Catalog 249 contains 49 items, including photo albums, scrap books, handwritten letters, original art, broadsides, signed or inscribed first editions, and more!
Download PDF of World War I![Item #443327 [Archive]: Visitor's Book from a French Auxiliary Hospital in World War I](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/443327.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591711828)
France: 1914. Hardcover. Quarto. Measuring 8" x 12". Red cloth over stiff paper boards. 70pp. Included are 17 hand-colored illustrations, two letters, one postcard, one photograph, and one newspaper clipping. Near fine with some rubbing and edgewear. A visitor’s book from a World War I hospital devoted to the care of..... More
![Item #441467 [Archive]: World War I Press Photographs](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/441467-21b.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582832377)
Massachusetts, Virginia, France: [circa 1917]. Unbound. An archive of 85 sepia-toned or black and white photographs measuring between 6½" x 8½" and 8" x 10", some with captions on the verso. All are very good or better with some curling and edgewear. A collection of 85 press photographs recording events during..... More
Georgia: The Atlanta University, 1919. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Stapled gray wrappers. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages partially unopened at the top edges, light foxing throughout, a near fine copy with oxidation to the staples. "Atlanta University and the War: Soldier Training." Account of soldier preparedness training..... More
![Item #422358 [Broadsheet]: War Time Editorial](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/422358.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1536589770)
Darien, Conn. Office of Darian Review, [April, 1917?]. Unbound. One leaf of newsprint paper folded to make four pages; printed on the first three, last page blank. Age-toned and with tiny tears and a little crease in the upper margin, but stable and otherwise very good. Possibly issued as an..... More
![Item #426969 [Broadside Napkins]: World War I-era England](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/426969.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1626811306)
London: S[arah]. Burgess, Printer, 1915-1920. Unbound. A collection of mostly 36 World War I-era broadside napkins. Each approximately 14" x 14". All thin paper or tissue, printed in black or blue with text and illustrations of nobility, politicians, soldiers, flags, medals, and ships, surrounded by colorful borders of flowers, ivy..... More
[No place: no publisher, [1918?]. Unbound. Broadside on cardstock. Measuring 13" x 10". Printed in blue. Punch hole in upper margin, presumably as issued. Modest wear at corners, about fine. *OCLC* locates one copy. More
Unbound. Postcard. Measuring 3½" x 5½" Slightly tanned, else near fine. One side shows Olner Law and four other men prepared for combat. Law was the first African-American officer to lead an all-white unit. More
![Item #438144 [Panoramic Photograph]: “Censor & Press Co. No. 1. Staff of the Stars & Stripes....](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/438144-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627322510)
Brest, France: Thompson Illustragraph Co. of Petersburg, Va. 1919. Unbound. Sepia-toned gelatin silver panoramic photograph. Approximately 35½” x 7”. Slight fading at the extremities, else about fine. A pencil annotation on the reverse reads, “L.L. Davies, 743 Treewood Ave.” Not long after arriving in France, General Pershing determined that the American..... More
![Item #397455 [Photo Album]: American Expeditionary Force WWI](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/397455.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1603004122)
France: 1915-1917. Softcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 12½" x 10". Black leather photo album. A collection of 244 sepia toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2½" x 3½" and 3½" x 6", some with captions. A good only photo album with detached pages, but with very good..... More
![Item #439305 [Photo Album]: French Pictorial Service](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/439305.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575389922)
Hardcover. Oblong small quarto. Full ox-blood leather ruled in gilt. Joints cracked but firm, rubbing and wear at the extremities, about very good; internally with largely unreadable owner name dated in 1918 and a clipping removed, both on preliminary blanks, a few images with light wear, else about fine. Contains..... More
![Item #438773 [Photo Album]: French POW World War I](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/438773.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1572618912)
Germany: [circa 1917]. Hardcover. Oblong small octavo measuring 7" x 5". Brown cloth over stiff paper boards. Contains 91 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2" x 3" and 3½" x 5½" with some captions in French. Near fine album with some toning and edgewear and..... More
![Item #429632 [Photo Album]: German Internment Camp in North Carolina](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/429632.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1543511845)
