Traveller's Library, The
[Reprints of books previously published elsewhere, but not essentially travel books.
Brought out by Jonathan Cape from 1926 priced 3/6
The books were in blue cloth with Chinese yellow dustwrappers.
6 volumes came out in April followed by 15 others 216 titles appeared up to 1939.
The first editions were issued in print runs of between 2000 & 5000
After the Second World War an attempt was made to revive the series, unsuccessfully.]
1926
1. Ambrose Bierce : Can Such Things Be
2. A E Coppard : The Black Dog
3. W H Davies : The Autobiography of a Supertramp
4. Sinclair Lewis : Babbitt
5. Percy Lubbock : The Craft of Fiction
6. Percy Lubbock : Earlham
7. A Mason : Wide Seas and Many Lands
8. H L Mencken : Selected Prejudices - Series 1
9. J H Robinson : The Mind in the Making
10. Samuel Butler : The Way of All Flesh
11. Samuel Butler : Erewhon
12. Samuel Butler : Erewhon Revisited
13. A E Coppard : Adam and Eve Pinch Me
14. James Joyce : Dubliners
15. Arthur Machen : Dog and Duck
16. Ernest Bramah : Kai Lung's Golden Hours
17. Laurence Housman : Angels and Ministers
18. Ernest Bramah : The Wallet of Kai Lung
19. D H Lawrence : Twilight in Italy
20. H G Wells : The Dream
21. Percy Lubbock : Roman Pictures
22. A E Coppard : Clorinda Walks in Heaven
1927
23. Walter Pater : Marius the Epicurean
24. Aino Kallas : The White Ship
25. John Masefield : Multitude and Solitude
26. Lian O'Flaherty : Spring Sowing
27. E H Young : William
28. Sarah Orne Jewett : The Country of the Pointed Firs
29. H J Forman : Grecian Italy
30. Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
31. Somerset Maugham : On a Chinese Screen
32. George Bourne : A Farmer's Life
33. Anton Tcheckoff : The Cherry Orchard & The SEagull
34. Ambrose Bierce : The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
35. John Masefield : Captain Margaret
36. A S Hildebrand : Blue Water
37. Guy de Maupassant : Stories
38. Henry Lawson : While the Billy Boils - First Series
39. Henry Lawson : While the Billy Boils - 2nd Series
40. Capt G Roberts : A Series of Uncommon Events
41. Edith Wharton : In Morocco
42. Lafcadio Hearn : Gleanings in Buddha Fields
43. Lafcadio Hearn : Out of the East
44. Lafcadio Hearn : Kwaidan
45. Naomi Mitchison : The Conquered
46. Naomi Mitchison : When the Bough Breaks
47. A Mason : The Flying Bosun
48. W H Davies : Later Days
49. Ambrose Bierce : The Eyes of the Panther
50. H L Mencken : In Defence of Women
51. E O'Shaughnessy : Viennese Medley
52. Mary Webb : Precious Bane
53. R S Garnett : The Infamous John Friend
54. Sherwood Anderson : Horses and Men
55. Samuel Butler : Selected Essays
56. W H Davies : A Poet's Pilgrimage
57. Lafcadio Hearn : Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - Series 1
58. Lafcadio Hearn : Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - Second Series
59. M Komroff : The Travels of Marco Polo
60. H L Mencken : Selected Prejudices - 2nd Series
61. M Murray : The World's Back Doors
62. John Middleton Murry : The Evolution of an Intellectual
63. Walter Pater : The Renaissance
64. S W Powell : Adventures of a Wanderer
65. Arthur Ransome : Racundra's First Cruise
66. William Reade : The Martyrdom of Man
67. Mark Rutherford : Autobiography
68. Mark Rutherford : The Deliverance
69. Mark Rutherford : The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
70. J W N Sullivan : Aspects of Science - First Series
72. E H Young : The Misses Mallett
73. Sir E Gosse : Selected Essays - 1st Series
74. Christopher Morley : Where the Blue Begins
75. Samuel Butler : Selections from the Notebooks
76. George Moore : Confessions of a Young Man
1928
71. Giovanni Verga : Mastro-Don Gesualdo
77. Martin Armstrong : The Bazaar
78. J B Atkins : Side Shows - Essays
79. Hillaire Belloc : Short Talks with the Dead
80. John Dos Passos : Orient Express
81. Edmund Gosse : Selected Essays - 2nd Series
82. Ivan Turgenev : On the Eve
83. Ivan Turgenev : Fathers and Children
84. Ivan Turgenev : Smoke
85. Dubose Heyward : Porgy
86. S Huddleston : France and the French
87. Kathleen Coyle : Liv
88. Naomi Mitchison : Cloud Cuckoo Land
89. Stephen Graham : A Private in the Guards
90. Christopher Morley : Thunder on the Left
91. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence
92. Somerset Maugham : The Casuarina Tree
93. Stephen Reynolds : A Poor Man's House
94. Arthur Symons : William Blake
95. Edward Thomas : A Literary Pilgrim in England
96. Earl Rosebery : Napoloen, The Last Phase
97. Edward Thomas : The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs
98. Christopher Morley : Safety Pins
99. Liam O'Flaherty : The Black Soul
100. H G Wells : Christina Alberta's Father
101. Paul Gauguin : The Intimate Journals
102. John Collings Squire : The Grub Street Night's Entertainments
103. Marmaduke Pickthall : Oriental Encounters
104. Pauline Smith : The Little Karoo
105. Grazia Deledda : The Mother
