Bookcase 11

Martin Gardner: The Annotated Alice: Definitive Edition (1999)

Bookcase 11 (House):
Annotated & Outsize
[4 Shelves / 196 books]

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

Shelves:

[1] Annotated & Outsize [A-C]
[2] Annotated & Outsize [D-H]
[3] Annotated & Outsize [H-S]
[4] Annotated & Outsize [P-Y]

Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy



Shelf 1:
Annotated & Outsize [A-C]


1. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. & Maria Tatar, ed. The Annotated African American Folktales. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.


2. Birk, Sandow, & Marcus Sanders, trans. Dante's Inferno. Illustrated by Sandow Birk. Preface by Doug Harvey. Introduction by Michael F. Meister. 2003. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004.


3. Birk, Sandow, & Marcus Sanders, trans. Dante's Purgatorio. Illustrated by Sandow Birk. Preface by Marcia Tanner. Introduction by Michael F. Meister. 2004. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.


4. Birk, Sandow, & Marcus Sanders, trans. Dante's Paradiso. Illustrated by Sandow Birk. Preface by Peter S. Hawkins. Foreword by Mary Campbell. Introduction by Michael F. Meister. 2005. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.


5. Birk, Sandow. Dante's Divine Comedy: The Complete Paintings. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.


6. Tatar, Maria, ed. The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. Trans. Maria Tatar & Julie K. Allen. Introduction by A. S. Byatt. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008.

Barber, Richard. British Myths and Legends. 1998. Illustrated by John Vernon Lord. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2002.
7. Vol. 1 - Marvels and Magic
8. Vol. 2 - Heroes and Saints
9. Vol. 3 - History and Romance

Barber, Richard. Legends of King Arthur. 2000. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2001.
10. Vol. 1 - Arthur
11. Vol. 2 - Tristan
12. Vol. 3 - The Holy Grail


13. Auden, W. H. Collected Shorter Poems: 1927-1957. 1966. Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. Illustrated by Brian Grimwood. 2006. London: The Folio Society, 2007.


14. Auden, W. H. Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. Expanded Paperback Edition. Ed. Katherine Bucknell. 1994. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003.


15. Auden, W. H. The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1977. London: Faber, 1986.


16. Auden, W. H. Poems. Volume I: 1927-1939. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022.


17. Auden, W. H. Poems. Volume II: 1940-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022.


18. Auden, W. H., & Christopher Isherwood. Plays and Other Dramatic Writings: 1928-1938. Ed. Edward Mendelson. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. London: Faber, 1988.


19. Auden, W. H., & Chester Kallman. Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings: 1939-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1993.


20. Auden, W. H. Prose and Travel Books in Verse and Prose. Volume 1: 1926-1938. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1996.


21. Auden, W. H. Prose. Volume 2: 1939-1948. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002.


22. Auden, W. H. Prose. Volume 3: 1949-1955. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008.


23. Auden, W. H. Prose. Volume 4: 1956-1962. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010.


24. Auden, W. H. Prose. Volume 5: 1963-1968. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.


25. Auden, W. H. Prose. Volume 6: 1969-1973. The Complete Works of W. H. Auden. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015.


26. Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson. 1976. London: Faber, 1991.


27. Barrie, J. M. The Annotated Peter Pan: Centennial Edition. 1911. Ed. Maria Tatar. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1911.


28. Baum, L. Frank. The Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Pictures by W. W. Denslow. 1900. Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. 1973. Centennial Edition. Preface by Martin Gardner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.


29. Blake, William. Writings. Volume 1: Engraved and Etched Writings. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.


30. Blake, William. Writings. Volume 2: Writings in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.


31. Keynes, Geoffrey Kt., ed. The Letters of William Blake with Related Documents. 1956. 2nd edition. 1968. 3rd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

Briggs, Katharine M. Folk Tales of Britain: Narratives. 1970. Introduction by Philip Pullman. 3 vols. Illustrated by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. London: Folio Society, 2011.
32. Vol. 1
33. Vol. 2
34. Vol. 3

Briggs, Katharine M. Folk Tales of Britain: Legends. 1971. Introduction by Kevin Crossley-Holland. 3 vols. Illustrated by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. London: Folio Society, 2011.
35. Vol. 1
36. Vol. 2
37. Vol. 3

Watterson, Bill. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. 1985-1995. 3 vols. Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005.
38. Vol. 1
39. Vol. 2
40. Vol. 3


41. Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Ed. Martin Gardner. Illustrations by John Tenniel. 1960 & 1990. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1999.


42. Carroll, Lewis. The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition. Illustrated by Henry Holiday. 1876. Ed. Martin Gardner. 1962. Introduction by Adam Gopnik. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.


43. Gardner, Martin, ed. The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection of Sequels, Parodies & Imitations of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus. 1823. Summit Books. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1991.

Child, Francis James, ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. 5 vols. 1882-84, 1885-86, 1888-89, 1890-92, 1894-98, 1906. New York: Dover, 1965.
44. Vol. 1
45. Vol. 2
46. Vol. 3
47. Vol. 4
48. Vol. 5


49. Clute, John, & Peter Nicholls, ed. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 1979. 2nd ed. Contributing Editor Brian Stableford. Technical Editor John Grant. Orbit. 1993. London: Little, Brown and Company (UK), 1999.


50. Clute John, & John Grant, ed. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Orbit. London: Little, Brown and Company (UK), 1997.




Graves & Podro: The Nazarene Gospel Restored (1955)



Shelf 2:
Annotated & Outsize [D-H]


51. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Selected Poems. Ed. Richard Holmes. 1996. Engravings by Miriam Macgregor. The Folio Poets. London: The Folio Society, 2003.


52. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Illustrations by Gustave Doré. 1798. Ed. Martin Gardner. 1965. 2nd ed. New York: Prometheus Books, 2003.


53. Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition. 1859. Ed. David Quammen. 2008. Sterling Signature. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2011.

Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. 1724-26. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1974. 3 vols. Introduction by Pat Rogers. London: The Folio Society, 1983.
54. Vol. 1
55. Vol. 2
56. Vol. 3

Defoe, Daniel. The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe. 1927-28. Oxford: Basil Blackwell / Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press / London: William Clowes & Sons Limited, 1974.
57. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. 1719. Vol. I.
58. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. 1719. Vol. II.
59. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Vol. III.
60. The Fortunate Mistress. 1724. Vol. I.
61. The Fortunate Mistress. 1724. Vol. II.
62. A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722.

Franklin, R. W., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass & London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
63. Vol. 1
64. Vol. 2
65. Vol. 3

Johnson, Thomas H., ed. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Associate Editor, Theodora Ward. 3 vols. 1958. Cambridge, Mass & London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979.
66. Vol. 1
67. Vol. 2
68. Vol. 3


69. Dickinson, Emily. The Gorgeous Nothings. Ed. Jen Bervin & Marta Werner. Preface by Susan Howe. New York: New Directions / Christine Burgin, in association with Granary Books, 2013.


70. Donne, John. The Complete English Poems. Ed. A. J. Smith. 1971 & 1996. Introduction by Andrew Motion. Engravings by Jane Lydbury. The Folio Poets. 2005. London: The Folio Society, 2006.

Baring-Gould, William S., ed. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 2 vols. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1967.
71. Vol. 1
72. Vol. 2


73. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Vol. 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2005.


74. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Vol. 2: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow & The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2005.


75. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Vol. 3: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2006.


76. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated 'Strand' Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Facsimile Edition. 1989. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1990.


77. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Annotated Emerson. Ed. David Mikics. Foreword by Phillip Lopate. The Belknap Press. Cambridge, Mass & London: Harvard University Press, 2012.


78. Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. 1929. Ed. Noel Polk & Stephen M. Ross. 2012. London: The Folio Society, 2016.


79. Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams: Illustrated Edition. 1900. Trans. A. A. Brill. 1913. Ed. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. New York: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., 2010.


80. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Italian Journey: 1786-1788. Trans. W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer. London: Wm Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1962.


81. Grahame, Kenneth. The Annotated Wind in the Willows. 1908. Ed. Annie Gauger. Introduction by Brian Jacques. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2009.


82. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition. 1908. Ed. Seth Lerer. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.


83. Graves, Robert. War Poems. Ed. Charles Mundye. Seren. Bridgend, Wales: Poetry Wales Press Ltd., 2016.


84. Graves, Robert. Collected Poems 1975. London: Cassell, 1975.


85. Graves, Robert. Complete Poems, Volume 1. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester & Paris: Carcanet & Alyscamp Press, 1995.


86. Graves, Robert. Complete Poems, Volume 2. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 1997.


87. Graves, Robert. Complete Poems, Volume 3. Ed. Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited, 1999.

Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. 2 vols. 1955. Rev. ed. 1958. Rev. ed. 1960. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Illustrations by Grahame Baker. 1996. London: The Folio Society, 2000.
88. Vol. 1
89. Vol. 2


90. Graves, Robert, & Joshua Podro. The Nazarene Gospel Restored. London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1953.


91. Tatar, Maria, ed & trans. The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002.


92. Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm. The Annotated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. Ed & trans. Maria Tatar. Introduction by A. S. Byatt. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2004.


93. Harvey, Paul, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 1932. 4th ed. rev. Dorothy Eagle. 1967. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.


94. Hogg, James. The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Centenary Edition. Vol. I: Tales and Sketches. Revised at the Instance of the Author's Family, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson. 1865. With Many Illustrative Engravings. London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, n.d. [c.1870]


95. Hogg, James. The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Centenary Edition. Vol. II: Poems and Ballads. 1865. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson. 1865. With Many Illustrative Engravings. London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1878.


96. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Volume One: The Iliad. Bollingen Series XLI. New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1956.


97. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Volume Two: The Odyssey & the Lesser Homerica . Bollingen Series XLI. New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1956.


98. Jacobs, Joseph, ed. English Fairy Tales: Being the Two Collections English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales. 1890 & 1894. Illustrated by Margery Gill. London: The Bodley Head, 1968.



Fairy Photograph (2008)



Shelf 3:
Annotated & Outsize [H-S]


99. Cox, Michael, ed. The Ghost Stories of M. R. James. Illustrated by Rosalind Caldecott. 1986. London: Tiger Books International, 1991.


100. Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the Dog). Ed. Christopher Matthew & Benny Green. London: Pavilion Books, Ltd., 1982.


101. Stillinger, Jack, ed. The Poems of John Keats: The Definitive Edition. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1978.

Rollins, Hyder Edward, ed. The Letters of John Keats, 1814–1821. 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
102. Vol. 1
103. Vol. 2

Rollins, Hyder Edward, ed. The Keats Circle: Letters and Papers and More Letters and Poems of the Keats Circle: 1814-1879. 2 vols. 1948. 2nd ed. Preface by W. J. Bate. 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.
104. Vol. 1: 1816-1830
105. Vol. 2: 1832-1878

Pinney, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge Edition of the Poems of Rudyard Kipling. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
106. Vol. 1: Collected Poems I
107. Vol. 2: Collected Poems II
108. Vol. 3: Uncollected Poems


109. Larkin, Philip. The Complete Poems. Ed. Archie Burnett. London: Faber, 2012.


110. Larkin, Philip. Selected Letters 1940-1985. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. London & Boston: Faber, 1992.


111. Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. London & Boston: Faber, 1993.


112. Cox, Michael, ed. The Illustrated J. S. Le Fanu: Ghost Stories and Mysteries by a Master Victorian Storyteller. Equation. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Thorsons Publishing Group, 1988.


113. Usher, Shaun, ed. Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience. Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd. / London: Unbound, 2013.


114. Usher, Shaun, ed. Lists of Note. Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd. / London: Unbound, 2014.


115. Klinger, Leslie S., ed. The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Introduction by Alan Moore. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2014.


116. Klinger, Leslie S., ed. The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. Introduction by Victor LaValle. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2019.


117. Melville, Herman. The Complete Shorter Fiction. Introduced by Jay Parini. Illustrated by Bill Bragg. London: The Folio Society, 2012.


118. Baring-Gould, William S. & Ceil Baring-Gould. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained. Illustrated by Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, and Early Historical Woodcuts. With Chapter Decorations by E. M. Simon. New York: Bramhall House, 1962.


119. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. 1951. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.


120. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Classic Fairy Tales. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.


121. Opie, Iona & Moira Tatem, ed. A Dictionary of Superstitions. 1989. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Owen, Wilfred. The Complete Poems and Fragments. 2 vols. Ed. Jon Stallworthy. 1983. Rev. ed. Chatto & Windus. London: Random House, 2013.
122. Vol. I: The Poems
123. Vol. II: The Manuscripts of the Poems and the Fragments


124. Magnusson, Magnus, ed. The Icelandic Sagas. Vol. 1 of 2. Illustrated by Simon Noyes. 1999. London: The Folio Society, 2000.
     1. Au∂un’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
     2. Grænlendiga Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1965)
     3. Eirík’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1965)
     4. The Tale of Thorstein Stangarhögg (Staff-Struck), trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
     5. Egil’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (1976)
     6. Hrafnkel’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1971)
     7. Eyrbyggja Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson & Paul Edwards (1972)
     8. Vopnfir∂inga Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     9. Bandamanna Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1975)
     10. Gunnlaug’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     11. The Tale of Thi∂randi and Thórhall, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     12. Njál’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1960)


125. Magnusson, Magnus, ed. The Icelandic Sagas. Vol. 2 of 2. Illustrated by John Vernon Lord. London: The Folio Society, 2002.
     1. Ívarr’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     2. Gísli’s Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1999)
     3. Ölkofri’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     4. Laxdæla Saga, trans. agnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1969)
     5. Gunnarr Thi∂randabani’s Tale, trans. Alan Boucher (1981)
     6. Fóstbrœ∂ra Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (1999)
     7. Hrei∂arr’s Tale, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     8. Vatnsdæla Saga, trans. Magnus Magnusson (1999)
     9. Hænsa-Thórir’s Saga, trans. Hermann Pálsson (1975)
     10. Grettir’s Saga, trans. Denton Fox & Hermann Pálsson (1974)

The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (including 49 Stories). General Editor: Viðar Hreinsson, Editorial Team: Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Keneva Kunz & Bernard Scudder. Introduction by Robert Kellogg. 5 vols. Iceland: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing Ltd., 1997.
126. Vol. 1 - Vinland / Warriors and Poets
     1. Foreword
        1. By the President of Iceland
        2. By the Icelandic Minister of Education, Culture and Science
        3. By the Former Director of the Manuscript Institute of Iceland
        4. Preface
        5. Credits
        6. Publisher's Acknowledgments
        7. Introduction
     2. Vinland and Greenland
        1. Eirik the Red's Saga
        2. The Saga of the Greenlanders
     3. Warriors and Poets
        1. Egil's Saga
        2. Kormak's Saga
        3. The Saga of Hallfred the Troublesome Poet
        4. The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People
        5. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
     4. Tales of Poets
        1. The Tale of Arnor, the Poet of Earls
        2. Einar Skulason's Tale
        3. The Tale of Mani the Poet
        4. The Tale of Ottar the Black
        5. The Tale of Sarcastic Halli
        6. Stuf's Tale
        7. The Tale of Thorarin Short-Cloak
        8. The Tale of Thorleif, the Earl's Poet
     5. Anecdotes
        1. The Tale of Audun from the West Fjords
        2. The Tale of Brand the Generous
        3. Hreidar's Tale
        4. The Tale of the Story-Wise Icelander
        5. Ivar Ingimundarson's Tale
        6. Thorarin Nefjolfsson's Tale
        7. The Tale of Thorstein from the East Fjords
        8. The Tale of Thorstein the Curious
        9. The Tale of Thorstein Shiver
        10. The Tale of Thorvard Crow's-Beak


127. Vol. 2 - Outlaws / Warriors and Poets
     1. Outlaws and Nature Spirits
        1. Gisli Sursson's Saga
        2. The Saga of Grettir the Strong
        3. The Saga of Hord and the People of Holm
        4. Bard's Saga
     2. Warriors and Poets
        1. Killer-Glum's Saga
        2. The Tale of Ogmund Bash
        3. The Tale of Thorvald Tasaldi
        4. The Saga of the Sworn Brothers
        5. Thormod's Tale
        6. The Tale of Thorarin the Overbearing
        7. Viglund's Saga
     3. Tales of the Supernatural
        1. The Tale of the Cairn-Dweller
        2. The Tale of the Mountain-Dweller
        3. Star-Oddi's Dream
        4. The Tale of Thidrandi and Thorhall
        5. The Tale of Thorhall Knapp


