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  • RIVER OF DARKNESS. by Airth, Rennie.
    Airth, Rennie.
    RIVER OF DARKNESS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Viking, (1999). First edition - Novel introducing Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard, a book which is both a meticulously chronicled police procedural set in 1921, as the police were adjusting to the new forensic science, and use of the insights provided by psychology, and also a look at how the effects of the Great War continue long after its end. Winner of the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere for best international crime novel in 2000 and was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity awards in the United States, Highly recommended. 386 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83977
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  • LIFE CLASS. by Barker, Pat.
    Barker, Pat.
    LIFE CLASS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about several young artists caught up in the Great War. 311 pp. ISBN: 978-0385524353.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86794
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  • THE EYE IN THE DOOR by Barker, Pat
    Barker, Pat
    THE EYE IN THE DOOR

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Dutton, 1994. First edition - The second book in her highly acclaimed World War I trilogy, and winner of the Guardian Prize for fiction. The third book in the series, "The Ghost Road" won the Booker Prize. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938087.

    Condition: Fine in printed pink wrappers.

    Book ID: 47811
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  • REGENERATION. by Barker, Pat.
    Barker, Pat.
    REGENERATION.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Viking Penguin, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in her highly acclaimed WWI trilogy, a novel based on Siegfried Sassoon's relationship with his psychiatrist and drawn from the writings of the First World War poets and W.H.R. Rivers, an army doctor who worked with traumatized soldiers. The final novel in this trilogy won the Booker Prize, but in reality that was awarded to the work as a whole. Author's note. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-670-828769.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (rather light toning to the pages.) Uncommon, especially in this condition.

    Book ID: 73984
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  • THE AIR WE BREATHE. by Barrett, Andrea.
    Barrett, Andrea.
    THE AIR WE BREATHE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82964
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  • THE AIR WE BREATHE. by Barrett, Andrea.
    Barrett, Andrea.
    THE AIR WE BREATHE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82963
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  • THE AIR WE BREATHE. by Barrett, Andrea.
    Barrett, Andrea.
    THE AIR WE BREATHE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82966
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  • THE AIR WE BREATHE. by Barrett, Andrea.
    Barrett, Andrea.
    THE AIR WE BREATHE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82524
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  • THE AIR WE BREATHE. by Barrett, Andrea.
    Barrett, Andrea.
    THE AIR WE BREATHE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, (2007). First edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 82965
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  • THE AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE ATLANTIC; or, The Longest Flight on Record. #6 in series. by Beach, Charles Amory.
    Beach, Charles Amory.
    THE AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE ATLANTIC; or, The Longest Flight on Record. #6 in series.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: George Sully and Company, (1920). Hardcover first edition - Sixth book in this World War I adventure series. Copies by the original publisher are rather hard to find. Last title in list at front. Frontispiece. 218 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Fair condition only in illustrated beige cloth (damage to spine covering near the top, hinge cracked before title page) .

    Book ID: 85828
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  • THE AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE ENEMY'S LINES or The German Spy's Secret, #2. by Beach, Charles Amory.
    Beach, Charles Amory.
    THE AIR SERVICE BOYS OVER THE ENEMY'S LINES or The German Spy's Secret, #2.

    Edition: Reprint.

    Cleveland, OH: The Goldsmith Publishing Co., (ca 1930, c 1919) dj. Hardcover - Second book in this World War I adventure series. A "tale of army aviation. Entrusted with a special mission, the young airmen go over the German lines and learn important secrets. They had previously aided an American girl who had a German guardian, and they fall in with this rascal, who tries to make trouble for them. They are captured and sentenced to be shot. How they manage to escape makes reading no boy will want to miss." Illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert. 216 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Good overall in olive green cloth with black lettering - rather severe age-tanning to the pages.

