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A M E R I C A N
V O L U N T E E R S
They Were Over There
Before All the Others
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$25.00
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Andrew, A. Piatt, FRIENDS OF FRANCE: THE FIELD
SERVICE OF THE AMERICAN AMBULANCE DESCRIBED BY ITS MEMBERS.
Houghton MIfflin, 1916., Good. 1st Edition. Spine faded & creased,
but without chipping. Edgewear is minimal, though boards show some
slight spotting. Worst damage is a deep waterstain on rear board
along spine. Also a waterstain through much of the book along the
gutter, s ometimes spilling into text but not affecting legibility.
Text clear throughout. The Memorial Edition by the Inspector General
of the Field Service, designed to encourage more young men to
volunteer in the American Volunteer Amubulance Services two full years
before America entered the War. Photographs, drawings, histories,
letters, citations, tributes, rosters, biographies. Also a foldout
notice to volunteers. 345 pp. $25.00
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$35.00
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Major Charles J. Biddle,
THE WAY OF THE EAGLE:
A MEMOIR OF ESCADRILLE N.73, 103rd AERO SQUADRON (ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE), 13th AERO SQUADRON & 4th PURSUIT GROUP IN FRANCE.
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$25.00
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Buswell, Leslie.
AMBULANCE NO. 10, PERSONAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
A.L. Burt Company, by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Co, 1915, 1916., VG. Tenth Impression. 7.5x5. Spine somewhat darkened with spotting, but lettering still plainly legible. Some discoloration to back cover. Front cover clean with crisp lettering & decoration. Some foxing to frontispiece and title page, interior of book otherwise tight & clean. An American volunteer ambulance driver describes his experiences with the American Field Service on the Western Front in WWI, serving with the French army in the years before America entered the war. Photographs, drawings, 155 pages.
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$150.00
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Chapman, Victor, VICTOR CHAPMAN'S LETTERS FROM FRANCE [Memorial Edition].
Macmillan, May 1917., VG. First Edition. Memorial Edition with a
bookplate reading: "The Gift of John Jay Chapman. Memorial Edition".
JJC was Victor's father and the editor of this book. Bound in glossy
dark blue boards with heraldry device on front cover. A nice, firm
copy with virtually no wear. Lettering on spine darkened, but spine &
covers are uniformly dark & glossy. Neatly-written signature of owner
at top of front flyleaf, opposite Chapman's bookplate. Title page
slightly adhered to frontispiece photo jus t at seam where an old
separation was mended. Page still opens OK and is not loose.
Inconspicuous bit of scuffing to front board. Photographs, 196 pp.
5 pp of ads at end of book. Chapman was a recent graduate of Harvard
University (A.B.'13) who was studying architecture in Paris when war
broke out. He immediately enlisted as a private in the French Foreign
Legion and transferred to the Aviation Service a year later. He was
breveted a pilot in January of 1916 and was assigned to the legendary
E scadrille Lafayette that April. Two months later he was dead, shot
down northeast of Douaumont on June 23. Awarded both the Medaille
Militaire and the Croix de Guerre.
$150.00
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$95.00
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Chapman, Victor,
VICTOR CHAPMAN'S LETTERS FROM FRANCE.
Macmillan, May 1917., VG. First Edition. Cloth spine, paper-covered
boards, with paper labels on cover & spine. No DJ, though original
owner has neatly pasted flap of DJ with biography of Chapman to front
endpaper. Original owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated 1917.
Book very clean with virtually no wear, except spine label which is
slightly scuffed & soiled but still clearly legible. A very nice copy.
Photographs, 196 pp. 5 pp of ads at end of book.
$95.00
$30.00
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Fitch, Willie S.,
WINGS IN THE NIGHT:
FLYING THE CAPRONI BOMBER
IN WORLD WAR I.
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$27.00
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Hansen, Arlen J., GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS.
Arcade Publishing, 1996. "The Story of
the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914-September
1918." NEW copy. First Edition. Forward by George Plimpton. Photographs,
extensive notes & bibliography, index, 254 pages. $27.00
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$40.00
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Howe, M.A. DeWolfe (editor).
THE HARVARD VOLUNTEERS IN EUROPE.
Harvard University Press, 1916., NF. Second Impression. A clean, tight
copy with very little wear. Spine very slightly sunned. Small,
discrete 1920s-style bookplate. A small amount of light pencil
annotation which could be easily erased. A series of first-hand
narratives by Harvard men who volunteered in WWI before America
entered the war. This was one of the books which helped win support
in America for the French cause. Volunteers were serving with the
French Foreign Legion, the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Field
Service, the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, as well as with various
foreign military and medical services. Accounts by Alan Seeger, Victor
Chapman, Harvey Cushing, George Benet, Richard Norton, Waldo Pierce,
and numerous others. Contains a complete roster of Harvard volunteers
in the European war up to the time of publication. An important book.