128. Vol. 3 - Epic / Champions and Rogues
     1. An Epic
        1. Njal's Saga
     2. Champions and Rogues
        1. The Saga of Finnbogi the Mighty
        2. The Saga of the People of Floi
        3. The Saga of the People of Kjalarnes
        4. Jokul Buason's Tale
        5. Gold-Thorir's Saga
        6. The Saga of Thord Menace
        7. The Saga of Ref the Sly
        8. The Saga of Gunnar, the Fool of Keldugnup
     3. Tales of Champions and Adventures
        1. Gisl Illugason's Tale
        2. The Tale of Gold-Asa's Thord
        3. Hrafn Gudrunarson's Tale
        4. Orm Storolfsson's Tale
        5. Thorgrim Hallason's Tale


129. Vol. 4 - Regional Feuds
     1. Regional Feuds
        1. The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal
        2. The Saga of the Slayings on the Heath
        3. Valla-Ljot's Saga
        4. The Saga of the People of Svarfadardal
        5. The Saga of the People of Ljosavatn
        6. The Saga of the People of Reykjadal and of Killer-Skuta
        7. The Saga of Thorstein the White
        8. The Saga of the People of Vopnafjord
        9. The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Struck
        10. The Tale of Thorstein Bull's Leg
        11. The Saga of Droplaug's Sons
        12. The Saga of the People of Fljotsdal
        13. The Tale of Gunnar, the Slayer of Thidrandi
        14. Brandkrossi's Tale
        15. Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson's Saga
        16. Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson's Tale
        17. Thorstein Sidu-Hallsson's Dream
        18. Egil Sidu-Hallsson's Tale


130. Vol. 5 - Epic / Wealth and Power
     1. An Epic
        1. The Saga of the People of Laxardal
        2. Bolli Bollason's Tale
     2. Wealth and Power
        1. The Saga of the People of Eyri
        2. The Tale of Halldor Snorrason I
        3. The Tale of Halldor Snorrason II
        4. Olkofri's Saga
        5. Hen-Thorir's Saga
        6. The Saga of Hrafnkel Frey's Godi
        7. The Saga of the Confederates
        8. Odd Ofeigsson's Tale
        9. The Saga of Havard of Isafjord
     3. Religion and Conflict in Iceland and Greenland
        1. The Tale of Hromund the Lame
        2. The Tale of Svadi and Arnor Crone's-Nose
        3. The Tale of Thorvald the Far-Travelled
        4. The Tale of Thorsein Tent-Pitcher
        5. The Tale of the Greenlanders
     4. Reference Section
        1. Maps and Tables
        2. Illustrations and Diagrams
        3. Glossary
        4. Cross-Reference Index of Characters
        5. Contents of Volumes I-V


131. Greenblatt, Stephen, & Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard & Katharine Eisaman Maus, ed. The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett & William Montgomery. 1986 & 1988. With an Essay on the Shakespearean Stage by Andrew Gurr. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997.


132. Evans, G. Blakemore, ed. The Riverside Shakespeare. General Introduction by Harry Levin. With Notes and Introductions by Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel & Charles H. Shattuck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.


133. Duffin, Ross W. Shakespeare’s Songbook. Foreword by Stephen Orgel. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.


134. Boyce, Charles, & David White, ed. The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More. Foreword by Terry Hands. A Roundtable Press Book. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Rowse, A. L., ed. The Annotated Shakespeare: Complete Works Illustrated. The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete. 3 vols. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1978.
135. Vol. 1 - Comedies. Ed. A. L. Rowse. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1978.
136. Vol. 2 - Histories and Poems. Ed. A. L. Rowse. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1978.
137. Vol. 3 - Tragedies and Romances. Ed. A. L. Rowse. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1978.



Westwood & Simpson: The Lore of the Land (2005)



Shelf 4:
Annotated & Outsize [P-Y]

Pessoa, Fernando. Obras Escolhidas. Ed. António Manuel Couto Viana. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. 4 vols. Edição Comemorativa do Cinquentenário da Morte do Poeta. Lisboa & São Paulo: Editorial Verbo, 1985.
138. Vol. 1 - Poesia lírica & épica
139. Vol. 2 - Traduções de poesia & prosa / Teatro e ficção / Ensaio e crítica / Cartas
140. Vol. 3 - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis & Bernardo Soares


141. Wolf, Leonard, ed. The Annotated Frankenstein: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. 1818. Art by Marcia Huyette. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publisher, 1977.


142. Shelley, Mary. The New Annotated Frankenstein: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 1818. Rev. ed. 1831. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Guillermo del Toro. Afterword by Anne K. Mellor. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., 2017.


143. Wolf, Leonard, ed. The Annotated Dracula: Dracula by Bram Stoker. 1897. Art by Sätty. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publisher, 1975.


144. McNally, Raymond & Radu Florescu, ed. The Essential Dracula: A Completely Illustrated & Annotated Edition of Bram Stoker’s Classic Novel. 1897. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979.


145. Stoker, Bram. The New Annotated Dracula. 1897. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Additional Research by Janet Byrne. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., 2008.


146. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1852. Ed. Philip van Doren Stern. Bramhall House. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1964.


147. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Hollis Robbins. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007.


148. Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Victorians: The Illustrated Edition. 1918. Foreword by Frances Partridge. London: Bloomsbury, 1988.


149. Strachey, Lytton. The Illustrated Queen Victoria. 1921. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. 1987. London: Guild Publishing, 1988.


150. Swift, Jonathan. The Annotated Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. 1726 / 1734 / 1896. Ed. Isaac Asimov. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publishers, 1980.


