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  • THE HARBOURMASTER. by McFee, William (1881-1966)
    McFee, William (1881-1966)
    THE HARBOURMASTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1932. dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary review called this "certainly one of his best novels. The story is narrated by Fred Spenlove, the chief engineer on the ship (a position McFee himself had held on several ships) - ironical, observant, philosophical, always disguising a romantic loyalty and generosity under a manner of intense reserve and skepticism. The theme is the love of Frank Fraley, a seaman, and Francine, a Norman peasant girl, Ôbound together by an invincible passion, destined to tear one anotherÕs hearts.Õ Tragedy is implicit from the first, because, as Spenlove, the narrator, says, ÔFrank was a man of the sea who was unfitted for life on…

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    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1932. dj. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary review called this "certainly one of his best novels. The story is narrated by Fred Spenlove, the chief engineer on the ship (a position McFee himself had held on several ships) - ironical, observant, philosophical, always disguising a romantic loyalty and generosity under a manner of intense reserve and skepticism. The theme is the love of Frank Fraley, a seaman, and Francine, a Norman peasant girl, Ôbound together by an invincible passion, destined to tear one anotherÕs hearts.Õ Tragedy is implicit from the first, because, as Spenlove, the narrator, says, ÔFrank was a man of the sea who was unfitted for life on the land. . . . He found Francine on the sea, and he should have lived with her on the sea'." (Atlantic Monthly) 439 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket. with several chips including along front fold (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 91133
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  • CHARITY GIRL. by Lowenthal, Michael.
    Lowenthal, Michael.
    CHARITY GIRL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which reveals a little-known WWI-era government campaign which imprisoned 15.000 women who'd contracted 'social diseases.' This follows the what happens to 17-year-old Boston girl as she's put through the system's wringer. After one night with an Army private, who, when inspection uncovers he has an infection, names Frieda as his 'last contact.' She is sent to a detention camp, with crude medical treatment and mandatory manual labor. "As her body heals and conditions worsen at the detention center, tensions rise to a wrenching climax. Lowenthal ably captures the transformation of a nave adolescent into a woman in his provocative story." (Publishers Weekly)…

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    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which reveals a little-known WWI-era government campaign which imprisoned 15.000 women who'd contracted 'social diseases.' This follows the what happens to 17-year-old Boston girl as she's put through the system's wringer. After one night with an Army private, who, when inspection uncovers he has an infection, names Frieda as his 'last contact.' She is sent to a detention camp, with crude medical treatment and mandatory manual labor. "As her body heals and conditions worsen at the detention center, tensions rise to a wrenching climax. Lowenthal ably captures the transformation of a nave adolescent into a woman in his provocative story." (Publishers Weekly) Author Jay Parini's dust jacket praise for this novel is even more appropriate now, almost 20 years later: "It is a vivid story about a shameful chapter in US history and one that has obvious implications for the current political crisis." 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0618546299.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 90633
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  • THE ESCAPE ARTISTS: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War. by Bascomb, Neal.
    Bascomb, Neal.
    THE ESCAPE ARTISTS: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on memoirs and letters, this is an account of the biggest - but little known - POW breakout of the Great War. The most infamous of the POW camps was Holzminden, whose commandant, Karl Niemeyer, was a hate-filled tyrant determined that no one would ever leave, but a group of Allied prisoners led by ace pilot David Gray hatch an elaborate escape plan, involving disguises, forged documents, fake walls, and more. Once outside the walls, Gray and almost a dozen of his half-starved fellow prisoners made a heroic 150 mile dash through enemy-occupied territory towards free Holland. "From a master of narrative non-fiction, the amazing…

