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.

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.

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.

New York: Macmillan, 1944. dj. Hardcover - A novel by this lifelong pacifist which fictionalizes the tragic story of an intelligent man accused of murdering of his wife and then attempting suicide, a story which linked the First War with the Second, allowing Brittain to demonstrate the destructive effect of war on mind and spirit. While in prison the convicted man gave Brittain permission to use his story as the basis of a novel but once out of prison 1943, he withdrew his permission, so the novel was written to remove any references that could be tied to him. 339 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel of World War I.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cincinnati: By the author, 1932. First edition - Sub-titled "An artiste living in Paris", this is a brief picture of Nourse, a painter, born in Ohio, who lived most of her life in Paris. She was the first American woman to be voted into the Socit Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Includes a section with quotations from her letters during World War I when - unlike many Americans - she chose to remain in Paris "where she worked to assist the war's refugees and solicited donations from her friends in the United States and Canada for the benefit of people whose lives were disrupted by the war." (wiki) Frontispiece self-portrait. 24 pp.