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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 -
STORIES OF AMERICANS IN THE WORLD WAR.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Charles E. Merrill Company, (1918). Hardcover first edition - Mostly first person accounts about heroism during World War I - the Great War - and depicting the love of country. Many of them are articles which appeared in various magazines, adapted slightly for this book. Published for use in schools. Illustrated with photographs. List of military terms. 176 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in illustrated terra cotta cloth. Uncommon.
Book ID: 73035More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
RIGHT FROM WRONG.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, set in Central Texas during World War I. Winner of the 1997 PEN Texas Award for the Novel.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15534More details Price: $20.00 -
THE DAY THE FALLS STOOD STILL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel set in 1915, against the backdrop of the Niagara Falls, during the Great War and at the dawn of the hydroelectric age.Illustrated with vintage photographs. 305 pp. ISBN: 1401340970.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 56831More details Price: $18.00 -
MY FIRST EIGHTY YEARS: The Life Story of a California Surgeon.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1960. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the early life of a doctor who came to California with his family in 1881 when he was just one year old, who grew up in Garden Grove in southern California, attended Stanford and Johns Hopkins Medical School, served in both World War I and World War II, and practised medicine for most of his life in the Long Beach area, Includes early history of the area, an account of the earthquake of 1906 which hit was he was at Stanford, his training at Johns Hopkins, and service during the first World War and more. Illustrated with many photographs .Foreword by Merton E. Hill, Ed.D. SIGNED on the half title page. 264 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 42420More details Price: $35.00 -
CAVALRY OF THE CLOUDS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1917). Hardcover - An account by a British ace in the the Royal Flying Corps of the work done in aerial observation and reconnaissance by members of the Umpty Squadron during the First World War. introduction by Major-General W.S. Branckner. Frontispiece. xxii, 266 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in red illustated cloth (hinges cracking, prev owner's name, some wear to covers).
Book ID: 85826More details Price: $15.00 -
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 -
THE WAR IN THE CRADLE OF THE WORLD: Mesopotamia.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Just about fine in black cloth with gilt lettering (some pages still unopened, synopsis from dust jacket flap tipped onto front pastedown.)
Book ID: 38718More details Price: $85.00 -
"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 -
THE WORLD WAR: A Short Account of the Principal Land Operations on the Belgian, French, Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish Fronts.
Edition: First edition.
West Point, NY: United States Military Academy, 1921. Hardcover first edition - Corrections (errata) slip pasted inside the back cover with carbontype pasted over a small part correcting corrections. Errata slips tipped in at pages; 27; 32-33 and another at 34-35. 272 pp
Condition: Good overall in beige cloth - prev owner's name, bumping to the corners, tidemark on the lower edge of the front endpapers)
Book ID: 58041More details Price: $50.00 -
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 -
OVER THERE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel of World War I.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (an unread copy.)
Book ID: 13311More details Price: $13.50 -
YOUR MIRROR TO MY TIMES: The Selected Autobiographies and Impressions of Ford Madox Ford.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "autobiography" fashioned from eight volumes of Ford's memoirs by Ford, selected, edited and with an introduction by Michael Killigrew. A prolific writer himself, Ford was also at the forefront on the literary world from the early 20th century until his death in 1939 - he was the nephew of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, he was in Paris with James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and others.
Sources. xxi, 392 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0859719.Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44414More details Price: $25.00 -
SUNNYSIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." Cover praise from Junot Diaz (who calls this a 'stupendous novel') and others. 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in.