151. Goodby, John, ed. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd., 2014.


152. Thomas, Dylan. The Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts. Ed. Walford Davies & Ralph Maud. A Phoenix Giant Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1995.


153. Thomas, Edward. The Annotated Collected Poems. Ed. Edna Longley. 2008. Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., 2011.


154. Thomas, R. S. Collected Poems 1945-1990. 1993. London: Phoenix Giant, 1996.


155. Thoreau, Henry David. The Annotated Walden: Walden; or, Life in the Woods, together with “Civil Disobedience,” a Detailed Chronology and Various Pieces about its author, the Writing and Publishing of the Book. Ed. Philip van Doren Stern. New York: Bramhall House, 1970.


156. Tolkien, J. R. R. Letters from Father Christmas: Centenary Edition. Ed Baillie Tolkien. 1976. Rev. ed. 1999. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.


157. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. 1937. Ed. Douglas A. Anderson. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988.


158. Tolkien, J. R. R. The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition. 1937. Ed. Douglas A. Anderson. 1988. Rev. ed. 2002. London: HarperCollins, 2003.


159. Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens). The Annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2001.


160. Verne, Jules. The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon - Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and 20 Minutes. The Only Completely Rendered and Annotated Edition. ['De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes', 1865]. Ed. & trans. Walter James Miller. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, Publishers, 1978.


161. Verne, Jules. The Annotated Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. The Only Completely Restored and Annotated Edition. ['Vingt mille lieues sous les mers', 1869-70]. Ed. Walter James Miller. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, Publishers, 1976.


162. Westwood, Jennifer & Jacqueline Simpson. The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. London: Penguin Books, 2005.


163. White, E. B. The Annotated Charlotte’s Web. Illustrated by Garth Williams. 1952. Ed. Peter F. Neumeyer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.


164. Wilde, Oscar. The Annotated Oscar Wilde: Poems, Fiction, Plays, Lectures, Essays, and Letters. Ed. H. Montgomery Hyde. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1982.


165. Woolf, Virginia. The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. 1925. Ed. Merve Emre. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.


166. Yeats. W. B. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Ed. Peter Allt & Russell K. Alspach. 1957. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1973.


167. Yeats. W. B. The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W. B. Yeats. Ed. Russell K. Alspach, with Catherine C. Alspach. 1966. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1979.


168. Yeats, W. B. The Poems: Second Edition. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. 1983. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, 1. Ed. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper. 14 vols. New York: Scribner, 1997.


169. Yeats, W. B. The Plays. Ed. David R. Clark & Rosalind E. Clark. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, 2. Ed. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper. 14 vols. New York: Scribner, 2001.


170. Yeats, W. B. Autobiographies. Ed. William H. O'Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald. Assistant Editors: J. Fraser Cocks III & Gretchen Swenker. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, 3. Ed. Richard J. Finneran & George Mills Harper. 14 vols. New York: Scribner, 1999.


171. Yeats, W. B. Memoirs: Autobiography – First Draft / Journal. Ed. Denis Donoghue. London: Macmillan Limited, 1972.


172. Yeats, W. B. John Sherman & Dhoya. 1891. Ed. Richard J. Finneran. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969.


173. Yeats, W. B. The Secret Rose, Stories: A Variorum Edition. Ed. Phillip L. Marcus, Warwick Gould, & Michael J. Sidnell. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press Ltd., 1981.


174. Yeats, W. B. The Speckled Bird. 1896-1902, 1974. Ed. William H. O'Donnell. Yeats Studies Series. Ed. Robert O'Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds. Toronto: McLelland and Stewart Limited, 1976.


175. Yeats, W. B. Mythologies: The Celtic Twilight; The Secret Rose; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Rosa Alchemica; The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi; Per Amica Silentia Lunae. 1893, 1897, 1905, 1904, 1918. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1959.


176. Yeats, W. B. Essays and Introductions: Ideas of Good and Evil / The Cutting of an Agate / Later Essays and Introductions. 1903 & 1912. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1961.


177. Yeats, W. B. Explorations: Explorations I / The Irish Dramatic Movement: 1901-1919 / Explorations II / Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty: 1944 / From Wheels and Butterflies: 1934 / From On the Boiler: 1939. Selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1962.


178. Yeats, W. B. A Vision: The Original 1925 Edition. Ed. Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills Harper. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, 13. Ed. George Bornstein, George Mills Harper, and Richard J. Finneran. 14 vols. Scribner. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008.


179. Yeats, W. B. A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition. Ed. Margaret Mills Harper & Catherine E. Paul. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, 14. Ed. George Bornstein. 14 vols. Scribner. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015.


180. Kiely, Benedict. Yeats’ Ireland: An Illustrated Anthology. 1989. London: Aurum Press, 1990.


181. Wade, Allan, ed. The Letters of W. B. Yeats. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954.


182. Foster, R. F. W. B. Yeats: A Life. I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.


183. Foster, R. F. W. B. Yeats: A Life. II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.


184. Young, Andrew. The Collected Poems. Bibliographical Note by Leonard Clark. Wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960.


185. Young, Andrew. The Poetical Works. Ed. Edward Lowbury & Alison Young. Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall. London: Secker & Warburg, 1985.


186. Young, Andrew. Parables. Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall. Richmond, Surrey: The Keepsake Press, 1985.