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    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on memoirs and letters, this is an account of the biggest - but little known - POW breakout of the Great War. The most infamous of the POW camps was Holzminden, whose commandant, Karl Niemeyer, was a hate-filled tyrant determined that no one would ever leave, but a group of Allied prisoners led by ace pilot David Gray hatch an elaborate escape plan, involving disguises, forged documents, fake walls, and more. Once outside the walls, Gray and almost a dozen of his half-starved fellow prisoners made a heroic 150 mile dash through enemy-occupied territory towards free Holland. "From a master of narrative non-fiction, the amazing and utterly gripping story of the greatest prison escape of the First World War. A ripping yarn, timely and beautifully told." (Alex Kershaw) Illustrated with maps, sketches and photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxv, 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0544937116.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 90554
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  • MANYA'S STORY. by Gray, Bettyanne.
    Gray, Bettyanne.
    MANYA'S STORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of one Jewish family's ordeal in Revolutionary Russia and of the author's parents' escape from Ukraine after the Russian Revolution. Ukrainian Jews were caught in the middle of the struggle for power between three forces: the Bolshevik Red Army, the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and the forces fighting for Ukrainian independence, and facing the dangers of the 1918-1920 brutal pogroms against Jews. Foreword by Nora Levin Illustrated with photographs. Includes a chronology and a glossary. 127 pp. ISBN: 0-822507625.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 90279
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  • THE KOPP SISTERS ON THE MARCH. by Stewart, Amy.
    Stewart, Amy.
    THE KOPP SISTERS ON THE MARCH.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2020). A Kopp Sisters Novel. Set in 1917, this is the fifth novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies. With war on the horizon, she and her sisters have enrolled in one of the National Service Schools Historical note and sources. 349 pp. plus a preview of the next book in the series 'Dear Miss Kopp.'. ISBN: 978-0358299646.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 90201
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  • THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE by Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)
    Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)
    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE

    Edition: First Dodd Mead edition.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, 1916 (c 1915). Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington. Most of the poems are arranged chronologically. Has a section of his poems written about the time he spent in the South Seas and a sequence of 1914 sonnets, which includes his best-known poem, "The Soldier" which begins "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England", .plus an appendix with some fragments from his notebook. Frontispiece photograph of Brooke with a tissue guard. 192 pp.

    Condition: Very good in green cloth with gilt lettering and decorative edging (sunning to spine and edges of boards, lettering illegible on spine but overall a straight and clean copy.

    Book ID: 90138
    Keywords: Poetry, world war i
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  • THE DEEPENING STREAM. by Canfield, Dorothy (Fisher, 1879-1958)
    Canfield, Dorothy (Fisher, 1879-1958)
    THE DEEPENING STREAM.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1930.). Hardcover first edition - A semi-autobiographical novel, an overlooked but great novel about the homefront during World War I. " Without ever taking the reader into the trenches, this makes us feel how war grinds you down, until one's receptivity to tragedy is necessarily blunted . . strikingly modern: domestic hurts are addressed with complete seriousness; the pain of the war, meanwhile, is rendered intimate. The focus remains tight, unsparing, humane. By the time I read her taut descriptions of the ravages of the Somme, I realised I had come to respect Fisher as what she is - a great American writer - and 'The Deepening Stream' as a neglected treasure of…

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    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1930.). Hardcover first edition - A semi-autobiographical novel, an overlooked but great novel about the homefront during World War I. " Without ever taking the reader into the trenches, this makes us feel how war grinds you down, until one's receptivity to tragedy is necessarily blunted . . strikingly modern: domestic hurts are addressed with complete seriousness; the pain of the war, meanwhile, is rendered intimate. The focus remains tight, unsparing, humane. By the time I read her taut descriptions of the ravages of the Somme, I realised I had come to respect Fisher as what she is - a great American writer - and 'The Deepening Stream' as a neglected treasure of the last century." (Sadie Stein) A book which was very progressive for its time in its references to the pleasures of sex for a woman. The New Yorker called this "The greatest First World War novel you've never heard of." Canfield was also known for introducing the Montessori system of education into the United States and for the wonderful (but very different) book "Understood Betsy." 393 pp.

