Search Results: World War One from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co.,  1916 1st Am. ed. 194pp. + index pp. & ads. t.e.g. green cloth sm 8vo: w/gilt titles: Very Good+ in a Good+ dj [antique name ffep; else VG+; dj = small loss @ spine head; small hole near bottom corner of front cover; else G+ in protective Brodart cover] French writer and scholar Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was an outspoken pacifist before, during and after the Great War. He wrote many of the pieces contained in this translation for Swiss newspapers. To get away from angry French cries of traitor, he lived in self-imposed exile in Switzerland where he was awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year that this volume, Au-Dessus de la Melee was first published. This is a very nice copy of this interesting work.

Barnsley, UK: Leo Cooper, 1998 revised ed. 130pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Fine.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1919. xv. 153pp. frontis. portrait of Gen. Sir Edmund H. Allenby. illus. hardback sm 4to in illustrated paper covered boards: Good [some wear @ spine ends; bottom corners are bumped; antique bookplate on pastedown; else a nice clean complete and tight copy; illustrations and text are in very good or better condition] A wonderful piece of World War One memorabilia that includes 20 handsome color plates and many other photographs and drawings; the editors note that this is a "Soldiers' Book, produced almost entirely by soldiers in the field under active service conditions to send to their friends in Australia and abroad." This particular copy was sent to a lady in Edinburgh by a soldier. The editors were Sir Henry Somer Gullett (1878-1940), who accompanied Australian forces to the Near East as a captain and official military historian. He became director of the Australian War Museum and later a government cabinet minister who died spectacularly in the so-called… Read More

New York: Scribner's, c1971 book club ed. 209pp. illus. brown cloth 8vo: near Fine in a generally Good dj. A World War I POW story featuring three Royal Flying Corps pilots who made "the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure."

London: Cassel, 2001 1st ed. 543pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: about Good in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [photographic illustrations mid-text are rippled from some old moisture contact; some slight rippling of other pages of text; endpp. are foxed; else a complete & tight copy] A comprehensive history of British military executions during the First World War.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1939 2nd ptg. 270pp. black cloth 8vo: Good/no dj. An account of the German commerce raider "Wolf," that was in action from November 1916 to February 1918.

London: Pimlico, 2000 reprint. 216pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; few slightly turned bottom page corner tips mid-text; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A famous study of the Western Front in 1915, originally published in 1961.

New York: Macmillan, 1916 1st Am. ed. 245pp. + ads. illus. navy cloth sm 8vo w/gilt titles: Very Good/no dj [edges are age browned; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] An early account of the 1915 Dardanelles disaster by the future Poet Laureate of England and later Sir John Masefield (1878-1967).

New York: Putnam's Knickerbocker Press. 1930 1st Am. ed. 334pp. beige pictorial cloth sm 8vo: Good+/no dj [some age darkening of light colored cloth, particularly of back cover; two small store stamps on rear endpp; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A classic novel of the First World War based on Australian writer Manning's (1882-1935) experiences in the trenches, originally published anonymously as "The Middle Parts of Fortune" and issued in this expurgated edition.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 1st ed. 384pp. illus. blue cloth 8vo: Fine in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [newspaper clipping of author's obituary tipped to ffep; else F; dj = some edge chipping; else VG] Biographical sketches of 134 World War I airmen from both sides, illustrated with 75 photographs. The prolific writer Whitehouse (1895-1979) was a British born American veteran of WWI and a WW2 war correspondent.

New York: The Devinne Press, 1916 1st ed. xvi, 124pp. illus. orig. red decorated cloth 12mo: Good/no dj [bottom corners are bumped; else G] George Magruder Battey, Jr. (1888-1965) was a writer from a prominent medical family in Rome, Georgia, who served in the U.S. Navy in World War I.

New York: Putnam's/The Knickerbocker Press. 1919 1st ed. unpaginated hardback 4to quarter bound in red cloth in pictorial boards: ex lib. copy; a cover worn but complete copy with usual lib. markings from a deletion; illustrations are clean and untroubled. Attractive, accomplished illustrations of military life on the Western Front by the American artist, then Private Baldridge (1889-1977) who served in the American Expeditionary Force in France and was among those who developed the American military newspaper "Stars and Stripes." His first book.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976 1st ed. 275pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: Very Good in a dj torn along top edges & now protected in a Brodart poly cover [some age browning; else VG] A portrait not only of the gifted man and poet Grenfell (1888-1915) but of his class of Englishmen who willingly embraced the Great War and died in it, ultimately for nought.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1917 reissue. 337pp. brown cloth sm 8vo: Good/no dj [pp. 67/68 have a piece of the bottom corner torn away; else a complete & tight copy] Wartime reportage by the American writer Curtin (1886-1963).

London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2013 1st ed. thus. 311pp. illus. paperback: Fine. A story of medical innovation and courage over four years in France and Belgium by the English nurse Edith Appleton (1877-1958).

426pp. illus. olive cloth sm 4to w/decoration: about Good/no dj [wear @ spine strip; else a complete & tight copy] This Volume II takes up the division's history from page 376, following Volume I which is not included.

New York: Macmillan. 1916 2nd ed. 148pp. + ads. hardback 16mo in paper-covered boards w/paper spine and title labels: Good [antique gift inscription ffep; wear @ spine ends & bottom tips; slit near spine tail; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] The Philadelphia-born Wister’s (1860-1938) effort to urge the United States to ally against Germany. He is best known for his novel, "The Virginian," considered by some critics to be the first Western novel.

New York: Pinnacle Books. 1977 1st ed. thus. 211pp. paperback: Fine [text is lightly age browned; else a very nice clean and crisp copy]

New York: David McKay Co., 1967 1st Am. ed. 256pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good+ in a Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [top & fore edges are age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014 1st ed. 322pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [couple of small top edge spots; else a nice crisp copy] Cover praise from Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward, et al.