(All Heinemann unless stated)
1918-1925
A Chapman of Rhymes (PP by Alexander Moring 1918)
[Most of these were pulped because Priestley was displeased with the work]
Brief Diversions : Being Tales, Travesties & Epigrams (1922 Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge)
Papers from Lilliput (1922 Bowes)
I for One (1923 John Lane, Bodley Head)
Figures in Modern Literature (1924 Lane)
The English Comic Characters (1925 Lane)
- 70
Tom Moore's Diary (1925 CUP)
1926-1927
George Meredith (1926 Macmillan)
Talking (These Diversions)
(1926 Jarrolds)
- 75
Adam in Moonshine (1927)
Open House : A Book of Essays (1927)
The English Novel (1927 Benn)
Benighted (1927)
(in US as "The Old Dark House" 1928)
[Filmed in 1932 as "The Old Dark House"]
Thomas Love Peacock (1927 Macmillan)
1928-1930
Apes and Angels : A Book of Essays (1928 Methuen)
The Balconinny & Other Essays (1929 Methuen)
English Humour (1929 Longmans)
Farthing Hall (1929)
- with Hugh Walpole
The Good Companions (1929)
(1929 Harper NY)
[Filmed in 1933 & 1956]
Angel Pavement (1930)
- 1025 in buckram, signed
The Town Major of Miraucourt (1930)
- ss. + 525 signed
Going Up (1930)
- ss
1931-1935
Faraway (1932)
Self Selected Essays (1932)
Dangerous Corner : A Play in 3 Acts (1932)
[Filmed in 1934]
Wonder Hero (1933)
The Roundabout : A Comedy in 3 Acts (1933)
Albert Goes Through (1933)
- ss. Edmund Blampied
I'll Tell You Everything : A Frolic (1933)
- with Gerald Bullett
English Journey : Being a rambling but truthful Account of what One man saw and heard and felt
and thought during a Journey Through England during the Autumn of the Year 1933
(1934 Heinemann & Gollancz)
Eden End (1934)
Four in Hand (1934)
Laburnum Grove : An Immoral Comedy in 3 Acts (1934)
[Filmed in 1936]
Cornelius : A Business Affair in Three Transactions (1935)
1936-1938
They Walk in the City : The Lovers in the Stone Forest (1936)
Bees on the Boat Deck (1936)
Midnight on the Desert : A Chapter in Autobiography (1937)
Time and the Conways (1937)
Manchester : The Heart of the Industrial North (1937 Manchester Chamber of Commerce)
- 48pp
I Have been Here Before (1937)
People at Sea : A Play in 3 Acts (1937)
The Doomsday Men : An Adventure (1938)
When we are Married : A Yorkshire Farcical Comedy (1938 French)
[Filmed in 1942]
1939-1940
Let the People Sing (1939)
[Filmed in 1942]
Johnson Over Jordan : The Play and All About It (1939)
Rain Upon Godshill : A Further Chapter in Autobiography (1939)
Postscripts (1940 Heinemann 2/6)
The Wonder Hero (1940 Evergreen Books)
Britain Speaks Out (1940 Harper)
1941-1945
Out of the People (1941 Collins, Vigilant Books)
Blackout in Gretley : A Story of - and for - Wartime (1942)
Good Night Children (1942)
Daylight on Saturday (1943)
Three Plays : Music at Night, The Long Mirror, They Came to the City (1943)
The Manpower Story (1943 Ministry of Labour)
British Women Go to War (nd.1943 Collins)
Here Are your Answers (1944)
They came to a City (1944)
[Filmed in 1944]
Four Plays (1944)
Desert Highway (1944)
How are they at Home ? (1944)
Letter to a Returning Serviceman (1945 Home & Van Thaal)
Manpower (1945 HMSO)
Russian Journey (1945 Writer's Groups of Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR)
Three Men in New Suits (1945)
1946-1950
Bright Day (1946)
The Secret Dream : An Essay on Britain, America and Russia (1946 Turnstile Press)
The New Citizen (1946)
Russian Journey (1946)