    Book ID: 79769
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  • YOUNG MRS. CAVENDISH AND THE KAISER'S MEN. by Beck, K.K.
    Beck, K.K.
    YOUNG MRS. CAVENDISH AND THE KAISER'S MEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth mystery, set in San Francisco in 1916, shortly before the US entered the war - a society reporter is determined to get her by-line on the front page, and reporting on a kidnapping should surely do that! SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-09796.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68576
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  • YOUNG MRS. CAVENDISH AND THE KAISER'S MEN. by Beck, K.K.
    Beck, K.K.
    YOUNG MRS. CAVENDISH AND THE KAISER'S MEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth mystery, set in San Francisco in 1916, shortly before the US entered the war - a society reporter is determined to get her by-line on the front page, and reporting on a kidnapping should surely do that! INSCRIBED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-09796.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 70791
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  • THE NEW CONFESSIONS. by Boyd, William
    Boyd, William
    THE NEW CONFESSIONS.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Morrow, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - His 4th novel - and called his best one to date - the story of a man born in turn of the century Edinburgh, and his experiences in the first World War trenches, in Berlin in 1920's and postwar Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- with good wishes." 399 pp. ISBN: 0-688-077617.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 58567
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  • THE NEW CONFESSIONS. by Boyd, William
    Boyd, William
    THE NEW CONFESSIONS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His 4th novel - and called his best one to date - the story of a man born in turn of the century Edinburgh, and his experiences in the first World War trenches, in Berlin in 1920's and postwar Los Angeles. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-688-077617.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 36758
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  • Boyd, William.
    THE NEW CONFESSIONS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His 4th novel - and called his best one to date - the story of a man born in turn of the century Edinburgh, and his experiences in the first World War trenches, in Berlin in 1920's and postwar Los Angeles. ISBN: 0-688-077617.

    Condition: Good only in near fine dust jacket (appears near fine but a binding flaw at p 387)

    Book ID: 28974
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  • THE KHAKI GIRLS IN VICTORY, #4 in series. by Brooks, Edna,
    Brooks, Edna,
    THE KHAKI GIRLS IN VICTORY, #4 in series.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1920). Hardcover first edition - The fourth and last book in this series set during the Great War, the story of two American girls - Joan Mason, an enthusiastic motor girl, and Valerie Warde, a society debutante - who volunteered to serve in the Motor Corps (a fifth book is announced at the end of this volume, but was never published). In this book, the girls go to Paris to celebrate the end of the war. Glossy frontispiece. 212 pp.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated tan cloth.

    Book ID: 69417
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  • LUSITANIA. by Butler, David.
    Butler, David.
    LUSITANIA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth historical novel, the story of the sinking of this great ship after it was hit by a German torpedo on May 7, 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives. 578 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394528093.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84716
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  • Canfield, Dorothy [Fisher] (1879-1958).
    HOME FIRES IN FRANCE.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, 1918. dj. Hardcover - Canfield accompanied her husband to the front in France during World War I and began working in France among the blind survivors of the war more than a year before the US entered it. These short "stories" are designed to help Americans understand both the French people and the Americans who were working in France. Bound in blue boards, with yellow lettering. 306 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements. Although the book meets all the points of a first edition, the dust jacket is a later issue, with second printing noted under the review on the front cover (ad for War Savings Stamps on back cover of dj.)

    Condition: Near fine in a poor dust jacket (dj is missing about 2 inches at the top of the spine, other wear) - still this is an attractive copy of a book which is very uncommon in dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36075
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  • Carroll, James.
    SUPPLY OF HEROES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of 4 people set in 1915-1916 against the twin upheavals of the Irish Revolution and World War I. ISBN: 0-525-244506.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 31599
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  • THE RETURN OF THE RAVEN MOCKER: An Alafair Tucker Mystery. by Casey, Donis.
    Casey, Donis.
    THE RETURN OF THE RAVEN MOCKER: An Alafair Tucker Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The ninth in this award-winning mystery series set in Oklahoma in the 1910s and featuring Alafair Tucker, a mother of ten. It is 1918 and as war is raging in Europe, the deadly influenza epidemic is sweeping through Boynton. ISBN: 978-146207549.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 72203
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  • THE LUSITANIA MURDERS. by Collins, Max Allan.
    Collins, Max Allan.
    THE LUSITANIA MURDERS.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Berkley, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is S. S. Van Dine, and the Pinkerton detective on board is Philomena Vance, the inspiration for Van Dine's hero, Philo Vance. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. xv, 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425186881.

    Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 79259
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  • WAR HORSE. by Downey, Fairfax.
    Downey, Fairfax.
    WAR HORSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. Hardcover first edition - Novel for older children based on Downey's experiences during World War I, in which he served in the horse-drawn artilleries. The horse, Barbara, is based on his own mount who served through five major battles and who, despite her wound, went on to win some jumping events. Illustrated throughout with drawings - including some double page spreads - by Paul Brown. xii, 236 pp

    Condition: Very good in tan cloth with brown lettering and a small illustration on the front cover - a bit of wear to the covers, but overall a straight and tight copy. No dust jacket. .

