New York: Macmillan, 1943. Quarto, cream cloth. Creases to lower inner corner of text leaves from bruising but foot of spine scarcely shows the bruise, else fine. Jacket has rubbing, small chips, nicks to spine tips; dust soiling to white rear panel; fingernail size chip and four inch tear to front panel; both corners of front flap clipped with a rubber stamped price of $1.69; good. World War II poetry by the English Poet Laureate, with black and white reproductions of war art by the noted British ar tist Edward Seago.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931. Grey cloth, decorated endpapers. Front free endpaper has an ink ownership inscription, a later ink name, and mostly erased pencil marks; yellowing to page edges; else a VG tight and unworn jacketless copy. A sequel to his novel WAR, which was one of the most important WWI novels from the German point of view. The uncredited translation by Willa and Edwin Muir differs from that of the 1931 UK edition. Concerns the period in Germany just after the war: Prison Camp, Break-Up of the Old Army, The Army of Security, The Socialization, With the Security Police During the Lapp Putsch.

New York: Robert J. Shores Corporation, 1918. Dark blue cloth stamped in red and blind. 336, [4, ads] pp + four plates. Lower outer corner of front cover rounded from wear; text paper a bit toned, page edges yellowed; else a VG tight copy, no owner nam es. Author's first of two crime novels noted by Hubin p. 383. WWI, German spies, wireless, a super explosive. Uncommon book.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1940. 12mo, blue cloth. pp [2], (28), [2]. 6 line drawings in text by the noted illustrator. Fine copy. Cream dust jacket has a chip to head of spine and adjacent corners of panels, light soiling to rear panel, VG otherwise. A letter to his mother by an anonymouse RAF airman found among his effects after his death, it was originally published in the London Times 18 June, 1940. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1947. Red cloth. pp (xvi), 47. Floral bookplate inside front cover; horizontal crease through page xvi (seems to be a production flaw), else fine. Jacket has small chips and tears, old internal tape repairs; good. A poem about the first grappling of the North Atlantic convoys with Nazi submarines. Signed by the author.

London: John Lane, 1929. ADVANCE PROOF COPY. Octavo, orange cloth with "Advance Proof" printed in black on front cover, "Forester" hand-lettered on spine. (viii), 272 pp + (8) pp ads. Light foxing to page edges and text; minor cover soiling; tiny hole to cloth at front hinge; a very good, clean, tight & unworn copy otherwise. Ordinary copies of the first edition are rather scarce these days, and this unusual proof format is rare. The US edition, also 1929, was titled SINGLE-HANDED. A WWI novel.

Philadelpha: Penn Publishing Company, 1918. Octavo, red cloth lettered and bordered in black with a colour pictorial label on front cover. pp 326 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 4 other plates. Minor soiling to page edges, strip torn from fore margin of tissue guard, spine lightly darkened with soft vertical ridge; else a fine, bright copy, no owner names. The second book in this boy’s series. Young Don volunteers as an ambulance driver. Uncommon book.

Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, England: Leo Cooper, 1999. Glossy card covers. pp (160). Photos, maps, index. Ink owner name, else fine. Battleground Europe series, On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

(Amiens, France): Presses de l'UFR Clerc Université Picardie, no date (1987). Octavo, card covers. pp 192. Near fine copy, no owner names.

Toronto: Annick Press, 2007. Ink owner name at front, near fine otherwise. The Great Canadian World War I novel, and one of the best of all such. Very grim, graphic, and exosing a few deeds Canadian military historians would rather not. Adds a new introductionby Robert F. Nielsen.

Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, England: Leo Cooper, 2001. Card covers, pp 192; index, photos. Ink owner name, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.

Stroud, England: Sutton Publishing, 2004. Glossy card covers. pp (xviii), 264 + plates. Index. Ink owner name at front, soft corner crease to rear cover, else fine. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: Allen Lane / Penguin, 2004. Red boards with ribbon bookmark. pp 382. Biographical sketches, Index of titles and first lines. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket.

Toronto / London: Musson / Constable, 1917. Second printing (first was in 1916). 16mo. Light blue card covers with flaps. pp (34). Small owner name at top of front cover; covers lightly sunned; corner creases to some leaves; VG copy otherwise. Canon Scott, while not a combatant, was in the thick of the fighting and is credited with showing considerable bravery. He published much other poetry and was the father of the noted Canadian poet F.R. Scott. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

New York: Basic Books, 1975. Second printing. Tan boards. xvi, 224 pp plus illustrations. Black dot to bottom page edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Biography of this talented young British poet and painter, killed on the Western Front in 1918.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Orange boards, pp 280; illustrated, index. Ink name at front, else fine. Jacket spine lightly sunned, else fine.