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Constable and Company Ltd. 1917. London. First edition, U.K. No DW. Original red cloth with printed paper label to spine. Portrait frontis. with tisuue guard. Blind round publisher's stamp stating presentation copy to top corner of title page. Spine very slightly worn. Corners slightly frayed. Occasional browning and foxing to pages otherwise a remarkably clean copy. Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion.

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.

Fiction based on the 'logbook and diary' of John Kenneth Watson, father of the author. book has light shelf wear and a slight curl to front panel. Dedication copy:" To a good friend ___ _____ / John Anthony Watson/ 4/5/06. " SIGNED by author in black ink. Laid in is a letter to fo who plays." a big part in the beginning" of the book. Letter also explains how the book came to be written. letter is SIGNED Tony & Rosie. Rare ephemera! Bookseller's Inventory # 220113

Constable & Co. Ltd., 1933 vii, [list of illustrations], 378 printed pages. Frontispiece, 8 of 9 plates 1 text illustration. Times Book Club label and some pencil jottings on the rear pastedown endpaper. Signed and dated in ink "1934, Hugh Dalton" on front free endpaper. In pencil below is the word "Wagners" in the hand of Irene Wagner. Text block very slightly browned, particularly on the leading edge. 22.5 x 15 cm. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Spine, corners, hinges and edges very slightly rubbed. This volume contains the recollections of Nicolson, a British diplomat, who was a member of the Peace delegation of Great Britain at Paris. Nicolson wrote: "Given the atmosphere at the time, given the passions aroused in all democracies by four years of war, it would have been impossible even for supermen to devise a peace of moderation and righteousness." This was Hugh Dalton's personal copy. During WW2, Hugh Dalton was Minister for Economic Warfare when Harold Nicolson was, in the early days, at the Ministry of Information. Both published diaries and memoirs that overlapped in content. The Rt. Hon. Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, later Baron Dalton, (1887 1962) was a British Labour Party economist & politician. During WWI he served as a lieutenant in France and Italy, compiling 'With British Guns in Italy' as a record of his experiences. Although a staunch Labour party member, he shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1930s, promoting rearmament against the German threat, and strongly opposing the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938. Dalton was a fervent supporter and close friend of Churchill during the crisis of 1940, strongly against any compromise peace as urged by Halifax and other conservatives. In his wartime coalition, after the Dunkirk evacuation, Churchill appointed Dalton Minister of Economic Warfare. Following Churchill's well-known instruction 'to set Europe ablaze' Dalton founded the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and was subsequently a co-founder of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE). After the surprise Labour victory in 1945 Dalton was seen (alongside Attlee, Bevin, Morrison and Cripps) as one of the 'big five' of the new administration and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945-7 (when he nationalised the Bank of England). In 1948 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in 1950 Minister of Town and Country Planning. He retired from government after the general election of 1951 and was created a life peer as Baron Dalton on 1960. Early items signed by Dalton are now uncommon. His papers and diaries are held at the London School of Economics. PROVENANCE: Irene Wagner, senior Labour Party archivist, historian and former Party Chief Librarian. She helped found the International Association of Labour History Institutions. Irene was also a key supporter of the People s History Museum in Manchester. During the 2nd World War Irene worked at Woburn Abbey, in the political intelligence department of the Foreign Office, helping the Special Operations Executive distribute propaganda over Germany.Impeccable provenance: from her personal library that I purchased in 2016 from her Grand-daughter at Irene's Bloomsbury flat where she had lived for 72 years. Copies of the 1st edition are becoming less common and this copy has a significant association with a key politician, and a key connection with a notable member of the Special Operations Executive.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Privately Published, 1920. 1st Edition . Good Plus. 5 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19 cm). Signed by Author. First printing. Number 232 of an unspecified limited edition. Brown buckram binding. Marking to edges of boards, slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. Small mark to outer page edge, light foxing to endpapers, a few pages have smudging to the text, appears to be a production flaw. Author's address stamp to front free endpaper. Inscribed by the author to front free endpaper: To R. de Poix with the compliments of Walter Gardner 1/7/20. Account of the author's experiences in active service in the Honourable Artillery Company during the first year of the First World War. Includes much interesting information on mining operations at Wijtschate (Wytchaete) near Messines. Much of the text is in the form of the author's diary entries. A very scarce title, not in the British Library. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xi, 232