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    Condition: Very good minus in navy blue cloth with orange lettering on spine, no dust jacket (slight spine slant, wear to top edge of spine)

    Book ID: 90012
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  • POEMS: 1914-1919.. by Baring, Maurice (1874-1945).
    Baring, Maurice (1874-1945).
    POEMS: 1914-1919..

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Martin Secker, (1920). Hardcover first edition - Poems related to World War I and a section of poems written prior to the war. Appears to be inscribed on the front endpaper and dated in 1921 (partially peeled). Errata slip tipped-in. 57 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with several markings, but overall very good in tan boards .

    Book ID: 89970
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  • AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE. by Winspear, Jacqueline.
    Winspear, Jacqueline.
    AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth in the prize-winning Maisie Dobbs mystery series, this one set in a small village still suffering from a Zeppelin raid during the Great War. INSCRIBED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-82158.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89757
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  • THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. by Kanigel, Robert
    Kanigel, Robert
    THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Scribner, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Publishers Weekly called this a "moving and astonishing biography [which] tells the improbable story of India-born Srinavasa Ramanujan Iyengar, self-taught mathematical prodigy. In 1913 Ramanujan, a 25-year-old clerk who had flunked out of two colleges, wrote a letter filled with startlingly original theorems to eminent English mathematician G. H. Hardy. . Over the next five years, the vegetarian Brahmin who claimed his discoveries were revealed to him by a Hindu goddess turned out influential mathematical propositions. Cut off from his young Indian wife left at home, Ramanujan returned to India in 1919, depressed, sullen and quarrelsome; he died one year later of tuberculosis, but his mathematical ideas are used today in…

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    London: Scribner, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Publishers Weekly called this a "moving and astonishing biography [which] tells the improbable story of India-born Srinavasa Ramanujan Iyengar, self-taught mathematical prodigy. In 1913 Ramanujan, a 25-year-old clerk who had flunked out of two colleges, wrote a letter filled with startlingly original theorems to eminent English mathematician G. H. Hardy. . Over the next five years, the vegetarian Brahmin who claimed his discoveries were revealed to him by a Hindu goddess turned out influential mathematical propositions. Cut off from his young Indian wife left at home, Ramanujan returned to India in 1919, depressed, sullen and quarrelsome; he died one year later of tuberculosis, but his mathematical ideas are used today in cosmology and computer science." Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, selected bibliography, notes. ix, 439 pp. ISBN: 0-356203501.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light creasing and wear to top edge of dj)

    Book ID: 89366
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  • LAND OF MARVELS. by Unsworth, Barry.
    Unsworth, Barry.
    LAND OF MARVELS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller by this award winning writer, set in 1914 in a world on the brink of war, one in which "he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace. The site lies directly in the path of a new railroad to Baghdad, and he watches nervously as the construction progresses, threatening to destroy his discovery. . .. Posing as an archaeologist, an American geologist from an oil company arrives one day and insinuates himself into the group. But heÕs not the only…

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    New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller by this award winning writer, set in 1914 in a world on the brink of war, one in which "he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace. The site lies directly in the path of a new railroad to Baghdad, and he watches nervously as the construction progresses, threatening to destroy his discovery. . .. Posing as an archaeologist, an American geologist from an oil company arrives one day and insinuates himself into the group. But heÕs not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on IraqÕs rich oil fields. " 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0385520072.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89034
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  • POEMS OF EDWARD THOMAS. by Thomas, Peter (1878-1917); Peter Sacks, introduction.
    Thomas, Peter (1878-1917); Peter Sacks, introduction.
    POEMS OF EDWARD THOMAS.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Handsel Books / Other Press, (2003). First edition - The complete poems - some 140 - by this British writer who was considered by many prominent critics and authors including Walter de la Mare, Aldous Huxley, Peter Sacks, and Seamus Heaney, as one of EnglandÕs most important poets of the 20th century. Often considered a war poet, he was more accurately a poet of rural England who was killed during World War I. He wrote all of his poetry over a three year span, from a few months before his enlisting in 1914 to just before his death in 1917; during his lifetime he was much more widely known as a critic and prose writer. Introduction by Peter Sacks. xxvi, 180 pp.

