Book-buying

Appendix 2.1County Tipperary Library Committee

Nationality of authors of books passed for purchased, 9 May 1928

IrishAuthor Title CategoryEthna Carbery The Passionate Hearts PoetryEnid M. Dinnis Road to Somewhere ReligiousJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas Mystery/horrorSeumas MacManus A tale of the O’Friels NovelSeumas MacManus Ballads of a country boy Novel?Seumas MacManys O do you remember NovelKatharine Tynan Kitty at school and college NovelElenor Butler The geography of history Non-fictionEthna Carberry In the celtic past FictionRev. M. Cronin Principles of Social Science Non-fictionJ.J. Doyle David Comyn Non-fictionPauline Henley Spenser in Ireland Non-fictionLouise McKay A little bit of Ireland FictionS. O’ Cuiv An comligar cluin an Gaedhilge ? Non-fictionPatrick A. Sharkey Heart of Ireland Non-fictionS. Ceallaigh Eachtraidheacht Non-fictionJames Hogan Ireland in the European system Non-fiction2 unknown titles Dr. Kilgannon, Donegal? Tales,

British and CommonwealthAuthor Title CategoryJoseph Jefferson Farjeon The House of Disappearance (f.) Mystery/detectiveJeffery Farnol Epics of Fancy BoxingWilliam Wymark Jacobs Sea Whispers NovelWilliam Pett Ridge The Two Mackenzies NovelSax Rohmer The moon of madness Novel/crimeH. Russell Wakefield They return at evening SupernaturalEdgar Wallace Good Evans CrimeJohn Buchan The scholar gipsies Non-fictionG.K. Chesterton The Judgement of Dr. Johnson: a

comedyComedy

F.E. Corrie Manures and Manuring Non-fictionMaribel Edwin Rovers and Stay at homes Fiction (juvenile)T. E. Johnstone River engineering: principles and

practiceNon-fiction

F. H. Pritchard More Essays of to-day Non-fictionHelen M. Sidebotham Mysteries at the zoo Fiction (juvenile)Walter and Leonard Townsend

An introduction to finance Non-fiction

George. M. Trevelyn Present position of history Non-fiction

AmericanAuthor Title CategoryDonn Byrne Crusade fictionPeter Bernard Kyne The Understanding Heart (f.) drama

Source: TLS, TJLSC, minutes 9 May 1928; nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury);http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.2County Tipperary Library Committee

Nationality of authors of books passed for purchased, 15 April 1931

Irish Author Title CategoryPatrick Brendan Bradley*

Bantry Bay: Ireland in the days of Napoleon and Wolfe Tone

General Lit

Eilgeach T. Gaedhealach General LitRobert Joseph Kane From Fetters to Freedom: trials and

triumph of Irish FaithGeneral Lit

McCarthy** Grain of the Word General LitLambert McKenna The life and work of Rev. Fr. Cullen General LitConor O’Brien Across three oceans General Lit

(travel)Batt O’Connor With Collins in the fight for Irish

independenceGeneral Lit.

Brian O’Higgins Voice of Banba General LitO’Muireadha Oidhreacht General LitO’Rinn Turas go Paras General LitRichard Rowley Selected Poems General Lit.Beatrice Grimshaw Beach of Terror FictionTimothy Guinan Annamore FictionJohn Chartres Molony Anthony Vanroy Fiction***Clara Mullholland Her last message General LitPadraig Colum (ed) Gulliver’s Travels Juvenile fictionBeatrice Margaret Sheepshanks

Shadow-show Novel

*John Haslette Vahey Mystery at the Inn Novel*May also be considered British** No further information, Irish publisher***CHECK NATIONALITY

British and CommonwealthAuthor Title CategoryMarjorie Astin Mary Russell Mitford General LitDorothy Bartlam Contrary-wise General LitHilaire Belloc Conversations with a cat General LitHilaire Belloc Oliver Cromwell General LitRobert Hugh Benson Confessions of a convert General LitEarl of Birkenhead 500 Best English Letters General LitEdith Birkhead Christina Rossetti and her poetry General LitHelen Mary Elizabeth Clamp

The power and glory girl General Lit (romance)

John Coutts Everyday Gardening General LitCharles Dalton With the Dublin Brigade General LitChristopher Dawson Christianity and the new age General LitWilliam J. Doherty In the days of the giants General Lit

(boxing)E. V. Downs Selections from Macaulay General LitJames Benedict Fitzpatrick Donjon of Demons General LitRichard Austin Freeman Dr Thorndike investigates General Lit

(mystery)Edmund Valpy Knox This other eden General Lit

(satire)Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis

Welcome to all this General Lit (humour)

Edward Verrall Lucas French leaves General LitAnn MacBeth Embroidered and laced leatherwork General LitCompton Mackenzie First Athenian memories General Lit

Modern Short Plays General LitMaxwell Fielding McTaggart

The art of riding General Lit

Henry Vollam Morton Heart of London General Lit. (history)

John Henry Newman Discussions and arguments General Lit.Allardyce Nicoll Theory of Drama General Lit

(drama)J.B. Priestley Balconinny and other essays General LitStanley Rogers The Pacific General Lit.