264 pp.
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Parsons, Edwin C.,
I FLEW WITH THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE.
VG/VG. Some soiling and slight creasing on jacket along edges (doesn't show in picture). Original $8.50 price still intact on flap. Book is bright, though head & heel of spine slightly bumped with minor tears. Interior tight & clean. (Indianapolis: E.C. Seale & Co, 1963. Reprint of the scarce 1937 edition, originally titled: The Great Adventure.
Numerous sepia-tinted photographs dispersed throughout; text in brown ink. 335 pages. Parsons first flew in 1912 with Glenn Curtis, spent a year training pilots for Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, drove ambulances on the Western Front and joined the Lafayette Escadrille in 1917. Later, he was the only American pilot who did not transfer to the American Air Service when the U.S. entered the war, but flew instead with the most famous of French squadrons, the "Storks". He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, the Medaille Militaire, the French Croix de Guerre with eight palms, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre and Order of Leopold. After the war Parsons served with the FBI, and later worked in Hollywood as a technical advisor on the films Wings and Hell's Angels." He served with the U.S. Navy in WWII, winning the Bronze Star. He retired as a Rear Admiral in 1955.
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$195.00
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Seeger, Alan,
POEMS, First
Edition, inscribed to a family friend, with photo of Alan as a baby,
by Alan Seeger's mother.
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$25.00
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Sheahan, Henry..
A VOLUNTEER POILU.
Houghton Mifflin, 1916., VG, 1st edition. Blue cloth with map printed
on endpapers. Minimal edgewear at inner corners; outer corners intact
but turned in slightly. Spine somewhat darkened. Spine intact, not
chipped. Some minor discoloration to cover. 4.25"x 7". Photographs.
A young American, a Harvard student, volunteers as an ambulance driver
with the American Field Service in support of the French Army in the
years before America enters the war. Well-written & keenly observant,
from a Sunday morning stroll through the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to
the desolate horror of the Verdun trenches. 218 pp. $25.00
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Thenault, Captain Georges,
THE STORY OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE:
AMERICAN VOLUNTEERS IN FRENCH SERVICE IN WWI.
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~ ~ Y A N K S ~ ~American Expeditionary Force
$550.00
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5th Marines, 4th Brigade WWI Documents belonging to one man:
Unit Croix de Guerre Certificate, letter of transmittal, English
translation of CdeG, Wound Certificate &
War Service Certificate .
(15 large photos: slow to load).
$100.00
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American Battlefield Monuments Commission,
2d DIVISION SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS IN THE WORLD WAR.
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$15.00
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AWARDS OF THE FRENCH CROIX DE GUERRE TO MARINES DURING THE WORLD
WAR.
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$19.00
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Baker, Chester E., .
DOUGHBOY'S DIARY. Burd Street Press, 1998. New copy, F/F. Appendices, rosters, index, 138 pages. Author was a corporal in F Company, 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard. Saw action at Vesle River & the Argonne. $19.00
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$30.00
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Barth, Clarence G.,
HISTORY OF THE 20th AERO SQUADRON:
THE "MAD BOLSHEVIK" SQUADRON OF THE FIRST DAY BOMBARDMENT GROUP,
COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS, PERSONAL NOTES AND RECOLLECTIONS.
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$15.00
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Bartlett, LtCol Merrill L., USMC (Ret),
LEJEUNE, A MARINE'S LIFE, 1867--1942.
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$25.00
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BELLEAU WOOD COMMEMORATIVE PAMPHLET .
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$35.00
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[Bearss] George B. Clark,
HIS ROAD TO GLORY, The Life and Times of "Hiking Hiram" Bearss, Hoosier Marine
. Hiram Bearss, Medal of Honor winner and among the most highly
decorated Marines of all time.
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$35.00
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 [Bearss] George B. Clark,
HIRAM IDDINGS BEARSS, U.S. MARINE CORPS: Biography of a World War I Hero.
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$25.00
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BELLEAU WOOD COMMEMORATIVE PAMPHLET .
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$100.00
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 Asprey, Robert B.,
AT BELLEAU WOOD . (Hardcover).
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$20.00
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Asprey, Robert B.,
AT BELLEAU WOOD . (Paperback).
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$35.00
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Major Charles J. Biddle,
THE WAY OF THE EAGLE:
A MEMOIR OF ESCADRILLE N.73, 103rd AERO SQUADRON (ESCADRILLE LAFAYETTE), 13th AERO SQUADRON & 4th PURSUIT
GROUP IN FRANCE.
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$85.00
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Boyd, Thomas,
THROUGH THE WHEAT. (A 1923 novel about the Marines in WWI by one
who was there).
