Acquisitions (67): John Clare's Birds

John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)
[Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations of this book come from Warwick Carter: Folio Archives 224 (2021)]

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Thomas Grimshaw: Portrait of John Clare (1844)


John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)
[BookMark, Devonport - 27/4/2022]:

John Clare. Bird Poems. Introduction by Peter Levi. Wood-Engravings by Thomas Bewick. London: The Folio Society, 1980.

Warwick Carter: John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)


The Battle of the Birds

I wrote a post about John Clare a few years ago in which I compared the complex influence of his life and work to that of Baudelaire. This approach may seem needlessly paradoxical, but then Lord Byron was one of the principal alter egos adopted by Clare in his later years in the asylum, so typing him simply as a 'peasant poet' is not really sufficient anymore - it it ever was.

Considering the fortunes of this lovely little volume of bird poems put out by the Folio Society some forty years ago (which I was lucky enough to find the other day at BookMark second-hand bookshop in Devonport), seems as good a way as any of illustrating the point.

John Clare's Birds (1982)

For a start, it's important to emphasise the fact that this is not the only book on the topic. Within two years of the appearance of the Folio edition, editors Eric Robinson and Richard Fitter published the book above, with illustrations by Robert Gillmor in place of those by Thomas Bewick. Why?

The Poems of John Clare (2 vols: 1935)

Well, mainly it comes down to a question of texts. The Folio editors copied their text from John Tibble's 1935 edition of John Clare's poems. Eric Robinson aspired to provide a new, untidied version of Clare's work, edited directly from the manuscripts.

Professor Eric Robinson & his wife Victoria (2014)

Here's Professor Robinson's own account of the situation, from a 2003 correspondence in The Guardian:

Clare's rights

John Mullan's review of Simon Kovesi's edition of Flower Poems by John Clare ("Pistils at dawn", November 9 2002) and Kovesi's letter (December 7 2002) have come to my attention.

I have not waived my rights in respect of the copyright in the works I have published and I have not ruled out court action against Mr Kovesi. The copyright laws protect the "lawful publisher" of a previously unpublished work for 25 years from the date of publication. The object of this law is to do precisely what Kovesi rails against, namely to encourage scholars and the like to seek out and publish previously unpublished works. The limited copyright provides publishers with the opportunity to recover the cost of publication and to obtain a financial benefit from doing so. It is, however, much less than the usual life of author plus 70 years, that is to say two generations.

Having lawfully brought into the public domain the works of John Clare after they lay unpublished for so long, my lifetime efforts are surely worthy of such limited protection free from opportunistic replication. Having obtained from Clare's heirs and successors a legal assignment of copyright, including the lawful right to publish previously unpublished works, the right to do so falls to me. The right is limited and has been exercised by me as a life's work.

The historical claim to copyright in some of Clare's original poems arises from an agreement dated August 8 1864 between Joseph Whitaker and John Clare's widow and children, in which copyright was transferred to Whitaker.

The original document was destroyed in the bombing of London but it was transcribed by H T Kirby, "John Clare and Some Recently Discovered Documents," Current Literature, June 1932, pp. 178-81 and 200. The legal position is as I understand it that this is "best evidence" and therefore admissible in court as evidence of the agreement.

All the poems published by Clare before the signing of this document, even those of which he disapproved because friends or editors altered them, and wherever they were published, are out of copyright. All other poems by Clare, in manuscript or print, in public or private possession, are within the Whitaker copyright sold to me by Haddon Whitaker who was, I believe, a great-grandson of Joseph Whitaker, as "unpublished works". In respect of these works, only I can lawfully publish them. Copyright runs from the date of publication.

I discovered this copyright situation when I was preparing, with Geoffrey Summerfield, three books which were published in 1964. I wanted to clear copyright in a legal fashion; I wanted to protect my work from being plundered by unscrupulous scholars and publishers; and I wanted to ensure, as far as I could, that the public was given accurate texts. I have been working on Clare since 1963 and this month, the final volume of my nine-volume edition of Clare's poems in the Oxford English Texts series will be published.

Eric Robinson
Virginia, USA

The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864 (Vol. 2: 1984)

On the face of it, this sounds reasonable enough. Nobody could accuse Professor Robinson of slacking off in his efforts to give us precise details of the exact state of Clare's immense manuscript remains. Twenty years of work - with the aid of his various collaborators - on the nine-volume Oxford English Texts edition is only the beginning. As you can see from the bibliography below, he's edited (and facilitated) numerous further editions of the poet's work over the last half century. Is he not entitled to some reward for his efforts?

