Search Results: Signed first editions matching wwi books

CHUBB (Ralph)The Heavenly Cupid or The True Paradise of Loves.Privately Printed by the Artist, Fair Oak, near Kingsclere, Hants., 1934.One of 43 copies (#9); 30 for sale, each copy signed and numbered; the first 7 copies issued hand-colored. Reid A10a96 lithographic illustrations by Chubb to accompany his printed lithographed script text with signed and dated frontispiece. Folio, original half green morocco with dark green corduroy sides. Except for some binding scuffs, a very good copy. Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960) was an English poet, printer and artist, heavily influenced by Blake and the Romantics with a highly personal and sexually revolutionary mythology. He privately produced 17 works entirely by his own hand in very small print runs working quietly first from Curridge in Berkshire and then from Kingsclere in Hampshire. Part of his mythology was Chubb being the prophet and herald of the saving of England by a boy god. This eternal Boy-principle of the is announced as The Third Dispensation… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926., 1926. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone cloth and pic. boards, xxvi (2) -245 (1)p. "Songs Five" "Long Boy" follows p.246. (3). frontispiece (color) introduction, numerous illustrations by the author. John W. Thomason Jr. was an accomplished artist and author of several books; however, his true lifelong profession was as a Marine Corps officer. He served during WWI in the 49th Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment. His first combat action came at Belleau Wood. This book, long celebrated as the single finest account of Americans in battle in World War I, is a vivid depiction of US soldiers' lives in and out of battle on the Western Front during the final months of 1918 before the Armistice. The impact of the novel is considerably augmented by the author's numerous sketches and drawings of the soldiers, done contemporaneously on and near the battlefields portrayed in the book. This is not a history book, but an… Read More

Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt, 1921. NUMBER ONE OF ONLY TEN SETS OF THIS OUTSTANDING PORTFOLIO OF EXPRESSIONIST ETCHINGS, WITH MANY OF THE ETCHINGS PRINTED ON OLD JAPANESE PAPER. In 1918 German novelist Hans Bethge wrote "Satuila oder vom Zauber der Suedsee" ("Satuila or the Enchantment of the South Sea"), the story of a young woman in Samoa. It is a sensual, escapist tale: the situation in Germany was quite terrible after the defeat in WWI, and there was great demand for escapism. This novel was a hit, and a deluxe edition, with 6 original etchings by German Expressionist artist Georg Alexander Mathey, was published in Berlin in 1921. The etchings are extremely beautiful, perfectly capturing the lush sensuality of the landscape and the unabashed sexuality of the characters (similar to the depictions of Gypsies by Otto Mueller, from about the same time). This edition of the novel was limited to 250 copies. Aside from the book edition, 10 sets of the etchings were printed, with large margins. In… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1929. No "A" but bears first edition date of 1929 on title page. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Inscribed to George O'Connor, signed in 1942. Signed humorous card for Chaplain service laid in. A sketch apparently by Thomason laid in. Cover worn and soiled. Some pages roughly cut. Discoloration to.... Thomason, John W.. xi, 290 pages. 22 cm. Illustrations. This is a rare item with an inscribed title page, signed ephemeral item, and what seems to be a drawing by Thomason. Portions copyrighted by International Magazine Company in 1928 and 1929. Thomason died at the age of 51, after a brief illness. He has served in WWI, Cuba, Nicaragua and China. At the time of his death he was assigned to the Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet, stationed at San Diego, CA. This may be one of the last of his books that he autographed! Illustration on page 4 not cited in list of illustrations; there are a number of uncited illustrations marking… Read More

NP: The Author. F First Edition Collectible. H Hard Cover. Very Good. "For Peter, Playing Indian" is 130 page unpublished manuscript by author and adventurer Elisabeth Zulauf Kelemen (130 leaves, numbered top right, typed recto only) hand-typed manuscript is hand-bound in blue cloth, is one of only FOUR COPIES (this is copy "No. A1"), and is signed in pencil, and also signed and inscribed by author in ink "To my dearest Eleanor, who will recognize some of her own ideas!". It includes a leaf of the author's original holograph manuscript (with drawings), as frontispiece. The typed text also includes some holograph corrections and emendations in ink. The text is a young adult-oriented narrative set during the War of the American Revolution, in the wilds of the west. In rough outline: Joel is a boy living somewhere on the Western frontier of the colonies. He lives in an area where Native Americans have been killed or driven off, but is aware of some of their traditions… Read More

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania PA Mount Joy. Very Good. 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. Sensational archive of handwritten diaries centered around the Brubaker family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Twenty [20] books comprised of sixteen [16] handwritten diaries, three [3] small notebooks and one [1] published book with manuscript notes. The diaries are dated 1914, 1916, 1917, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927 and 1927. On average the books are 80% full. There are four authors: J. Henry Brubaker has written 12 diaries and most certainly 2 of the 3 notebooks. His wife Anna has written one notebook in her maiden name [Groff] and daughters, Anna Ethel [3] and Susan Violet [1]. The Brubakers appear to have been prominent rural business people in the farm supply business. A huge family as evidenced by the copious genealogical notes for the Lancaster County area as the notebooks specifically and the diaries are a wealth of family names and the connections.… Read More

