Bookcase 25

Great English Novelists

Bookcase 25 (House):
China Cabinet
+ Bedside Table
[4 Shelves / 109 books]

1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[…] = bound Xerox copy

Shelves:

[1] Bret Harte &c.
[2] English Literature
[3] Dickens & Machen
[4] Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table

John Pettie: Bret Harte (1884)


Shelf 1:
[Bret Harte &c.]


1. Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1621. Ed. Holbrook Jackson. Everyman’s Library. 1932. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1977.


2. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1856. Illustrations Engraved on Wood by Blair Hughes-Stanton. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


3. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1821. Ed. Alethea Hayter. 1971. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.


4. De Quincey, Thomas. Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. 1834-40. Ed. David Wright. 1970. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


5. Harte, Bret. Tales, Poems and Sketches. The People’s Library. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1908.

The Complete Works of Bret Harte: Collected and Revised by the Author. 10 vols. London: Chatto & Windus:
6. Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works (1901)
7. Earlier Papers - Luck of Roaring Camp, &c. - Bohemian Papers - Spanish and American Legends - Tales of the Argonauts (1903)
8. Tales of the Argonauts (cont.) - Eastern Sketches (1902)
9. Gabriel Conroy (1909)
10. Stories - Condensed Novels, &c. (1900)
11. Tales of the Pacific Slope (1890)
12. Tales of the Pacific Slope - II (1892)
13. Tales of the Pine and the Cypress (1894)
14. Buckeye and Chapparel (1896)
15. Tales of Trail and Town (1900)




Thomas de Quincey


Shelf 2:
[English Literature]

Addison, Joseph. The Works. Ed. Richard Hurd. Rev. Henry Bohn. 6 vols. Bohn’s Standard Library. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
16. Volume I: Plays; Poems; Medals (1906)
17. Volume II: The Tatler; The Spectator (1901)
18. Volume III: The Spectator (cont.) (1906)
19. Volume IV: The Spectator (cont.); The Guardian; The Freeholder (1902)
20. Volume V: The Freeholder (cont.); On the Christian Religion; Letters (1902)
21. Volume VI: Letters (cont.); Addisoniana (1902)


22. Addison, Joseph, Sir Richard Steele, & Eustace Budgell. Sir Roger de Coverly. Ed. John Hampden. With Wood Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. London: The Folio Society, 1967.


23. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Together with Selections from the Autobiography. Ed. Edward Sackville-West. London: The Cresset Press, 1950.


24. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in Both the Revised and the Original Texts, with its Sequels Suspiria de Profundis and The English Mail-Coach. Ed. Malcolm Elwin. Macdonald Illustrated Classics. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1956.

De Quincey, Thomas. The Collected Writings. Ed. David Masson. 14 vols. 1889-90. London: A & C. Black, 1896-97.
25. Volume I: Autobiography from 1785 to 1803 (1896)
26. Volume II: Autobiography and Literary Reminiscences (1896)
27. Volume III: London Reminiscences and Confessions of an Opium-Eater (1897)
28. Volume IV: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
29. Volume V: Biographies and Biographic Sketches (1897)
30. Volume VI: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
31. Volume VII: Historical Essays and Researches (1897)
32. Volume VIII: Speculative and Theological Essays (1897)
33. Volume IX: Political Economy and Politics (1897)
34. Volume X: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
35. Volume XI: Literary Theory and Criticism (1897)
36. Volume XII: Tales and Romances (1897)
37. Volume XIII: Tales and Prose Phantasies (1897)
38. Volume XIV: Miscellanea and Index (1897)


39. Eaton, Horace A., ed. A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803: Here Reproduced in Replica as well as in Print from the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Reverend C. H. Steel. London: Noel Douglas, [1927].


40. Lindop, Grevel. The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. 1981. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: Orion Publishing Group, 1993.


41. Morrison, Robert. The English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Pegasus Books, 2010.


42. Wilson, Frances. Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.




John Coulthart: Arthur Machen (1988)


Shelf 3:
[Dickens & Machen]

Charles Dickens: The 'Daily News' Memorial Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, Ld, n.d. [c.1900]:
43. Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. Illustrated by George Cruickshank (1836-39)
44. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Phiz et al (1836-37)
45. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ‘80. Illustrated (1841)
46. American Notes / Pictures from Italy / A Child’s History of England (1842, 1846 & 1851-53)
47. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated (1843-44)
48. Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth / The Battle of Life / The Haunted Man & Hard Times. Illustrated (1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1848 & 1853)
49. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. Illustrated (1848)
50. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated (1850)
51. Little Dorrit. Illustrated by Phiz (1857)
52. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by Marcus Stone (1864-65)
53. The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated (1870 & 1858)
54. Christmas Stories: From “Household Words” and “All The Year Round” & Other Stories: Master Humphrey’s Clock / Hunted Down / Holiday Romance / George Silverman's Explanation. Illustrated (1874, 1840, 1867)


55. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1837-39. Ed. Kathleen Tillotson. 1966. The Clarendon Dickens. Ed. John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.


56. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1860-61. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXIX. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1907.