Duodecimo size, 185 pp., inscribed by Juliet de Key Whitsed. "Come to the Cook-house Door!" comprises the autobiography of Juliet de Key Whitsed, who served as a V. A. D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) during World War I, in Salonika (present-day Thessaloniki in Greece); told with charm and wit, the story elucidates the hardships of the war from a civilian's perspective, in the form of letters and diary entries. This volume is the first edition, and is inscribed by the author to Henry W. Shoemaker (1880-1958), a noted American folklorist and conservationist who worked in European embassies as a diplomat; his bookplate is also tipped in on the front paste-down endpaper. ___DESCRIPTION: Full white cloth, black lettering and a line drawing of a trumpet on the front board, black lettering on the spine, title page with same line drawing of a trumpet; duodecimo size (7.5" by 5.25"), pagination: [1-6] 7 [8-10] 11-185, inscribed by Juliet de Key Whitsed "Colonel Henry W Shoemaker / With all good wishes / from Juliet de Key Whitsed / Johannesburg. S. Africa. / July 1938." on the verso of the front free endpaper. Tasteful prior owner bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper belonging to Henry W. Shoemaker, the recipient of the inscription. In a red paper dust jacket with black lettering and silhouette of a bugle-player on the front panel, black lettering and ruled borders with original price of "3/6" on the spine, and a description of the book on the front flap. ___CONDITION: Volume is very good, with clean boards, corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, and the interior is clean and bright; some sunning to the spine, abraded area on the spine of about one inch, corners gently bumped, front board is slightly cocked, prior owner markings in pencil in the gutter of the Foreword, reading "gift of Mrs. H. A. Shoemaker 10/9/63", and there is a newspaper clipping glued to the rear paste-down endpaper, regarding the death of General Paul Henrys (1862-1943), commander of the French army on the Salonika front during the First World War, where this book takes place. The dust jacket is good only, unclipped with the original price on the spine, all pieces present but front panel is detached from the spine, clean overall with minor soiling including a small area with white on the front panel, slight edge wear to the top edge, chipping to the head of the spine (but does not obscure text), and there is a loss of about three inches to the bottom of the spine (please see pictures and request more if needed). ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Daily Eagle , 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None . SIGNED. Hardcover, 211 pages. dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. SIGNED TWICE BY THE SHIP'S CHAPLAIN, W. A. H0PKINS, once on the front fly leaf, along with his title and name of ship and again on Honor Roll page. Contains a 20 page handwritten account written in pencil of the ship's torpedoing by the ship's Chaplain (his Copy). Pages folded and laid in. Unique. Record # 303328

TORONTO ONTARIO ON CANADA. Very Good. 1915. On offer is a very interesting 1915 handwritten manuscript diary kept by a young lady living in early World War I Toronto, Ontario. There are entries for every day from January 1st until August 1915, after which the entries are sporadic. She was a sales clerk at Eaton's Department Store. In March she suddenly became ill and was hospitalized. She was operated on the same day, and remained in hospital recovering for about two weeks. She doesn't identify her illness. The entries take one back to a simpler Toronto as she notes her day to day life including day trips to Port Credit and the Toronto Islands, skating parties at Varsity Stadium, seeing soldiers at church, work, friends, family, etc. She also records the deaths of an aunt and uncle in Detroit in late 1914. The family name of the girl was McClelland. In august she appears to have begun seeing a young man named Harold Byers. Later we find he has joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. This is a very charming glimpse into life in Toronto in 1915. Included is an address book useful as it lists some of the same people who are named in entries in the diary. ; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; TORONTO, YORK, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, VARSITY STADIUM, BLOOR STREET, WWI, WORLD WAR I, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, DIARIES, JOURNALS, LOGS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, CANADIANA, TRAVEL, GERMANY, ANTIQUITÉ, CONTRAT, VÉLIN, MANUSCRIT, PAPIER ANTIKE, BRIEF, PERGAMENT, DOKUMENT, Toronto, .

First Edition of what is conceded to be one of the best contemporary accounts of that early aerial conflict. Illustrated by Clayton Knight. A fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with minor wear and tear, and a small exterior tape mend at the top of the back panel. The first blank is presented (signing as 'Elliott Springs'), enhanced by an excellent, large color drawing of a dogfight, signed and inscribed to the same recipient by the illustrator. While Knight enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator, primarily of aviation, he might now be more renowned as the father of Hilary Knight, illustrator of the Eloise books. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.