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*Postage to the USA is suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, small quarto, xv/191pp, b&w photos. A little wear on edges of dw/boards, signed by author at centre of half-title page; a very good copy. Joe Bull was an aircraft mechanic with 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps 1916-19. His diaries offer a fresh perspective on the Australian Flying Corps squadron on operations in Sinai and Palestine in the First World War. The diary is complemented by 100 photos taken by Joe. Lots of details of squadron personnel, the aircraft, locations, clashes with the enemy, success and losses.

Howling Cat Press. New with No dust jacket as issued. 2023. First Edition. Softcover. A brand new book signed by the author. Mr. Laughner has taken the diary and photos of Heinrich Holtzendorf and created a quite interesting account of a WWI German commerce raider, the SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich, and presented the reader with a fantastically readable account of life on a converted luxury liner into an armed raider traveling from Pacific to Atlantic and finally to captivity in then neutral America. .

Signed Copy Collectible-Good. Inscribed by author on title page. Writing on page edges. (World War I History, Biography, Maryland Military men and women)

Signed by Lawrence "Larry" Sheely. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), xii, 221 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: In the winter of 1917, with most of the world at war, 23-year-old Irving Edward Sheely of Albany, New York, enlisted in Naval Aviation and began his training at Pensacola Naval Air Station. When Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the combined strength of aviation within the Navy and Marine Corps was 48 officers, 239 enlisted men, 54 airplanes, 1 airship, and 1 air station. Lieutenant Kenneth Whiting immediately recruited seven volunteer officers and 122 volunteer enlisted men with orders to go directly to France as the First Aeronautical Detachment. By June, the first organized contingent of American forces arrived in the combat zone at St. Nazaire, France -- woefully unprepared to take on the mighty submarine force of imperial Germany. Among this small detachment was Landsman Machinist Mate Second Class Irving E. Sheely. Trained by American and foreign officers, using both American and foreign aircraft, Sheely learned aviation and aviation combat at the heart of the action. He served as Observer / Gunlayer with Navy Lieutenant Kenneth MacLeish as pilot, and the two participated in some of the first antisubmarine air patrols in history, including a sea landing to rescue a downed crew. While at Clermont-Ferrand, Sheely developed an improved bombsight, for which he was praised by MacLeish. Following the Armistice, Sheely participated in the closing of the Navy base at Eastleigh, England, and returned io the United States in November 1918. Military History, Military Biography, World War I, First World War, The Great War, WWI, Military Memoirs. tslic

2016, 1st. Signed by the editor. Quarto. 223pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, gilt titles. In the printed dust-jacket. Some minor wear. Book clean and bright. 'Near Fine'.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [2005]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY SHEFFIELD ON TITLE.

No date, but published in late 1935 or early 1936, since Wadham's contribution (ending at page 19) is dated 13th November, 1935, and Crossley's "Foreword to Part II" is dated December of the same year. Wadham writes, "These notes have been compiled, more or less in the form of a diary, with a view to placing on record the services of those who voluntarily came forward to serve their country in its hour of need." This copy from the library of 2nd Lt. I. (Irvine) B. Rouse of the battalion, who is listed thrice in the appendices, once in "Additional Nominal Roll of Officers who served with the I/4th Battalion The King's Own Royal Regt. (in order of joining)," once in a list of those wounded in action, and lastly in the list of those who received the Military Cross. Wadham has written his inscription ("A souvenir/from") and signed beneath Rouse's printed name. Uncommon signed. Blue cloth w/battalion's crest/lettering in gilt to front cover, 136 pages + XXIIII (24) pages of appendices/index. Appendices include: (A) nominal roll of officers mobilized with the battalion as of August 4, 1914; (B) the roll of officers who proceeded overseas (May 3, 1915); (C) an additional nominal roll of officers who served with the battalion; (D) officers' casualties/prisoners of war/awards; (E) a list of the rank and file killed in action or who died of their wounds; (F) a list of the rank and file wounded in action; (G) a list of rank and file missing/reported dead, wounded and prisoners, wounded and missing, missing, and prisoners of war; (H) rank and file awards; (I) an extract from the supplement (June 28, 1918) to the London Gazette (June 25, 1918; (J) an extract from the supplement (September 14, 1917) to the London Gazette (September 14, 1917); and (K) an extract from the supplement (June 28, 1918) to the London Gazette (June 25, 1918). Strongly cocked, sunned spine/edges, wear to corners/spine ends, some cover soil, scuffing, light edge soil, Rouse's name highlighted in pink at all three appearances in the appendices. Size: Small octavo

Whitstable: Pryor Publications, 1985. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket 222pp., text ills., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, Based on the diaries of a Victorian soldier who served in the Middle-East in WWI with the 9th Light Horse Regiment. Copy 245 of a limited hardcover edition & signed by J. G. Rogers on the dedication page

Fine unread condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Introduction; Preface; Biography of David Gray; Publisher's Note; Acknowledgments; Bibliography and Index. Signed and inscribed by the author with blue pen at the lower section of the full title page. Also includes newspaper illustrated inner front and rear covers. "Lawyer, soldier, journalist and playwright, David Gray cuts an unlikely diplomatic figure. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1870, he took up the post of US Minister to Ireland in 1940. His memoir of that year, 'Behind the Emerald Curtain', is published her for the first time. Vivid, lyrical, forthright and eviscerating, Gray reveals life in a privileged milieu amid the darker currents of war, political discord, collaboration and espionage. Diary entries, secret documents, press extracts, letters to Roosevelt, and conversations with his ideological opponent de Valera are knitted together in this intriguing narrative, introduced by Paul Bew." - from the rear outer cover. "David Gray (August 8, 1870 - April 11, 1968) was an American diplomat, journalist, playwright, novelist, short story writer, and lawyer. A World War I veteran, he served in France in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, the American Expeditionary Forces, and as a liasion officer attached to several French armies. He was awarded both the Croix de guerre and the Legion of Honour. During World War II, he served as the United States minister to Ireland from 1940 to 1947. Through his marriage to Maude Livingston Hall, the sister of Anna Hall Roosevelt, he was the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt." - from Wikpedia

1st ed., royal octavo, pp.x, 580, incl Index, b&w photos and illus., pict. eps., signed by author orig gilt titled bds., near fine in near fine d.j. The accounts of 853 men and women of Fremantle, Western Australia, who served in WWI taken from diaries, letters, oral histories and photographs.