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Your search for World War I has returned 36 results. Memorial Day. May 30th, 1921, Sacramento, California.  Sacramento, California.  1921.  Flyer (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch); folded in half with printing on all sides. Includes program and words for the song 'America' along with sponsors on the back. Missing corner on the back (1/2 x 1/2 inch). 'Remarks' by H.E. Kneeland; 'Invocation' & 'Benediction' by Rev. William E. Harrison; 'Song' by Pauline Ireland; 'Gettysburg Address' by Malcolm C. Glenn; 'Oration' by Clyde L. Seavey.   Condition: Good.  Memorial Day. DK-44  (Book ID 10838)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "French War Commission at Lincoln's Tomb, Springfield, Illinois."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  #18335 (146). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the back side discussing the diplomatic visit of French delgates, L.C. Jean Fabri, Admiral Shocheprat, former Premier Viviani & Marshall Joffre. Image shows them among others in front of Lincoln's Memorial. Nice WWI item.   Condition: Fine.  Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois,WWI, Oak Ridge Cemetary. DK-5  (Book ID 9192)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Great Ocean Liners at the Docks, Hoboken, N.J. - Showing Upper Manhattan Island and Hudson River."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa..  # 16762 (52). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the port of Hoboken and its fine location for transportation, both sea and rail. Photo of three German Ocean Liners tied up to the large docks waiting out WWI so they won't be seized on the open sea, or sunk, with the Hudson River in the background. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Ocean Liners, Ships, Transportation, WWI, German. DK-9  (Book ID 9531)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Looking South Over Chateau-Thierry from the Ramparts of the Old Chateau."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa.  # 18716 (426). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the American drive thru Chateau-Thierry during WWI. Nice overview of the small town on the Marne River with a good view of the old chateau. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Thateau-Thierry, France, WWI. DK-5  (Book ID 9226)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Secretary Daniels Addressing the 2nd Div. On Plateau Above the Rhine - Valiendar Germany."  Underwood & Underwood.  New York, New York.  circa.1919. "#14381, Underwood & Underwood U-262026" Stereograph on gray board (3 1/2 x 7 inch) with title across the bottom. Image of U.S. Naval Secretary Josephus Daniels addressing a large crowd of troops at the end of World War I above the Rhine River. Damage to the lower left corner margin from inserting the stereograph into a viewing machine, not affecting image   Condition: Very Good.  World War I, American Troops. DK-85  (Book ID 11792)  $25.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Through the Uncarted Heavens She Blazed the Trail - "Blimp" R34 at Mincola."  Underwood & Underwood.  New York, New York.  circa.1916. "#14427, Underwood & Underwood U-264933". Stereograph on gray board (3 1/2 x 7 inch) with title across the bottom. Image of an airship anchored at Mincola with soldiers guarding the French airship during World War I. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Airships, WWI. DK-85  (Book ID 11791)  $25.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Zeppelin Flying Over a German Town - Lower Valley of the Rhine."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 18000 (394). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the dirigibles and their use in war by Germany and the Allies. View of a dirigible from below with the long narrow vessel moving through the sky, ca.1920. Clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Dirigibles, Zeppelin, Flying, Germany. DK-8  (Book ID 9417)  $15.00 Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in the World War  Association Press.  New York.  1922.  First Edition.  Editorial Board: William Howard Taft, chairman; Frederick Harris, managing editor; Frederic Houston Kent and William J. Newlin, associate editors. Two stout volumes bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Twenty one maps (many folding) charts and illustrations, complete. Introduction by former United States President Taft. 636 and 664 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  World War 1. YMCA. American Presidential Books  (Book ID 7746)  $37.50 Bach, Christian A. And Henry Noble Hall  The Fourth Division: It Services and Arhievements in the World War. Gathered from the Records of the Division.  Issued By the Division.  1920.  