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poor condtion gray blueNew York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong folio. [1], 144 pages. Illustrated with numerous large black and white photographs. Gray paper covered boards with title and pasted down photograph on the front cover. Blue cloth spine. Covers are loose but attached. Soling t the covers. Light edge wear to the boards. Damp-stains lower edges of the first few pages. A fair plus condition book. Contents predate America's official involvement in the War.

Original Photo. unused

unusedThe Chicago Daily News, GV KavanaughWar Postal Card Department ,vertical stain

Striking and very powerful original vintage which features a woman clinging to her children pleading for help.Rolled in Hard Tube, Shipping 20.46

Purchased online

German made card. unused. No formal titles or designation. Only writing in pen

on line

Delacorte Pr, 2007. Paperback. Condition: AS New. reprint edition. 777 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.50 inches. Clean unmarked pages

The World War Battlefields of Belgium & France, Edited By Percy Lindley, Published by the Great Eastern Railway Company of England. N.D.Soft cover, pp. 80, 46 B&W Illustrations – half tone photographs and etchings, maps. Percy Lindley was active from the late 1870s until the 1920s, writing guides for the Great Eastern Railway, W. H. Smith, and publishing on his own account. In the case of "The World War Battlefields…" he not only wrote the copy but acted as editor, choosing and sourcing the illustrations. Incidentally, this is quite an early use of the term "World War" instead of "Great War".The quantity of Traffic to the Continent was slow to revive after the Great War. The Great Eastern fleet of steamers had been severely depleted by requisition and by enemy action. A substantial proportion of the male population of Britain had been forced to travel abroad between 1914 and 1919 and had no wish ever to do so again. Holidays with pay, were still the exception rather than the rule, and during the… Read More