    Condition: Fine in cream printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 89024
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  • THE CONGO and Other Poems. by Lindsay, Vachel; Introduction by Harriet Monroe.
    Lindsay, Vachel; Introduction by Harriet Monroe.
    THE CONGO and Other Poems.

    Edition: 4th printing.

    New York: Macmillan, 1916 (c 1914). Hardcover - Introduction by Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry Magazine, in which she comments that William Butler Yeats asked Lindsay 'What are we going to do to restore the primitive singing of poetry?' and that this book is Lindsay's response. The first section of this volume contains poems to be read aloud, including the long title poem. Other sections are on the Christmas tree, moon poems, including some for children, and - on a more somber note - it ends with a section titled "War - 1914." xv, 159 pp. plus 5 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Near fine in mustard yellow cloth boards, with gilt lettering and red and navy decorations on front cover and spine (some toning to pages and endpapers, cover is bright and attractive)

    Book ID: 88892
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  • RESTLESS DAYS: A German Girl's Autobiography by Linke, Lilo (1906-1963)
    Linke, Lilo (1906-1963)
    RESTLESS DAYS: A German Girl's Autobiography

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of a young German girl, "reaching maturity after the war, deeply moving, grimly dramatic. The picture of wartime Germany, of children standing in line for food, stealing butter and vinegar from the pitiful family larder, wearing clothes made out of any available bit of material - this has never been told, in quite so direct and evidently authentic a way. Then comes the post-war fever of revolution, civil war, communism quickly crushed, the youth movement," (Kirkus) and finally the realization that she can never support Hitler, even as her family and most of her friends see him as the hero that Germany needs, and so it ends as she is leaving Germany. xi, 431 pp

    Condition: Very good in original black cloth with the thin title strip around binding still intact (minor sunning to spine), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88827
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  • WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BELGIUM: Children of Other Lands #6. by Jonckheere, A. Robert (1888-1974)
    Jonckheere, A. Robert (1888-1974)
    WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BELGIUM: Children of Other Lands #6.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1915). Hardcover first edition - The sixth title in the Children of Other Lands series, each written by an author who had themselves lived as a child in that country. This story contrasts the cheerful and prosperous life in Belgium during his childhood with the coming of war when Germany, ignoring Belgium's neutrality attacked it during World War I, leading to both fierce resistance on the part of the Belgium people and to many refugees fleeing the war. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's Preface which notes "The graphic account he had given of Belgian refugees ßocking out of Antwerp led us to believe that he was one who could well and…

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    New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1915). Hardcover first edition - The sixth title in the Children of Other Lands series, each written by an author who had themselves lived as a child in that country. This story contrasts the cheerful and prosperous life in Belgium during his childhood with the coming of war when Germany, ignoring Belgium's neutrality attacked it during World War I, leading to both fierce resistance on the part of the Belgium people and to many refugees fleeing the war. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's Preface which notes "The graphic account he had given of Belgian refugees ßocking out of Antwerp led us to believe that he was one who could well and profitably tell our boys and girls how those of their own age live in a land that has become the center of so great interest." 153 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's ads.

