WW1 from Lorne Bair Rare Books

N.p. [Richmond?]: Adjutant General of Virginia, 1953. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Large octavo (26cm). Green cloth hardcover; 298pp. Reproduced from typescript. Mottling to cloth, else tight and straight, free of markings or significant wear, Very Good. This copy lengthily inscribed on verso of front free endpaper, "To Captain Roland S. White, C.O., Headquarters Company, Third Battalion,… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. First Printing, with Scribner's seal on copyright page and no legal disclaimer on p.[x]. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with title labels mounted to spine and front cover; [x],[2],3-355,[3]pp. Pencil ownership signature of Albert Chapman to front pastedown, dated 1929; original bookseller's ticket tipped in at front endpaper (Old Corner Bookshop, Boston).… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2012-2014. Third (The First World War, 2014) and Second Printings (The Second World War, 2012). Four octavo volumes housed in two slipcases (25cm); green and blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in silver, hunter green, and navy blue on spines and front covers; publisher's original pictorial paper-covered slipcases; xxxviii,345,[1]; xx,[347]-708,[2]; xliv,453,[7]; xxxiv,[455]-972pp;… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Company, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and decorated in blind stamping to the front board. 673pp. A very good, clean and strong copy with some bumping to the corners and spine ends and some small superficial marks to the cloth. Internally clean. Author's signature… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First Thus. Revised and Reprinted edition of the 1929 first edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 453pp. Clean and strong, minor shelfwear to extremities, a very good copy indeed. Internally clean, a little dusty around the page edges. An erudite and still extremely relevant examination of the… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's ribbed maroon cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 180pp. Clean and bright, light bumping to spine ends, a little discoloration of the cloth here and there, a very good, handsome copy. Internally clean, discreet library label to front pastedown from East Windsor, CT. Some light, pale spotting… Read more about this item

[Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, ca 1933]. First Edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; x,[1]-143pp; color frontispiece; photographic text illustrations (halftone portraits). Trace of wear to cloth board edges and base of spine; occasional faint thumb-soil to text; still a straight, tight, Very Good or better copy. A rare and sought-after regimental… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlagsgenossenschaft "Freiheit, 1919. 41-50 Tausend. Octavo pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 48pp. Light wear and toning to text; Very Good. Stenographic transcript of Ledebour's address to the court following his indictment in the failed 1919 overthrow of the Ebert-Scheidemann government. The coup attempt is noteworthy for having resulted in the murders of two of the uprising's leaders, Karl Liebknecht… Read more about this item

Chicago: Nakladem Narodne Socialni Besedy J.V. Fri [National Socialist Educational Club J. V. Fric] / Jaroslav T. Tittelbaum, N.d. (ca 1916). 16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 32pp. Slight toning and wear; Very Good. Jaroslave V. Tittelbaum listed as agent on rear wrapper. Collection of patriotic songs honoring the Czechoslovak Legion in the First World War.Text entirely… Read more about this item

London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930. First, Limited Edition. No. 477 of 550 signed copies. Issued as Number Two of the Furnival Books, printed at the Chiswick Press. Tall octavo. Original maroon buckram, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 42pp. A few very faint freckles of foxing to endpapers, still a Near Fine copy, retaining most of… Read more about this item

New York: John Lane, 1918. First Edition. 8vo. 19cm x 13cm. Publisher's red cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board.Light wear to extremities, in a clean strong example of the dustjacket with some browning and light wear and marginal chipping, mainly to the spine ends and with one piece to the upper edge… Read more about this item

York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Clean, tight, and unfaded - an attractive copy, Near Fine and quite unusual thus. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand… Read more about this item

York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Covers foxed at spine and margins; a few creases to wrapper edges; Very Good. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1936. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 284pp. Light rubbing to bottom board edges and board corners, still straight, tight, and Near Fine. In the original silver foil dustwrapper, rubbed at folds and with small losses at spine ends, not affecting printed area; just Very Good. A… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; x,417pp; gravure portrait frontispiece and 27 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Minor rubbing to board edges; still a tight, clean copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Posthumously-published selection of autobiographical sketches, travel vignettes,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1941. Octavo (20cm). Light brown cloth in cream jacket printed in red and black; 136pp; ads to rear panel and flap of jacket; black and white halftones on inserted leaves. Ownership inscription of H. A. Shartle to front pastedown. Straight, lightly rubbed: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced $1.50), rubbed with chips and short… Read more about this item

New York: The Crime Club, 1933. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth titled and decorated in red to spine. Clean and bright, light bumping to spine ends. 304pp. Internally clean, fore edge untrimmed. A mystery rather energetically dealing with vengeance and intimidation after WW1.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Brown cloth stamped in orange; [viii],271,[1]pp. Inscribed on front free endpaper "For Anne Wildman from William Hazlett Upson." Sound but rubbed, upper corners bumped, minor spots to textblock edges but internally clean: Very Good. World War I novel by a New Jersey author best known for… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Reprint. Later printing. 8vo. Publisher's original decorated yellow cloth, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Some light scuffing and edgewear, bumping to the spine ends, and some superficial grubbiness here and there, the hallmark of books bound in yellow cloth. Internally clean; inscribed with considerable flourish by the author… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick Keppel & CO, 1930. First Edition. First printing. 16mo (19cm). Taupe paper wrappers printed in black; 40 unnumbered pages; 21 halftones reproducing Eby's etchings. Sound and clean, with minor rubbing to edges and slight toning along spine: Very Good. Introduction by Arms "reprinted from vol. VIII, Kerr Eby, 'American Etchers' Series." Exhibition catalog published… Read more about this item