Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Dulce Et Decorum Est: Books about World War I at Old Saratoga Books

Historians around the globe are commemorating the centenary of the extraordinarily bloody and terrible World War I years (1914-1918) with many exhibitions, memorials and publications. We scoured the shelves at Old Saratoga Books and offer a selection of our titles about the "Great War", from exuberant juvenile literature exhorting young readers onto the excitement of the battlefield to poetry by war-weary soldiers, there's a lot to consider:

1) Rand McNally War Map of the French Front Southern Section: A
Strategic Map of the Battle Ground in France from St. Mihiel to the
Swiss Border Showing the Present Battle Line to the Farthest Advance
of the Germans, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1917. A color folding map
measuring 21 x 31.5 inches. A World War I battle map divided into four
mile squares showing towns, rail lines, fortified locations, forests,
mountains, canals and wagon roads. Good condition. Map is musty,
several tears along folds, toned and foxed housed in a gray card cover
folder with front cover heavily creased and torn, rear cover missing
lower corner, bookseller ticket inside front cover. Map No. 3 in a
series of Five Great Military Maps of the Western Front in Europe. $40

2) Beach, Charles Amory, Air Service Boys Flying for Victory: Or
Bombing the Last German Stronghold, Cleveland, OH: The World Syndicate
Publishing Co. 1920, reprint. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Red
cloth binding. A World War I aviation novel for young readers. Front
hinge cracked, owner name on front free endpaper, several pages
smudged, jacket soiled and tattered and missing several chips at
edges. Great color jacket art of vintage propeller airplane. 218 pp.
$25

3) Berry, Henry, Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of a Forgotten
War: The American Experience in World War I. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday 1978, first edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Brown cloth binding with green boards. Index, many photos. Inscribed
by the author on the front free endpaper to a fellow Marine. Author
photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket art by Dave Christensen. The author
interviewed and researched numerous American doughboys who served in
France in this exploration of the American experience in World War I.
455 pp. $25

4) Botsford, Capt. Charles A., Fighting with the U. S. Army,
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company 1919, first edition. Black
and white illustrations by Donald S. Humphreys. Burgundy cloth binding
with color illustration of World War I doughboy climbing out of trench
with pistol in hand on front boards. Good. Pages toned, rear hinge
cracked, boards rubbed. The second novel in the author's "The Victory
Series", for young adults about the Dale Academy boys, now soldiers
with the American Army in World War I. 320 pp. $15

5) Bricker, Richard W., Wooden Ships from Texas: A World War I Saga,
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1998, first edition.
Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gift inscription redacted on front free
endpaper, shaken. Index, bibliography, notes, photos. A look at the
seventeen four- and five-mast sailing ships built in Texas which
served the American cause during World War I. The Centennial Series of
the Association of Former Students; Vol. 77; 216 pp. $15

8) Castor, Henry, America's First World War: General Pershing and the
Yanks, NY: Random House 1957. Very Good with no dust jacket. Landmark
No. 77. Pictorial hardcover. Boards rubbed. Many photos. 192 pp. $15

9) Cowley, Malcolm, A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation.
NY: Viking 1974 First Paperback Edition. Softcover Very Good. Index. A
look at the literature of World War I through the works of Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Wilder, Faulkner, Wolfe and Hart
Crane. Many photos. Covers scuffed. 276 pp. $7

10) Davis, Richard Harding, With the Allies. NY: Charles Scribner's
Sons 1914, first edition. Good with no dust jacket; Red cloth binding
with black and yellow design on front boards. Many photos. The author
was a war correspondent during World War I and in his preface, his
exhorts his fellow Americans to join with England, France, Belgium and
the other Allies to fight Germany. Boards heavily worn, owner names on
front free endpaper, hinges cracked, pages toned. 241 pp. $30

11) Dunlap, Dr. George A., Gleanings from Camp and Campus, NY: Vantage
Press 1973 First Edition. Good in Good dust jacket. The author
recounts his experiences with the American Expeditionary Forces in
Europe during World War I and later as an English professor at
Oklahoma Baptist University and other universities and colleges.
Author photo on rear jacket panel. Text waterstained at lower corners,
jacket scuffed and waterstained, boards rubbed. 181 pp. $16

12) Fallodon, Viscount Grey Of Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916, NY:
Frederick A. Stokes 1925, second printing. Very Good in Good dust
jacket. In two volumes. Navy cloth binding, gilt lettering on front
boards and spine. Top edges gilt. Jacket lightly soiled and tattered.
Many photos. A two-volume memoir by Great Britain's Foreign Secretary
during World War I, packed with history and an account of his
interactions with President Theodore Roosevelt. $100

13) Faulkner, William, A Fable. NY: Random House 1954, first printing.
Good in Very Good dust jacket. Pictorial burgundy cloth binding, Gray
topstain. Jacket lightly worn along edges and at head and foot of
spine, pages toned, owner name on half-title. A lovely copy of the
Nobel Laureate's allegorical novel about trench warfare and passive
resistance in World War I. The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and
National Book Award. 437 pp. $125

14) Forbes, John, The Quaker Star under Seven Flags: 1971-1927: The
Work of the American Friends Service Committee with Seven Governments
to Relieve Civilian Victims of World War I, Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press 1962. Ex-library copy. Good in Good dust jacket.
Library of Congress number 61-5539. Jacket flaps glued to endpapers,
usual library stamps and markings. Index, notes, related reading.
274 pp. $10