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    Condition: Near fine in orange boards illustrated in red, blue and black (note on front endpaper presenting this "for perfect attendance" dated in 1915)

    Book ID: 88051
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  • SHADOW BOX. by Logue, Antonia.
    Logue, Antonia.
    SHADOW BOX.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grove Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Irish author's award winning first book (the Irish Times Literature Prize for Fiction for 1999). This interweaves the lives of three characters: Arthur Cravan, art critic, bon vivant, amateur boxer and nephew of Oscar Wilde, who disappeared shortly after his marriage to poet Mina Loy, as he was attempting to avoid conscription in the first World War, and Jack Johnson who become the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Much of the novel is told in the form of letters between Loy and Johnson, thirty years after Cravan disappered. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-802116477.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning and minor foxing to edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 87634
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  • THE HEART'S JOURNEY. by Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
    Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
    THE HEART'S JOURNEY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim collection of poems by this writer who is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I. 45 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in burgundy cloth in a near fine dustjacket (bookplate, a few leaves still uncut, sunning to the spine of the dj) Uncommon in the US edition,

    Book ID: 87527
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  • The Great War: AMERICAN FRONT. by Turtledove, Harry.
    Turtledove, Harry.
    The Great War: AMERICAN FRONT.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (1999.). SIGNED - Book Two the epic Great War series. An alternate history of the War to end all Wars, which in 1915 has exploded onto American soil - an America still divided between the United States and the Confederate States. SIGNED on title page by author. Maps. 562 pp. ISBN: 0-345-405609.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 85567
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  • IT WAS LIKE THIS: Two Stories of the Great War. by Allen, Hervey (1889-1949).
    Allen, Hervey (1889-1949).
    IT WAS LIKE THIS: Two Stories of the Great War.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1940) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written for a country of the verge of World War II, this attempts to show what war is like - "Report to Major Roberts" involving a young Lietenant, tell of 4 companies, cut off by a barrage of German artillery in the Allied Retreat from the Marne in July 1918. and "Blood Lust" describes an American attack on the town of Fismette, August 1918. Includes an introduction by the author. Illustrated with drawings by Lyle Justis. 153 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in red cloth in a good example of the rather uncommon dust jacket - overall edgewear, a bit of sunning to the spine. 153 pp.

    Book ID: 84682
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  • THE BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN by Service, Robert.
    Service, Robert.
    THE BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: Barse & Hopkins, (1921). Hardcover - Poems which chronicle Service's life as a bohemian in Paris and into the trenches as he served with the British Army on the Western Front during the first World War and back to a Paris full of 'les grand mutiles'. Frontispiece portrait, 249 pp. Small format, measuring just 4 x 6 inches, bound in flexible dark red boards with gilt lettering in a vertical rectangle on cover and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. 249 pp.

    Condition: Very good (some rubbing to lettering on spine)

    Book ID: 82363
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  • 2 PIECES of WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" & "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France" by Wells, Jack, music; Al Bryan and Willie Weston, lyrics / Taylor, Tell.
    Wells, Jack, music; Al Bryan and Willie Weston, lyrics / Taylor, Tell.
    2 PIECES of WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" & "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France"

    New York & Chicago: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. / Tell Taylor Music Publisher, (1917). Two pieces of vintage World War I sheet music, consisting of the 1917 hit "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" and the Tell Taylor song "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France." "Joan of Arc" was composed by Jack Wells, and with lyrics written by Al Bryan and Willie Weston and Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in New York. . The lyrics are in both English and French. Symbols of Joan of Arc were frequently carried by French soldiers, and shortly after the War - in 1920 - she was canonized. The cover art depicts a woman riding a horse, with…

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    New York & Chicago: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. / Tell Taylor Music Publisher, (1917). Two pieces of vintage World War I sheet music, consisting of the 1917 hit "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" and the Tell Taylor song "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France." "Joan of Arc" was composed by Jack Wells, and with lyrics written by Al Bryan and Willie Weston and Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in New York. . The lyrics are in both English and French. Symbols of Joan of Arc were frequently carried by French soldiers, and shortly after the War - in 1920 - she was canonized. The cover art depicts a woman riding a horse, with her sword in the air. The lyrics of the song portrays the French soldiers' calling out to Joan of Arc with the chorus ending "Come lead your France to victory; Joan of Arc, they are calling you." The cover of "He Sleeps" pictures a woman, man, and dog sitting before a fireplace, while the lyrics relate the story of a young man who wounded at war, and "knew that he was going to die there on that summer's day." Refrain: "He sleeps beneath the soil of France so many miles away, he left behind the one he loved and a mother old and gray, he fought because he knew 'twas right to fight for liberty and now he's sleeping over there, beneath the soil of France." Each consists of single sheet folded to create 4 pages, 13-1/4" tall and 10-3/8" wide, with two pages of lyrics and music inside - the back cover of Joan of Arc advertises "The Latest Dance Craze - Paddle Addle in Your Little Canoe" and that of He Sleeps contains and snippets promoting "Beautiful Home Songs."