(travel)Richard Streatfield The Opera General Lit.Edmund Vale Shipshape General Lit.Cecil Adair Golden Mists FictionEffie Adelaide Maria Albanesi

White Flame Fiction

Effie Adelaide Maria Albanesi

All’s well with the world Fiction

Mary Grace Ashton The lonely journey FictionHenry Christopher Bailey Master of Gray FictionHenry Christopher Bailey Mr Cardonnell FictionHenry Christopher Bailey Wild Wind FictionB-Saunders* Upstairs FictionHarold Bindloss Harden’s Escapade FictionOtwell Binns Secret Pearls FictionOtwell Binns Flaming Crescent FictionAlgernon Blackwood The Listener FictionVictor Bridges King comes back FictionDorothy Kathleen Broster Ships in the Bay FictionVincent Brown Rosanna Returns FictionKenneth Robert G. Browne Nothing Serious FictionBasil Carey Dead Man’s Shadow FictionGK Chesterton Return of Don Quixote FictionRichmal Crompton Sugar and Spice FictionSimon Dare The unrisen moon FictionDonald Deane Luck of Luce FictionAlfred Drew Richard Latimer Next of Kin Fiction

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon Ladybrook FictionStephen Graham Modern Vanity Fair FictionCecil Freeman Gregg The Rutland Mystery FictionF. M. Harrison The duel of wits FictionJepson** 100,000 guineas FictionDorothy Johnson Death of a spinster FictionClifford Benn Kitchin Sensitive One FictionDorothy Lambert Taken at the flood FictionEric Linklater Juan in America FictionVictor MacClure Galanty Gold FictionFrancis Oscar Mass Albert Grope: The story of a belated

VictorianFiction

Laurence Oliver (Brown) Rock and Sand FictionLaurence Oliver (Brown) The secret image FictionElizabeth Wilson Griersin Tales of English castles and manors Juvenile FictionWatkin Wynn Williams St Bernard of Clairvaux General Lit.Alfred Charles Ward Foundations of English Prose General FictionOliver Madox Hueffer By whose authority? Misc.Hilaire Belloc A conversation with a cat and others Misc.George Gissing The House of cobwebs Misc.Leonard Alfred Knight The pawn Misc.M. Barnard Eldershaw(Marjorie Barnard/Flora Eldershaw)

Green memory Misc.

Margaret Peterson The eye of Isis FictionFrank Edwin Verney The man with the black patch FictionHorace Annesley Vachell Into the land of nod FictionHugh Walpole Farthing Hall FictionPhillip Gibbs The Street of adventure FictionPhillip Gibbs Heirs apparent: a novel FictionPhillip Gibbs The middle of the road FictionPhillip Gibbs Unchanging quest FictionPhillip Gibbs Back to life FictionPhillip Gibbs A master of life FictionPhillip Gibbs Little novels of nowadays FictionPhillip Gibbs Out of the Ruins and other little

novelsFiction

Georgette Heyer The conqueror FictionLettice Milne Rae The auld alliance FictionDorothy L. Sayers Five Red herrings FictionCecil Freeman Gregg The Rutland mystery FictionChristopher Dawson Christianity and Sex Misc. LitDoreen Lacy Smith East Wind FictionDavid Oswald Hunter Blair More memories and musings Misc. Lit***S. Burrows Open door: a popular plea for the

catholic churchMisc. Lit

Joseph Rickaby In an Indian abbey: some plain talking on theology

Misc. Lit

Howard. W. Simpson Modern office Management Misc. Lit.Edward Phillips Oppenheim

A daughter of the Marionis Fiction

Doris Peel Five on Parade FictionEden Philpotts Alcoyne FictionEden Philpotts Found drowned FictionShirland Quin (Edith Guest)

Dark Heritage Fiction

Lettice Milne Rae The Auld Alliance FictionWilliam Pett Ridge Led by Westmacott Fiction****Ripley Guns in the night FictionWilliam Edward Vickers The deputy for Cain FictionPG Wodehouse Big Money FictionPG Wodehouse Doctor Sally Fiction***M.E.M. Young New J.L. and other stories Fiction***Sertillinge The Church Misc. Lit*English Publisher, Hutchinson** English publisher Jenkins*** English Catholic publisher, Burns, Oates and Washbourne****English publisher Hurst and Blackett

ContinentalAuthor Title CategoryCharles Maurice Chenu (French)

My canoe General lit

Roldolphe Hoornaert St Teresa in her writings General LitJacques Maritain (French) Religion and Culture General LitJacques Maritain St Thomas Aquinas General LitAxel Olirik (Danish) Viking Civilisation General LitPeter Wust Crisis in the West General Lit.Jules Cambon (French) The Diplomatist General Lit’Sigrid Undset (Norwegian) The son avenger FictionSigrid Undset (Norwegian) Two Kingdoms FictionArthur Vermeersch (Belgian)

Tolerance Misc. Lit.

Joseph Tixeront (French) Apologetical Studies Misc. LitJohn Peter Arendzen (Dutch)

Profits, priests and publicans Misc. Lit

Henry Bordeaux (French) Annette and Philibert: the children’s crusade

Misc. Lit (Children)

United StatesAuthor Title CategoryHerman Joseph Heuser From Tarsus to Rome General LitAlfred Powell Morgan Boy electrician General Lit.

(juvenile non-fiction)Bill Adams Short stories of to-day and

yesterdayFiction

Walt Coburn Mavericks Fiction

Maxwell Laurie Young Man at Sea FictionFrederick Nelson Litten Sun up on the range FictionMarcia MacDonald(Grace Livingston Hill)

White Lady Fiction

*Concordia Merrel(Mary Phyllis Joan Logan)

Adam and some Eves Fiction

William Byron Mowery The heart of the north FictionKathleen Norris The secret life of Margaret Yorke Fiction**Maud Monahan A Boy’s choice: the story of St

Louis GonzagaJuvenile fiction

Henry Von Rhau To the Victor Misc. Lit.Talbot Mundy(lived in US)

Jimgrim Fiction(mystical)

James Thurber The owl in the attic and other perplexities

Fiction (humour/short pieces)

Cunliffe Lawrence Bolling?

