World Crisis

"ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT TREATISES ON WAR THAT HAS EVER BEEN WRITTEN"

CHURCHILL, Winston. World Crisis. London, 1923-31. Six volumes.

First English editions of Churchill's important history of World War I. "Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written" (Spectator). $6000.

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In Parenthesis

"IT'S A PERFECTLY SANITARY WAR"

JONES, David. In Parenthesis. London, 1937.

First edition, first printing, of this epic poem about the First World War, lauded by Yeats, Eliot, and Auden in its time, and increasingly recognized as one of the great works of modernism, with two illustrations and a map by the author. One of 1500 copies printed. $5800.

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Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary

"I DIDN'T WANT TO KILL A WHOLE HEAP OF GERMANS NOHOW. I DIDN'T HATE THEM. BUT I DONE IT JES THE SAME"

YORK, Alvin, with SKEYHILL, Tom. Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary. Garden City, New York, 1928.

First edition of this acclaimed Medal of Honor winner's account of his life in war and back home in rural Tennessee, signed by him. $4800.

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Poster: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call

ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I POSTER ADVERTISING THE AMERICAN RED CROSS' CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL

(WORLD WAR I) BLASHFIELD, E.H. Poster: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. Washington, 1918.

Original World War I chromolithographic poster by American artist E.H. Blashfield, featuring a nurse and the American national symbol, Columbia, advertising the American Red Cross' Christmas Roll Call from December 16th to 23rd, 1918. $3500.

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Negro in War-Time

"THE WHITE MAN OF THE SOUTH KNOWS ALMOST NOTHING"

JOHNSON, James Weldon. Negro in War-Time. New York, November, 1918.

First edition of the electrifying response near the end of WWI by James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed Field Secretary to the NAACP, to a white Memphis businessman's article, "Negro in War-Time," included herein with its claims that the "Negro Press" presented "every lynching in its worst aspect" and promoted disloyalty by making the Black man "not as jolly, care-free and good-natured as he once was." Johnson's bold "Rejoinder" points to the thousands of Black Americans lynched long before WWI and declares the white "South will never get to the heart of this problem until it is able to think of the Negro… as a human being." $2800.

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Europe's Morning After

"BOTH THE OLD NATIONS AND THE NEW NATIONS WERE JUST BEGINNING TO SIT UP AFTER THEIR FOUR-YEAR DEBAUCH OF WARFARE…"

ROBERTS, Kenneth L. Europe's Morning After. New York and London, 1921.

First edition of this collection of newspaper essays about Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War I. $2500.

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Flying Dutchman

INSCRIBED BY ANTHONY FOKKER TO LORD BEAVERBROOK

FOKKER, Anthony H.G., and GOULD, Bruce. Flying Dutchman. New York, 1931.

Signed limited first edition of the autobiography, number 165 of 215 copies signed by Anthony Fokker, none of which was for sale, inscribed on the frontispiece, "To Lord Beaverbrook in sincere admiration for his achievements and his interest in aviation. Fokker. May 1935." $2200.

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Luck on the Wing

"SUDDEN DEATH, WOUNDS, CAPTURE OR ACCIDENT, AN OF THESE MAY HAPPEN… BUT NOTHING MAY DETER HIM AND NOTHING BUT FAILURE TERRIFY HIM"

HASLETT, Elmer. Luck on the Wing. New York, 1920.

First edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Harry—and may he always have 'luck on the wing"—and off. Elmer Haslett. May 27, 1920." $1500.

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Days on the Wing

INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY BELGIAN ACE WILLY COPPENS

COPPENS, Willy. Days on the Wing. London, circa 1932.

First edition in English of this memoir by the legendary WWI Belgian ace, inscribed and signed by him twice, once with a lengthy inscription in French and again beneath his frontispiece portrait, this time in English: "Never was my nose quite so big! W.C.H." $1250.

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Negro Combat Troops

AFRICAN AMERICANS "FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION AND ALL SUBSEQUENT WARS, BUT THE SUM OF THEIR SACRIFICES STILL HAD NOT BROUGHT FULL CITIZENSHIP"

HEYWOOD, Chester D. Negro Combat Troops. Worcester, Mass. 1928.

First edition of one of the very few published records of African Americans in combat in WWI, authored by the white captain of the 371st, with photographic frontispiece, two large folding battle maps and many in-text illustrations, a handsome copy in original cloth. $1250.

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Rendezvous With Destiny. A History of the 101st Airborne Division

"WITH THE SINCERE REGARDS OF ANOTHER VETERAN OF THE ARMED FORCES"

(TAYLOR, Maxwell) RAPPORT, Leonard, and NORTHWOOD, Arthur. Rendezvous With Destiny. A History of the 101st Airborne Division. No place, 1965.

"Enlarged edition" of this history of the "Screaming Eagles," abundantly illustrated with maps, charts and photographs, inscribed, "To R—C. B—-, with the sincere regards of another veteran of the Armed Forces. Maxwell D. Taylor. General US Army (ret) 9 Aug., 1977." $500.

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