Illustrated by Dabo, Leon.  xvi, 368 pages; 5 plates, illustrations, maps; bibliography, appendix, index; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the four iby symbol on the cover. Also included is a 4 page flyer for 'The Ivy Memoiral in Arlington' about the planned memorial.History of the Fourth Division during World War I with a roster of Commanders, decorations awarded, citations and commendations, and a roll of honor. The history of the division goes into the organizing, training and the offensives participated in: Aisne-Marne; Sergy; St. Mihiel; and the 1st and 2nd Meuse-Argonne offesives. The book finishes with the armies' occupation in Germany. 2,611soldiers from the division were killed and 9,895 were wounded during the eleven months spent in Europe.   Condition: Fine.  World War I, Fourth Division, Ivey Leaf, United States Army. DK-87  (Book ID 11834)  $50.00 Bours, William A. Jr.  War Record of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Four Princeton Unibersity, Number Four 1923  Original brown cloth with orange lettering. No publisher, printer or place. Consists of: Obituaries of three soldiers: John Baird Atwood, Howard Houston Henry and Samuel Franklin Pogue. Also, interesting answers to a questionaire sent out by class secretary (graduation, occupations, marriage and children, location, and (best of all) general comments on the latest Princeton reunion and the class in general. Other summaries of the class are included. Some small black ink flecks on front cover, otherwise and clean and fresh copy. 213 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  Princeton University. Class Records  (Book ID 8438)  $25.00 Butler, Nicholas Murray  A World in Ferment: Interpretations of the War for a New World.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1918.  First Edition.  viii, 254 pages, index, original cloth, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4". Very good, unopened, light staining to fore-edge margin.   (Book ID 6438)  $17.50 Carrier-Belleuse, Pierre, and Auguste-Francois Gorguet  Pantheon De La Guerre.  Pantheon De La Guerre.  Paris, France.  1918.  Series of 20 illustration cards joined together with gray paper wrapper and title in blue on the cover (3 3/4 x 6 inch). Illustrations related to World War I, showing the troops in front of an monument to victory in the war. Among those illustrated are Belgium, Russia, Romania, England, French colonies, Italy, United States among others. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  World War I, France, Photographs. DK-70  (Book ID 11391)  $15.00 Curtin, D. Thomas  The Edge of the Quicksands.  George H. Doran Company.  New York.  1918.  321 pages, red cloth with black stamping, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2". Very good or better. How the Germans are Governed, The Wilson Wedge, The Secret of German Resistance, the Decisive Weapon, the Invisible Army, Dug-Outless Front, etc.   Germany. World War I  (Book ID 6433)  $17.50 Dresel, Ellis Loring  Autograph Letter Initialed  Boston, Massachusetts.  1909.  Dated March 11, 1909 on the stationary of Goodwin, Dresel and Parker. 2 page letter (8 1/2 x 11 inch) Dresel writes a close friend or relative 'Louise' about a planned trip to Europe and that his summer home 'Cove Hill' has been rented as he will not be using it. He also mentions a theatre party of ten that featured a "bevy of attractive girls". Ellis Dresel (1865-1925) was an American lawyer and diplomat who worked in Europe as an attache at the embassies in Berlin, Vienna, and Berne. He was involved with the Paris Peace Conference and served in Germany as a senior diplomat after WWI (1919-22). He signed the formal peace treaty with Germany (1921). The letter written on both sides in ink is intialed "E.L.D." Also included is a small letter (4 1/2 x 6 inch) in ink with the letterhead 'Mingo's Beach, Pride's Crossing which is missing the second page.   Condition: Very Good.  American Diplomats, World War I. DK-25  (Book ID 10237)  $37.50 Eaton, W.D. And Sergeant Major Harry C. Read  A Complete History of the World War in Five Volumes  1919.  (title continued): A Connected and Complete Narrative of the War on all Fronts, covering all Events between July 1914 and the Peace Treaty...with Chapters especially prepared for this History by Major General Leonard Wood...and General Pershing's Own Story of the Operations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France and Belgium." Publisher's original black cloth with gilt lettering and impressed design on front cover. All five volumes are unworn and with strong joints. Color frontispieces and title pages in each volume. Photo illustrated. 407, 403, 403, 406 amd 414 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  World War 1. American Military History. European Wars  (Book ID 8378)  $75.00 Ellis, Havelock  Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston and New York.  1917.  