Retail Salesmanship Misc. Lit.

Alexander Haggerty Krappe

Science of Folklore Misc. Lit

Edith Ballinger Price Luck of Glenlorn Fiction (Children)Charles Wesley Sanders Timber Trail Fiction***Austin J. Small (‘Seamark’)

Out of the dark Fiction (mystery)

Frank Hamilton Spearman

Spanish Lover Fiction (western)

Arthur Alexander Thomson

The lilac maid Fiction

Drummond, Customs of Brettinore (St Paul Publishing Company, MN, USA) no further information on author*May have been British, but married to US born ?? and was a silent actress in 1919Note: the ‘general literature’ category was applied by the TLBSC** check nationality also wrote on Sophie Barrat*** His books were published for the Crime club inc. by Doubleday, Doran and Inc., US.

Source: Source: TLS, TJLSC, minutes 15 April 1931; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.3Library Association of Ireland,

Advisory Committee on Book SelectionNationality of authors of books on ‘Book List no. 1 to obtain without risk of

rejection’, 1933

Irish Author Title CategoryRichard Ball Young Jack Fellowes FictionRichard Dehan (pseudo. Clotilde Mary Graves)

Third craft and other stories

Fiction

Beatrice Grimshaw The long beaches FictionMaurice O’Sullivan Twenty years a growing FictionKatharine Tynan An International

MarriageFiction (novel)

British and CommonwealthAuthor Title CategoryAndrew Allington Chator’s: a novel FictionBetty Askwith Green Corn FictionHearnden Balfour (pseudo. Beryl Hearnden and Eva Balfour

Anything might happen Fiction

Charles Barry Death in darkness Fiction (crime)

Francis Beading (pseudo. Hilary St. George Saunders and John Leslie Palmer)

The two undertakers Fiction (thrillers)

Peter Belloc Below bridges Fiction (thriller)

Anthony Berkley et al Ask a policeman Fiction (thriller)

George K.G. Bettany Talking waters FictionDorothy Kathleen Broster Almond, wild almond NovelEdith Ophelia Browne The fair age of youth FictionGordon Casserly The monkey god Fiction

(science)*J. Elizabeth Gramswick The homestead ?William Harold Lane Crauford Dogs in clover FictionJohn Easton Ferrol Bond FictionHelen Parry Eden Whistles of Silver FictionHarry Moreton Edmonds The death ship FictionE.R.G.R. Evans Spanish death Fiction

(juvenile)John Fairfax-Blakeborough Beating the nobblers FictionJohn Fairfax-Blakeborough Disappearance of Cropton FictionJohn Fairfax-Blakeborough A rank outsider FictionGerard Fairlie The treasure nets Fiction**Elizabeth Ford Fog Fiction

Robert Gathorne-Hardy Other Seas FictionJohn Gibbons Fiddler at Lourdes FictionVal Henry Gielgud and Holt Marvell Under London FictionElizabeth Gill Crime de luxe Fiction

(crime)Thomas Watson Haynes (Australian) Our daily bread FictionJames Hilton Knight without armour Fiction

(adventure)Edgar Holt Quick work Fiction Gavin Holt (9seudo. Charles Percival Rodda)

The mark of the paw Fiction (crime)

Sydney Horler Man who shook the earth Fiction (thriller)

John Ironside (Pseud. Euphemia Margaret Tait)

The Marten mystery Fiction (crime)

Selwyn Jepson Heads and tails FictionRomilly and Katherine John Heads or tails Fiction

(detective)***Nora Kennedy Heroic Symphony FictionRonald A. Knox The body in the silo Fiction

(detective)****D.M. Large The open arms FictionFrank G. Layton The little doctor Semi-fiction*^John Light Render unto Caesar FictionCompton MacKenzie Water on the brain FictionAngus MacVicar Purple Rock FictionWilliam J. Makin Adventures of Red Hand FictionV. Markham Inspector Rushby’s Finale FictionAlice Massie The Wicked Captain FictionEsther Meynell Quintet FictionLaurence Meynell Paid in Full FictionConstance Miles Coffee Please FictionLucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian) Pat of Silver Bush FictionJohn Bingham Morton Morton’s Folly FictionWilliam Douglas Newton The Beggar and other

storiesFiction

Austin Philips The Real Thing Fiction (crime)

J.B. Priestley Wonder Hero FictionGeorge Preedy (Marjorie Bowen) Dr Chaos and the devil

snar’dFiction (horror)

Martin Porlock (Philip MacDonald) X v. Rex Fiction (detective)

Sapper (H.C. McNeile) Knock-Out Fiction (thriller)

Sara Seale (A.D.M. MacPherson) Chase the moon FictionMargery Sharp The flowering thorn FictionDoreen Smith The gates are open FictionRay Sonin The Death Pack Fiction

D.M. Stuart Girl through the ages Semi-FictionHenry Longan Stuart Weeping cross FictionR.E. Swartwout The Boat Race Murder Fiction

(crime)Taffrail (Henry Taprell Dorling) Dover-Ostend FictionArthur Alexander Thomson Heart’s Content FictionPrincess Paul Troubetskoy Storm Tarn FictionValentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey) At your beginnings FictionValentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey) Round the corner FictionJames Morgan Walsh (Australian) Spies are abroad FictionCecil Waye (Cecil Street)) The Prime Minister’s

pencilFiction

Antonia White Frost in May FictionDavid Whitelaw The Roof Fiction

(mystery)Noel MacDonald Wilby Alexander Tomlyn: A tale

of Old CambridgeFiction

Alison Williamson The Lightning Conductor Comes Back

Fiction (novel)