Machen, Arthur. The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen. 9 vols. London: Martin Secker, 1923:
57. Volume I: The Great God Pan / The Inmost Light / The Red Hand (1894)
58. Volume II: The Three Impostors (1895)
59. Volume III: The Hill of Dreams (1907)
60. Volume IV: The Secret Glory (1922)
61. Volume V: Hieroglyphics (1902)
62. Volume VI: A Fragment of Life / The White People (1906)
63. Volume VII: The Terror / The Bowmen / The Great Return (1915 & 1917)
64. Volume VIII: Far Off Things (1922)
65. Volume IX: Things Near and Far (1923)


66. Machen, Arthur. The London Adventure. 1924. New Adelphi Library. London: Martin Secker, 1928.


67. Machen, Arthur. Dog and Duck, A London Calendar et Caetera. 1924. The Traveller’s Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1926.




Vincent Van Gogh: Letters


Shelf 4:
[Foreign Language Literature / Bedside Table]


68. Balzac, Honore de. Droll Stories. 1832-1837. Trans. 1874. Ed. Ernest Boyd. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Two Volumes in One. New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928.

Margaret, Queen of Navarre. The Heptameron of the Tales. Ed. M. Le Roux de Lincy. Trans. Ernest A. Vizetelly. Introduction by George Saintsbury. 1894. Illustrations by S. Freudenberg. Head & Tail Pieces by Dunker. 5 vols. London: The Navarre Society, 1922.
69. Vol. 1
70. Vol. 2
71. Vol. 3
72. Vol. 4
73. Vol. 5

Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., Grafton House, W.1., 1924-1928.
74. Vol. 1
75. Vol. 2
76. Vol. 3
77. Vol. 4
78. Vol. 5
79. Vol. 6
80. Vol. 7
81. Vol. 8
82. Vol. 9
83. Vol. 10

Van Gogh, Vincent. The Complete Letters, with Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence. 1914-15. Trans. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger & C. de Dood. Ed. Vincent w. van Gogh. 3 Vols. 1958. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978.
84. Vol. 1
85. Vol. 2
86. Vol. 3


87. Baring-Gould, William S., ed. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1967. First Single Volume Edition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1986.


88. Briggs, Susan & Asa, ed. Cap and Bells: Punch's Chronicle of English History in the Making, 1841-1861. History Book Club. London: Macdonald & Company (Publishers) Ltd., 1972.




Vintage Book-ends

Bedside Table:


89. Auden, W. H. The Collected Poetry. New York: Random House, 1945.


90. Bashō, Matsuo. The Complete Haiku. Trans. Jane Reichhold. Illustrated by Shiro Tsujimura. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008.


91. Belloc, Hilaire. Cautionary Verses: Illustrated Album Edition. ['Cautionary Tales for Children' (1907), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'New Cautionary Tales' (1930), pictures by Nicolas Bentley; 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'More Beasts for Worse Children' (1897), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'A Moral Alphabet' (1899), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'More Peers' (1911), illustrated by B. T. B.; 'Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That' (1932), pictures by Nicolas Bentley.] 1940. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1969.


92. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches / The Psalms of David in Metre / Church Hymnary. Oxford & London: University Press & Henry Froude, 1910.


93. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. 1791. Ed. David Womersley. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2008.


94. Blake, William. A Grain of Sand. Ed. Rosemary Manning. Engravings by the Author. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1967.


95. Clare, John. The Wood is Sweet. Ed. David Powell. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. Illustrated by John O'Connor. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1966.


96. Frost, Robert. You Come Too: Favourite Poems for Young Readers Selected from His Own Work. Ed. Robert Frost. 1959. Foreword by Eleanor Farjeon. 1964. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head, 1972.


97. Thomas, Edward. The Green Roads. Ed. Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Bernard Brett. Poems for Young Readers. London: The Bodley Head Ltd., 1965.


98. Cavafy, C. P. Complete Poems. Trans. Daniel Mendelsohn. 2009 & 2012. Harper Press. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.


99. de la Mare, Walter, ed. Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages. 1923. New edition. 1928. Wood-engravings by Diana Bloomfield. 1957. New edition. 1960. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1962.


100. de la Mare, Walter. Early One Morning in the Spring: Chapters on Children and on Childhood as it is revealed in particular in Early Memories and in Early Writings. London: Faber, 1935.


101. de la Mare, Walter. Behold, this Dreamer!: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects. London: Readers’ Union, 1942.


102. James, M. R. The Ghost Stories of M. R. James. 1931. London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., n.d.


103. King, Michael. The Penguin History of New Zealand. 2003. Auckland: Viking, 2004.


104. Morrell, David & Hank Wagner, ed. Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads. Longboat Key, Florida: Oceanview Publishing, 2010.


105. Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji. A Novel in Six Parts: The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, A Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat, The Bridge of Dreams. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. New York: The Modern Library, 1960.


106. Robinson, Roger, & Nelson Wattie, ed. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.


107. Stafford, Jane, & Mark Williams, ed. The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012.


108. Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1991.


109. Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. 1991. Second Edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal (1957)

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