John Galsworthy
Male : Novelist and
playwright. Nobel Prize for Literature 1932. Married Ada Cooper, the
divorced wife of his cousin in 1905, after they had had an affair.
Refused a knighthood in 1918
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Kingston Hill, Surrey
Date of Birth : 1867 Date of Death : 1933 Age : 66
Pseudonyms : John Sinjohn
Other Work : Barrister 1890
Education : Harrow & New College, Oxford (Law)
All Titles Heinemann unless stated
Four titles by 'JOHN SINJOHN'
From the Four Winds (1897 Fisher Unwin) - ss.
Jocelyn (1898 Duckworth)
Villa Rubein (1900 Duckworth) (1908 Putnam)
A Man of Devon (1901 Blackwood) - ss
1904-1910
The Island Pharisees (1904)
The Man of Property (1905) (1906 Putnam) - ss
[Filmed in 1949 as "That Forsyte Woman"]
The Country House (1907) - 1750 copies printed
A Commentary (1908 Richards, London)
Fraternity (1909)
Plays : The Silver Box, Joy, Strife (1909 Duckworth)
The Silver Box (1910 Duckworth)
Joy (1910 Duckworth)
Strife (1910 Duckworth)
Justice (1910 Duckworth)
A Motley (1910)
1911-1915
The Patrician (1911)
The Little Dream (1911 Duckworth)
For Love of Beasts (1912 RSPB) - 20pp pamphlet
Moods, Songs & Doggerels (1912)
The Inn of Tranquility : Studies and Essays (1912)
The Eldest Son (1912 Duckworth) (1912 Scribner)
Plays : Vol 2 (1912 Duckworth)
The Pigeon (1912 Duckworth)
The Slaughter of Animals for Food (1913 RSPCA) - 24 pp
The Fugitive (1913 Duckworth)
The Dark Flower (1913)
The Mob (1914 Duckworth)
Plays : Vol 3 (1914 Duckworth)
Some Slings and Arrows from John Galsworthy : Selected by Elsie E Morton
(1914 Elkin Mathews Vigo Cabinet Second Series No 27. 1/-)
The Freelands (1915)
A Bit o'Love (1915 Duckworth) (1915 Scribner NY)
The Little Man & Other Satires (1915)
1916-1920
A Sheaf (1916) - 2000 copies
Beyond (1917)
Five Tales (1918) - ss
The Land : A Plea (1918 Allen & Unwin)
Addresses in America (1919) (1919 Scribner)
Another Sheaf (1919)
The Burning Spear (1919 Chatto & Windus) - by ARPM
Saint's Progress (1919) (1919 Scribner)
In Chancery (1920)
The Foundation (1920 Duckworth) (1920 Scribner)
The Skin Game (1920 Duckworth)
[Filmed in 1932]
Plays : 4th series (1920 Duckworth)
Tatterdemalion (1920) - ss. 4000 copies
Awakening (1920) - R H Sauter
1921-1922
To Let (1921)
Six Short Plays (1921 Duckworth)
The Bells of Peace (1921 Heffer, Cambridge) - 1000. Pamphlet
The Forsyte Saga (1922)
The Man of Property
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
In Chancery
Awakening
To Let
Plus : A de Luxe Edition of 550 copies & a Large Paper Edition of 275 signed
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The Works (1922 Scribner NY) - Manaton Edition. 30 vols. 780 signed
Loyalties (1922 Duckworth)
A Family Man (1922 Duckworth)
Windows (1922 Duckworth)
Plays : 5th Series (1922 Duckworth)
1923-1925
Captures (1923) - ss
International Thought (1923 Heffer, Cambridge)
Manaton Collected Edition (1923-4) - 21 vols
The White Monkey (1924) + Large Paper Edition 265 signed
The Forest (1924 Duckworth)
The Little Man (1924 Duckworth)
Old English (1924 Duckworth)
[Filmed in 1930]
Memorable Days (1924 Curwen Press) - 60 copies
On Expression (1924 English Association pamphlet no 59)
Caravan : The Assembled Tales (1925) - ss. + Ltd Ed of 1200 & a De Luxe edition of 265 Signed
The Show (1925 Duckworth)
Plays : 6th Series (1925 Duckworth)
1926-1930
The Silver Spoon (1926) + Large Paper Edition 265 signed
Verses New & Old (1926)
Escape (1926 Duckworth)
Two Forsyte Interludes (1927) + De Luxe Edition of 525 signed
Castles in Spain and Other Screeds (1927) (1927 Scribner)
Swan Song (1928 Scribners) (1928) + Large Paper Edition 525 signed
The Plight of the Miners (1928 Society of Friends, Coalfields Distress Committee leaflet No 1) - 4 pp
A Modern Comedy (1929 - trilogy) + De Luxe Edition of 1000 signed
The White Monkey
The Silver Spoon
Swan Song
Four Forsyte Stories (1929 Heinemann, London & Fountain Press NY) + 850 signed
Exiled : An Evolutionary Comedy in Three Acts (1929 Duckworth)
A Rambling Discourse (1929 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 400 signed
The Plays of John Galsworthy (1929 Duckworth) - 1275 signed
The Roof (1929 Duckworth)
On Forsyte Change (1930) - ss
Soames and the Flag (1930) + De Luxe edition of 1025 signed (1930 Scribner) - 680 signed. ss
A Commentary (1930 Richards Press, London) - 275 signed
Loyalties : A Drama in 3 Acts (1930 Duckworth) - 315 signed
[Filmed in 1934]
Two Essays on Conrad : With the Story of a Remarkable Friendship
(1930 PP, Freelands) - 25 on Vellum
After 1931
The Creation of Character in Literature (1931 OUP) - 250 signed
Maid in Waiting (1931) - + De Luxe Edition of 525 signed and numbered
Flowering Wilderness (1932) + De Luxe edition of 400 signed & Numbered (1932 Scribner)
(Trans) Carmen : An Opera in 4 Acts (1932 Elkin Mathews & Marrot)
- with Ada Galsworthy. 650 signed
Author and Critic (1933 House of Books, NY) - 300 numbered
Over the River (1933) + De Luxe Edition of 375 Signed
(Selected by with A G) Ex Libris (1933 Heinemann)
Candelabra (1933 Scribner)
The Apple Tree (1934 Scribner NY) - 1st separate edition
The Collected Poems (1934 Scribner)
Forsytes : Pendyces and Others (1935) - ss
End of the Chapter (1935 - trilogy)
Glimpses and Reflections (1937)
The Forsyte Saga (1950 Heinemann) - illustrated edition with drawings by Anthony Gross
The Man of Property (1964 Ltd Eds Club NY) - 1500 signed by Charles Mozley
Intro by Evelyn Waugh
READING
Sheila Kaye-Smith : John Galsworthy (1916 Nisbet)
Joseph Conrad : John Galsworthy - An Appreciation (1922 Canterbury for PP circulation)
H V Marrot : A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy
(1928 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - 210 signed by Galsworthy
H V Marrot : The Life & letters of Galsworthy (1935 Heinemann)
R H Mottram : For Some We Loved - An Intimate Portrait of Ada and John Galsworthy
(1956 Hutchinson 21/-)
Dudley Barker : The Man of Principle - a View of Galsworthy (1963)
James Gindin : John Galsworthy (1987)