P.G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather FictionClotilde Wollersen Strange Prisoners: the

story of modern lifeFiction (novel)

*British publisher, Constable**English publisher, Chapman and Hall***English publisher, Ivor Nicholson and Watson****English publisher, Constable and Co. Ltd. London*^ English Catholic publisher, Burns, Oates and Washbourne

United StatesAuthor Title CategoryWilliam Ashley Anderson Yellow Flood FictionLucille Papin Borden Silver Trumpets Calling FictionDonald Henderson Clarke John Bartel Jr. FictionIsabel C. Clarke Feet upon the mountains FictionIsabel C. Clarke That which was lost FictionWilliam Blair Morton Ferguson (pseudo. William Morton)

The Reckoning Fiction

Elizabeth Garver Jordan Death by request FictionMary Johnston Miss Delicia Allen FictionSophie Kerr In for a penny FictionRuth Comfort Mitchell The legend of Susan Dane FictionElizabeth Madox The Haunted Mirror Fiction

(horror)May Stanley Blue Meadows Fiction

(romance)Mary Theresa Waggaman Carroll Dare FictionChristopher L. Ward The Strange Adventures of

Jonathan DrewFiction

Steward Edward White Ranchero Fiction

Dunn Severick, Third Craft and other stories, Grayson and Grayson (no further information)

Source: TLS, LAI, Advisory Committee on Book Selection, Book List no. 1 to obtain without risk of rejection’, 1933; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.4County Tipperary Library Committee

‘List of books from the Court Bookshop, 142 Capel Street, DublinAmerican Titles’, April/May 1953

Author TitleJuvenile

Allen, A. Water to BurnAllen, B The Clue in Blue“ The Ghost wore white“ The Green Island Mystery“ Puzzle in Purple“ The riddle in red“ The secret of Black Cat Gulch

The yellow warningJ.M. Barrie (British) Peter PanJ. Blaine The Caves of fear“ The lost city“ 100 fathoms under“ The phantom shark“ The Rocket’s shadow“ See Gold“ Smuggler’s Reef“ Stairway to danger“ The whispering box mysteryBlank, C. Beverley Gray’s Assignment“ Beverley Gray Freshman“ Beverley Gray’s Island Mystery“ Beverley Gray’s in the Orient“ Beverley Gray on a Treasure HuntCampbell, B. The mystery of the Iron boxDixon, F.W. The secret of wildcat swampDodge?, M.M. Hans Brinker??Gayis, H.R. Buddy on the farm“ Buddy at Rainbow lake“ Buddy in the school“ Buddy and his winter fun“ Buddy and his mystery cat“ Buddy and his mystery deer“ Buddy and his mystery dog“ Buddy and his mystery goat“ Buddy and his mystery monkey“ Buddy and his mystery parrot“ Buddy and his mystery ponyHall, A. Peeps Elliott & familyHastings, H.L. Top horse of Crescent RanchKeane, C. By the light of the study lamp“ The circle of footprints

“ Clue in the broken locket“ Clue in the cobweb“ Clue in the crumbling wall“ Clue in the diary“ Clue in the jewel box“ Clue in the old album“ Clue in the duck house??“ Clue of the tapping heels“ The ghost of Blackwood hall“ The haunted bridge“ The hidden staircase“ In the shadow of the tower“ The message in the hollow oak“ The mysterious fireplace“ The mystery of the brassbound trunk“ The mystery of the ivory charm“ The mystery at Lilac Inn“ The mystery of the locked room“ The mystery of the moss-covered mansion“ The mystery of the tolling bell“ The quest of the missing map“ Nancy’s mysterious letter“ The password to larkspur land“ The portrait in the sand“ The secret at the gate house“ The secret at the hermitage“ The secret at Lone Tree Cottage“ The secret of the old clock“ The secret at the old wall“ The secret of Red Gate Farm“ The secret at Shadow Ranch“ The secret of the wooden lady“ The sign of the twisted candles“ A three-cornered mystery“ The whispering mysteryOliver, N.M. Riding DaysOllivant, A. Bob son? Of battleOakes, V. The bamboo gateOtis, J. Toby TylerOuida A dog of FlandersRockwell, C. Stand by for moreSawyer, R. Old Con and PatrickSchaare, C.R. Life of Davy Crocket“ Expeditions of Lewis and ClarkSidney, M. Five little Peppers abroad“ Our Davie PepperStriker, F. Clue of the Cypress Stump“ Hidden Stone mystery

“ Lone Ranger“ Lone Ranger and the gold robbery“ Lone Ranger and the haunted gulch“ Lone Ranger at the mystery ranch“ Lone Ranger and the outlaw stronghold“ Lone Ranger and the silver bullet“ Lone Ranger and Tonto“ The secret of Thunder mountain“ Sign of the spiral“ The telltale scarSutton, M. The black cat’s clue“ Clue in the patchwork quilt“ Clue of the stone lantern“ Ghost parade“ The haunted attic“ The invisible chimes“ The living portrait“ The mark on the mirror“ The midnight visitor“ The mysterious half cat“ The mystic ball“ The name on the bracelet“ The rainbow riddle“ The riddle of the double ring“ The secret of the barred window“ The secret of the musical tree“ Seven strange clues“ The Unfinished house“ The vanishing shadow“ The voice in the suitcase“ The yellow phantomTatham, J. Behind the white veil“ The clue of the broken blossom“ Cherry Ames clinic nurse“ Cherry Ames at Spencer“ Cherry Ames mountaineer nurse“ Cherry Ames night supervisorTwain, M. The prince and the pauperWebster, J. Dear enemyWaissenstein, H. We four togetherWells, H. Cherry Ames army nurse“ Cherry Ames chief nurse“ Cherry Ames cruise nurse“ Cherry Ames flight nurse“ Cherry Ames private duty nurse“ Cherry Ames senior nurse“ Cherry Ames veterans’ nurse“ The hidden valley mystery