John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)

However, the sheer extent of these labours has made it a bit difficult for anyone else attempting to enter the field. Either they have to resort to John and Anne Tibble's rather old-fashioned 'corrected' texts - the solution (as mentioned in the illustration above) chosen by the Folio Society editors - or they're forced to take on the present copyright holder. The Wikipedia entry on John Clare puts it as diplomatically as possible:

Copyright on much of his work was claimed after 1965 by the editor of the Complete Poetry, Professor Eric Robinson, but this has been contested. Recent publishers such as Faber and Carcanet have refused to acknowledge it and it seems the copyright is defunct.

A rather more combative account is given in John Goodridge's 2000 Guardian article "Poor Clare":

The copyright has helped to ensure the overwhelming predominance of a single editing style: the so-called "textual primitivist" presentation where nothing of the text is corrected or standardised from the manuscript. After the heavy correction of earlier editions, this seemed to create a refreshingly raw "authenticity" in Clare's work, described by John Barrell as being like "discovering the original of a great painting previously known only through engravings". But its dominance has also limited Clare's accessibility, denying him the wider audience that his poetry deserves.

For Clare is, as the Independent's literary editor Boyd Tonkin recently put it, "The People's Poet". He speaks for the common people and for the dispossessed (birds, animals, flowers as well as people). He is important for many who have suffered from mental health problems, for ecologists and for nature-lovers. It is a grotesque anomaly for one person to try to control a poet from the 19th century, particularly one who, as Tim Chilcott notes, "so tellingly damned all manifestations of 'property', 'possession' and 'enclosure'".

Let's look at some examples of the difference between the two approaches. First, here's the text of 'The Partridge', copied from the 1935 Tibble edition:

John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)

And here's Eric Robinson's text, from John Clare's Birds (p.74):

One day across the fields I chancd to pass
When chickens chelped and skuttled in the grass
And as I looked about to find the seat
A wounded partridge dropped agen my feet
She fluttered round and calling as she lay
The chickens chelped and fluttered all away
I stooped to pick her up when up she drew
Her wounded wing and cackled as she flew
I wondered much to hear the chickens lye
As still as nothing till I wandered bye
And soon she came agen with much ado
And swept the grass and called them as she flew
But still they kept their seat and left no trace
And old cows snorted when they passed the place

There is, admittedly, a certain expressiveness in the second text which is obscured somewhat by the heavy-handed punctuation of the Tibbles' version. Besides that, though, the only substantive variant seems to be 'When' for 'Where' in Robinson's transcription.

For myself, I'm happy to have both books. The Folio Society one is (as you'd expect) an exquisite piece of printing and bookmaking. However, the Robinson / Fitter book has the advantage of including prose as well as verse, and John Clare's prose is - at least in my view - even more expressive and electric than his poetry.

The truth is, I understand perfectly what Goodridge means when he says that Clare "is important for many who have suffered from mental health problems, for ecologists and for nature-lovers." I find it impossible to read some of his lines without being moved to tears - and if you can't understand the power of his famous comment on the enforced enclosure of England's common land, "they have cut off my head and picked out all the letters in the alphabet", I'm forced to conclude that you'll never get him at all.

Here are a few more selections from the Bird Poems book for those of you who do enjoy Clare's (and Bewick's) work:

John Clare: Bird Poems (1980)

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William Hilton: John Clare (1820)

John Clare
(1793-1864)

Books I own are marked in bold:

Poetry:


