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LEAVES FROM A WAR DIARY
Edition: First printing
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925. Blue cloth gilt, pp 407 + plates; index, endpaper maps. Page edges yellowed, private bookplate, else a VG+ copy. A diary kept by Pershing's Chief of Staff for the benefit of his wife. Harbord commanded the 2nd Division, AEF. 1.5 kg parcel. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47938More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Legacy of the Somme 1916: The Battle in Fact, Film and Fiction
Edition: First Edition
Thrupp, Stoud, England: Sutton Publishing, 1996. Tall octavo, black boards. pp x, 230 + plates. Index. A bibliography of print, film, and recordings pertaining to the battle. Tidy ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket. 0750911603
Book ID: 45461More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
LET US REMEMBER: lively letters from World War One
Edition: First printing
Cobourg, ON: Author, 1990. Black grained boards, pp 332. 42, index. Illustrated. Photos. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel ; Squarish octavo
Book ID: 48066More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Letters of Agar Adamson, 1914-1919
Edition: First printing
Nepean, ON: CEF Books, 1997. Glossy card covers. pp (368). Photos, maps. Some yellow highlighting of text, VG clean and unworn otherwise. Lt.-Col. Adamson of Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, commanded the Pats at Vimy Ridge and watched the regiment destroyed at Passchendaele. Letters to his wife, the most thorough Canadian epistolary account of WWI> ; Octavo 1896979025
Book ID: 48158More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Lieutenant Owen William Steele of the Newfoundland Regiment
Edition: First printing
Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queens University Press, 2002. Yellow cloth. pp 253; photos, notes, index. Ink owner name, else fine. ; Octavo 0773524282
Book ID: 48025More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
Lights Out ! The Memoir of Nursing Sister Kate Wilson, Canadian Army Medical Corps 1915-1917
Ottawa: CEF Books, 2003. Second edition (first was in 1981). Card covers. pp 199. Illustrated. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Signed by the author. One of only two Canadian Nursing Sister memoirs of WWI. Sister Kate served on the island of Lemnos in the Aegean in 1915.; Octavo; Signed by Author 1896979270
Book ID: 48722More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Listening In: Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 1996. Black grained boards. pp 148, illustrated, index. Soft bump to one corner of cover, ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket.; Octavo 0942597788
Book ID: 47791More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
MacGregor V.C: Goodbye Dad : biography of the man who won more prestigious awards for valour than any other Canadian soldier
Edition: First printing
Victoria, BC: Victoria Publishing, 2002. Glossy pictorial boards. pp 260 + colour photos and maps; b&w photos, facsimiles. Ink owner name, else fine. ; Octavo 0969869983
Book ID: 47973More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
Machine Guns of World War I
Edition: First printing
London: Windrow & Greene, 1997. Green boards. pp 128. Colour and b&w photos, drawings, index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel.; Tall quarto 1859150780
Book ID: 48136More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
MARCHING AS TO WAR: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. Dark blue boards. pp (viii), 288. Photos, illustrations (some in colour), maps, index. Fine in fine jacket. 1.3 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 51830More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
MARSHAL FOCH. A Study in Leadership.
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Directorate of Military Training, Army Headquarters, 1961. Yellow card covers. 250 pp, index, frontispiece portrait and two folding maps inserted, four maps in text. Small sticker scar on front cover, else a VG+ copy, no owner names. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Book ID: 22025More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
Massacre at Passchendaele: the New Zealand Story
Aukland, New Zealand: HarperCollins, 2000. Card covers, pp 205, index, notes, list of all New Zealanders who died at Passchendaele. Corner crease to front cover, ink owner name, else fine. The Kiwis lost 1000 dead and 2000 wounded in just a few short hours during their second attack on the German front lines. ; Octavo 1869503635
Book ID: 47949More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
ME BANDY, YOU CISSIE. The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy.
Edition: First printing
Toronto / Garden City, New York: Doubleday Canada / Doubleday, 1979. The fourth volume in this popular series about the comic doings of World War I flying ace Batholomew Bandy. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.
Book ID: 42727More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War
Edition: First Edition
Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Black cloth. pp (x), 225, bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket. 0803244428
Book ID: 44519More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
MENNONITE SOLDIER
Edition: First Edition
Scottsdale, PA / Kitchener, ON: Herald Press, 1974. Yellow cloth, lime endpapers. pp (520). Tidy ink owner name at front, else fiune. Thin jacket is chipped and torn, just good. A World War I novel about Mennonite brothers, one who is faithful and resists the military, the other who goes to war in France. US Mennonite author. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50206More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
MIRROR OF THE PAST: a history of saecret diplomacy
New York: Cuurrent Books / A.A. Wyn, 1946. Black cloth. pp 362; index. Ink owner name at front, small bruise to one outer corner, else fine in VG jacket. "This book is one of the most significant contributions to the history of world diplomacy to be published in the United States. It shows for the first time, in all its incredible and unsavory details, how the diplomacy of WWI, and its aftermath led logically to Munich and WWII. Most devastating of all is the revelation that the British Government, in complete control of Europe after WWI, had no serious intention at any time of making the political and economic sacrifices necessary for world peace." Written by a British Labour Party M.P. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48699More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
MR. STANDFAST
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. First issue binding. Blue cloth stamped in black. pp [2], (10), (340). Printed in Canada from UK plates. Spine very lightly darkened, with lettering flaked but still readable; text paper toned, as always; light endpaper foxing; some white spots on rear cover; just a little leaned; VG otherwise. The third Richard Hannay novel, involving WWI.
Book ID: 43914More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
MUTINY 1917
Edition: First Edition
London: Heinemann, 1962. Blue cloth. pp (xii), 257 + plates. Index. Ink owner name at front, else near fine in like jacket. Account of the mutiny of about half the French troops on the Western Front in April, 1917, one of the best kept secrets of WWI. General Nivelle was replace by Pétain in May, 1917.
Book ID: 44227More details Price: USD $17.00 USD $15.30 -
MY CAMPAIGN
Edition: First US Edition
New York: James A. McCann, 1920. Two volumes, tall octavo, green cloth, top edges gilt. Volume I: pp xvi, 377, [3] + frontispiece portrait and 7 maps (6 folding). 6 small sketch maps in text. Volume II: pp (8), 343 + one map. One sketch map in text. Complete. Slight rubbing to spine ends and outer corners; a very good clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. World War I in Mesopotamia. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 42327More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WAR
Edition: First printing
New York: Stokes, 1931. Two volumes, blue cloth, top edges gilt. p xvi, 400; xii, 436 + plates. Maps in text, index. Volume I has an ink owner name and a nice private bookplate; page edges a bit yellowed; mild wear to head of Vol. II; else a VG+ clean and unworn jacketless pair. 2.5 kg parcel.; Tall octavo
Book ID: 48086More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00