Verdun Days in Paris by Marjorie Grant [Signed and inscribed] - 1918: documented experiences as a female volunteer

London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 187pp. One of the most brilliant dust jacket with front panel showing the horrors of war where the real enemy is the ugly monster symbolized by the green ravenous beast faced by the soldier in stark horror. Liam O'Flaherty served in World War I as a private in the Irish Guards, so this was his coming to grips with the "war to end all wars". Bound in brown cloth, spine lettering green, some off setting to endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket with chipping to corners and along upper edge of jacket, a crease to rear panel and a dark spot to spine. A very good copy.

Undated, believed to be 1916. With owner's name neatly written in gothic script, and also something mentioning that it was given to him on 11th June 1917 [which I happen to know was his tenth birthday]. Probably unread. Contains many full-page colour illustrations.. Pictorial Cover. Fine.

Arthur H.Stockwell, London [c.1925]., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Textured purple cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. The backstrip ends a little rubbed and worn, and the cloth there faded with a little further uneven fading to the margins of the boards. Some light spotting to the endpapers and title leaf, and the binding a little tender at one gathering. Quite a nice, bright copy of a most uncommon book, which comprises fifteen chronologically ordered poems spanning 1914-1919, split into three sections: 'Portents 1914', 'Home' and 'France and Flanders'. Rather than folk rhymes, I believe these to be original poems, but the work is not noted by Reilly and I can find only two references to either the author or the book: a note in a 7 August 1925 issue of 'The Argus', and a passing reference in an article in the December 1928 issue of 'The Musical Times'..

New York & London: Alfred a Knopf, 1929. Third edition "completely revised". 754 pp. including index. The blue boards are faded around the edges and spine. Otherwise fine: Unmarked and in a tight binding with hinges intact. The dust jacket has light edge wear, including a 1/4" chip at the spine head. The spine and edges are tanned. There are some small stains. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: United Publishers of Canada [1917], Memorial Edition. (Hardcover set) 380, 374, 403, 405, 410, 393pp. Very good, no dust jackets. Marbled boards over three quarter brown leather. Top edge gilt, patterned endpapers, frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, maps, folding maps, chronology, appendices, index. The marbled edges are chipped. Vol. 1 Military History of Canada 1608 to 1914. Vol. 2 Days of Preparation. Vol. 3 Guarding the Channel Ports. Vol. 4 The Turn of the Tide. Vol. 5 The Triumph of the Allies. Vol. 6 Special Services, Heroic Deeds, etc. (Military--Canada, Military--Canada, World War 1).

Paris: Henri Jonquieres, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. This book, the fifth in the collection (fine novels) was limited to 1180 copies. This is #1062 on Rives paper. 361p Illustrated by Albert Ande. Beautifully bound in three-quarter rich black crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments decorated in gilt with small central embellishment in brown, top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker, original wrappers bound in.. Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon - 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author. Les petites alliées is set in the French coastal city and military harbor of Toulon; the plot concerns young naval officers living and working there and entertaining themselves with a series of adventures. The book was made into a film in 1936.

Viking, London 1991-1995 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A first edition (first printing) set of Barker's award-winning Great War trilogy. Individual volume descriptions as follows: 'Regeneration' (1991). First edition. 8vo. 251pp. Grey boards lettered in red at the spine. A touch of bruising to the spine ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a hint of corresponding bruising to the base of the spine panel. 'The Eye in the Door' (1993). First edition. 8vo. 280pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Spine ends rubbed and with just a touch of marking to the boards at one or two extremities. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. A very good copy in rubbed and edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of this book is also included, bound in the publisher's original card wrappers. 'The Ghost Road' (1995). First edition. 8vo. 277pp. Black boards lettered… Read More

Candidates of the Third Officers' Training School, Camp Sherman, Ohio, Jan. 5 --April 19, 1918. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+ No dust jacket. 93 pp of crisp, white leaves with profuse b/w drawn illustrations throughout. No foxing. Prior owner attribution dated April 27, 1918 on front free endpaper from Glenn M. Hood to Mary Jane Nixon. (Glenn M. Hood is listed on page 92 among the roster of Clerical Force of Company K, 331st Infantry along with his picture on page 14.) This book is a very rare compilation of a training manual that prepared U. S. Army officers to go to WW I. It contains the Roster of the Third Officers Training School present at Camp Sherman near Chillicothe, Ohio. The book also contains b/w group photographs of the training officers and each of the Infantry and Battery training classes. The back cover has a small water stain near the bottom edge at the spine and the bottom outer edge corner is missing. Otherwise, in remarkable condition for its age and construction.

From the preface to this book, written by Eng. Dante Ferrari: A few words of preface to these notes collected with so much care and love by Eng. Gustavo Colonnetti, who during the war uninterruptedly lent his work as a scholar and a skilful technician in the Workshops of this Society, realizing a first and effective experiment of true and proper collaboration between Science and Industry such as I have always sought, and such as I wish for the future for the progress of our industries and for the good of our country. And these few words will give reason for the dedication of this scientific work, which the well-known modesty of the young but already distinguished professor wanted to baptize as simple notes.CONDITION:This book was Rebinded in the 1970's, by hard binding in black percaline and gilt lettering, maintaining the original book cover as well as all of its interior contents. It contains a large number of technical drawings, plans, and full page sepia photos, protected by onion paper sheets. At… Read More

FIFES AND DRUMS 1917 little tear, some markings and wear.WIKIPEDIA PAGE SAYS These poems, written under the immediate stress of great events by those who have banded themselves together under the name of The Vigilantes, furnish a striking record of the emotional reactions of the American people during the fortnight preceding and the six weeks following the declaration of war. They are presented to the public in the belief that men and women in every corner of the Union will find reflected in them some of the love and aspiration they themselves are experiencing for their re-discovered country.