“ The secret of magnolia manor“ Silver wings for Vicki“ Vicki finds the answerWheeler, O. H.M.S. Pinafore?Wiggin, K.D. New chronicles of RebeconWirt, M.A. Clock strikes thirteen“ Clue of the silken ladder“ The cry at midnight“ Danger at the drawbridge“ Guilt of the brass thieves“ Hoofbeats on the turnpike“ Mystery of the laughing mask“ Saboteurs on the river“ The secret pact“ Signal in the dark“ Swamp island“ Tale of the witch doll“ Twin ring mystery“ Whispering walls“ The wishing well“ The vanishing houseboat“ Voice from the caveYoung, F.Y. Secret of the Dark House

Author [Adult] FictionAsimov, I. I, RobotBurroughs, E.R. Tarzan and the ant man“ Tarzan and the gold lion“ Tarzan and the jewels of Opar“ Tarzan Lord of the Jungle“ Tarzan the terrible“ Tarzan the untamed“ The return of TarzanCrane, S. The red badge of courageDoyle, A.C. Best of Sherlock HolmesGardner, E.S. Case of the angry mourner“ Case of the backward mule“ Case of the black-eyed blonde“ Case of the borrowed brunette“ Case of the buried clock“ Case of the cautious coquette“ Case of the dubious bridegroom“ Case of the drowsy mosquito“ Case of the fan-dancer’s horse“ Case of the fiery fingers“ Case of the gold digger’s purse“ Case of the half-wakened wife“ Case of the lazy lover

“ Case of the lonely heiress“ Case of the musical cow“ Case of the negligent nymph“ Case of the one-eyed witness“ Case of the smoking chimney“ The D.A. breaks an eggHale, G. Substance of a dreamHaycox, E. Action by night“ Border trumpet“ Bugles in the afternoon“ Canyon passage“ Deep west“ Sundown ??“ The wild bunchHilton, J. [British] Nothing so strange??ller, R. deW. E. [British] True stories of the super-natural Norton, A. A case for the baronO’Brien, J. Silver Chief to the rescueSmith, R. (ed.) [British?] Saturday Evening Post Sport StoriesSource: TLS, TJLSC, ‘List of books from the Court Bookshop, 142 Capel Street, Dublin, ‘American Titles’, April/May 1953

Appendix 2.5Selection of American titles on Register of prohibited publications (Books) between

31 March 1931 and 31 March 1938Check for repetition and theme and add into p.40 before fn 178

No. on RegisterTo 31 March 1931 (total prohibited = 75)

Name of book Edition or editions to which prohibition order relates

Name of author

Name of publisher

4 Home to Harlem

All Claude McKay Harper and Bros NY and London

19 The Party Dress

All Joseph Hergesheimer

AA Knopf, London

27 Painted Veils All James Huneker T Werner Laurie, London

49 Jews without Money

All Michael Gold Noel douglas, London

52 Soldier’s Pay All William Faulkner 1949 N Prize

Chatto and Windus

55 Elmer Gantry All Sinclair Lewis1930 N Prize

Grosset and Dunlap, London

56 Horses and Men

All Sherwood Anderson

Jonathan Cape, London

62 Look Homeward, Angel

All Thomas Wolfe W Heinemann, London

65 A woman on her way

All John Van Druten

GP Putnam’s Sons, London

No. on RegisterTo 31 March 1938 (total prohibited = 955)

Name of book Edition or editions to which prohibition order relates

Name of Author

Name of Publisher

Act of Darkness

All John Peale Bishop

Jonathan Cape

American Earth

All Erskine Caldwell

Martin Secker, London

Anitra’s Dance All Fannie Hurst Jonathan CapeAnthony Adverse

All William Hervey Allen

V Gollanez London

Appointment in All John O Hara Faber adn

Samarra Faber LondonAs I lay dying All William

FaulknerChatto and windus

Babylon on Hudson

All Anonymous Harper and Brothers, New York and london

Aphrodite All English versions

Pierre Louys (French)

Arden Book co New York

291 Brith control: the limitation of offspring

All William J Robinson Md

Eugenics Publishing co. New York

279 The Bishop’s Jaegesr

All Thorne Smith Doubleday, Doran and co, New York

The Book of Love

All Upton Sinclair1942 Pul Priz

T Werner Laurie, London

Birth Control, Companionate Marriage

All Dr David H Keller

Roman Publlishing co New York

609 The book of Love

All Upton sinclair T Werner Laurie, London

154 Brothers in the WEst

All Robert Reynolds

Harper and Brothers, NY and london

97 Cats’Meat and Kings

all George Baker (G Pierce Baker?)

