151. San Fairy Ann, Ca ne fait rien. New York: J. H. Sears and Company, (1927).
Second Printing. Noel wrap-around dustjacket art. A love story of the Great War. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41710
Second Printing. Noel wrap-around dustjacket art. A love story of the Great War. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41710
First Edition. R. Alston Brown wrap-around dustjacket art. Early World War One novel and Bleiler Fantastic Literature title of a dead American soldier who is able to make contact with his wife. Very Good, some spine end wear, in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears and creases, cm chip top spine end. Item #8913
First Separate Edition. L. J. Bridgman dustjacket art and illustrations. Scarce in 19th Century dustjacket. "The story concerns an inexperienced Regular battalion on overseas service with a Highland Regiment and a Gurkha Regiment in Afghanistan. Unlike Kipling's other tales, it concerns the disgrace of a battle almost lost rather than the glory of a battle won." Near Fine in Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and wear, top rear panel with less than two square inches of loss. Item #28535
Dramatic novel of England's evacuation of Dunkirk and the Battle over Britain. By the author of Lassie. Great dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good plus, attractive dustjacket, few nicks and wear to top edge. Item #20045
First Edition. Novel of international intrigue and "thrilling adventure" centered around the First World War. Scarce in original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chip at top spine end. Item #11373
First Edition. Illustrated by C. Leroy Baldridge. Love Story set during the war. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine modestly darkened, lower inch of spine with water stain. Item #19997
First Edition, Second Issue. Very Good plus in Scarce Very Good Dustjacket with age toning front panel and spine, couple inch closed tear to front top edge, and general edge wear. Item #16114
First Edition, First Issue first issue without H. H. Howland's poem. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, top front panel with v-shaped chip of less than two square inches. Item #26699
First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Novel " about the young generation that came back from the war." Near Fine with top corner roughly bumped and very light rubbing to bottom edge to cloth in Very Good plus dustjacket with general shelf wear. Item #16345
First Edition. Very Scarce thriller set in a German Concentration camp involving an unofficial British agent seeking the man who discovered poison gas and its antidote. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow loss to flap corners and spine ends, thin scratch to front flap. Item #19878
First Edition. Dorothy Harrison dustjacket art. ''Is it any wonder that Youth that emerged, Youth that looks upon the next generation and wonders how soon these children will be massacred and maimed for another Glorious Cause'. This copy signed and inscribed at front endpaper. Very Good, some discoloration to cloth, in Good but modestly edge chipped dustjacket. Item #39728
First English Edition, Advance Review Copy in original illustrated wrappers. Extremely rare title to be found in what is believed to be advance state wrappers, as a second printing in hardcover has been noted, but no other wrappers editions have been found by this cataloguer. Le Queux, best known for his espionage mysteries, and sometimes considered the father of such fiction, here writes of actual spies working in Britain in advance of the First World War. Front wrapper advertises: "A startling exposure / The German spy system / the methods of spies / how they have been officially protected / astonishing facts / never before made public / outspoken revelations / of vital interest to everyone." Very Good plus, some modest shelf wear, minor loss at spine ends, small area at spine with what looks like 'white-out'. Item #17729
First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original illustrated wrappers. Max Ree dustjacket art. Powerful novel of the First World War and an American volunteer. Lebedeff was a Russian war veteran who appeared in a number of early Hollywood films. Very Good, nicks and expected wear to wraps. Item #20815
First American Edition. Scarce novel by this Jewish author and suffragist. 'Can a spiritual union between husband and wife be so strong that physical emotion may be eliminated? Belsavage is a beautiful young woman, the leader in her own Bohemian crowd of artists and writers, to whom men meant friends, never lovers. She finally becomes infatuated with a man of high ideals and is swept by him into marriage. A strange union results, for her husband, Martin, has extraordinary ideas regarding marital relations.' Near Fine in Very Good but soiled dustjacket, some nicking and wear at edges. Item #41446
First Edition. Scarce novel by this Jewish author and suffragist. "It is easy to believe in the pre-War happiness of Mrs. Fischer, her son, and German husband. It is possible to believe in their extreme casualness as they make holiday in Germany just before the War. This casualness resulted in Carl Fischer's half deliberate, half intentional disappearance from the train which took him and his wife towards England. All Mrs. Fischer's doubts and misery over her husband's disappearance, and all the unkind treatment that she receives from English friends in her own country are believable, too." Near Fine, foxing to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #28544
First Edition. Barbosa dustjacket art. "A very young officer and a very loving girl snatched at what happiness they could before the War separated them. As far as the man knew their little romance was ended. In the years that followed, as a popular explorer he succeeded in dodging responsibility with a completely disarming lack of shame. But the happiness of that subaltern's summer was always to haunt him, and the consequences, in the shape of an unacknowledged grown up daughter, landed him at last in a situation as deliciously ironical as any this author has ever created". Scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #30734
First Edition. William van Dressen dustjacket art. Locke's first collection of stories in book form includes two pieces dealing with the First World War. Locke was a staple in turn of the century English literature and his eccentric condemnation of teaching mathematics was well known in England. Before finding success with his most famous novel, The Beloved Vagabond, Locke served as the secretary for the Royal Institute of British Architects and during the First World War headed the committee of the Society of Authors, which dealt with the relief of impoverished literary men. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, faint "popular copyright" stamped at spine, some minor soiling to white panels. Item #10827
First Edition. F. Matania dustjacket art and illustrations. Interesting novel of a war correspondent, "just back in England from the wilds of Albania, where the sudden death of a friend has left him encumbered with the care of the widow, a native Albanian". Basis for the early 1916 black and white silent film directed by George Irving and starring C. Aubrey Smith. Near Fine in Good plus edge chipped and soiled dustjacket, small internal chip at front panel, nickel sized chip at top spine end. Item #15539
First Canadian. Edition. Novel of the life a French World War One general. Made into the 1924 black and white silent film, The Side Show of Life, directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Ernest Torrence and Anna A. Nilsson. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with few small chips and nicks along edges. Scarce in illustrated dustjacket. Item #5885
First Edition. Novel of the life of a French World War One general. Made into the 1924 black and white silent film, The Side Show of Life, directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Ernest Torrence and Anna A. Nilsson. Near Fine in soiled dustjacket, small chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #19034
First Edition. J. K. Hanna dustjacket art. 'How a human toy pom found his soul through service in the Great War.' Rather uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few tiny edge chips. Item #34197
First Edition. Raymond C. Wardel dustjacket art and illustrations. Mystery intended for young adults about a stolen American war plane. Loftus-Price was a veteran of World War Two and a movie actor. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears and shallow edge chips. Item #25964
Early Reprint Edition. World War One themed novel "dealing not only with the exploits of the Hero in France, but with the adventures of those who remained in America". An uncommon title in any edition, especially so in dustjacket. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few chips at spine ends. Item #32550
First Edition. Manning de V. Lee dustjacket art. Signed and Inscribed by author at front free endpaper. Romance between a woman with many admirers who swore she would never marry a soldier, and an Army Major who landed on the lawn when she was visiting her aunt. Very Good in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with light wear flap corners, few short closed tears to lower spine end, and light surface wear to rear panel. Item #18517
Second Printing. Manning de V. Lee dustjacket art. Romance between a woman with many admirers who swore she would never marry a soldier, and an Army Major who landed on the lawn when she was visiting her aunt. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears with scotch tape mends at verso, nicks and edge wear. Item #25690