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University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Rare Books & Special Collections Publications Collections 2005 The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the Unversity of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalog Elizabeth Sudduth [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/rbsc_pubs Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Sudduth, Elizabeth, ed. The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the Unversity of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalog. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, 2005. http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2005/3590.html © 2005 by University of South Carolina Used with permission of the University of South Carolina Press. This Book is brought to you by the Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rare Books & Special Collections Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE JOSEPH M. BRUCCOLI GREAT WAR COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Joseph M. Bruccoli in France, 1918 Joseph M. Bruccoli JMB great war collection University of South Carolina THE JOSEPH M. BRUCCOLI GREAT WAR COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Compiled by Elizabeth Sudduth Introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli Published in Cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS © 2005 University of South Carolina Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina : an illustrated catalogue / compiled by Elizabeth Sudduth ; introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli. p. cm. Includes index. “Published in cooperation with the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.” ISBN 1-57003-590-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (Thomas Cooper Library)—Catalogs. 2. Thomas Cooper Library—Catalogs. 3. World War, 1914–1918—Sources— Bibliography—Catalogs. I. Sudduth, Elizabeth A. Z6207.E8J67 2005 [D505] 016.9403--dc22 2005009822 For George Terry CONTENTS List of Illustrations / ix Introduction Matthew J. Bruccoli / xi Compiler’s Note Elizabeth Sudduth / xvii i. Books, Maps, and Printed Matter / 1 ii. Manuscripts and Documents / 238 iii. Printed Music / 247 iv. Art and Photographs / 292 v. Posters, Prints, and Broadsides / 294 vi. Postcards and Cigarette Cards / 318 vii. Recordings, Motion Pictures, and Videos / 323 viii. Memorabilia and Miscellany / 325 ix. Supplement / 329 Index / 341 ILLUSTRATIONS Joseph M. Bruccoli in France, 1918 / Frontispiece George Terry / v Poster for Polish relief / 237 following page 110 Qu’est-ce que le Blochevisme? Front cover of Old Sport Front cover of Bill Bruce Becomes an Ace Advertising poster for The Year 1914: Our Resurrection Recruiting poster for the Polisy army Two-sided poster for Der Hias 1917 Red Cross poster 1916 poster, “Women Awake!” Title page for The Middle Parts of Fortune Front cover for the British photographic record of the war Inscribed copy of Cinquante Quartre Flying Corps Songs U.S.S. George Washington’s newspaper First number of The Times Broadsheets The ANZAC forces magazine Kia Ora Coo-ee Dust jacket for The Return of the Brute Sydney Mail supplement Letter by Alan Seeger Front covers of the 1919 booklets published by Harold Ross Night and Day Covers for British marching song It’s a Long Way to Tipperary Cover for Over There Cover for Oh! How I Hate to Get up in the Morning Cover for I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier Cover for Break the News to Mother Cover for Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight x ILLUSTRATIONS Covers for It’s a Long Long Way to the U.S.A. Cover for There’s a Long, Long Trail Cover for Good Bye, Broadway, Hello, France Cover for On the Land, on the Sea, in the Air Cover for NC-4 “9 Mai 1915 / Les ouvrages blancs / Artois.” by Marcel Durieux The arrest of John Rodker, ink sketch by Isaac Rosenberg 1918 poster by Ding French binoculars used in the Great War French propaganda card American battle medal The Orderi di Danilo 1921 poster for Roses of Picardy German folding field typewriter Doll of Bairnsfather’s Old Bill INTRODUCTION When I was a child in the Thirties my father took me to Armistice Day parades, with his World War I campaign medal pinned to my coat. He was proud of his eight bars (Somme Defensive, Aisne, Montdidier-Noyon, Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Somme Offensive, Oise-Aisne, Defensive Sector) and maintained that “They gypped me out of two battles.” I grew up on my father’s war stories. He taught me never to light three cigarettes on a match and to donate to the Sal- vation Army, because they were good to the soldiers in France. Joseph M. Bruc- coli was discharged with a metal plate in his head and “shell shock.” He refused a disability pension, although he was too poor to purchase civilian clothes and was lining up for one day as a truck driver. My father never heard of Stephen Decatur; but if he had, he would have been incredulous that anyone would be celebrated for making an obvious statement such as “My country right or wrong.” Gratitude to America was our household religion. He refused to notarize passport applications for foreign travel: “You’re ungrateful. America gave you everything you have. Get somebody else to notarize your passport.” The Boss never forgot that America made it possible for an orphan boy to become the proprietor of the best drugstore in the Bronx and to make money faster than his son spent it. He felt guilty that he was ineligible for World War II. When my father died in 1965, John Cook Wyllie, the great curator of rare books at the University of Virginia, and I planned the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection in the Alderman Library. The Boss was almost certainly dyslexic; books meant nothing to him. But he lavishly provided the money for “Matthew’s goddam books.” Building the Joseph M. Bruccoli Collections is not an act of defi- ance: I have memorialized my father by doing what I am good at. The catalogue of the University of Virginia Joseph M. Bruccoli Collection, published in 1999, has more than 3,000 entries. After Mr. Wyllie died, the con- duct of his successors with regard to the Bruccoli Great War Collection alienated me. The Boss taught me not to forgive or forget an affront: “If you let the sons- of-bitches get away with it, they’ll try again.” I discussed my concerns about the mishandling of my UVa Great War Collection with George Terry, the nonpareil xii INTRODUCTION head of the University of South Carolina Libraries. He correctly advised me that my offer to buy the collection from Virginia for transfer to the University of South Carolina would be rejected; but I tried. George then urged me to build a better Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the Thomas Cooper Library. I commenced acquiring for USC in December 1998. By August 21, 2004, the USC Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection had some 4,000 items: 3,400 print titles, 175 posters, 500 pieces of sheet music, diaries, albums and scrapbooks, as well as manuscripts, letters, glass slides, picture postcards, and art. The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the Thomas Cooper Library is a collection in progress. My wife and I intend to enlarge it as long as we live. Both times when I began my Great War Collections, I endeavored to formu- late an acquisitions rationale. Limit it to literature? Limit it to American partici- pation? Limit it to Americans and Brits? Specialize in the air war? Specialize in the Western Front? But I could not stick to any plan because I can’t pass up interest- ing material. This is my firm acquisitions policy for the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the Thomas Cooper Library: Buy anything I want. This rule extends to all fields of book collecting. Get the books. In addition to honoring my father, I have scholarly reasons for collecting and studying the Great War. It brought about the end of the old certainties. It made America the greatest power in the world. It generated unprecedented slaughter by means of the new methods of warfare and the new machines of death; it was the last cavalry war and the first air war. The Boss’s worst memory of the war was “the poor horses screaming.” The war continued past the Armistice: its consequences included the Russian Revolution and world communism, Nazi Germany, and World War II. A generation of writers from all the nations perished in the war. It inspired enduring literature written by the casualties and survivors. Most of the major American writers who emerged in the Twenties had been in the war. The Jazz Age was a result of the war. So were the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. I began seriously studying the literature of the Great War at Yale when Charles Fenton assigned me to report on Le Feu, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Goodbye to All That, All Quiet on the Western Front, Her Privates We, and The Enormous Room. Then I began reading and acquiring the “You-Can’t-Send-That-Kid-Up-in-a- Crate-Like-That” novels of the air war. Collectors need to collect. The scope of the Great War and the range of mate- rials it generated guarantees that I will always find material.

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