London: Mills & Boon. London, Mills & Boon, 1922-1923. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. Near fine copies. In the rare jackets. We were unable to find another copy of Herbert in the jacket (presumed later issue as per Locke I p139). Science fiction adventure set during WWI, the story in Herbert being completed in Prisoner. 16pp ads to both volumes. There's a little toning to the jackets and some chipping to the spine tips, but overall in excellent condition. Prisoner has a vertical crease to the spine. Spine tips bumped, a little offsetting to endpapers, dustiness to the edges. [8640, Hyraxia Books]. 1922-1923 . Near Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1922.

Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1914. First edition. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original superb color pictorial paper covered boards with picture of child riding a stylized horse on a sagging platform, with large voluminous white clouds and blue sky in background. This is the extremely rare children's book written and illustrated by Charlotte Schaller with gorgeous pochoir illustrations throughout. The first of two children's books on the war by Schaller (both written and illustrated by her, and both published during the war. The story depicts Boby, his two sisters, and the neighborhood children acting out the first few months of the WWI. On rocking horse, enlisting his toy soldiers, ally to Belgians. One illustration, anticipating Surrealism, enacts the battle of LiËge. The Belgian army, tiny black figures less than one inch high, wages a futile assault on a pair of Prussian boots that dominate the entire landscape and sky. Corners bumped, covers worn, finger-soiled, inner hinge week, on the whole a… Read More

United States: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942. Signed by the Author. Clean text. Gently read. Heavy uniform toning to the edges of the text block. Toning to the edges of the cloth boards with light wear to the spine heel and crown. Blue cloth boards & spine, gold spine lettering. Dust cover has been clipped to the top corner of the front panel with the original price still intact to the bottom corner. Heavy chipping to the jacket extremities, rubbing to the flap creases and sunning to the spine. New mylar cover. Very interesting copy in that it contains a monologue written in pencil to the second FEP by an unnamed previous owner outlining a journey taken by aircraft from Berlin to Paris in 1945 in which he visited the WWI battlefield at Arras en route.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover w/ jacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition.. Folio (12 x 9"). 23 leaves. Original illustrated paper covered boards with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Green paper on inside covers. Illustrated with numerous color illustrations, "Hurrah!" tells the story of a young German boy's dream in the early stages of WWI. In the first part of his dream, young Willi (representing Germany), accompanied by his dog, fights victoriously the French troops and their colonial troops. Many are killed, and the remaining French soldiers are seen fleeing on rabbit- and frogback. After dealing with the French troops, Willy now turns his attention to British soldiers charging on crickets, and to a giant ogre representing a British colonial Indian. Both are also easily defeated. In the second part of the book, Willy heads speedily towards East Prussia to face the invading Russians, here associated with rats. After crushing the "barbarian" Russians,… Read More

Paris?, c. 1915. A UNIQUE SKETCHBOOK WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS (including several spectacular ones on color) BY SEVERAL OF THE MOST NOTED CARICATURISTS OF THE BELLE EPOQUE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR, including SEM, CARAN D'ACHE, and HENRI FOURNIER. 40 leaves, almost all of which with drawings on both sides. Many of the drawings are unsigned (some are by Lafosse himself), but among the signed ones are several by Sem, Caran d'Ache, and Rola, and one by Fournier. First leaf: "Au grand artiste Robert Lafosse. Ses admirateurs." On very good wove paper. Oblong 8vo (13 x 21 cm). Original plain cloth cover. A couple of leaves detached (but present), else very good. Unique and important.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/fair. First issue (see details below), octavo size, 448 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was born into a literary family and showed literary genius from a young age. Although the horrors of "The Great War" and subsequent difficulties had a devastating effect on him, he would write almost his entire life, producing more than 135 books including the popular "I, Claudius" and, in addition to earning many awards, was presented by Queen Elizabeth with her gold medal for poetry. This work made Graves famous; it has been called "a searing work of genius in which [he] offers up a heavily rewritten version of his past life upon the altar of his present love." The first issue, of which this copy is one, includes the short passage on p. 290 and the letter to Graves in rhyming form by Siegfried Sassoon on pages 341 to 343; these two sections were expurgated from all future printings. Per the bibliography, it is… Read More

Tall quarto (8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches), original half navy cloth and gray paper boards. Interior very fresh, mild toning to spine of original cloth, light rubbing to the spine. A desirable near-fine copy housed in a grey cloth clamshell case with Morocco label. First edition, first issue, of "the first of Lawrence's books to appear in book form," with large folding plan, seven full-page maps, plans and illustrations, 37 photographic plates and nearly 60 in-text illustrations, an excellent copy. "During January and February 1914, Lawrence and Woolley, in the company of a British Army surveying detachment led by Capt. Newcombe, under the guise of an archaeological survey, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula, then under Turkish suzerainty. The British sought updated maps for the war they felt was coming. To complete the fiction of archaeological work, Woolley and Lawrence wrote The Wilderness of Zin, the first of Lawrence's works to appear in book form" (O'Brien, 6). Their stated assignment was… Read More