106. W G Waters : Travellers' Joy
107. F Riesenberg : Shipmates
108. Hugh de Selincourt : The Cricket Match
109. William Lithgow : Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations
110. Shane Leslie : The End of a Chapter
111. Negley Farson : Sailing Across Europe
112. W H Hudson : Men, Books and Birds
113. Arthur Symons : Plays, Acting and Music
114. Edith Wharton : Italian Backgrounds
1929
115. C Sitwell : Flowers and Elephants
116. Eugene O'Neill : The Moon of the Caribees
117. Konrad Bercovici : Between Earth and Sky
118. George Douglas : The House with the Green Shutters
119. Edward Garnett : Friday Nights
120. H Festing Jones : Diversions in Sicily
121. Neville Cardus : Days in the Sun
122. Frederick A Voigt : Combed Out
123. M Komroff : Contemporaries of Marco Polo
124. Hugh L Fausset : Tennyson
125. A W Lawrence : Captives of Tipu - Survivors' Narratives
126. Theodore Canot : Memoirs of a Slave Trader
127. Llewellyn Powys : Black Laughter
128. Liam O'Flaherty : The Informer
129. Pauline Smith : The Beadle
130. A E Coppard : Fishmonger's Fiddle
131. P Withers : Friends in Solitude
132. J R McDonald : Wanderings and Excursions
133. Alice Meynell : Wayfaring
134. Capt G Carleton : Military Memoirs 1672-1713
135. Robert Lynd : Books and Authors
136. R Clements : A Gypsy of the Horn
137. Count de Gobineau : The Crimson Handkerchief
138. J A Gibbs : A Cotswold Village
139. NO TITLE PUBLISHED
1930
140. Augustine Birrell : More Obiter Dicta
141. Somerset Maugham : Liza of Lambeth
142. Capt George Shelvocke : A Privateers Voyage Round the World
143. Lady Montague : Letters
144. Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bovary
145. L C Dunsterville : STalky's Reminiscences
146. L Browne : The Story of the Jews
147. Beverley Nichols : Twenty-Five
148. Sgt Bourgogne : Memoirs
149. D L Murray : Candles and Crinolines
150. NO TITLE PUBLISHED
151. Archibald C G Hastings : Nigerian Days
152. John Middleton Murry : Discoveries
153. Maurice Baring : Half a Minute's Silence
154. H Miles : Selections from Byron
155. James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
156. Dmitriy Merezhkovsky : December the Fourteenth
157. Mary A Hamilton : Thomas Carlyle
158. Naomi Mitchison : Black Sparta
159. Ernest Hemingway : Men Without Women
1931
160. H E Bates : The Two Sisters
161. Anon : England's Green and Pleasant Land
162. Samuel Johnson : A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
163. A W Lawrence : The Wreck of the Medusa
164. Israel Zangwill : The King of Schnorrers
165. Ronald Fraser : The Flying Draper
166. Arnold Bennett : The Old Wives' Tale - Vol 1
167. Arnold Bennett : The Old Wives' Tale - Vol 2
168. Norah Hoult : Poor Women
169. George Du Maurier : Peter Ibbetson
170. E Dimnet : The Art of Thinking
171. C Davies : Selections from Swift
172. Lafcadio Hearn : Kokoro
173. Giovanni Verga : Cavalleria Rusticana
174. M Hindus : Broken Earth
1932
175. Paul Morand : Open All Night
176. Paul Morand : Closed All Night
177. A Collet : The Changing Face of England
178. Richard O Prowse : A Gift of the Dusk
179. Somerset Maugham : The Gentleman in the Parlour
180. Eric Linklater : White Maa's Saga
181. M Whitaker : Frost in April
182. Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
183. Willa Cather : The Song of the Lark
184. Sir C Biron : Sir, Said Dr Johnson
193. P Withers : In a Cumberland Dale
1933
185. Richard Curle : Into the East
186. George Gissing : By the Ionian Sea
187. Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
188. Azorin : An Hour of Spain
189. Peadar O'Connell : Islanders
190. Liam O'Flaherty : Two Years
194. H Coudenhove : My African Neighbours
195. Lord Conway : Autobiography of a Mountain Climber
196. Lord Conway : The Alps from End to End
197. Ohta and Sperry : The Golden Wind
199. W Bolitho : Murder for Profit
200. J W N Sullivan : But for the Grace of God
1934
191. J Duguid : Green Hell
192. Edgar W Howe : The Story of a Country Town (probably 1934)
198. H E Bates : Thirty Tales
201. Algernon Blackwood : Adventures Before Thirty
202. Richard Jefferies : The Amateur Poacher
203. Richard Jefferies : Wildlife in a Southern County
204. John Middleton Murry : Aspects of Literature
205. Richard Jefferies : The Gamekeeper at Home
206. Arthur Ransome : Rod and Line
1935
207. Ernest Bramah : Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
208. Neville Cardus : The Summer Game
1936
209. Eric Linklater : The Men of Ness
210. John Cowper Powys : The Meaning of Culture
211. W A Robinson : Deep Water and Shoal
212. Mary Webb : The House in Dormer Forest
213. Andre Maurois : Byron
214. Anon : Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller
1937
215. S O Jewett : The Only Rose & Other Stories
216. E E Reynolds : The Tavellers' Library Shakespeare
217. Henry Williamson : The Village Book
1939
218. Christopher Isherwood : All the Conspirators