Male : Dramatist, Chess Champion, Sportsman, Soldier, Adventurer and fiction writer. Married Beatrice Child Villiers in 1904. Lived a privileged life devoted to pleasurable pursuits, ie hunting, cricket, travel and sport, inheriting the Lord title from his father in 1899

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1878 Date of Death : 1957 Age : 79

Education : Eton & Sandhurst

1905-1910
The Gods of Pagana (1905 Elkin Mathews 5/-) - 1000. Sidney Sime
Time and Gods (1906 Heinemann)
The Sword of Welleran & other Stories (1908 Geo Allen) - Sidney Sime
A Dreamer's Tales (1910 Geo Allen)
The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (1910 Sch of Arts Press)

1911-1920
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany (1912 Cuala Press)
(1971 Cuala Press - 250)
The Book of Wonder : A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World
(1912 Heinemann) - Sidney Sime
(1919 Elkin Mathews. 2nd Ed. 7/6) - 1000
Five Plays (1914 Grant Richards)
Fifty-One Tales (1915 Elkin Mathews 3/6)
A Night at an Inn (1916 US) - Play
Tales of Wonder (1916 Elkin Mathews 5/-) - Sidney Sime
Plays of God and Men (1917 Talbot Press, Dublin) (1917 Fisher Unwin)
Alexander & Three Small Plays (1918 Putnams - 250 signed) (1925 Putnam's)
Tales of War (1918 The Talbot Press, Dublin) (1918 Fisher Unwin)
Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919 Elkin Mathews 5/-)
Tales of Three Hemispheres (1919 John W Luce, Boston) (1920 T Fisher Unwin)

1921-1923
The Chronicles of Rodriquez (1922 Putnams) (1924 Putnams Trade Ed)
The Laughter of the Gods : Plays of God and Men (1922 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Tents of the Arabs (1922 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Queen's Enemies (1922 Putnam Pb) - Play
If (1922 Putnams) - Play
Plays of Near and Far (1922 Putnams) - Play
The Gods of the Mountain (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Golden Dome (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Glittering Gate (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Lost Silk Hat (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Flight of the Queen (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
Cheezo (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
A Good Bargain (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
If Shakespeare Lived To-Day (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
Fame and the Poet (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play
Plays of Near and Far (1923 Putnam Pb) - Play

1924-1925
The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924 Putnams) - 250 signed. Sidney Sime
The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles (1924 Grolier Club NY) - 300
Alexander (1925 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Old King's Tale (1925 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Evil Kettle (1925 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Amusements of Khan Kharuda (1925 Putnam Pb) - Play

1926-1930
The Charwoman's Shadow (1926 Putnams)
The Blessing of Pan (1927 Putnam's)
Seven Modern Comedies (1928 Putnams)
Atalanta at Wimbledon (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Raffle (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Journey of the Soul (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
In Holy Russia (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
His Sainted Grandmother (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Hopeless Passion of Mr Bunyon (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
The Jest of Hahalaba (1928 Putnam Pb) - Play
Fifty Poems (1929 Putnams)
The Old Folk of the Centuries (1930 E Mathews & Marrot)

1931-1935
The Travel Tales of Mr Joseph Jorkens (1931 Putnam)
The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933 Heinemann)
Lord Adrian (1933 Golden Cockerel Press) - 325. Robert Gibbings
Mr Jorkens Remembers Africa (1934 Heinemann)
If I Were Dictator (1934 Methuen)
Up in the Hills (1935 Heinemann)
Mr Faithful (1935 French) - pb
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)

1936-1945
Rory and Bran (1936 Heinemann)
My Talks with Dean Spanley (1936 Heinemann)
My Ireland (1937 Jarrolds)
Plays for Earth & Air (1937 Heinemann)
Mirage Water (1938 Putnam)
Patches of Sunlight (1938 Heinemann) - Autobiography
The Story of Mona Sheehy (1939 Heinemann)
Jorkens has a Large Whiskey (1940 Putnams)
War Poems (1941 Hutchinson)
Wandering Songs (1943 Hutchinson)
A Journey (1944 Macdonald)
Guerrilla (1944 Heinemann 8/6) (1944 Bobbs Merrill)
While the Sirens Slept (1944 Jarrolds) - Autobiography
The Sirens Wake (1945 Jarrolds) - Autobiography
The Donnellan Lectures 1943 (1945 Heinemann 6/-)

1946-1955
A Glimpse from the Watch Tower (1946 Jarrolds)
The Year (1946 Jarrolds)
(Trans) The Odes of Horace (1947 Heinemann)
The Fourth Book of Jorkens (1948 Jarrolds)
The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1949 Jarrolds)
To Awaken Pegasus & Other Poems (1949 Geo Ronald, Oxford)
The Strange Story of Colonel Polders (1950 Jarrolds)
The Last Revolution (1951 Jarrolds)
His Fellow Men (1952 Jarrolds)
The Little Tales of Smethers & Other Stories (1952 Jarrolds)
Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey (1954 Michael Joseph)

After 1956
The Edge of the World (1970 Ballantine) - pb
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972 Ballantine) - pb
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974 Ballantine) - pb
Gods, Men and Ghosts (1972 Dover) - pb
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer & Other Phantasms (1980 Owlswick Press, US)

READING
Hazel Littlefield : Lord Dunsany - King of Dreams (1959 Exposition Press, US)
Mark Amory : Lord Dunsany - A Biography (1972 Collins)
Simon Heneage & Henry Ford : Sidney Sime - Master of the Mysterious (1980 T & H) - pb
S T Joshi & Darrell Schweitzer : Lord Dunsany - A Bibliography (1993 Scarecrow Press, US) - no D/W
S T Joshi : Lord Dunsany - Master of the Anglo-Irish IMagination (1995 Greenwood Press)