Irish
Book-buying
Appendix 2.1
County Tipperary Library Committee
Nationality of authors of books passed for purchased, 9 May
1928
Irish
Author
Title
Category
Ethna Carbery
The Passionate Hearts
Poetry
Enid M. Dinnis
Road to Somewhere
Religious
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas
Mystery/horror
Seumas MacManus
A tale of the O’Friels
Novel
Seumas MacManus
Ballads of a country boy
Novel?
Seumas MacManys
O do you remember
Novel
Katharine Tynan
Kitty at school and college
Novel
Elenor Butler
The geography of history
Non-fiction
Ethna Carberry
In the celtic past
Fiction
Rev. M. Cronin
Principles of Social Science
Non-fiction
J.J. Doyle
David Comyn
Non-fiction
Pauline Henley
Spenser in Ireland
Non-fiction
Louise McKay
A little bit of Ireland
Fiction
S. O’ Cuiv
An comligar cluin an Gaedhilge ?
Non-fiction
Patrick A. Sharkey
Heart of Ireland
Non-fiction
S. Ceallaigh
Eachtraidheacht
Non-fiction
James Hogan
Ireland in the European system
Non-fiction
2 unknown titles Dr. Kilgannon, Donegal? Tales,
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Category
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
The House of Disappearance (f.)
Mystery/detective
Jeffery Farnol
Epics of Fancy
Boxing
William Wymark Jacobs
Sea Whispers
Novel
William Pett Ridge
The Two Mackenzies
Novel
Sax Rohmer
The moon of madness
Novel/crime
H. Russell Wakefield
They return at evening
Supernatural
Edgar Wallace
Good Evans
Crime
John Buchan
The scholar gipsies
Non-fiction
G.K. Chesterton
The Judgement of Dr. Johnson: a comedy
Comedy
F.E. Corrie
Manures and Manuring
Non-fiction
Maribel Edwin
Rovers and Stay at homes
Fiction (juvenile)
T. E. Johnstone
River engineering: principles and practice
Non-fiction
F. H. Pritchard
More Essays of to-day
Non-fiction
Helen 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
American
Author
Title
Category
Donn Byrne
Crusade
fiction
Peter 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 2.2
County Tipperary Library Committee
Nationality of authors of books passed for purchased, 15 April
1931
Irish
Author
Title
Category
Patrick Brendan Bradley*
Bantry Bay: Ireland in the days of
Napoleon and Wolfe Tone
General Lit
Eilgeach
T. Gaedhealach
General Lit
Robert Joseph Kane
From Fetters to Freedom: trials and triumph of Irish Faith
General Lit
McCarthy**
Grain of the Word
General Lit
Lambert McKenna
The life and work of Rev. Fr. Cullen
General Lit
Conor O’Brien
Across three oceans
General Lit (travel)
Batt O’Connor
With Collins in the fight for Irish independence
General Lit.
Brian O’Higgins
Voice of Banba
General Lit
O’Muireadha
Oidhreacht
General Lit
O’Rinn
Turas go Paras
General Lit
Richard Rowley
Selected Poems
General Lit.
Beatrice Grimshaw
Beach of Terror
Fiction
Timothy Guinan
Annamore
Fiction
John Chartres Molony
Anthony Vanroy
Fiction
***Clara Mullholland
Her last message
General Lit
Padraig Colum (ed)
Gulliver’s Travels
Juvenile fiction
Beatrice 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 Commonwealth
Author
Title
Category
Marjorie Astin
Mary Russell Mitford
General Lit
Dorothy Bartlam
Contrary-wise
General Lit
Hilaire Belloc
Conversations with a cat
General Lit
Hilaire Belloc
Oliver Cromwell
General Lit
Robert Hugh Benson
Confessions of a convert
General Lit
Earl of Birkenhead
500 Best English Letters
General Lit
Edith Birkhead
Christina Rossetti and her poetry
General Lit
Helen Mary Elizabeth Clamp
The power and glory girl
General Lit (romance)
John Coutts
Everyday Gardening
General Lit
Charles Dalton
With the Dublin Brigade
General Lit
Christopher Dawson
Christianity and the new age
General Lit
William J. Doherty
In the days of the giants
General Lit (boxing)
E. V. Downs
Selections from Macaulay
General Lit
James Benedict Fitzpatrick
Donjon of Demons
General Lit
Richard 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 Lit
Ann MacBeth
Embroidered and laced leatherwork
General Lit
Compton Mackenzie
First Athenian memories
General Lit
Modern Short Plays
General Lit
Maxwell 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 Lit
Stanley Rogers
The Pacific
General Lit. (travel)
Richard Streatfield
The Opera
General Lit.
