 1938. In the RFA, captured at the fall of Kut. A rare account of the appalling suffering undergone by the rank & file in Turkish captivity where some 70% lost their lives.

Hodder 1915 in wrappers. His early War speeches.

Knopf 1939. Classic memoir of the Italian Alpine Campaign 1916-17. The author became a prominent anti-fascist after the war.

Hutchinson 1919 in 2 vols. The paranoid Generals’ far from retiring memoirs.

Speller NY 1957

Heinemann 1920 by H. W. Leslie. A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet 1914 - 1919

Dorrance 1930. Commander of the 4th Brigade Marines & later the 2nd US Division (from Peter Harrington).

John Hamilton 1937. Novel. With the British flying over Palestine (from B.J.Pryor)

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1939. The Boer War, sport in India, at Ypres & Gallipoli & anecdotes of many of the leading Military figures of the day.

Hamilton 1934 with a foreword by W. E. Johns, Leigh’s brother-in-law, who taught him how to draw (from Renzo)

Hurst & Blackett 1920

(from Grant Morrow)

Methuen 1916. A father’s attempts to communicate with his son, killed nr. Ypres in 1915.

Murray 1916 (by Cecil W. Longley)

Diary of a 2nd Lt. in the RFA 1914 - 1916.

Ernest Benn 1930 (by Shane Leslie). An epic poem on the battle.

Odhams 1938. The original 6 volumes in 2.

Hurst & Blackett 1938. Fine Lifeguard memoir. This copy belonged to Capt. Hitchcock (‘Stand To’) & has a letter inserted from Lloyd to Hitchcock thanking him for his review of the book.

Hutchinson 1935

Book League of America 1931. The story of a conflicted family in which the husband & son are on opposite sides.

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1948. With the 11th Black Watch in Mesopotamia where he suffered a nervous breakdown.

Scribner’s 1918. A rather ludicrous story of a fallen airman, an inheritance & a mysterious tramp (from Between-the-Covers)

Herbert Jenkins 1916 (no war poems) (from Peter Harrington).

Blackwood 1924. Mostly true tales of fighting in the Middle East & the Western Front.

Hodder 1916 (by Marie Connor Leighton). A tribute to her son, Roland - Vera Brittain’s fiance.

Dutton 1923. The author worked on chemical warfare during the War & later visited the German armaments factories. (from John Etheridge)

Bodley Head 1915. Short stories. Jacket by Helen McKie.

Chambers 1920 A novelised account drawing heavily on Lt.Col. Mure’s ‘With the Incomparable 29th’ .

Harrap 1916. An early look at the War’s heroes. (from Book Now, Bendigo).

Macaulay 1917. A fiendishly complicated detective story!

(from Leonard Shoup, Canada).

Dodd Mead 1925. Jacket by LC. The General looks back on his time as Commander of the 1st & 3rd Corps.

Jarrolds 1931

(from Babylon Revisited)

Collins 1938. Flew with the RFC during the War. Credited with the first use of the word ‘joystick’.

Macmillan 1921 The first Rabbi serving in France with the American Forces.

John Lane 1915. 2nd & last published issue of Lewis’ art magazine. Not a jacket as such but one of the most powerful images to appear on a cover during the war.

Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937. Autobiography. Jacket by Lewis

Full set of the Memoirs (from Peter Harrington)

Longmans 1916. A journalist’s account of the Campaign. Well illustrated.

Longmans 1937

Putnam 1927

Modern Publishing 1930

Payson & Clarke 1928 The build-up to the War from within the German Government.

Cape NY 1930 An excellent anthology of War literature.

Simpkin Marshall 1933. Autobiography of the author blinded at Mons.

Heinemann 1916. An analysis of the growing German influence in the Near & Middle East and how it became one of the chief causes of the War (from Geoffrey Miller)

Putnam 1929

Mills & Boon 1923. Sci-Fi novel set during the War.

Murray 1917. Lightly fictionalised, bitter indictment of the Gallipoli campaign from a former Australian farmer who served through it.

John Murray 1917. More Poems & Sketches (from Blackwell’s)