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    Condition: Fair condition with several edge tears, and some separation at the fold.

    Book ID: 81646
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  • ALL BLOOD RUNS RED: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard - Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy. by Keith, Phil with Tom Clavin.
    Keith, Phil with Tom Clavin.
    ALL BLOOD RUNS RED: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard - Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Hanover Square Press, (2019). First edition - "The extraordinary story of the first African American military pilot in World War I, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer." Bullard, the son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, fled home as a young boy to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community, determined to get to France. He garnered fame as a boxer, but when war broke out he joined the French Foreign Legion. 324 pp plus author's note and bibliography.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 80402
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  • MOBILIZING WOMEN-POWER. by Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856-1940) (foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.)
    Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856-1940) (foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.)
    MOBILIZING WOMEN-POWER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Womans Press, 1918. Hardcover first edition - The first book by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and herself a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer and an advocate for labor reform. "She is credited with modernizing a suffrage movement that, by the opening of the 20th century, was listless and flagging," and also with changing it from primarily a middle and upper class women's movement to one which included concern for the rights of working women. "Her radical style combined militant civil disobedience with political activism. The combination of her energy, daring and political savvy spurred the movement on to its goal of enfranchising American women with the passage…

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    New York: The Womans Press, 1918. Hardcover first edition - The first book by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and herself a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer and an advocate for labor reform. "She is credited with modernizing a suffrage movement that, by the opening of the 20th century, was listless and flagging," and also with changing it from primarily a middle and upper class women's movement to one which included concern for the rights of working women. "Her radical style combined militant civil disobedience with political activism. The combination of her energy, daring and political savvy spurred the movement on to its goal of enfranchising American women with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920." Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Although this first book, written during World War I, is a feminist view in favor of war as providing equality of work for women, she returned to the peace movement after seeing the ravages which war had brought to Europe and her second book, published in 1920 was ' A Woman's Point of View, Some Roads to Peace'. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 photographic plates - showing women 'comfortably and becoming garbed for working in a factory', pulling a plow in France, with an ambulance equipped with an xray machine set up by Marie Curie, and working in the Erie Railroad workshop. Appendix containing Documents Used in Women's War Work in England and France. 195 pp.

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    Condition: Very good overall in tan cloth with blue lettering and a decorative frame around the title (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, corners slightly bumped and worn) Very uncommon, and interesting.

    Book ID: 59293
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  • THE BOY ORATOR. by Daugherty, Tracy.
    Daugherty, Tracy.
    THE BOY ORATOR.

    Edition: First printing.

    Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, fourth book, set in Texas and Oklahoma in the early 1900s through World War I - an account of those trying to find justice for workers and the poor, of those opposed to war, and of the violent rise of the Knights of Liberty and the abuses of the Espionage Act. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-87074433X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78818
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  • ARMY BOYS MARCHING INTO GERMANY or Over the Rhine with the Stars and Stripes (# 5 in Army Boys Series.) by Randall, Homer.
    Randall, Homer.
    ARMY BOYS MARCHING INTO GERMANY or Over the Rhine with the Stars and Stripes (# 5 in Army Boys Series.)

    Edition: Reprint.

