The 2nd Canadian Heavy Battery in the World War 1914-1919 by Second Canadian Battery Old Boys Association - 1932

Zurich: Verlag Des Kriegs-Atlas, 1914. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 10 folding maps published at outbreak of World War I in Switzerland. All in very good condition with half having closed tears but no chips. The only recorded copy in OCLC is at the Swiss National Library.

Privately Printed. Hardcover. Very Good. 106 pages. Signed by author,inscribed, & dated on title page. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to covers, text & illustrations are very clean.

Methuen, London, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy inscribed: "From the author, with vivid memories of much hospitality. W.Beach Thomas Oct 16 1919". 8vo. 285pp + xxxi publisher's catalogue. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and in blind at the upper board. Cloth considerably marked and a little worn at corners, yet really quite a crisp and bright copy internally (although the paper used for the publisher's catalogue is of significantly inferior stock to the rest). Beach Thomas' oddly uncommon account of his wartime experiences: he reported for the 'Daily Mail' and at the outset of the war, when Kitchener was opposed to the presence of journalists at the front, was one of several who managed to reach the front lines in Belgium where he was discovered and imprisoned by the British Army, an episode he described as "the longest walking tour of my life, and the… Read More

New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo. 292 pages. Hardcover with a tan, blue, green and brown pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is worn and chipped about the edges. Headcap of the jacket spine is especially chipped. There is tear at the lower right corner of the rear panel, stretching around to the foot of the spine, and there may have been some damping there as well. The binding of the book has a little paper stuck to the cloth in this area. The book itself is sound with secure inner hinges and clean text. Collates complete with 16 photos.

(Ministère de la Guerre) Librairie Armand Colin, s.d. (1916) 35x28,5 cm. Fascicule VI: Reims - Soissons - Arras Fascicule VII: En Alsace reconquise Fascicule VIII: Armes et munitions Fascicule IX: En Artois Fascicule XI: Prisonniers et trophées Fascicule XII: De l' Yser à la mer du Nord Fascicule XIV: Les étapes du blessé
--- Some wear at spines. Valuable B&W photographs from the First World War. Text in french.

A bibliography of materials pertaining to World War I. An annotated collection compiled and edited with selective comments.Gordon Press, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering, lightly bumped. Looks new and unread. Very tight binding. Pages crisp and clean, no writing, tears or creases.

Methuen, London, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy inscribed: "From the author, with vivid memories of much hospitality. W.Beach Thomas Oct 16 1919". 8vo. 285pp + xxxi publisher's catalogue. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and in blind at the upper board. Cloth considerably marked and a little worn at corners, yet really quite a crisp and bright copy internally (although the paper used for the publisher's catalogue is of significantly inferior stock to the rest). Beach Thomas' oddly uncommon account of his wartime experiences: he reported for the 'Daily Mail' and at the outset of the war, when Kitchener was opposed to the presence of journalists at the front, was one of several who managed to reach the front lines in Belgium where he was discovered and imprisoned by the British Army, an episode he described as "the longest walking tour of my life, and the… Read More

United Art Publishing, 1916. Hardcover. Used- Good condition. Book shows shelf wear. Scuffing along the edges and corners of book. Tear on the left middle side (next to the spine). Blotches of slightly darkened stains on the back cover. Writing on the front end-paper. Tear on the top and bottom of the end-paper up against the binding. All pages are intact. No further markings on the inside of the book. The envelope that originally held the stamps is no longer in the book. All 72 stamps are affixed to the corresponding spaces. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

(Ministère de la Guerre) Librairie Armand Colin, s.d. (1916) 35x28,5 cm. Fascicule VI: Reims - Soissons - Arras Fascicule VII: En Alsace reconquise Fascicule VIII: Armes et munitions Fascicule IX: En Artois Fascicule XI: Prisonniers et trophées Fascicule XII: De l' Yser à la mer du Nord Fascicule XIV: Les étapes du blessé
--- Some wear at spines. Valuable B&W photographs from the First World War. Text in french.

London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1929. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], [199], [1] + illustrated frontis reproducing Percy Smith's drypoint 'Solitude'. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design echoing the docked solitary tree of 'Solitude' to upper board. Spine baggy, spine ends frayed, extremities bruised and top corner bumped, slight warp and faint bloom to boards, wear to blind-stamped Heinemann device. Grey marbled endpapers tanned. Foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. A robust copy of Borden's celebrated WWI collection. The Chicago-born socialite, suffragette and prolific author, Mary 'May' Borden (1886-1968) used her own private wealth to fund and staff a mobile hospital at the French front, for which she received the Croix de Guerre and was made a member of the Légion d'honneur. The Forbidden Zone is considered "her most enduring work," comprising five stories "written recently from memory" and poems and sketches penned during her four years in France, and… Read More