Hawaii, San Francisco, New Jersey, and North Carolina: 1917-1919. Softcover. An album of more than 275 photographs of Germans held at two American Internment camps during World War I kept by a German prisoner. Small quarto. Measuring 13" x 10¼". String-tied black cloth over paper boards with “Photographs” on the..... More
![Item #439561 [Photo Album]: Small Town Iowa during World War I](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/439561.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582820280)
Anamosa, Iowa: [circa 1917]. Hardcover. Quarto measuring 8" x 11". Screwbound red leather and black cloth over boards. Contains 72 sepia-toned or black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 3" x 4" and 5" x 6½" with captions. Good only album with rubbing, tears, and edgewear with very good..... More
![Item #447319 [Photo Album]: World War I German Trenches](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/447319-10b.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600098477)
France, Belgium: [circa 1917]. Unbound. A collection of 47 mounted photographs measuring 6½" x 8½" with captions in German, housed in a green slipcase. Slight waviness on the mounts else near fine. A collection of images documenting German trench life on the Western Front during the First World War. The photos..... More
[Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1917]. Unbound. Broadside on paper. Measuring 17" x 24". Printed in blue and black. Old folds, else fine. A nice copy of a relatively uncommon poster. More
[Circa 1918]. Unbound. A collection of six color posters measuring 11" x 13½". Slight offsetting on the versos and edgewear else near fine. The posters are numbered beginning with 1-B and continuing through 8-B, apparently missing numbers 6 and 7. A collection of six posters promoting the War Camp Community..... More
(New York): Le Bienetre du Blesse, 1916. Hardcover. First edition. Paper and snake skin-patterned paper over boards. About fine. Signed by the author on the title page. An offprint of an article by the noted California author that originally appeared in *The New York Times*, published to benefit a society..... More
![Item #60123 [The Final Issue of:] The Lorraine Cross. James M. CAIN](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60123-429708-2.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617041566)
France: 79th Division, May 8, 1919. Unbound. James M. Cain's own copy of the final issue of *The Lorraine Cross*, the newspaper of the 79th Division of the U.S. Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. *The Lorraine Cross* was founded, edited, and largely written by James..... More
![Item #425942 [Photo Album]: "Officers of Motor Truck Group" - The First ‘Regular’ U.S. Army...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/425942.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1538072099)
Texas, New Jersey, Italy, and France: 1917-1918. Softcover. Oblong quarto measuring 11" x 9". String-tied black cloth over stiff paper boards. Contains 89 black and white or sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3" x 5" and 7½" x 9½" with captions. Additionally included are five newspaper clippings. Good only..... More
[Hartford, Conn.?]: 1918. Unbound. Broadside on paper. Measuring 17" x 24". Printed in black. Old folds, chips and tears at the corners, good. Uncommon poster. *OCLC* seems to locate no copies. More
Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1919. Hardcover. First edition, ordinary edition. Copy number 219. Octavo. Bound in full paper over boards with morocco spine label titled in black. Pages toned, slight paper loss at the spine ends, very good or better. Bookplate of Linda Porter, wife of Cole Porter, on..... More
![Item #446242 [Archive]: "Days on the Wing" World War I Belgian Flying Ace Manuscript and Notes....](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/446242.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619621364)
1967. Hardcover. Octavo. Measuring 5½" x 8½". 290pp. Green cloth. The text block separated from the binding for use as a manuscript with notes and changes by the author for a revised version, thus good only. A purposely broken copy of *Days on the Wing* by Baron Coppens de Houthulst, also..... More
London: Constable & Co., (1935). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Advertisements in rear. Light pencil name and address on front fly, about fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with three old, neat internal brown tape repairs. Thrilling story of Louise De Bettignies, a French secret agent who spied..... More
Los Angeles / [Burlington, Vermont]: Arthur M. Edwards / [Free Press Association], 1919. Softcover. Stated "Fourth Printing" (but probably a greatly revised edition, see below). Octavo. 50, [2]pp. Original embossed string-tied printed wrappers. Lacks the frontispiece portrait intended to be tipped onto the title page, a little rubbing on the..... More
[Various locations including Washington, DC; Watertown, New York: mostly 1918]. Hardcover. An archive of 99 letters written by World War I soldier Floyd R. Flansburg totaling approximately 20,000 words written while on active duty, along with a manuscript journal; dozens of service related documents and pieces of ephemera; 17 letters..... More