Jonathan Cape,, [1935]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 47 plates by Kennington, Rothenstein, Roberts and others, 6 illustrations in the text and 4 folding maps, endpapers faintly spotted; original decorative brown buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, brown top, backstrip very lightly sunned else a near fine copy. The first publicly available edition of this literary classic, following private publication in 1926 and the limited edition of 1935. Winston Churchill believed that it 'ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language'. The work also formed the basis of David Lean's multiple Oscar-winning feature film 'Lawrence of Arabia' starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. Enser, p.191; O'Brien A042.

New York: Moods Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn, some typical edgewear. Front hinge cracked; paper on spine largely lacking; contents Very Good. Full parchment lettered in gilt. Copy #16 of only 50 autographed copies of a total edition of 500. This copy SIGNED by the editor, Edwin Markham, and 22 contributors including Louis Untermeyer and Joyce Kilmer, a very scarce autograph as he was killed in World War I. This anthology predates both Kilmer's and Untermeyer's first books.

1929 Hemingway 1st/1st Farewell to Arms World War I Military Romance CLASSIC

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Set during the Italian campaign of WWI, Hemingway wrote this first-person account based on his own experience working in the ambulance corps. It is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations.

Item number: #40830
Price: $750

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

A Farewell to Arms

New York: Scribner's, 1929. First Edition. First printing.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o [8], 355, [1]
· Notes on edition:
o Original black cloth with gold paper labels
o Scribner's seal on copyright page
o No disclaimer
· References:Hanneman A8.a
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
o Black cloth
o Facsimile dust jacket
· Size:… Read More

Paris: Librairie académique Perrin et Compagnie, 1917. A LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THE AUTHOR'S BOOKS, A WORLD WAR I NOVEL WRITTEN JUST AFTER THE AUTHOR FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, AND PUBLISHED WHILE THE WAR WAS STILL RAGING. 4, 299 pp. ONE OF ONLY 25 NUMBERED LARGE-PAPER COPIES PRINTED ON FINE LAFUMA WOVE PAPER, the only large-paper issue. 8vo. Attractively bound in quarter calf and marbled boards by Franz (signed). Original wraps and backstrip preserved. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Silk ribbon page marker. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. 2 vols 1st "Authorized Unexpurgated Edition". 1 of 300 copies. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers.VG+-Nr Fine books in a VG slipcase, which shows some shelfwear.2 volumes: xii, 194; 212, [2] pp. 10-1/4" x 8" Death of a Hero is a World War I novel, Aldington's first. The work contains extensive colloquial speech, including profanity, discussion of sexuality and graphic descriptions of the war and of trench life, which Aldington, a WWI veteran, proclaimed as true to life. However, at the time of publication, there was extensive censorship in England, with a goodly number of contemporary works targeted by the censors. Clean with no marks.. 1st Edition. Card Covers. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

London: Heinemann, 1966-1988. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". None. The official biography of Winston Churchill along with several of the companion volumes. Published between 1966 and 1988. The later volumes were continued by Martin Gilbert, following Randolph's death in 1968. Written with the use of his father's journals DETAILS The official biography of Winston Churchill along with several of the companion volumes. Published between 1966 and 1988. The later volumes were continued by Martin Gilbert, following Randolph's death in 1968. Written with the use of his father's journals, this is the only official biography of Churchill's eventful and controversial life. Biography is illustrated throughout with two hundred and seventy-three black and white photograph plates and one hundred and eighteen maps many of which are double sided and three fold out genealogical tables. Companion volumes are not illustrated. Seven volumes of a eight volume set with four… Read More

[FLINT, W[illiam] Russell]. The Odyssey of Homer. Done into English Prose by S.H. Butcher & Andrew Lang. With Twenty Plates in Colour After the Water-Colour Drawings of W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. London: The Medici Society, 1924. 4to, xxviii 319pp. White cloth with brown leather labels stamped in gilt affixed to spine. 20 hand-tipped color plates with captioned tissue guards. Corners and spine ends a tad rubbed, some wear to spine labels, free endpapers discolored, else an internally clean, tight copy with all color plates fine and bright.
First Flint-illustrated edition being a limited edition of 530 numbered copies. A wonderfully captured adaptation of Homer's epic translated by Andrew Lang and featuring W. Russell Flint's lavish illustrations. The illustrations for this book were first created in 1914, but due to the outbreak of WWI, the book's publication was delayed until 1924 when it was produced in this lavish, limited edition. Flint's gorgeous, classically inspired illustrations are a truly marvel.