1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820)
2. The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems. 2 vols (1821)
3. The Shepherd's Calendar with Village Stories and Other Poems (1827)
4. The Rural Muse (1835)
   • The Rural Muse. 1835. Ed. R. K. R. Thornton (1982)
5. Poems by John Clare. Ed. Norman Gale (1901)
6. Poems by John Clare Ed. Arthur Symons (1908)
   • The Works of John Clare. Ed. Arthur Symons. 1908. Introduction by John Goodridge. The Wordsworth Poetry Library. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1995.
7. John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript. Ed. Edmund Blunden & Alan Porter (1920)
8. Madrigals and Chronicles, Being Newly Found Poems Written by John Clare. Ed. Edmund Blunden & Alan Porter (1924)
9. The Poems of John Clare. Ed. J. W. Tibble. 2 vols (1935)
   • Tibble, J. W., ed. The Poems of John Clare. 2 vols. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1935.
10. Poems of John Clare’s Madness. Ed. Geoffrey Grigson (1949)
    • Poems of John Clare’s Madness. Ed. Geoffrey Grigson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
11. Selected Poems of John Clare. Ed. Geoffrey Grigson (1950)
    • Selected Poems. Ed. Geoffrey Grigson. 1950. The Muses’ Library. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1963.
12. The Later Poems. Ed. Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield (1964)
    • The Later Poems. Ed. Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1964.
13. The Shepherd’s Calendar. Ed. Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield (1964)
    • The Shepherd’s Calendar. Ed. Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield. Wood Engravings by David Gentleman. 1964. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
14. John Clare: Selected Poems. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble. Everyman's Library (1965)
    • Selected Poems. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble. Everyman’s Library, 563. London: J. M. Dent, 1965.
15. The Wood is Sweet. Ed. David Powell (1966)
    • 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.
16. Clare: Selected Poems and Prose. Ed. Eric Robinson & Geoffrey Summerfield (1966)
17. John Clare: Selected Poems. Ed. Elaine Feinstein (1968)
18. Birds Nest. Ed. Anne Tibble (1973)
19. John Clare: The Midsummer Cushion. Ed. Anne Tibble & R. K. R. Thornton (1979)
20. John Clare: Bird Poems. Introduction by Peter Levi (1980)
    • Bird Poems. Introduction by Peter Levi. Wood-Engravings by Thomas Bewick. London: The Folio Society, 1980.
21. John Clare’s Birds. Ed. Eric Robinson & Richard Fitter (1982)
    • John Clare’s Birds. Ed. Eric Robinson & Richard Fitter. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
22. John Clare: The Oxford Authors. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell (1984)
    • John Clare: The Oxford Authors. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
    • Major Works: Including Selections from The Shepherd's Calendar. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell. 1984. Oxford World's Classics. Introduction by Tom Paulin. 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
23. The Poetry of John Clare. 9 vols. Ed. Eric Robinson, David Powell, Margaret Grainger & P. M. S. Dawson. Oxford English Texts (1984-2003)
    1. Early Poems of John Clare, volume I (1989)
    2. Early Poems of John Clare, volume II (1989)
    3. John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume I (1996)
    4. John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume II (1996)
    5. John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume III (1998)
    6. John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume IV (1998)
    7. John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837, volume V (2003)
    8. The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837-1864, volume I (1984)
    9. The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837-1864, volume II (1984)
24. The Parish. Ed. Eric Robinson (1985)
    • The Parish: A Satire. Ed. Eric Robinson. Notes by David Powell. 1985. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
25. Birds Nesting. Ed. Eric Robinson (1987)
26. The Summons. Ed. Eric Robinson (1989)
27. Trees. Ed. Eric Robinson (1989)
28. The Hue & Cry. Ed. Eric Robinson (1990)
29. John Clare: Selected Poems. Ed. Geoffrey Summerfield (1990)
    • Selected Poems. Ed. Geoffrey Summerfield. 1990. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2000.
30. John Clare: Cottage Tales. Ed. Eric Robinson, David Powell & P. M. S. Dawson (1993)
31. John Clare: Northborough Sonnets. Ed. Eric Robinson, David Powell & P. M. S. Dawson (1995)
32. Selected Poems. Ed. R. K. R. Thornton. Everyman's Poetry (1997)
33. A Champion for the Poor: Political Verse and Prose by John Clare. Ed. P. M. S. Dawson, Eric Robinson & David Powell (2000)
34. John Clare: Love Poems. Ed. Simon Kövesi (2000)
35. John Clare: Flower Poems. Ed. Simon Kövesi (2002)

Prose:


36. John Clare: The Prose. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble (1951)
    • The Prose. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble. 1951. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
37. The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare. Ed. Margaret Grainger (1983)
38. John Clare's Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Eric Robinson (1986)
39. John Clare By Himself. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell (1996)
    • John Clare By Himself. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell. Wood Engravings by Jon Lawrence. 1996. Fyfield Books. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2002.

Letters:


40. John Clare: The Letters. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble (1951)
    • The Letters. Ed. J. W. & Anne Tibble. 1951. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
41. The Letters of John Clare. Ed. Mark Storey. (1985)
    • Selected Letters. Ed. Mark Storey. 1985. Oxford Letters & Memoirs. 1988. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Secondary:


42. Martin, Frederick. The Life of John Clare (1865)
43. Cherry, J.L. Life and Remains of John Clare (1873)
44. Tibble, J. W. & Anne. John Clare: A Life. 1932. Rev. Anne Tibble. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1972.
45. Storey, Edward. A Right to Song: The Life of John Clare. London: Methuen, 1982.
46. Bate, Jonathan. John Clare: A Biography. 2003. Picador. London: Pan Macmillan, 2004.
47. Sinclair, Iain. Edge of The Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's "Journey Out of Essex". London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005.
48. Foulds, Adam. The Quickening Maze. 2009. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2010.
49. [Powell, David. First Publications of John Clare's Poems. 2004. 2nd. ed. Research Papers on John Clare, number 1. USA: The John Clare Society of North America, 2009.]
50. Pietrzykowski, Marc. "Anxious of Eternity: Building a Nest for John Clare". Contemporary Poetry Review (July 19, 2010)