First American Edition.  Publisher's dark blue pebble cloth with gilt lettering. Former owners' stamp and signature on front end paper and half-title. Essays on war, pacificism, birth control, prostitution, eugenics, etc. 252 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  (Book ID 8363)  $25.00 Emoore, William and James C. Russell  U.S. Offical Pictures of the World War Showing America's Participation: Selected from the Official Files of the War Department. With Unofficial Introductory Photographs.  Pictorial Bureau.  Washington, D.C..  1920.  320 pages; photographs; bound in black fabrikoid with imprinted image of a soldier aiming a gun with half-title (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inch). Mylar wrapper. Images from the activities of the United States Army during World War I. From the draft board offices to the battle field, anything and everthing about the military forces during this period, at sea and on land, training and fighting. Includes listing of commanding officers, award winners, and support divisions. Some creasing to title page, but a nice copy.   Condition: Very Good.  World War I, Photographs, United States Military. DK-87  (Book ID 11851)  $47.50 Forbes, Edgar Allen [editor]  Leslie's Photographic Review of the Great War. Special Photographs By :James H. Hare, Lucien Swift Kirtland, Donald C. Thompson, Lieut. Ralph Estep, Frederic W. Zinn, Fritz Holm, U.S. Signal Corps. Explanatory Test By: General John J. Pershing, (cont) ..  Leslie-Judge Company.  New York, New York.  1920.  (title cont) " President Woodrow Wilson, Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, John A. Sleicher, Sidney r. Cook, Charlton Bates Strayer, and Others." Unnumbered paging with numerous photos. Bound in green cloth with pasted on color photograph with half title on the cover. Wear along the edges of the binding.   Condition: Very Good.  World War I, Photographs, Great War. DK-107  (Book ID 12213)  $25.00 Foreman, Edward R., Editor and Compiler  World War Service Record of Rochester and Monroe County, New York; Volume I, Those Who Died for Us  City of Rochester.  Rochester, N.Y..  1924.  Cloth.  A second volume was published in 1928. Illustrations. Embossed decoration front cover. Gilt edged page tops. 652 pages. From the Foreword: "This Volume One of the World War Service Record presents the roster and records of Those Who Died for Us. It calls the roll of Rochester and Monroe County Gold Star Heroes". Additional contents include: Illustration - Memorial Certificate of the United States of America; Sonnet - The Dead, by Rupert Brooke; Illustration - Memorial Certificate of France; etc.   World War I. Heroes. Military. Fighting Men. France. Germany.  (Book ID 4575)  $50.00 Herron, George D.  The Menace of Peace.  Mitchell Kennerley.  New York.  1917.  First Edition.  110 pages, navy cloth with gilt spine title, 7 x 5". Very good. "The present German mind is in truth the deadliest enemy, the harshest and yet subtlest seducer, that the soul of the world has ever had to meet." He asserts that American munition makers and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are both "working with Germany for a peace in her favour".   Germany. World War I. International Relations  (Book ID 6428)  $17.50 Hurley, Edward N.  The Bridge to France. 25 Illustrations.  J.B. Lippincott Company.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  1927.  First Edition.  xiii, 338 pages; illustrations; appendix, index; bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Inscribed in ink on the front pastedown "To Frederick H. Bartlett, with sincere regards, Edward N. Hurley. June 1927". Written by the Wartime Chairman of the United States Shipping Board during World War I. An account of the United States attempt at acquiring, building and operating sufficient cargo-ships to maintain an army in France. The US went from employing 50,000 men to 350,000 men in the ship yards building the ships with another 180,000 men suppling engines, boilers, etc. The board also trained 42,000 to serve on the ships. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  World War I, Merchant Marine. DK-87  (Book ID 11836)  $25.00 Jordan, David Starr  Ways to Lasting Peace.  Bobbs-Merrill Company.  Indianapolis.  1916.  xi, 255 pages, green cloth with gilt stamping, 7.5 x 5". Very good, rubbed hinges. Contains the address of the President of the World's Peace Congress delivered at Berkeley in connection with the International Panama-Pacific Exposition.   World War I. Expositions  (Book ID 6434)  $17.50 Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles 'and' Geoffrey Rawson  My Flying Life: An Authentic Biography Prepared Under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingford-Smith. With a Preface By Geoffrey Rawson.  David McKay Co..  