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THE HARBOURMASTER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket. with several chips including along front fold (price-clipped)
Book ID: 91133More details Price: $24.50 -
CHARITY GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90633More details Price: $18.50 -
THE ESCAPE ARTISTS: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90554More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 90279More details Price: $18.50 -
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: 90201More details Price: $13.50 -
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: 90138More details Price: $50.00 -
THE DEEPENING STREAM.
Edition: First printing.
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: 90012More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 89970More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 89757More details Price: $35.00 -
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light creasing and wear to top edge of dj)
Book ID: 89366More details Price: $35.00 -
LAND OF MARVELS.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89034More details Price: $18.50 -
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: 89024More details Price: $21.50 -
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: 88892More details Price: $20.00 -
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: 88827More details Price: $85.00 -
WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BELGIUM: Children of Other Lands #6.
Edition: First printing.
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: 88051More details Price: $100.00 -
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: 87634More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 87527More details Price: $60.00 -
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: 85567More details Price: $14.50 -
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: 84682More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 82363More details Price: $25.00 -
2 PIECES of WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" & "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France"
Condition: Fair condition with several edge tears, and some separation at the fold.
Book ID: 81646More details Price: $30.00 -
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: 80402More details Price: $27.50 -
MOBILIZING WOMEN-POWER.
Edition: First printing.
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: 59293More details Price: $425.00 -
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: 78818More details Price: $35.00 -
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: 78736More details Price: $14.50 -
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: 77558More details Price: $40.00 -
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: 76541More details Price: $25.00 -
"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: 76195More details Price: $16.00 -
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: 75932More details Price: $12.50 -
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: 75369More details Price: $15.00