15) Fox, Edward Lyell, Wilhelm Hohenzollern and Co., Robert M. McBride
and Company 1917. Very Good with no dust jacket. The journalist's
account of the Kaiser's armies and personal life during the midst of
World War I. Photograph frontispiece of the Kaiser, his wife and son.
Pages browned and many ragged edges from having been opened
inexpertly, boards rubbed and lightly soiled, spine faded. $19

17) McKenna, Marthe, I Was a Spy!, NY: A. L. Burt Company 1934
Reprint. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Glossy black cloth binding.
Pages toned, jacket soiled and tattered, page tops soiled. Foreword by
the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Editor's note by E. E. P. Tisdall.
17 photographs. The Belgian author served as a spy for British
intelligence during World War I, winning an Iron Cross and French and
Belgian Orders of the Legion of Honor for her daring exploits. 288 pp.
$50

18) Meade, Capt. Patrick A., Born to Trouble. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons
1939. Good with no dust jacket. Orange cloth binding. The Irish
soldier relates his experiences in the World War I and Third Afghan
War, and later in various parts of Asia during the 1920s. Spine
cocked, pages toned, boards rubbed. Frontispiece profile portrait of
the author. 406 pp. $20

19) Morton, Desmond; Granatstein, J. L., Marching to Armageddon:
Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919. Toronto: Lester & Orpens Denny
1989 First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark
on page bottoms. Index, many photos. 288 pp. $13

22) Carr, J.L., A Month in the Country, NY: New York Review Books 2000. Softcover Very Good. Introduction
by Michael Holroyd. A reprint of this 1980 novel about a shell-shocked
World War I veteran who restores himself and a medieval mural in a
Yorkshire church. Covers lightly scuffed. 135 pp. $7

23) Hancock, H. Irving, Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service, or With Dan Dalzell on European Duty. Akron,
OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1919. Very Good in Good
dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth binding. Boards rubbed, pages toned,
jacket rubbed. Two young American sailors find adventure in the Navy
during World War I. $25

24) MacNeil, Robert, Burden of Desire. NY: N.A.
Talese/Doubleday 1992, first edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title. Appears to have been a bookplate removed from
verso of front free endpaper. The journalist's first novel, about
Halifax, Nova Scotia during the World War I era. 466 pp. $20

26) Robinson, Derek, Goshawk Squadron, NY: Viking 1972 First American Edition. Very Good in Very Good
dust jacket. Author photo on rear jacket panel. A novel about the Royal
Flying Corps fighting over France during World War I. Short-listed for
the prestigious Booker Prize. Tear on front pastedown endpaper, jacket
rubbed. 246 pp. $20

28)
Sherwood, Elmer, Lucky and His Friend Steve. Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company 1922. Hardcover Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Neil O'Keefe. The
story of Lucky the sailor and his compatriots aboard the U. S.
Destroyer WIZARD bound for "somewhere in France" during the height of
World War I. Several black and white illustrations by Neil O'Keefe. Pink
paper-covered boards. Pages browned, boards bumped at corners and
spine, heel of spine crushed and split. 123 pp. $10

29) Shipman, Herbert, Verses. NY: D. Appleton and Company 1931 First Edition. Very Good.Purple
cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on front boards and spine.
Frontispiece photograph of the deceased author, the late Suffragan
Bishop of the Diocese of New York. Preface by Mary Raymond Shipman
Andrews. Dedication by the author's widow, Julie Fay Shipman. A
collection of poems by Bishop Shipman, who also served as a Chaplain at
West Point and with the First Army in France during World War I. Spine
sunned, boards worn, owner name on front free endpaper. 97 pp. $25

30) Swindells, Rose Hannah, Except the Lord - Build the House, Privately Printed, 2002. Softcover Very Good. The
author relates her life story as a young woman coming of age during
World War I in England's Buxworth Basin area. Covers lightly scuffed,
owner name on front free endpaper. 200 pp. $10

31) Tiplady, Thomas, The Cross at the Front: Fragments from the Trenches, NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1917 Seventh Edition. Good. Red
cloth binding with white crossed swords design and lettering stamped on
front boards. Frontispiece photo of the mustachioed author with tissue
guard and facsimile signature. Boards rubbed, moisture stains on front
and rear endpapers. A collection of prose pieces by the British Army
chaplain from various locations in France during World War I. 191 pp. $20

32) Young, Francis Brett, Poems, 1916-1918. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co 1920. Good. Gray
boards with tan embossed backstrip. Gilt lettering stamped on spine.
Boards worn, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Young was trained
as a doctor and served in the British Army during World War I,
eventually becoming wounded in 1918 and evacuated out. He was so
seriously injured that he was unable to continue to practice medicine
and turned to writing as a full-time occupation. This volume of poetry
contains many verses about his war-time experiences. 99 pp. $25

33) [Koch, Hilda and Frank], Leiser, Clara (translator), Refugee. NY: Prentice-Hall 1940, second printing. Good with no dust jacket. lue
cloth printing. Owner name stamped on front pastedown, owner bookplate
on front free endpaper, boards spotted and worn. The authors relate
their experiences as "Aryans" who resisted Germany's militarism and
uber-nationalism during the run-up to World War I, and their subsequent
relocation to the United States. 308 pp. $13

These and many other books about this era in world history can be found at our open shop. You can go to our website to place an order or call or email Old Saratoga Books for these books or to inquire about other titles: (518) 695-5607 and info@oldsaratogabooks.com.

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