seaJane Posted 20 August , 2015 Share Posted 20 August , 2015 The internal illustrations are line drawings of bone only, thank goodness. Working here has shown me that I'm less squeamish than I thought, but eyes... ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 22 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 22 September , 2015 A recent purchase & a very striking image, sadly unsigned, for Ernst Carl's 1935 autobiography 'One Against England'. Carl is described as 'Germany's Master Spy', although I think there have been several claimants to that title. Here he says that he teemed up with some Irish Nationalists to plant time bombs on HMS Hampshire in which Kitchener was sailing. His description of then watching the ship explode whilst sitting in the White Horse Inn in Kirkwall has subsequently been called into question, there being no such Inn recorded & it being impossible to have seen the sinking from so far away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0rris Posted 22 September , 2015 Share Posted 22 September , 2015 Another strong one. It looks radical now so can only imagine what it must have looked like back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Black Posted 22 September , 2015 Share Posted 22 September , 2015 Makes you wonder when the use of England for Britain went out of vogue? Seems so odd now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 September , 2015 Share Posted 22 September , 2015 I suspect the alliteration had something to do with it - was the German title Einer gegen England or some such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 22 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 22 September , 2015 I suspect the alliteration had something to do with it - was the German title Einer gegen England or some such? That's correct, published the year before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 September , 2015 Share Posted 22 September , 2015 That's correct, published the year before. Rolls off the tongue a bit easier than Einer gegen Grossbritannien? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian J Posted 23 September , 2015 Share Posted 23 September , 2015 Really enjoying these! Great idea and thanks for posting! - J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auimfo Posted 24 September , 2015 Share Posted 24 September , 2015 Thought I recognised the cover of 'Twelve Days' in post #27 (http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=226731&p=2253893) This statue called 'Wipers' can be found at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. Cheers, Tim L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 24 September , 2015 Share Posted 24 September , 2015 One of Jagger's masterpieces is it not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 27 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 27 September , 2015 Further to my last posting of Ernst Carl's 'One Against England', I now realise that the jacket is in fact signed. The artist in question was Douglas Moir who seems to have done several other covers for the same publisher, Jarrolds. One such is shown below, Marthe McKenna's 'A Spy was Born', a novel which tells of the German Occupation of Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 1 December , 2015 Author Share Posted 1 December , 2015 Thought I'd revive this topic with a superb jacket that arrived today. It's a collection of Short Stories concerning an artillery unit. The author went on to become a hugely successful novelist. I can't find any details of his military service but one of his earlier books was called 'Behind the Barrage' which gives a seemingly accurate account of a Battery in action, so I would assume he served with the RFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ororkep Posted 1 December , 2015 Share Posted 1 December , 2015 Excellent cover of a 'graphic' 6in How. He was RGA (328 SB) and well placed to record his experiences, having been wounded, gassed and suffered shell shock! Rgds Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 1 December , 2015 Share Posted 1 December , 2015 Thanks for the new posting DJC, I have nothing I can add to the thread but is one of my favourite threads on the forum. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 1 December , 2015 Author Share Posted 1 December , 2015 Excellent cover of a 'graphic' 6in How. He was RGA (328 SB) and well placed to record his experiences, having been wounded, gassed and suffered shell shock! Rgds Paul Thanks for the info on Goodchild, Paul, that answers a few questions.Mandy. I'm glad you like the pictures. I'll try to find some more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 1 December , 2015 Share Posted 1 December , 2015 Have you ever seen "The Ninth Gate"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 2 December , 2015 Author Share Posted 2 December , 2015 Have you ever seen "The Ninth Gate"? ?? One of my favourite films. Not sure any of my books were illustrated by the devil though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted 2 December , 2015 Share Posted 2 December , 2015 Continuing my attempts to bring some of the excellent art work used in WW1 book jacket design to a wider audience. This tremendous image of marching men is from Emil Schulz novel Schlump, published by Secker in 1929 having been originally published in Germany the year before. It tells of a young man at the front through 4 years of war. Again the jacket is unsigned. Hi Alan, this jacket was designed by Emil Preetorius Gruß Stefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 2 December , 2015 Author Share Posted 2 December , 2015 Hi Alan, this jacket was designed by Emil Preetorius Gruß Stefan Thanks Stefan. That's also led me to the author's real name - Hans Herbert Grimm and not Emil Shultz. Lots of really useful information today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 2 December , 2015 Share Posted 2 December , 2015 ?? One of my favourite films. Not sure any of my books were illustrated by the devil though! The idea of you travelling the world, risking your life to obtain rare volumes, has long been firmly entrenched in my imagination. Sorry to interrupt the thread. As you were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 2 December , 2015 Author Share Posted 2 December , 2015 The idea of you travelling the world, risking your life to obtain rare volumes, has long been firmly entrenched in my imagination. Sorry to interrupt the thread. As you were. And fortunately I haven't had to bump anyone off in order to get the most elusive ones. Here are 2 particularly scarce ones from Wilfrid Ewart. Way of Revelation was a hugely popular novel first published in 1921 which has since vanished from view. Love & Strife was published posthumously in 1936. Ewart was accidentally killed some years before in Mexico, being hit by a stray bullet during a street carnival. He served in the Scots Guards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 20 December , 2015 Share Posted 20 December , 2015 Inspired by another thread on 'The silence of Colonel Bramble' I thought I would show the jacket ( this is the 1927 3rd edition) , shame about the old tape marks but it only cost me a £1 at a local book sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 20 December , 2015 Share Posted 20 December , 2015 Inspired by another thread on 'The silence of Colonel Bramble' I thought I would show the jacket ( this is the 1927 3rd edition) , shame about the old tape marks but it only cost me a £1 at a local book sale. Not much I can do for the lower left corner, but an improvement I hope: http://postimg.org/image/8vpl7tywt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 20 December , 2015 Share Posted 20 December , 2015 Thanks, yes a much improved image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghazala Posted 24 February , 2016 Share Posted 24 February , 2016 Time we had some more DJC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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