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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
CHARITY GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90633More details Price: $18.50