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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First edition. Duodecimo (7.25" x 5"), 48 pp. plus 8 unnumbered pp. providing the publisher's catalog of "Books on the Great War." Original printed & decorated blue paper over boards backed in tan cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly soiled, old price in ink at the ffep, brief offsetting/ toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise very good in worn, torn, chipped, & soiled dust jacket with a substantial loss at the rear panel, fair only.
Known primarily for her mystery fiction, author Rinehart, often called the American Agatha Christie, directs her appeal to the mothers of the United States noting that "Personal service is not rolling bandages for the other woman's son."
This title was published in April, 1917, the same month when the United States reversed its neutrality stance & declared war on the German Empire.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 103 & [1] pages, with frontis portrait. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards depicting a light blue sky & clouds, the upper cover lettered in darker blue with the crest of the Royal Flying Corps below.
Covers & spine soiled & browned, upper joint beginning to split (still secure), corners bumped & rubbed, offsetting at title page from adjacent frontis, a good or so copy.
Briggs Kilburn Adams was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1893. He volunteered as a driver with the American Ambulance Service in France in the summer of 1916 & returned to complete his education at Harvard University thereafter. In 1917 Adams presented himself at the Royal Flying Corps recruiting office in Toronto, Canada, as he wrote his mother in August, 1917, "I am now a British subject and will hold the commission when I get it until the end of the War."
On March 14, 1918, Adams was found dead in his plane, whether he was brought down by an enemy… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. 12mo, ix, [5], 263 pp plus 10 plates & [6] pp of advertisements. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth.
Binding moderately rubbed, spine slightly cocked, front hinge starting, otherwise Good.
The author spent 11 years in China as a missionary educator As he presciently notes in the preface, "After the war, the attention of the world will more and more shift to China and the Far East The greatest potential market in the world lies there: the greatest need for industrial and economic development is there."

Paris, France: Chez Devambez, [1918]. Pictorial paper wraps, sewn. Paris: Chez Devambez, no date [1918]. Oblong sextodecimo (5" x 6.5"), 28 unnumbered pages providing text in English with 12 color pochoir illustrations captioned in French adjacent. Printed on thick laid paper. Original printed & illustrated self wraps, sewn.Moderately soiled, edge wear including a small loss at the lower corner throughout, otherwise good or better.Apparently published in appreciation of British troops in France during World War I. The illustrations depict English, Scottish, Irish, & Indian troops in often amusing situations away from the field of battle.