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Acquisitions (23): The Folio Society

Folio 50: Bibliography 1947-97 (1997)

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Mary Maclean Ross (1894-1990)

The Folio Society
(1947- )
[* = originally owned by Mary Maclean Ross]:

I've just put up a post about my grandmother's long love affair with the Folio Society of London over on The Imaginary Museum. I guess for her their catalogues constituted a kind of home away from home. In any case, her beautiful glass-fronted bookcases were filled with their books.

One of my grandmother's bookcases today

When it came time for Grandma to move into the Northbridge rest-home where she lived out her last years, she chose the unusual expedient of giving one each of her bookcases (contents included) to my father and my uncle. She rejected their idea of dividing up the books between them, claiming that it would cause too much bad blood, so each family ended up with approximately half of her collection! Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea after all.

I've marked with an asterisk all the ones which previously belonged to her (one of them, Surtees' Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, must have been ordered as a present for my father, as it's signed by him instead of her).

The Folio Society today

1. 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.


2. Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel. El Zarco the Bandit. ['El Zarco', 1885–1889]. 1901. Trans. Mary Allt. Wood Engravings by Zelma Blakeley. London: Folio Society, 1957.


3. Apollonius of Rhodes. The Voyage of Argo. Trans. E. V. Rieu. 1959. Rev. ed. 1972. Introduction by Lawrence Norfolk. Illustrations by Daniel Egnéus. London: The Folio Society, 2014.


4. Apuleius, Lucius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Trans. Robert Graves. 1950. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


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


6. Bage, Robert. Hermsprong: or, Man As He is Not. 1796. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


7. Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road.. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.


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


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


10. Barrow, Sir John. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of HMS BOUNTY its Causes and Consequences. 1831. Ed. Captain Stephen W. Roskill. London: The Folio Society, 1976.


11. Beckford, William. Vathek. 1815. Trans. Herbert B. Grimsditch. 1929. Illustrated with Lithographs by Edward Bawden. London: The Folio Society, 1958.


12. Beevor, Antony & Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949. 1994. Rev. ed. 2007. London: The Folio Society, 2012.


13. Bierce, Ambrose. The Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories. ['The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce', vols. II, III & VIII of 12, 1909-12]. Introduction by Will Self. Illustrations by Nathan Sissons. London: The Folio Society, 2009.


14. Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy. Trans. V. E. Watts. 1969. Preface by Brian Keenan. 1998. London: The Folio Society, 2000.


15. 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.


16. 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.


17. Brontë, Charlotte. Five Novelettes: Passing Events; Julia; Mina Laury; Henry Hastings; Caroline Vernon. Transcribed from the Original Manuscripts and Edited by Winifred Gérin. London: The Folio Press, 1971.


18. Burton, Richard F. The Source of the Nile. The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration. 1860. Introduction by Ian Curteis. London: The Folio Society, 1993.


19. Cellini, Benvenuto. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. 1728. Trans. George Bull. 1956. London: The Folio Society, 1966.


20. Chandler, Raymond. The Complete Novels. Introduction by Frank MacShane. 7 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1989.
    1. The Big Sleep (1939)
    2. Farewell My Lovely (1939)
    3. The High Window (1943)
    4. The Lady in the Lake (1944)
    5. The Little Sister (1949)
    6. The Long Goodbye (1953)
    7. Playback (1958)


21. Chekhov, Anton. The Island of Sakhalin. 1895. Trans. Luba & Michael Terpak. 1967. London: The Folio Society, 1989.


22. Chekhov, Anton. The Collected Stories. 1888-1903. Trans. Ronald Hingley. 1965-1971. 4 vols. Introduced by James Lasdun. Illustrated by Laura Carlin. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


23. Churchill, Winston S. The World Crisis. Introduction by Martin Gilbert. 2005. London: The Folio Society, 2007.
    1. 1911-1914 (1923)
    2. 1915 (1923)
    3. 1916-1918 (1927)
    4. The Aftermath (1929)
    5. The Eastern Front (1931)


24. Clare, John. Bird Poems. Introduction by Peter Levi. Wood-Engravings by Thomas Bewick. London: The Folio Society, 1980.


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


26. Colón, Don Fernando. The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand. Trans. Benjamin Keen. 1959. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


27. *Conrad, Joseph. Two Tales of the Congo: Heart of Darkness & An Outpost of Progress. Copper-Engravings by Dolf Rieser. London: The Folio Society. 1952.


28. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. 1904. Introduction by Richard Holmes. Lithographs by Paul Hogarth. London: The Folio Society, 1984.


29. *Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Ed. John T. Winterich. With Civil War Photographs. London: The Folio Society, 1951.


30. *Crébillon Fils. The Sofa: A Moral Tale. Trans. Bonamy Dobrée. Etchings by Robert Bonfils. London: Folio Society, 1951.


31. Creevey, Thomas. The Creevey Papers. 1903. Ed. John Gore. 1963. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


32. Crossley-Holland, Kevin, ed. Folk-tales of the British Isles. Wood-engravings by Hannah Firmin. London: The Folio Society, 1985.


33. Defoe, Daniel. The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jack. 1722. Wood Engravings by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1967.


34. 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.


35. de la Mare, Walter. Ghost Stories. Lithographs by Barnett Freedman. 1956. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


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


37. Dickens, Charles. My Early Times. Ed. Peter Rowland. London: The Folio Society, 1988.


38. 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.


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


40. Freile, Juan Rodríguez. The Conquest of New Granada. Trans. William C. Atkinson. Engravings by Harold Bennett. London: The Folio Society Ltd., 1961.


41. Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776-88; 1910. Ed. Betty Radice & Felipé Fernández-Armesto. 8 vols. London: Folio Society, 1983-90.
    1. The Turn of the Tide. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1983)
    2. Constantine and the Roman Empire. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1984)
    3. The Revival and Collapse of Paganism. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1985)
    4. The End of the Western Empire. Ed. & with an introduction by Betty Radice (1986)
    5. Justinian and the Roman Law. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1987)
    6. Mohammed and the Rise of the Arabs. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1988)
    7. The Normans in Italy and the Crusades. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1989)
    8. The Fall of Constantinople and the Papacy in Rome. Ed. & with an introduction by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1990)


42. *Gorky, Maxim. The Artamonovs. 1927. Trans. Alec Brown. Woodcuts by Peter Pendry. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


43. 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.


44. Grimmelshausen, Johann von. Mother Courage. 1669. Trans. Walter Wallich. Lift-Ground Drawings by Fritz Wegner. London: The Folio Society, 1965.


45. Grossmith, George, & Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody. 1892. Drawings by John Lawrence. 1969. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


46. Hardy, Thomas. Wessex Novels. London: The Folio Society, 1991.
    1. Under the Greenwood Tree, or The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. 1872. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Angela Thirlwell (1989)
    2. Far from the Madding Crowd. 1874. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Bel Mooney (1985)
    3. The Return of the Native. 1878. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by R. M. (1971)
    4. The Trumpet-Major: John Loveday, A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert His Brother, A Tale. 1880. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Paul I. Webb (1990)
    5. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Story of a Man of Character. 1886. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by R. M. (1968)
    6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented. 1891. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Introduction by Elspeth Sandys (1988)


47. Hart, Kingsley, ed. Dove Cottage: The Wordsworths at Grasmere 1799-1803. Being The Grasmere Journal by Dorothy Wordsworth together with selections from the correspondence of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Photographs by John Preston-Bell. London: The Folio Society, 1966.


48. Henderson, Philip, ed. The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë. London: The Folio Society, 1951.


49. Hibbert, Christopher. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. 1974. Foreword by Harold Acton. London: The Folio Society, 1998.


50. Hibbert, Christopher. Italian Cities. London: The Folio Society, 1997:
    1. Venice: The Biography of a City (1988)
    2. Rome: The Biography of a City (1985)
    3. Florence: The Biography of a City (1993)


51. Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. 1998. Rev. ed. 2013. London: The Folio Society, 2017.


52. Hodgkin, Thomas. The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire. ['Italy and her Invaders,' 1880-1899]. Introduced by Peter Heather. 8 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2000-3.
    1. The Visigothic Invasion. 1880. rev. ed. 1892 (2000)
    2. The Huns and the Vandals. 1880. rev. ed. 1892 (2000)
    3. The Ostrogoths, 476-535. 1885. rev. ed. 1896 (2001)
    4. The Imperial Restoration, 535-553. 1885. rev. ed. 1896 (2001)
    5. The Lombard Invasion, 553-600. 1895 (2002)
    6. The Lombard Kingdom, 600-744. 1895 (2002)
    7. The Frankish Invasion, 744-774. 1899 (2003)
    8. The Frankish Empire. 1899 (2003)


53. *Hogg, Thomas Jefferson. Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff. 1813. Introduction by Sidney Scott. Engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


54. Holinshed, Raphael. Chronicles. Introduction & Selection by Michael Wood. 1577 & 1587. London: Folio Society, 2012.


55. Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. 2004. Rev. ed. 2007. Introduction by Michael Howard. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2008.