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$35.00
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Boyd, Thomas,
THROUGH THE WHEAT
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(Reprint edition of the finest American novel about life & death on the Western Front).
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$40.00
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[Boyd], Brian Bruce,
THOMAS BOYD: Lost Author of the "Lost Generation".
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The first biography ever written about the novelist of Belleau Wood & Soissons, author of
Through the Wheat, Points of Honor
and In Time of Peace.
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$25.00
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Brannen, Carl Andrew,
OVER THERE: A MARINE IN THE GREAT WAR.
For more
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$9.00
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CABINET PHOTO OF ENLISTED MARINE IN DRESS UNIFORM,
1915 . 1 print. (reproduction)
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$9.00
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CABINET PHOTO OF FIVE MEMBERS OF 6th
MACHINE GUN
BATTALION, 4th BRIGADE OF MARINES, MELSBACH, GERMANY, 1919
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1 print. (reproduction)
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$45.00
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Catlin, A.W., Brigadier General, USMC,
WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND A FEW MARINES
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$40.00
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Catlin, A.W., Brigadier General, USMC.
WITH THE HELP OF GOD AND A FEW MARINES. New Battery Press reprint edition.
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$30.00
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Clapp, Frederick M.,
A HISTORY OF THE
17th AERO SQUADRON:
AN AMERICAN PURSUIT SQUADRON
WITH THE RAF.
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$39.95
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Clark, George B.,
DECORATED MARINES OF THE FOURTH BRIGADE IN WORLD WAR I
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$40.00
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Clark, George B.,
DEVIL DOGS: FIGHTING MARINES OF WORLD WAR I
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Clark, George B.,
THE SECOND INFANTRY DIVISION IN WORLD WAR I: A History of the American Expeditionary Force Regulars, 1917-1919
$35.00
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$45.00
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Collins, V. Lansing, PRINCETON IN THE WORLD WAR
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The Office of the Secretary, Princeton University., 1932. VG. Some
darkening to spine, very slight discoloration to boards, minimal wear.
Interior bright & tight. A sound, clean copy. Service records of over
6000 Princeton men, arranged by year of graduation Statistical
summary, index, 644 pages.
$45.00
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$125.00
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Collings, Kenneth,
JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT. First edition in poor dust jacket, inscribed by author.
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$95.00
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Cowing, Kemper F. & Courtney Ryley Cooper,
DEAR FOLKS AT HOME: THE
GLORIOUS STORY OF THE UNITED STATES MARINES IN FRANCE AS TOLD BY THEIR
LETTERS FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.
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$35.00
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Driscoll, Lt. James R.
THE BRIGHTON BOYS AT CHATEAU THIERRY
. Juvenile fiction from 1919: the Brighton
Boys with the U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood & Bouresches.
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$75.00
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Evans, LtCol Frank E.,
DADDY PAT OF THE MARINES, BEING HIS LETTERS FROM FRANCE TO HIS SON
TOWNIE
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$25.00
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Finney, Ben.,
ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE.
(A memoir by a Marine veteran of WWI,
WWII and Korea, who also hobnobbed with Fitzgerald & Hemingway,
starred in a Hollywood move, and crossed Siberia).
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$30.00
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Fleming, Thomas,
THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: America in World War I.
NEW copy. Hardcover in dust jacket. Basic Books, 2003. Frontispiece map, notes, index, 543 pages. "In this book, acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming undertakes nothing less than a drastic revision of America's experience in World War I. He reveals how the British and French duped Wilson and the American people into thinking the war was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas. He describes a harried president making speech after speech proclaiming America's ideals while supporting the Espionage and Sedition Acts that sent critics to federal prisons. Meanwhile, a government propaganda machine created a hate-driven "war will" that soon spilled over into attacks on ethnic Americans. On the Western Front, the Allies did their utmost to turn the American Expeditionary Force into cannon fodder. At the Paris Peace Conference, the cynical Europeans mocked Wilson and his ideals, and browbeat him into accepting the vengeful Treaty of Versailles, sowing the seeds of World War II." ~~ Hardcover originally in print at $30, now OUT OF PRINT.
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$35.00
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Gibbons, Floyd.,
"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT"
. (A classic account of
Belleau Wood by the correspondent who was there and took a bullet in
the eye).
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$55.00
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(second copy) Gibbons, Floyd.,
"AND THEY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T FIGHT".
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$300.00
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Framed LETTER FROM FLOYD GIBBONS to his publisher,
typed & signed, with photo & brass plate
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$55.00
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Harbord, James G., MajGen USA Ret.,
THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE 1917-1919
. (One of the classic WWI
memoirs by the Army Major General who commanded the Marine Brigade at
Belleau Wood and Soissons).
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