Book ID: 47116More details Price: $28.50 -
SUNNYSIDE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 47117More details Price: $30.00 -
SUNNYSIDE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." SIGNED on the title page and dated 4 June 09. Cover praise from Junot Diaz (who calls this a 'stupendous novel') and others. 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 56603More details Price: $35.00 -
STONES FROM THE RIVER
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Scribner, (1995.). A novel of Germany in the first half of the 20th century - a period of two devastating wars and uneasy years between. 525 pp. ISBN: 0-684-84477x.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 46979More details Price: $10.00 -
I HAVE THIS TO SAY: The Story of My Flurried Years.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover first edition - Surprisingly uncommon later autobiographical work - this covers the period from 1908 to 1915 with many digressions. Beginning with the preface where she describes walking as a little girl with John Ruskin, this is a glimpse into the lives of many important literary figures of the era, including D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Henry James, Rebecca West and Joseph Conrad. Suffragettes, 'wild English women,' exile in Germany and life under wartime conditions, are all touched upon. Lively and entertaining. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 sepia toned plates. 306 pp.
Condition: Very good in teal cloth covers with lighter turquoise lettering, lacking the dustjacket (missing front endpaper - as a substitute, the frontispiece was affixed to the blank prelim to give more stability to this first page, outer edges of boards slightly bumped.) Still a reasonably attractive copy of a title which is very difficult to find.
Book ID: 33409More details Price: $150.00 -
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 -
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: $24.50 -
THE GOLDEN ONE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, (2002.) dj. Hardcover - A mystery featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, set at Luxor during World War I. 429 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-380-978857.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 45787More details Price: $11.50 -
ARMY BOYS ON THE FIRING LINE Or Holding Back the German Drive (# 3 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 trenches of the Great War, World War I. Back cover of dust jacket advertises a boys' biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt "From Boyhood to President" thus helping to date this copy. Plain frontispiece. 216 pps.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering in a good dust jacket (binding is tight, pages are unusually white for a book from this era, dust jacket has light overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 40472More details Price: $15.00 -
ARMY BOYS IN THE BIG DRIVE Or Smashing Forward to Victory (# 4 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 trenches of the Great War, World War I. Back cover of dust jacket advertises a boys' biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt "From Boyhood to President" thus helping to date this copy. Plain frontispiece. 216 pps.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering in a good dust jacket (binding is tight, dust jacket has light overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine and chipping to the ends.)
Book ID: 58132More details Price: $15.00 -
ARMY BOYS IN FRANCE or From Training Camp to Trenches (# 1 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 trenches of the Great War, World War I. 216 pp.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with black lettering in a good dust jacket with a wraparound illustration (gift inscription, spine slant, usual toning to pages, dust jacket has light overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine.)
Book ID: 74650More details Price: $18.50 -
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 AMAZING INTERLUDE.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: George H. Doran, (1918). Hardcover - A novel of romantic suspense set during World War I. Frontispiece and three glossy internal plates by the Kinneys. 317 pp.
Condition: Good in beige cloth covered boards, with a blue design, black lettering (previous owner's name dated 1922,wear to the ends of the spine and the corners)
Book ID: 86520More details Price: $17.50 -
VERDUN: The Prelude; The Battle (Men of Good Will, Volume VIII, Eight.)
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover - Although published in France as part of the 'Men of Good Will' series (Les Hommes de Bonne Volunte), the introduction emphasizes that this can be read and understood as a separate novel. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. Includes a Dramatis Personae at the beginning of the book, to introduce the reader to the characters who appeared in previous volumes plus an index of characters at the end of the volume. xii, 500 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth, no dustjacket.
Book ID: 31329More details Price: $12.50 -
VERDUN: The Prelude; The Battle (Men of Good Will, Volume VIII, Eight.)
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. dj. Hardcover - Although published in France as part of the 'Men of Good Will' series (Les Hommes de Bonne Volunte), the introduction emphasizes that this can be read and understood as a separate novel. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. Includes a Dramatis Personae at the beginning of the book, to introduce the reader to the characters who appeared in previous volumes plus an index of characters at the end of the volume. xii, 500 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth in a fair only dust jacket (rubbing to the folds, loss of about 1 cm at top of spine.) BOMC brochure laid in.
Book ID: 48187More details Price: $17.50 -
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