George Orwell: Complete Novels (Folio Society: 2001)


The Orwell Library:

Orwell, George. Reportage. Ed. Peter Davison. 1987. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1998.
187. Down and Out in Paris and London. Introduced by Michael Foot (1933)
188. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
189. Homage to Catalonia (1938)
190. Funny, But Not Vulgar, and Other Selected Essays and Journalism (1986)
191. My Country Right or Left, and Other Selected Essays and Journalism (1986)

Orwell, George. Complete Novels. Ed. Peter Davidson. 1998. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2001.
192. Burmese Days (1934)
193. A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
194. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
195. Coming Up for Air (1939)
196. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Norton Annotated Books (2010)

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Acquisitions (47): The Landmark Ancient Histories

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Andrew Hamilton: Robert B. Strassler (2014)

The Landmark Ancient Histories
(1996- ):

When I first discovered the Landmark Thucydides (1996), I have to admit that it really blew my mind. For years I'd been trying to make some headway into his history of the Peloponnesian war, but had found it impossibly dry by comparison with Herodotus, whom I first started reading as a teenager.

The Landmark Thucydides

I guess what made it so good were the detailed maps and frequent cross-references, which made it possible to follow the various campaigns and get some sense of their relative strategic importance. Without a comprehensive knowledge of Greek geography, it's hard to know how else one could really understand what was actually going on in each battle.

The Landmark Historians

It was eventually followed by an edition of Herodotus, almost as good; then Xenophon's continuation of Thucydides, the Hellenika; then Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander; and finally Julius Caesar's Commentaries.

Here, then, is the series as far as it's gone:

The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (1996)

Robert B. Strassler, ed. The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War. Trans. Richard Crawley. 1874. Introduction by Victor Davis Hanson. 1996. Free Press. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2008.

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (2007)

Robert Strassler, ed. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. Trans. Andrea L. Purvis. Introduction by Rosalind Thomas. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 2007.

The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (2009)

Robert B. Strassler, ed. The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika. Trans. John Marincola. Introduction by David Thomas. 2009. Anchor Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 2010.

The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (2010)

James Romm, ed. The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander / Anabasis Alexandrou. Trans. Pamela Mensch. Introduction by Paul Cartledge. Series Editor: Robert B. Strassler. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 2010.

The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works (2017)

Kurt A. Raaflaub, ed. & trans. The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War. Series editor: Robert A. Strassler. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 2017

The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis (2021)

Thomas, David, trans. The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis. Ed. Shane Brennan & David Thomas. Series Editor: Robert Strassler. Pantheon Books. New York: Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

We're promised at least a couple more volumes if the series continues:

1. Polybius' Histories
2. Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae

I have quite a few of these works in other editions, along with many supplementary historical (and fictional) accompaniments, but I do find the Landmark editions irresistible, even if the last couple in the series lack some of the pizazz which made them so illuminating in the first place.

No doubt specialists can manage without them, but I'm a long country mile from being even averagely knowledgeable in this field.

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Ammianus Marcellinus: The Later Roman Empire (1986)

Ancient Historians

Authors & Works:


• Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-c.391-400 CE)
• Arrian (c.86-160 CE)
• Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE)
• Herodotus (c.484-c.425 BCE)
• Polybius (c. 200 – c. 118 BCE)
• Thucydides (c.460–c.395 BCE)
• Xenophon (c.430-354 BCE)



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Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-c.391-400 CE)


1. Ammianus Marcellinus. The Later Roman Empire: (A.D. 354-378). Trans Walter Hamilton. Introduction by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


Lucius Flavius Arrianus [Arrian of Nicomedia] (c.86-160 CE)


2. Arrian. The Life of Alexander the Great. Trans Aubrey de Sélincourt. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958.


3. Rufus, Quintus Curtius. The History of Alexander. Trans. John Yardley. Ed. Waldemar Heckel. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.


4. Gergel, Tania, ed. Alexander: Selected Texts from Arrian, Curtius and Plutarch. Introduction by Michael Wood. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.


5. Fox, Robin Lane. Alexander the Great. 1973. An Omega Book. London: Futura, 1978.


6. Plutarch. The Age of Alexander. Trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert. Introduction by G. T. Griffith. 1973. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


7. Renault, Mary. The Alexander Trilogy: Fire from Heaven; The Persian Boy; Funeral Games. 1970, 1972, 1981. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.


8. Renault, Mary. The Nature of Alexander. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.


Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE)


9. Caesar. War Commentaries. Trans. Rex Warner. Mentor Books. New York: New American Library, 1960.


10. Warner, Rex. Julius Caesar: A One-Volume Edition of the Two Novels The Young Caesar and Imperial Caesar. 1958 & 1960. London: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1967.


Herodotus [Hēródotos] (c.484-c.425 BCE)


11. Herodotus. The Histories. Trans. Aubrey de Selincourt. 1954. Ed. A. R. Burn. 1972. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.


12. Herodotus. The Histories. Trans. Aubrey de Selincourt. 1954. Rev. John Marincola. 1996. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.


13. Herodotus. The Histories. Trans. Tom Holland. 2013. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2014.


14. de Selincourt, Aubrey. The World of Herodotus. London: Secker & Warburg, 1962.


15. Kapuściński, Ryszard. Travels with Herodotus. 2004. Trans. Klara Glowczewska. 2007. London: Penguin, 2008.


Polybius (c.200 – c.118 BCE)


16. Polybius. The Histories. Trans. W. R. Paton. Introduction by Col. H. J. Edwards. 6 vols. 1922, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927. Loeb Classics. London: William Heinemann / Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967, 1968, 1972.


Thucydides [Thoukydídēs] (c.460–c.395 BCE)


17. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Trans. Rex Warner. 1954. Ed. M. I. Finley. 1972. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


18. Warner, Rex. Pericles the Athenian. London: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1963.


Xenophon of Athens (c.430-354 BCE)


19. Xenophon. The Complete Works: A New Edition. Trans. Ashley, Spelman, Smith, Fielding, and Others. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo & Co., 1881.