56. *Homer. The Odyssey. Translated in Selection by F. L. Lucas. Illustrations by John Buckland-Wright. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


57. Hudson, Roger, ed. Coleridge among the Lakes & Mountains: From His Notebooks, Letters and Poems 1794-1804. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


58. Hudson, Roger, ed. London: Portrait of a City. London: The Folio Society, 1998.


59. Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Great Rebellion. Ed. Roger Lockyer. London: Oxford University Press / The Folio Society, 1967.


60. Ihara Saikaku. Five Japanese Love Stories (Koshoku gonin onna). Trans. William Theodore de Bary. London: The Folio Society, 1958.


61. Johnstone, the Chevalier de. A Memoir of the ’Forty-Five. 1820. Ed. Brian Rawson. London: Folio Society, 1958.


62. Kipling, Rudyard. The Collected Short Stories. Illustrated by Philip Bannister. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2005.
    1. Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) / Soldiers Three and other stories (1888)
    2. Wee Willie Winkie and other stories (1888) / Life's Handicap (1891)
    3. Many Inventions (1893) / The Day's Work (1898)
    4. Traffics and Discoveries (1904) / Actions and Reactions (1909) / A Diversity of Creatures
    5. A Diversity of Creatures, cont. (1917) / Debits and Credits (1926) / Limits and Renewals (1932)


63. Lawrence, T. E. Crusader Castles. 1910. Ed. A. W. Lawrence. 2 vols. 1936. Introduction by Mark Bostridge. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


64. Lear, Edward. Complete Nonsense: Illustrated by the Author and Hand-Coloured for This Edition. Introduced by Quentin Blake. 1846, 1871, 1872, 1877, 1895. London: Folio Society, 1996.


65. Lewis, Bernard. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam. 1967. Preface by the Author. 2003. London: The Folio Society, 2006.


66. Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Trans. Moss Roberts. 1991. Introduction by Ma Jian. 4 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


67. 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)


68. 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. Magnus 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)


69. *Malory, Sir Thomas. The Romance of Lancelot & Guinevere, Taken from Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Morte D’Arthur’. Illustrated by Lettice Sandford. London: The Folio Society, 1953.


70. Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].


71. Mardrus, Dr. J. C., & E. Powys Mathers, trans. The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Introduction by Marina Warner. Set One: 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2003.
    • Vol. 1: with 8 colour illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 375 pp.
    • Vol. 2: with 8 colour illustrations by Grahame Baker, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 3: with 8 colour illustrations by Debra McFarlane, 424 pp.


72. Mardrus, Dr. J. C., & E. Powys Mathers, trans. The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal and Complete French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers. Introduction by Marina Warner. Set Two: 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2003.
    • Vol. 4: with 8 colour illustrations by Roman Pisarev, 424 pp.
    • Vol. 5: with 8 colour illustrations by Jane Ray, 431 pp.
    • Vol. 6: with 8 colour illustrations by Neil Packer, 448 pp.


73. Marvell, Andrew. Poems. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. Introduction by C. V. Wedgwood. London: The Folio Society, 1964.


74. Mathers, E. Powys, trans. Arabian Love Tales: Being Romances Drawn from the Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Rendered into English from the Literal French Translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus. Illustrated by Lettice Sandford. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


75. *Melville, Herman. Typee. 1846. Introduction by Robert Gibbings. Drawings by Jacques Boullaire. London: The Folio Society, 1950.


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


77. Mürger, Henry. Vie de Bohème. 1851. Trans. Norman Cameron. Introduction by Michael Sadleir. Drawings by Dodie Masterman. London: The Folio Society, 1960.


78. Nesbit, E. The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges. 1947. London: The Folio Society, 1993.
    1. The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1899)
    2. The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
    3. The New Treasure Seekers (1904)


79. *The Newgate Calendar. Ed. Sir Norman Birkett. With Contemporary Engravings. 1951. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


80. The Newgate Calendars, ed. Lord Birkett. London: The Folio Society, 1993:
    1. The Newgate Calendar. With Contemporary Engravings (1951)
    2. The New Newgate Calendar (1960)


81. *Nievo, Ippolito. The Castle of Fratta. Trans. Lovett F. Edwards. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. London: The Folio Society, 1954.


82. Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Francisco. The Happy Captive. ['Cautiverio feliz y razón individual de las guerras dilatadas del reino de Chile', 1673]. Trans. William C. Atkinson. Vinyl-cuts by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


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


84. Orwell, George. Complete Novels. Ed. Peter Davison. 1998. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2001.
    1. Burmese Days (1934)
    2. A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
    3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
    4. Coming Up for Air (1939)
    5. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)


85. Ovidius Naso, Publius. Ars Amatoria. Trans. B. P. Moore. Drawings by Victor Reinganum. London: The Folio Society, 1965.


86. Ovidius Naso, Publius. The Art of Love. Trans. James Michie. Paintings by Grahame Baker. 1993. London: The Folio Society, 2009.


87. Parker, Geoffrey, ed. & trans. At the Court of the Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI written by his Master of Ceremonies Johann Burchard. 1963. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


88. Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. 1957. Trans. Nicolas Pasternak Slater. Illustrated by Leonid Pasternak. Introduction by Ann Pasternak Slater. 2019. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2020.


89. Petronius Arbiter. Satyrica. Trans. Frederick Raphael. London: the Folio Society, 2003.


90. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. Trans. Ivan Morris. Introduction by Robin Duke. Illustrations by Jasper Deane. 1979. London: The Folio Society, 1980.


91. Pirenne, Henri. Mohammed & Charlemagne. 1937. Trans. Bernard Miall. 1939. Introduction by Averil Cameron. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


92. Pliny the Elder. Natural History. CE 77. Introduction by Anthony T. Grafton. 5 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2012.
    1. Preface; Books 1-7, trans. H. Rackham (1938 & 1942)
    2. Books 8-16, trans. H. Rackham (1983 & 1968)
    3. Books 17-23, trans. H. Rackham & W. H. S. Jones (1950 & 1969)
    4. Books 24-32, trans. W. H. S. Jones (1980 & 1963)
    5. Books 33-37; Index, trans. H. Rackham & D. E. Eichholz (1952 & 1962)


93. *Prévost, Abbé. The History of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut. 1731. Trans. Helen Waddell. Essay by Edward Sackville-West. Wood Engravings by Valentin Le Campion. London: the Folio Society, 1950.


94. Procopius. The Secret History. c.550 CE. Trans. G. A. Williamson. 1966. Introduction by Philip Ziegler. London: The Folio Society, 1990.


95. The Complete Novels of Mrs Ann Radcliffe. Introductions by Devendra P. Varma. Wood Engravings by Sarah van Niekerk. 6 vols. London: The Folio Society, 1987.
    1. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story (1789)
    2. A Sicilian Romance (1790)
    3. The Romance of the Forest (1791)
    6. Gaston de Blondeville, or The Court of Henry the Third Keeping Festival in Arden (1826)


96. Scott, W. S., ed. & trans. The Trial of Joan of Arc: Being the Verbatim Report of the Proceedings from the Orleans Manuscript. London: The Folio Society, 1956.


97. Sherman, William T. From Atlanta to the Sea. 1875. Ed. B. H. Liddell Hart. 1961. London: The Folio Society, 1962.


98. Shi Nai’an. Outlaws of the Marsh: The Water Margin. Trans. J. H. Jackson. 1937. Introduction by Frances Wood. Illustrations from the Rong Yu Tang edition. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2018.


99. Stape, J. H., ed. Conrad’s Congo. Preface by Adam Hochschild. London: The Folio Society, 2013.


100. Stendhal. The Charterhouse of Parma. 1839. Trans. C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. Wood-engravings by Zelma Blakely. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


101. Stephen, Leslie. Hours in a Library. 1874, 1876, 1879 & 1892. 3 vols. Introduction by Jonathan Steinberg. London: The Folio Society, 1991.


102. Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 1759-67. Ed. Graham Petrie. Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Wood-engravings by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1970.


103. Surtees, Robert. Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities. 1838. With Colour Plates by Henry Alken. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


104. *Swift, Jonathan. The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput & Brobdingnag. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. London: The Folio Society, 1948.


105. *Symons, A. J. A. The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography. 1934. Introductions by Sir Norman Birkett & Sir Shane Leslie. London: The Folio Society, 1952.


106. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. 1949. Introduction by Ruth Rendell. Illustrated by A. Richard Allen. London: The Folio Society, 2010.


107. *Tolstoy. Tales. Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude ('The Raid' & "Two Old Men'), & Constance Garnett ('Two Hussars', 'Three Deaths', 'Polikushka' & 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'). Illustrations by Elizabeth MacFadyen. London: The Folio Society, 1947.


108. Tolstoy, Leo. The Collected Stories. Trans. Louise & Aylmer Maude with J. D. Duff, Sam A. Carmack & David McDuff. Introduction by John Sutherland. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2007.