- 40pp booklet
The Arts Under Socialism (1947 Turnstyle Press)
Jenny Villiers : A Story of the Theatre (1947 10/6)
(Harper)
- Elaine Hancock
Theatre Outlook (1947 Nicholson & Watson 7/6)
Music at Night (1947)
An Inspector Calls : A Play in 3 Acts (1947)
[Filmed in 1954]
The Linden Tree (1948)
The High Toby : A Play for the Theatre (1948 Puffin, cut-out book)
The Golden Fleece (1948)
The Olympians : An Opera in 3 Acts (1949 Novello)
- music by Arthur Bliss
Delight (1949)
- 250 numbered and signed
Home is Tomorrow (1949)
Summer Day's Dream (1950)
Ever Since Paradise (1950)
Lost Empires (1950)
1951-1955
Festival at Farbridge (1951 15/-)
The Other Place & other stories of the Same Sort (1953)
The Magicians (1954 8/6)
Low Notes on a High Level (1954)
Journey Down a Rainbow (1955 Heinemann/Cresset Press)
- with Jacquetta Hawkes
1956-1960
The Writer in a Changing Society (1956 Hand & Flower Press)
- 29pp
All About Ourselves & Other Essays (1956 21/-)
The Art of the Dramatist (1957 10/6)
Thoughts in the Wilderness : Essays (1957 )
Topside, or The Future of England : A Dialogue (1958)
The Story of Theatre (1959 Rathbone Books)
Literature and Western Man (1960)
William Hazlitt (1960)
Margin Released : A Writer's Reminiscences & Reflections (1960 Harper & Row)
(1962)
1961-1965
Saturn Over the Water (1961)
Charles Dickens : A Pictorial Biography (1961 Thames & Hudson)
The Thirty-First of June (1961)
- John Cooper
The Shapes of Sleep - A Topical Tale (1962)
Sir Michael and Sir George (1964)
A Severed Head : A Play in 3 Acts (1964 Chatto & Windus)
Man and Time (1964 Aldus Books)
Lost Empires (1965)
1966-1970
The Moment and Other Pieces (1966)
Salt is Leaving (1966 Pan pb)
It's an Old Country : A Novel (1967)
(1967 Little Brown)
All England Listened (1967 Chilmark Press, NY)
The Image Men : I - Out of Town (1968)
(1969 Little Brown)
Trumpets over the Sea (1968)
The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency 1811-1820 (1969)
Essays of Five Decades (1969)
The Image Men : II - London End (1969)
Charles Dickens and His World (1969 Thames & Hudson)
The Edwardians (1970 Heinemann)
Anton Chehkov (1970 International Textbook)
1971 Onwards
Snoggle - Mainly for Youngsters) (1971) - Margaret Palmer
Over the Long High Wall (1972)
Victoria's Heyday (1972)
The English (1973)
A Visit to New Zealand (1974)
Outcries and Asides (1974)
Particular Pleasures (1975)
The Carfitt Crisis & Two Other Stories (1975) (1976 Stein & Day, NY)
Found, Lost, Found or The English Way of Life (1976)
The Happy Dream : An Essay (1976 Whittington Press) - 400
English Humour (1976 £6.50)
Instead of the Trees : A Final Chapter in Autobiography (1977)
READING
David Hughes : J B Priestley - An Informal Study of His Work (1958)
Gareth Lloyd Evans : J B Priestley - The Dramatist (1964 Heinemann)
Susan Cooper : J B Priestley - A Portrait of an Author (1970 Heinemann)
John Braine : J B Priestley (1978 Weidenfeld) (1979 Barnes & Noble) - frontis by Hockney
John Atkins : J B Priestley - The Last of the Sages (1981 Calder)
Vincent Brome : J B Priestley (1988 Hamish Hamilton £16.95)
Alan Day : J B Priestley - An Annotated Bibliography (1980)
Diana Collins : Time and the Priestleys - The Story of a friendship (1994 Alan Sutton £17.99)
Peter Holdsworth : The Rebel Tyke - Bradford & J B Priestley (1994 Bradford Libraries £7.50)
Judith Cook : Priestley (1997 Bloomsbury £22.50)