    Cleveland, Ohio: World Syndicate Publishing Co., (ca 1935, c 1919.) dj. Hardcover - A between the wars issue of this boy's "adventure" story set in the Great War, World War I. 214 pp.

    Condition: Good in pale gold cloth in a poor dust jacket with a wraparound illustration ( usual toning to pages,some shelfwear - dust jacket has overall edgewear, tape repairs to interior and to back cover)

    Book ID: 78736
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  • THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE FROM MASSACHUSETTS: A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne - the Somme, 1916-l9l7, with an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial and Death of Edith Cavell. by Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Florence, 1874-1962.
    Fitzgerald, Alice Louise Florence, 1874-1962.
    THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE FROM MASSACHUSETTS: A Record of One Year's Personal Service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Boulogne - the Somme, 1916-l9l7, with an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial and Death of Edith Cavell.

    Edition: First edition.

    Boston: W. A. Butterfield, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Edith Cavell was a British nurse who had established a training school for nurses in Belgium; after the War broke out, she saved the lives of those from both sides without discrimination, but she also helped 200 allied soldiers escape from Belgium - and for that she was convicted of treason and executed by the Germans in 1915. Massachusetts established a fund to recruit a nurse to serve in the War in the memory of Cavell - the nurse selected was Alice Fitzgerald, and this little book includes both some comments from her on her service and an account of Cavell's imprisonment. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 95 pp.

    Condition: Very good in tan boards with brown cloth spine (some rubbing and wear to the covers, black ink spots on back board.)

    Book ID: 77558
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  • BLUE RAVENS: Historical Novel. by Vizenor, Gerald.
    Vizenor, Gerald.
    BLUE RAVENS: Historical Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set the early twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at the battles of Chteau-Thierry, Montbrhain, and Bois de Fays in France. After serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, but leave for a second time to live in Paris. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0819574169.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76541
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  • "OVER THE TOP": By An American Soldier Who Went. Together With Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches. by Empey, Arthur Guy, Machine Gunner Serving in France.
    Empey, Arthur Guy, Machine Gunner Serving in France.
    "OVER THE TOP": By An American Soldier Who Went. Together With Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover - An American's account of serving in the British Army in World War I before the United States got involved, of fighting in the trenches, light-hearted hi-jinks and of being seriously wounded. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 13 inserted plates of photographs and graphs (some doublepage). x, 315 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements.

    Condition: Good overall in red cloth - front hinge cracking, rubbing to the spine and soiling to covers, spine slant..

    Book ID: 76195
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  • TED MARSH AND THE ENEMY, #4 in series. by Sherwood Elmer (pseudonym for Samuel Lewenkrohn)
    Sherwood Elmer (pseudonym for Samuel Lewenkrohn)
    TED MARSH AND THE ENEMY, #4 in series.

    Edition: Reprint.

    Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., nd (ca 1919). Hardcover - Originally published as a title in the Lucky Series, this is set against the backdrop of World War I on the border of New Mexico and Mexico, where the Germans are trying to persuade Mexico to declare war against the US, and other nefarious acts. Illustrated with 4 drawings on plain paper and illustrated endpapers by Neil O'Keefe. An unfortunate example of the worst in juvenile series, with poor writing and characterization , overt racism, and very cheaply produced, even for Whitman. 124 pp. small format, stapled text block printed on gray paper in illustrated paper-covered boards.

    Condition: Fair condition only (loss at both ends of spine, corners bumped, other wear to the covers).

    Book ID: 75932
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  • THE GREAT WAR. by Jablonski, Edward.
    Jablonski, Edward.
    THE GREAT WAR.

    Edition: Probable first edition (last of the Real-Life stories listed on the back cover).

    Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1965). Hardcover first edition - Stories of World War I written for older children. Includes The Sea Devil about Count Felix von Luckner, Boy Wonder about Douglas MacArthur, Dogfight, Verdun and more. Illustrated with green line drawings by Arnie Kohn. 210 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated boards (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 75369
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