E Partridge, London

499 The constant sinner

all Mae West? John Long, London

697 Cultural and Scientific Pictorial Studies in Sex. Anatomy and the TEchnique of coitus

all James Bruce Falstaff press, NY

114 Dark Bridwell all Vardis Fisher 1939 Harper Prize Novel Award (Mormon)

Gollanez, London

120 Dawn all Theodore Dreiser

Constable and co London

924 Diseases and Problems of old age

all David H Keller Roman Publishing, NW

109 The Doctor Looks at Love and Life

all Joseph collins Garden city publishing co., NY

577 Don’t you weep ... Don’t you moan

all Richard Coleman

The Macmillan co NY

819 Dwell in the wilderness

All Alvah c Bessie Constable and co London

587 Ethical Sex Relations, or the New eugenics

all CS Whitehead MD charles A Hoff MD

Bleirir and Brown, NY

364 Eugenics and Sex Harmony

all Herman H rubinMD

Pioneer Publishing NY

2 Family Limitations

All Margaret Sanger

Rose Whitcop, London

693 A Farewell to Arms

all Ernest Hemingway 1953 Pul, 1954 Nobel

John Lane, London

47 Forty Second Parallel, the

all John Dos Passos

Constable, London

55 Elmer Gantry all Sinclair Lewis Grosset and Dunlap, Nw York

539 The foundry all Albert Halper Cassesll, London

417 Gentlemen, I address you privately

all Kay Boyle Faber adn Faber, London

611 The Glorious Pool

all Thorne smith Arthur Baker, London

400 God’s Little Acre

all Erskine Caldwell

Martin Secker, london

900 Great laughter all Fannie Hurst Jonathan Cape, London

4 Home to Harlem

all Claude Mckay Harper, NY

56 Horses and men

all Sherwood Anderson

Jonathan Cape

133 How like a God

all Rex Stout Morley and Mitchell kennerley, Lon

518 I see no sin all Vardis fisher Boriswood, Lon

49 Jews without Money

all Michael gold Noel douglas, L

323 Light in August all William Faulkner

Chatto and windusLondon

62 Angel Look Homeward

all Thomas Wolfe Heineman, L

432 Love all Bernard S Talmey MD

Eugenic Publishing, NY

904 Love, courtship, Marriage

all Dr David H Keller

Roman Publishing NY

617 Lust for Life all Irving Stone John Lane,L405 Manhattan

Transferall John Dos

PassosConstable, L

700 Men and Brethern

all James Gould Cozzens 1948 P

Longman, L

760 Kneel to the rising sun

all Erskine Caldwell

Martin Secker and Wargurb, L

218 A Modern hero all Louis Bromfeld 1926 Pult

Cassell, L

890 Mother and Baby

all Dr David H keller,

Roman Pub co New York

129 My fight for birth control

All Margaret Sanger

Farrer adn Rhinehart NY

551 My next Bride all Kay boyle Faber&F,L10 The New

Motherhoodall Margaret

SangerJomathan Cape, L

228 Nineteen nineteen

all John dos Passos

Constable L

903 Nudism comes to America

all Frances and Mason Merrill

Garden city Pub-NY

956 The mother All english Sholem Asch (us citizen 1930)

Routledge, L

642 The thief, the mother

All english Ibid Gollancz L

939 Of time and the river

all Thomas Wolfe Heineman L

502 Our mysterious life glands

all William g Robinson, PhD, Md

Eugenics Pub-NY

27 Painted Veils all James Huneker T.Werner laurie,L

450 Pasquerella and Madonna Babetta

All english versions

Giovanni Bocaccio

The Biblion soc NY

554 Passions spin the Plot

all Vardis fisher Borriswood L

11 The Pivot of Civilisation

all Margaret Sanger

Jonathan Cape, L

426 The Postman alwasy rings twic

all James M Cain ibid

696 A private anthropoligcal cabinet

all Robert Meadows

Falstaff press Ny

580 Pylon all William Faulkner

Chatto and W L

150 Queer People all Carroll & Garret Graham

Crosset & dunlap, NY

736 Rain in the doorway

all Thorne Smith Arthur Barker L

666 Safe counsel or Practical Eugenics

all Jeffries bg, Nichols jl, Davis os, Drake ef

JL Nichols, Naperville, USa

121 Santuary all William faulkner

Chatto&Wind,L

522 Sane Sex life and Sane Sex living

all HW Long Md Eugenics Pub NY

80 Seed on the wind

all Rex Stout Morley&Mitchel

906 Sex and common sense

all A Maude Royden

GP Putnam, NY

888 Sex and family through the ages

all Dr David H Keller

Roman Pub Ny

871 Sex and society all Ibid ibid713 Sex behaviour

in marraigeall Charles A

clinton, MDPioneer Pub nY

434 Sex in civilisaton

all Edt VF Calverton, DS Schmalhausen

The Macauley NY

536 Sex knwledge for men

all William J Robinson MD

The Eugenics co NY

887 Secual diseases and abnormalities of Adult Life

all Dr David H keller

Roman Publishing NY

925 The Sexual ed of the young man

all Ibid ibid

889 The sexual ed of the young woman

all Ibid ibid

583 The sexual all Dr Magnus The Panurge

history of the world war

Hirschfeld Press, NY

923 The sex life of men and women after forty

all Keller RP NY

905 Sexual Power all Chester Tilton Stone MD

D appleton Century NY

712 Sexual relations of mankind

all Prof Paolo Mantegazzza

Falstaff Press, NY

498 She done him wrong

all Mae West John Long L

688 Skin and bone all Thorne smith Arthur Barker, L

478 120 days of Sodom

all Dr Iwan Bloch Falstaff Press Ny

52 Soldier’s Pay all William Faulkner

C and W L

649 Somebody in boots

all Nelson Algren Constable and co L

920 The strange case of Miss Annie spragg

all Louis Bromfeld

Bodley Head L

575 Strange Loves all Potter La forest MD