20. Xenophon. A History of My Times (Hellenica). Trans. Rex Warner. 1966. Ed. George Cawkwell. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.


21. Xenophon. The Persian Expedition. Trans. Rex Warner. 1949. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.

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Acquisitions (34): S. T. Joshi

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition (3 vols: 2015)


H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction (Revisions and Collaborations) (Vol. 4: 2017)

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S. T. Joshi (b.1958)

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition,
ed. S. T. Joshi (2015-17)

[Ordered 1/12/19 - Amazon.com]:

H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 1 (1905-25): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.

H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 2 (1926-1930): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.

H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 3 (1931-1936): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.

H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Fiction, Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)

The Astonishing S. T. Joshi

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the sage of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote approximately seventy stories over a period of a few decades, from 1905 to 1935. A great many of these would have to be seen as juvenilia: Dunsanian fantasy tales, and short experiments in poetic diction.

This leaves a depressingly short list of late, major stories - albeit including such classics as 'The Shadow over Innsmouth,' 'At the Mountains of Madness' and 'The Shadow Out of Time' - to explain his immense, and apparently still growing, posthumous literary reputation.

I've recounted, in a 2018 blogpost on The Imaginary Museum, my experience of asking a shop assistant in a local mall if they stocked his books way back in the early seventies:

only to be solemnly informed by the shop assistant that not only did they not, but that she doubted the very existence of such books. I recall the slightly roguish expression on her face when I brought out the dread syllables 'Love-craft,' and the distinct impression she gave that I was on some kind of subterranean quest for porno. ... To add insult to injury, I'd seen those very books in that same bookshop only a month or two before. So her denials were, to say the least, somewhat disingenuous.

How times have changed!

Back then, the situation seemed pretty self-explanatory: the collected stories were available either as three (or four) rather eccentric-looking hardbacks:

H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror and Others: The Best Supernatural Stories, ed. August Derleth (1963)


H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, ed. August Derleth (1964)


H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, ed. August Derleth (1965)

H. P. Lovecraft et al.: The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, ed. August Derleth (1970)

Or, alternatively (the form in which I first read them), as six garish paperbacks:

H. P. Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1970)


H. P. Lovecraft: The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1970)


H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror (1973)


H. P. Lovecraft: The Lurking Fear and Other Stories (1973)


H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1973)


H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb and Other Tales (1974)

Wonderful, aren't they? And irresistible to a mind like mine. There's a pulpy exuberance about them which seemed to say: 'You won't be able to put me down.' And so it proved. I dutifully ticked off the titles on the list of stories included in one of the early volumes until it seemed that I had obtained them all.

And then, as a final flourish, I purchased (and read) L. Sprague de Camp's pioneering biography of the author.

L. Sprague de Camp: Lovecraft: A Biography (1975)

Case closed, it seemed. What more could one find to say about the elusive Mr. Lovecraft? Apart from the usual steadily growing number of ponderous tomes of academic commentary, that is.

Mind you, there is one more unquestionable monument in H. P. Lovecraft studies: his selected letters, edited over a period of a dozen years by his loyal acolytes at Arkham House, a publishing firm started with the express purpose of getting his scattered body of work into print:

H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters (1964-76)

Lovecraft, H. P. Selected Letters. Ed. August Derleth, Donald Wandrei & James Turner. 5 vols. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964-76.

• Volume I: 1911-1924 (1964)
• Volume II: 1925-1929 (1968)
• Volume III: 1929-1931 (1971)
• Volume IV: 1932-1934 (1976)
• Volume V: 1934-1937 (1976)

H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters (1964-76)

And so it was, and so it seemed likely to remain:

Lovecraft and Lovecraft's work lay hid in night:
God said, Let Joshi be! and all was light.

― Alexander Pope (slightly paraphrased).

S. T. Joshi (2002)

Enter Sunand Tryambak Joshi, an Indian-born, American-educated 'scholar interested in weird and fantastic fiction.'

As he himself puts in the autobiography included on his author's website:

At the age of thirteen I discovered the work of H. P. Lovecraft. Immediately taken with Lovecraft's evocative prose, I began both to learn more about the Providence writer and to engage in writing myself.

From an outsider's point of view (rather appropriate to any discussion of Lovecraft, I guess, given the fame of his story of that name), Lovecraft studies should really be divided into two eras: BJ and AJ - Before Joshi and After Joshi.

He began modestly enough, with an edition of Lovecraft's Uncollected Prose and Poetry, co-edited with Marc A. Michaud (Necronomicon Press, 1978). This was followed by the more thorough-going anthology H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (Ohio University Press, 1980). After that the floodgates opened.

In 1979 I began editing the scholarly journal Lovecraft Studies for Necronomicon Press. Aside from many editions of Lovecraft's obscurer writings, I have written several scholarly works and compilations for Necronomicon Press, including Lovecraft's Library (1980; rev. ed. Hippocampus Press, 2002), An Index to the Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft (1980; rev. 1991), Selected Papers on Lovecraft (1989), and An Index to the Fiction and Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft (1992). I also edited Sonia Davis' The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft (1985) and Donald Wandrei's Collected Poems (1988).

All this besides his annotated bibliography of H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism (Kent State University Press, 1981; rev. ed 2003), and a slew of other books and editions on Lovecraft and his contemporaries - together with other writers such as Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, and Clark Ashton Smith - which continues to this day. You can find a full list of his output here.