Philadelphia,.  1937.  First American Edition.  Good clean copy with some fading to the spine. First American edition. Signed by Alfred M. Shibley, Jr. in 1937 with embossed foil plate for Sacramento California State University. "Smithy" as Charles Kingsford Smith was known in Australia was a pioneer in civil aviation and a fighter pilot in WWi with 4 kills to his credit. Flew from California to Australia via Hawaii and Suva in 84 hours during 1928. Knighted in 1932 for his exploits. Died in 1935 off Burma while attempting another record breaking flight. 284 pages with index, includes photos and maps.   Condition: Very Good.  Aviation, Pioneer Pilot, Australia, Fighter Pilot.  (Book ID 8799)  $37.50 Lippmann, Walter  The Stakes of Diplomacy  Henry Holt and Company.  New York.  1915.  First Edition.  Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Front end paper clipped at corner. A nice, bright, clean copy. An early book by Pulitizer Prize winning Lippman on the diplomatic angles of the early days of World War I. 235 page, including index, plus unpaginated section of publisher's other books at end.   Condition: Very Good.  Journalism. Opinion Writing.  (Book ID 8386)  $25.00 Matthews, R. Borlase  The Aviation Pocket-Book for 1917. A Compendium of Modern Practice and a Collection of Useful Notes, Formulae, Rules, Tables, and Data Relating to Aeronautics. Fifth Edition, Revised and Englarged.  Crosby Lockwood and Son..  London, England.  1917.  xix, 300, xxxi pages; charts, tables, folding plans; bibliography, index. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with title & author on the cover and spine. Deals with aeroplane theory adn design, structural materials engisnes, aerial navigation, meteorological data, areo clubs and societies, glossary, and directory of manufacturers. Ads in the front and back sections. Published during World War I.   Condition: Very Good.  Aviation, Planes. DK-34  (Book ID 10511)  $25.00 Mortane, Jacques  Deux Archanges De L'Air.  Editions Baudiniere.  Paris, France.  1938.  127 pages; illustrations; illustrated paper wrapper. Biographies of Jean Guynemer and Jean Mermoz, noted French aviators. Jean Guynemer (1894-1917) was one of France's leading fighter aces during World War I shooting down 54 planes before his death on 11 September 1917 in an arial battle against the Germans. He was a member of the elite Storks squadron and flew some 600 combat missions, shot down 7 times, before dying. Jean Mermoz (1901-1936) flew for the military from 1921 to 1924 and then became a airline pilot for Labecoere. He inaugurated the flight between Toulouse and Saint Louis of Senegal, non-stop in 1927. In 1930 he flew from Toulouse to Natal in Brazil in 20 hours. After ten flights over the South Atlantic, Mermoz left Dakar in 1936 and was never seen again. Good clean copy.   Condition: Good.  WWI, Trans-Atlantic Flights, French Aviation. DK-35  (Book ID 10528)  $17.50 Nagel, Alfred G.  "Emden"Ein Gedenbuch Deutschen Heldentums Zur See.  Walter G. Muhlau.  1927.  First Edition.  Limp cloth. Photo illustrated cover, somewhat worn. 212 pages. Illustrated with numerious photos and drawings.   Condition: Very Good.  South Pacific. Naval Battles. Germany. Australia  (Book ID 6996)  $47.50 O'Shaughnessy, Edith  My Lorraine Journal.  Harper & Brothers.  New York & London.  1918.  First Edition.  vii, 196 pages, plates, map of Verdun and vicinity, blue cloth with gilt stamping, gilt top edge, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2". Very good, hinges rubbed. some foxing on pages facing plates. Written by a diplomat's wife describing Nancy, Luneville, Vitrimont, Bar-le-Duc, Verdun, Chalons, Mont Prenet, the Marne, Theatricals and Camouflage,   France. World War I. Women Authors  (Book ID 6419)  $25.00 Prince, Morton  The Creed of Deutschtum and Other War Essays, Including the Psychology of the Kaiser. With a Foreword By Marquis Okuma (late Prime Minister of Japan).  Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press.  Boston.  1918.  First Edition.  311 pages, brown cloth with gilt stamping, gilt top edge, 9x6". Spine lettering dull, boards a bit bowed, still very good overall. Chapters on the Creed of Deutschtum, Prussian Militarism and a lasting peace, Psychology of the Kaiser, the American versus the German viewpoint, the American conscience, 1914-15, Disintegration of an Ideal, The War-a test of the German theory of Militarism, and A World Consciousness and future peace.   Germany. World War I. Peace  (Book ID 6420)  $25.00 Root, Elihu  The Imperial Japanese Mission 1917: A Record of the Reception Throughout the United States of the Special Mission Headed By Viscount Ishii. Together with the Exchange of Notes Embodying the Root-Takahira Understanding of 1908 and the Lansing-Ishii (cont)  Carnegie Endowment for Interantional Peace.  Washington, D. C..  1918.  