109. *Trollope, Anthony. The Parson’s Daughter and Other Stories. Engravings by Joan Hassall. Introduction by John Hampden. London: the Folio Society, 1949.


110. Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram. 1958. Introduction by Margaret MacMillan. London: The Folio Society, 2004.


111. Tucker, James. Ralph Rashleigh. Ed. Colin Roderick. 1952. Drawings by Nigel Lambourne. London: The Folio Society, 1977.


112. Twain, Mark. Collected Stories. 1929. Introduction by Robert McCrum. Illustrations by Roger Fereday. 3 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2011.


113. Waddell, Helen. Songs of the Wandering Scholars. 1927, 1929, 1933, 1976. Ed. Dame Felicitas Corrigan. Wood-engravings by Joan Freeman. London: The Folio Society, 1982.


114. *Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation. 1653 & 1676. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. London: The Folio Society, 1949.


115. *Ward, Ned. The London Spy. 1698-99, 1703. Ed. Kenneth Fenwick. Engravings by Hogarth and Others. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


116. *Warner, Oliver, ed. An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti: From the Journal of George Robertson, Master of H.M.S. Dolphin. Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbing. London: The Folio Society, 1955.


117. *Williams, Emlyn. Readings from Dickens. London: The Folio Society, 1953.


118. Woodforde, The Revd James. The Diary of a Country Parson. 1924-31. Ed. David Hughes. Engravings by Ian Stephens. London: The Folio Society, 1992.


119. Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1942. Illustrated by Duncan Grant. London: The Folio Society, 1968.


120. Zayas y Sotomayor, Maria de. A Shameful Revenge and Other Stories. 1637 & 1647. Trans. John Sturrock. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. London: The Folio Society, 1963.

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Acquisitions (7): Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler: The Complete Novels
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Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

Chandler's Complete Novels (1989)

[Acquired: Thursday, November 1, 2012]:

Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. 1939. Introduction by Frank MacShane. The Complete Novels, 1. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. Farewell My Lovely. 1939. The Complete Novels, 2. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. The High Window. 1943. The Complete Novels, 3. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. 1944. The Complete Novels, 4. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. 1949. The Complete Novels, 5. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. 1953. The Complete Novels, 6. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

Chandler, Raymond. Playback. 1958. The Complete Novels, 6. London: The Folio Society, 1989.

The Unicorn Bookshop in Warkworth has a long shelf of Folio Society editions of various classic books, and this one caught my eye when I was in there with David Howard a few weeks ago. This time I couldn't resist it. I love Chandler's stylised and mannered prose, and admire - above all - his ability to constantly reinvent himself.

There's no mention of an illustrator for the various prints and embellishments in this set, which seems a bit careless. It's certainly very styly, though. I see that there's an accompanying volume of short stories, but I already have those in other forms.

And here's a link to a fascinating list of all the Folio Society series (i.e.: sets of five books or more) to date.

Raymond Chandler: The Complete Novels and Stories (1989, 2006-7)

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler
(1888-1959)

1. Chandler, Raymond. The Chandler Collection, Volume 1: The Big Sleep / The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister. 1939, 1944, 1949. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1983.


2. Chandler, Raymond. The Chandler Collection, Volume 2: The High Window / The Long Good-bye / Playback. 1943, 1953, 1958. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1983.


3. Chandler, Raymond. The Chandler Collection, Volume 3: Pearls are a Nuisance / Smart-Aleck Kill / Killer in the Rain. 1950, 1958, 1964. Picador. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1984.


4. Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely: A Marlowe Private Eye Mystery. 1940. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


5. Chandler, Raymond. Trouble is My Business and Other Stories. 1950. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.


6. Chandler, Raymond. The Smell of Fear. 1950. London: Book Club Associates / Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1983.


7. Chandler, Raymond. Collected Stories. Introduction by John Bayley. Everyman's Library, 257. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.


8. Chandler, Raymond, & Robert B. Parker. Poodle Springs. 1959 & 1989. A Macdonald Book. London: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1990.


9. Chandler, Raymond. The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler & English Summer: A Gothic Romance. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Ed. Frank MacShane. 1976. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.


10. Gardiner, Dorothy, & Kathrine Sorley Walker, ed. Raymond Chandler Speaking. 1962. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.


11. MacShane, Frank, ed. Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. 1981. Papermac. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1983.


12. Hiney, Tom & Frank MacShane, ed. The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959. 2000. London: Penguin, 2001.


13. Gross, Miriam, ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. Introduction by Patricia Highsmith. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.


14. MacShane, Frank. The Life of Raymond Chandler. 1976. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

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