From the point of view of my interest in him, though, the really important facts are here:

In 1982 I met James Turner, managing editor of Arkham House, and we discussed the prospect of publishing corrected editions of Lovecraft's stories. I had, since the winter of 1976-77, begun the task of collating Lovecraft's texts with surviving manuscripts and early printed appearances, and had found thousands of errors in the standard editions of his fiction, essays, and poetry. After long negotiations with Arkham House, I finally agreed to edit the new editions, and they have now appeared in four volumes: The Dunwich Horror and Others (1984), At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (1985), Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1986), and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (1989). These corrected texts have served as the basis for new translations into Italian, German, and Japanese.

Leslie S. Klinger: The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (2014 & 2019)

One notes a certain diffidence in other editors when they refer to Joshi's bibliographical labours on Lovecraft's text. Both Peter Straub, in his 2005 Library of America edition of Lovecraft's Tales, and Leslie S. Klinger in his two-volume Norton New Annotated Lovecraft, are careful to acknowledge Joshi's aid in establishing an accurate text of the stories they include, but still fall a little way short of according him full academic honours:

Lovecraft: Tales. Ed. Peter Straub. The Library of America, 155. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2005.

The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Alan Moore. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2014.

The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham. Ed. Leslie S. Klinger. Introduction by Victor LaValle. Liveright Publishing Corporation. New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2019.

Why is that? Is it academic jealousy? Resentment of a somewhat bumptious younger rival? Envy at his sheer productivity? It's hard to know, really - especially from this distance. Certainly Joshi has a tendency to claim complete primacy in each field he enters, and his textual labours do seem to have a way of requiring endless revision and readjustment in successive banks of editions of the same basic material.

H. P. Lovecraft: The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works (2013)

Does that sound a little bitchy? There are 65 separate items listed in the section of Joshi's bibliography devoted to 'Editions of Works by H. P. Lovecraft.' These include (besides his four-volume 1984-89 revision of the Arkham House editions of Lovecraft's complete fiction): three volumes of Uncollected Prose and Poetry (1978-82); over 20 volumes of letters to a range of correspondents; many, many individual volumes of poetry, culminating in The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works (2001; rev. ed. 2013); five volumes of Collected Essays (2004-7); and a number of different 'annotated editions' of the Master's work, two from Dell (1997-99), three from Penguin Books (1999-2004), one from Hippocampus Press (2000; rev ed. 2012); and two from Arcane Wisdom (2011-12). It's safe to say he's been a busy boy.

All of this has culminated (for the moment, at least) in his sumptuous 'variorum edition' of Lovecraft's Collected Fiction:

Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition. New York: Hippocampus Press, [August] 2015.

• Volume I (1905-1925)
• Volume II (1926-1930)
• Volume III (1931-1937)

Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition, Volume IV (Revisions and Collaborations). New York: Hippocampus Press, [August] 2017.

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Stories: Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi (2015)

But what exactly is a 'variorum edition' when it's at home? Here's a page from Joshi's edition - included on his publisher's website - to give you some idea:

Hippocampus Press (1980)

Is this overkill? Lovecraft's prose, a bit cack-handed at the best of times, surely doesn't merit this level of attention. 'Variorum' editions, ones which record every textual variant in every published edition pf a work, are usually reserved for major poets (Yeats, Shakespeare, Hardy) rather than prose writers. Not even Dickens or Henry James have hitherto attained this dizzying height ...

Russell K. Anspach & Peter Allt, ed. The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of W. B. Yeats (1957)


Horace Howard Furness, ed. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (1871-1913)


James Gibson, ed. The Variorum Edition of the Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy (1979)

Nonsense, yes - did we really need to know that 'lost' in the second sentence of Lovecraft's 'The Beast in the Cave' originally had a dash after it rather than a comma? - but (as my old father was wont to say) magnificent nonsense.

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Essays (Vol. 2: 2004)

Does it do any harm to record the minutiae of his texts in this way? No, none at all. I suspect that I'm certainly not the only lunatic Lovecraftian to relish the prospect of tracking every bizarre bit of verbiage to its ultimate source ...

H. P. Lovecraft: Collected Essays (2004-7)

So I have to say that, on balance, I approve of S. T. Joshi. Certainly he can get a bit doctrinaire at times, but (as you can see below) the best of his work has greatly advanced the cause of fantastic fiction quite a lot, I'd say - and he's certainly kept Lovecraft and the state of his texts in the public eye!

Mary, S. T., & Paolo the cat

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Virgil Finlay: H. P. L.

Sunand Tryambak Joshi / Howard Phillips Lovecraft
(1958– ) / (1890–1937)

1. Lovecraft, H. P. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 1999. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2011.


2. Lovecraft, H. P. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2001. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2002.


3. Lovecraft, H. P. The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005.


4. Joshi, S. T., ed. The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft. 2001. Rev. ed. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2013.


5. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Essays: Volume I (Amateur Journalism). Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004.


6. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Essays: Volume II (Literary Criticism). Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004.


7. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Essays: Volume III (Science). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2005. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006.


8. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Essays: Volume IV (Travel). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2005. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2006.


9. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Essays: Volume V (Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany). Ed. S. T. Joshi. 2006. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2007.


10. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Fiction, Volume 1 (1905-25): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.


11. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Fiction, Volume 2 (1926-1930): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.


12. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Fiction, Volume 3 (1931-1936): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. 3 vols. 2015. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.


13. Lovecraft, H. P. Collected Fiction, Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition. Ed. S. T. Joshi. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017.


14. Lovecraft, H. P. Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters. Ed. S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz. 2000. Rev. ed. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2019.


15. Joshi, S. T. I am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. 2 vols. 2010-11. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2012.




S. T. Joshi: I am Providence (2010-11)

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