Robert Dodsley, NY

735 Studs Lonigan all James T Farrell

Constable L

665 Summer in Williamsburg

all Daniel Fuchs Constalbe, L

870 Three cities all Sholem Asch Gollancz L605 To a God

Unknownall John Steinbeck

1940 P 1962 NHeinemann

377 Tobaccco road all Erskine Caldwell

The Cresset P L

935 To have and have not

all Ernest Hemingway

JCape L

619 Topper takes a trip

all Thorne smith Arthur Barker L

759 The Trouble I’ve Seen

all Martha Gellhorn

Putnam, L

614 They shoot horses don’t the

all Horace mcCoy Arthur Barker L

376 Turnabout all Thorne smith ibid92 Twenty-four

hoursall Louuis

BromfeldCassell L

704 Union Square all Albert Halper Cassell729 We are all Vardis Fisher Borriswood

Betrayed London416 We are the

Livingall Erskine

CaldwellMartin Secker L

859 We, the Living all Ayn Rand b. russia Emigrated to US 1926

Cassell, L

12 What every mother should know

all Margret Sanger

Jonathatn Cape, L

886 White Horses of vienna

all Kay Boyle Faber adn F L

622 Why Birth control?

all Harold P Preston

Pioneer Publications NY

290 Woman: her sex and love life

all William J robinson MD

Eugenics Publ NY

302 Ann vickers all Sinclair Lewis Jonathan Cape L

Checked in Encyclopedia of AMerican Literature general ed Steven R Serafin Continuum, NY, 1999Larousse dictionary of Writers editor Rosemary goring, NY, 1994

Bloomsbury guide to Women’s literature, edited by claire buck, London 1992

Appendix 2.6Nationality of authors with most books banned by the CPB, 1930-9

Author Banned NationalityAnonymous/NA 15George Ryley Scott 9 EnglishNeil Bell 9 EnglishMaurice Dekobra 8 FrenchDavid H. Keller 8 American

(Science Fiction/horror/fantasy)Marie Stopes 8 ScottishRichard Aldington 7 EnglishColette 7 FrenchRhys Davies 6 WelshWilliam Faulkner 6 AmericanVardis Fisher 6 AmericanPhilip Lindsay 6 AmericanMargaret Sanger 6 AmericanVicki Baum 5 AustrianG. Courtenay Beale 5 British?John Brophy 5 EnglishErskine Caldwell 5 AmericanJoan Conquest 5 EnglishElliot Crawsley-William 5 ?Rupert Croft-Cooke 5 EnglishAldous Huxley 5 EnglishNorah C. James 5 EnglishJack Lindsay 5 AustralianNorman Lindsay 5 AustralianLiam O’Flaherty 5 IrishKitty Shannon 5 EnglishSource: Peter Martin, Censorship in the two Irelands 1922-1939 (Irish Academic press, Dublin, 2006), Table 7.3, p. 196; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.7County Meath Library Committee

Full titles, authors’ names, nationality of authors in ‘List of books considered unsuitable for general circulation’, 1933

British and Commonwealth Author Title CategoryAdrian Alington The career of Julian Stanley

Williams-Novel (crime)-

Ruby Mildren Ayers Spoilt Music Novel (romance)

Charlotee Bronte Villette NovelHugh Brooke Man made angry NovelJohn Galsworthy Man of property NovelPhilip Gibbs Golden Years NovelNorman Giles (pseudo. N. McKeown) Green Valley NovelJan Gordon Beans spilt in Spain NovelBruce Graeme (pseudo, Graham Montague Jefferies

Unsolved Novel (crime)

H. Cecil Hunt Old Barty NovelF. Tennyson Jesse Many latitudes Novel (crime)William Le Queux The catspaw Novel

(mystery)Eric Linklater Juan in America NovelCompton Mackenzie (Scottish) Carnival NovelRichard Oke (pseudo.Nigel Stansbury)

Frolic wind Novel

Ernest Raymond Family that was Fiction (mystery)

Maurice Richardson Strong man needed NovelOwen Rutter White Rajah NovelEthel Winifred Savi Beauty Market NovelEthel Winifred Savi Vagrant Love NovelEleanor Smith (Lady) Famous novels of to-day Novel*Ben Strong Shadow on the course Novel

(mystery)Margaret Cole Twelve studies of Soviet

RussiaFact

Emmeline Morrison Three of a kind Novel*English publisher, Hodder and Stoughton

United States Author Title CategoryMary Borden Jane our stranger NovelMary Borden Jericho sands NovelMary Borden A Woman with white eyes Novel*Isabel C. Clarke It happened in Rome NovelIsabel C. Clarke Strangers of Rome NovelMargaret Horton Potter Sister Anne resigns Fiction

*Strangely Clarke was a Catholic novelist. http://www.catholicauthors.com/clarke.html (accessed 6 January 2010)

Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, County meath Library Committee, List of books considered unsuitable for general circulation, MK MacNevin MA, County Librarian and Secretary, 13 November 1933; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.8County Cork Library Committee

Full titles, authors’ names, nationality of authors on ‘Books objected to’, 1933

British and CommonwealthAuthor Title CategoryLewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song Fiction-Evelyn Everett-Green Squib and his friends Fiction

(juvenile)Edward Albert Herrin’ Jennie Fiction Edward Mathers Splendid Quest FictionHugh Cecil Asterley Tale of two murders Fiction (crime)Henry Taylor Folkes Rhodes

Clues and crimes: the science of criminal investigation

Non-fiction

United StatesAuthor Title CategoryMartha Finley Elsie’s friends at Woodburn- Fiction (juvenile)Tod Robbins Who wants a green bottle? Fiction (fantasy)Val Lewton The sword of the cosack Fiction

Anon. Lizzie Heyburn, Nelson. No further information-English and American publishing house.

Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, County Cork, Books objected to, 1933; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books

Appendix 2.9Library Association of Ireland,

Advisory Committee on Book SelectionNationality of authors of books on ‘Book List no. 3 (Rejections)’, 1934

British and CommonwealthAuthor Title CategoryAlice Marjorie Barnicot The shadow of the woman NovelThomas Owen Beechcroft A young man in a hurry Novel*Francis Beeding Mr Bobadil Novel (crime)Ursula Bloom Pastoral Novel (romantic)Marjorie Bowen The triumphant beast Novel (gothic romance)Gerald Bullet Eden River NovelFrancesca Claremont Turn again ladies Novel**Brian Cottrell (pseudo.) Sinister eden Novel***Agnes Cresswell Brood O’ the Way Novel (romance)Guy Fletcher The forest echoed fool NovelHulbert Footner (Canadian)

Murder runs in the family Fiction (detective)

Val Gielgud Gravel hanger FictionA.C.G. Hastings Venom Fiction****A.P. Herbert Holy Deadlock Fiction*****John Heygate Talking Picture Novel (semi-

autobiographical)Michael Home In this valley Fiction (crime)Denis Kincaid Cactus Land FictionHenrietta Leslie (pseudo.)Mrs Gladys Shütz

Mother of Five Fiction

Philip Lindsay (Australian) London bridge is falling FictionEric Linklater The Revolution FictionAlun Llewellyn The Deacon FictionBelloc Lowdnes Another man’s wife FictionHugh Patrick McGaw Rude Society FictionClaude McKay Banana Bottom FictionH. Fletcher Moulton The Unofficial Executor FictionDaphne Muir Very Heaven Fiction*****Ronald Nirden Edwin Jeune, Gentleman FictionChristine Grant Millar Orr (Scottish)

Tattered Feathers: a story of these dangerous days

Fiction

******Aishie Farrell Infidelity FictionConrad H. Sayce (Australian)

Comboman Fiction

Edward Shanks Tom Tiddler’s Ground FictionJohn Sorsky The Bond FictionJoan Temple Duologne Fiction*******Trevelyan As it happened in the

beginning?

Reginald Underwood Bachelor’s Hall Fiction

Eric Warman No place for the young FictionEvelyn Charles Vivian Jewels Go Back Fiction********Spencer Watts Mongrel NovelGeoffrey Willans Shallow Dive Novel*Pseud of Hilary St. George Saunders and John Palmer**English publisher, Harrap***English publisher, Mills and Boon**** Sir Alan Patrick Herbert was also an MP and law reformer. The theme of the work was on divorce.****Sir John Heygate’s book was based on personal experiences in Weimar GermanyBarbara Golden, Slings and arrows, published by British publisher MacMillan in 1934.*****English Publisher, Wright and Brown******English publisher, Methuen and may have been an actress who toured with Noel Coward*******English publisher, Martin Secker********English publisher, Elkin Mathews and Marsot

ContinentalAuthor Title Category*Vicki Baum(emigrated to US 1931)

Falling star Novel (book banned in Germany also)

**Gleb Botkin Her Wanton Majesty NovelA.I. Voinova Semi-precious

stonesNovel

Stefan Zweig Kaleidoscope Novel*Best selling novelist with strong female characters. This book was described as a ‘teutonic melodrama’ based on Hollywood life. Time, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,747014,00.html (accessed 4 January 2010)**He set up his own church, Church of the Aphrodite in New York in the early 1930s.

United StatesAuthor Title CategoryKay Boyle Gentlemen, I address you privately NovelJames M. Cain The postman always rings twice Novel (crime)*George W. Cronyn The fool of venus Novel**Means Davis The hospital murder Novel (crime)***Ben Hecht A Jew in love Fiction****Frederick Jackson Pantoufle FictionAlison Lide and Margaret Johanson

Dark Possession Fiction

Francis Van Wyck Mason The Shanghai Bund Murders NovelJanet Curren woen (pseudo.)Helen Gould Curren Owen

Late Flowering Novel

Mary Robert Rinehart The case of Elinor Norton Novel (mystery)Wallace Smith The captain hates the sea NovelMae West She done him wrong Novel

*Cronyn became associate director of the Federal Writers’ Project in the US**American publisher, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas existed from 1932 to 1936http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/haasrm.pdf (accessed 5 January 2010)***Hecht was a director, producer, play writer and novelist in Hollywood and anti-Nazi after 1933.http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007040 (accessed 5 January 2010.)

No further information on P. Trail, The Angel, 1934, Grayson and Grayson.

No further information on Nora O’Beirne Dowling, Noon-day Devil, 1934, Lincoln William (English publisher), previously published The grinding of the mills in 1926 by the same author.

Drummond, Customs of Brettinore (St Paul Publishing Company, MN, USA) no further information on author

Source: TLS, The Library Association of Ireland, Book List No. 3 (Rejections), date stamped, 10 October 1934; Nationality obtained from Google Books website and other internet sources particularly Library of Congress, Catalogue of copyright entries, Part 1(Copyright Office, United States, Dept. of the Treasury); http://books.google.ie/books