IN FLANDERS FIELDS by McCrae, John - 1921

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).

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

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.

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

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is the British first edition, first printing, of the fourth volume of Winston Churchill's monumental history of The First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931, with the first four volumes spanning the war years 1911-1918 and the final two volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). Though the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite… Read More

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket . Published Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2005, first printing. 8vo., vii+295 pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Athens, GA: Athens Book Co, 1923. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 215pp; 10 plates from photographs. 7.5" x 5.5" Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free-endpaper: "Presented to / Senator Peter Horbeck / by the author / Frank Attolda / Athens, Ga. March 24, 1924." The author served as 2nd Lieutenant in the 328th Infantry, 82nd Division, in World War I.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936.. Tan cloth, pictorially stamped in dark brown. Bookplate of Walter Chrysler on pastedown, faint tanning to endsheet gutters, otherwise about fine in near fine example of the pictorial dust jacket with a few minor nicks, shallow loss at the crown of the spine and a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel. First U.S. edition, with the binding and dust jacket designs after Barnett Freedman. Somewhat less common in jacket than its British counterpart. Keynes notes only the 1937 American printing. KEYNES A40a(n).

Rooke Publishing, 2011. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Firmly bound and seems unread. Both book & Jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. illustrated in b/w including photos, maps & plans. This is volume II only which covers 52nd ight Infantry in France & Belgium. A heavy book. .

London: William Kimber [0-7183-0073-4] 1973, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs. The dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, and lightly faded on the spine. "An R.N.A.S. Volunteer from Canada, from 1917 Raymond Collishaw was in the thick of the combat in the air on the Western Front. Flying Sopwith Pups with No.3 (Naval) Squadron and Sopwith Triplanes with No.10 (Naval) Squadron, he soon proved himself to be an outstanding fighter pilot". Book about Sopwith Aircraft. Locale: Western Front. (Military--Canada, Fighter Aces, Fighter Pilots, Military--Canada, Royal Naval Air Service, World War 1).