    Book ID: 71757
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  • THE BOY ALLIES UNDER TWO FLAGS or, Sweeping the Enemy from the Sea (#2 of Boy Allies with the Navy Series) by Drake, Ensign Robert L.
    Drake, Ensign Robert L.
    THE BOY ALLIES UNDER TWO FLAGS or, Sweeping the Enemy from the Sea (#2 of Boy Allies with the Navy Series)

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: A. L. Burt, (1915). Hardcover - The second title in this series set during World War I. "Frank Chadwick and Jack Templeton, young American lads, meet each other in an unusual way soon after the declaration of war. Circumstances place them on board the British cruiser 'The Sylph' and from there on, they share adventures with the sailors of the Allies." In this book, they "battle the Germans in the Adriatic Sea, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and Persian Gulf aboard a battle ship, torpedo submarine, and hydroplane." Ensign Robert L. Drake, the author, is an experienced naval officer, and he describes admirably the many exciting adventures of the two boys." Format 1 with titles in red. 254 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's ads.

    Condition: Good overall condition. Usual toning to the pages, corners bumped and some soiling to the back cover, but overall a tight and rather attractive copy in illustrated light blue cloth binding, showing a submarine and a sinking ship.

    Book ID: 65661
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  • BIRDSONG. by Faulks, Sebastian.
    Faulks, Sebastian.
    BIRDSONG.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1997.). First edition - His second novel, and perhaps his best - a story of obsessive love, but more importantly, a harrowing account of the horrors of trench warfare during the first World War. 413 pp. ISBN: 0-679-776818.

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

    Book ID: 68656
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  • BIRDSONG. by Faulks, Sebastian.
    Faulks, Sebastian.
    BIRDSONG.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, (1996.). First edition - Rather uncommon advance issue for the first US appearance of his second novel, and perhaps his best - a story of obsessive love, but more importantly, a harrowing account of the horrors of trench warfare during the first World War. 413 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 42289
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  • THE GIRL AT THE LION D'OR. by Faulks, Sebastian.
    Faulks, Sebastian.
    THE GIRL AT THE LION D'OR.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Vintage Books, (1996.). First edition - Novel set at a rundown hotel in a small French village in the years between the wars, issued as a trade paperback original in the US. 246 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 64076
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  • THE GENERAL. by Forester, C. S. (1899-1966)
    Forester, C. S. (1899-1966)
    THE GENERAL.

    Edition: First thus.

    Annapolis, MD: Nautical & Aviation Publishing, (1982) dj. Hardcover - A handsome new edition of this novel of World War I, originally published in 1936 and considered one of Forester's masterpieces. It illustrates the catastrophic consequences of that war and is still required reading at many a military school. "[This]is a superb novel. It blends Forester's preference for military subjects and solid unreflective characters, his irony, his grasp of history and his gift for lean, hypnotic narrative." (The New York Times) A title in the Great War Stories with a new preface by Merrill L. Bartlett, USMC and the preface Forester wrote for the 1947 reissue. xiii, 263 pp. ISBN: 0-933852274.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (number of bottom and top edges of textblock, price-clipped)

    Book ID: 86437
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  • PATROL TO THE GOLDEN HORN. by Fullerton, Alexander.
    Fullerton, Alexander.
    PATROL TO THE GOLDEN HORN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: SOHO Press, (2002). First edition - The third volume in the highly praised Nick Everard naval series (Len Deighton called them "the most meticulously researched war novels I have ever read"), originally published in the UK in 1978. Set in late 1918 when Everard is on a British submarine which must pass through narrow straits of the Dardanelles to destroy a German battle cruiser. 229 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88815
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  • THE TOWN PARK: And Other Stories. by Grab, Hermann.
    Grab, Hermann.
    THE TOWN PARK: And Other Stories.

    Edition: First English language printing.

    New York & London: Verso, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A work originally published in 1935 and set in Prague during the first World War and published here in English for the first time. In addition to the short novel this includes ten other stories. "With its delicate irony, Proustian introspection and interplay of time and memory, and exquisitely crafted style inspired by Grab's theory of 'dissonant harmonies', The Town Park has rightly been hailed as a work of genius." Translated by Quintin Hoare with a foreword by Thoedor Adorno. Afterword by Peter Staengle. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-860911896.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 55527
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