First Edition.  (title cont) ". . . Agreement of 1917." Carnegie Endowment for Internation Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education, Publication No. 15". iv, 125 pages; appendix; bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Includes an account of the Japanese delegation through the United States in 1917 and an appendix which includes the Root-Takahira Exchange of notes in 1907 and the Lansing-Ishii Exchange of notes in 1917. The agreement was concerned with disputes over China and that the parties agreed to uphold an "open door policy" in China, with a secret side agreement to not take advantage of China during World War I. This very vague agreement was abrogated in April 1923 by the Nine Party Treaty which divided up China into spheres of influence or occupation. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Japanese-American Relations, Viscount Ishii. DK-87  (Book ID 11850)  $17.50 Salmon, Edward and James Worsfold, Editors  The British Dominions Year Book 1919  Eagle, Star and British Dominions Insurance Company, Limited.  London.  Articles and color illustrations concerning the last year of World War One. The color illustrations include: maps, some folding, British aircraft, civil medal ribbons, decorations of the United States Forces, noted medal ribbons of the allies and regimental badges of the colonial forces. A bit bumped at one corner. 288 pages, including index.   Condition: Very Good.  Airplanes. British Regimental Badges  (Book ID 7488)  $37.50 Stackpole, Markham W.  World War Memoirs of Milton Academy 1914 - 1919 with service records of Masters and Former Students  Printed at the Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1894..  Cambridge.  1940.  First Edition.  Cloth.  Embossed decoration front cover. Gilt lettering spine. Illustrations. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Map of Northern France front and rear end papers. 451 pages. Book dedicated to former students and faculty who served in World War I, with brief biographies and photographs. Also information about the school during wartime.   Private School. Military Service. Volunteers. Draftees.  (Book ID 4574)  $47.50 Van Dyke, Henry  The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France  Harper & Brothers.  New York and London.  1919.  First Edition.  Illustrated by Frank Schoonover.  Attractive publisher's binding of pressed fabrikoid with wreath design surrounding portrait of Joan of Arc. Black and white plates and line drawings by Schoonover. A World War One soldier in France sees a vision of Joan of Arc. 70 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Joan of Arc. Supernatural Fiction  (Book ID 8427)  $17.50 Villard, Oswald Garrison  Germany Embattled, an American Interpretation.  Charles Scribner's Sons.  New York.  1915.  181 pages, navy cloth with gilt title, 8 x 5.5". A little worn and soiled, owner name on end leaf. Contents include: Germany at Bay, the Two Germanys, German Militarism and Democracy, The Propaganda in America, the Kaiser and the War, Imperialism and the German Parties, and The United States and the Peace Treaty.   Germany. World War I.  (Book ID 6429)  $25.00 Vorst, B. Van  To the Homeward-Bound Americans.  Lang, Blanchong Cie.  Paris, France.  1919.  32 pages; brown wrapper with design on the cover (patches of fading on the back cover). Pamphlet was a gift to members of the American Expeditionary Forces which served in France during WWI. Intro - "The purpose of this little book to state in a few words what your presence has meant to the French people, to express to you their gratitude, and to recount briefly the part you played in winning the war.". Inside the cover is a place for a photograph of the owner and his signature. A good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  World War I. DK-26  (Book ID 10254)  $20.00 Wheeler, W. Reginald, Editor  A Book of Verse of the Great War...with a Foreword By Charlton M. Lewis  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  1917.  First Edition.  Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and impressed design on front and back cover. Poems by William Rose Benet, Laurence Binyon, Rupert Brooke, Witter Bynner, Paul Fort, Gilbert Frankau, John Galsworthy, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Hermann Hagedorn, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Hewlett, Amy Lowell, Percy Mackaye, Edgar Lee Masters, Alice Meynell, Christopher Morley, Alfred Noyes, Eden Phillipotts, Cecil Roberts, Edmond Rostand, Alan Seeger, Robert W. Service, Rabindranath Tagore, Katharine Tynan, Louis Untermeyer, Margaret Widdemer, etc. Top back corner slighly bumped, otherwise a nice clean copy. 184 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  World War 1.  (Book ID 8376)  $25.00

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