Edmund Vale
Shipshape
General Lit.
Cecil Adair
Golden Mists
Fiction
Effie Adelaide Maria Albanesi
White Flame
Fiction
Effie Adelaide Maria Albanesi
All’s well with the world
Fiction
Mary Grace Ashton
The lonely journey
Fiction
Henry Christopher Bailey
Master of Gray
Fiction
Henry Christopher Bailey
Mr Cardonnell
Fiction
Henry Christopher Bailey
Wild Wind
Fiction
B-Saunders*
Upstairs
Fiction
Harold Bindloss
Harden’s Escapade
Fiction
Otwell Binns
Secret Pearls
Fiction
Otwell Binns
Flaming Crescent
Fiction
Algernon Blackwood
The Listener
Fiction
Victor Bridges
King comes back
Fiction
Dorothy Kathleen Broster
Ships in the Bay
Fiction
Vincent Brown
Rosanna Returns
Fiction
Kenneth Robert G. Browne
Nothing Serious
Fiction
Basil Carey
Dead Man’s Shadow
Fiction
GK Chesterton
Return of Don Quixote
Fiction
Richmal Crompton
Sugar and Spice
Fiction
Simon Dare
The unrisen moon
Fiction
Donald Deane
Luck of Luce
Fiction
Alfred Drew
Richard Latimer Next of Kin
Fiction
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
Ladybrook
Fiction
Stephen Graham
Modern Vanity Fair
Fiction
Cecil Freeman Gregg
The Rutland Mystery
Fiction
F. M. Harrison
The duel of wits
Fiction
Jepson**
100,000 guineas
Fiction
Dorothy Johnson
Death of a spinster
Fiction
Clifford Benn Kitchin
Sensitive One
Fiction
Dorothy Lambert
Taken at the flood
Fiction
Eric Linklater
Juan in America
Fiction
Victor MacClure
Galanty Gold
Fiction
Francis Oscar Mass
Albert Grope: The story of a belated Victorian
Fiction
Laurence Oliver (Brown)
Rock and Sand
Fiction
Laurence Oliver (Brown)
The secret image
Fiction
Elizabeth Wilson Griersin
Tales of English castles and manors
Juvenile Fiction
Watkin Wynn Williams
St Bernard of Clairvaux
General Lit.
Alfred Charles Ward
Foundations of English Prose
General Fiction
Oliver 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
Fiction
Frank Edwin Verney
The man with the black patch
Fiction
Horace Annesley Vachell
Into the land of nod
Fiction
Hugh Walpole
Farthing Hall
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
The Street of adventure
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
Heirs apparent: a novel
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
The middle of the road
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
Unchanging quest
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
Back to life
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
A master of life
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
Little novels of nowadays
Fiction
Phillip Gibbs
Out of the Ruins and other little novels
Fiction
Georgette Heyer
The conqueror
Fiction
Lettice Milne Rae
The auld alliance
Fiction
Dorothy L. Sayers
Five Red herrings
Fiction
Cecil Freeman Gregg
The Rutland mystery
Fiction
Christopher Dawson
Christianity and Sex
Misc. Lit
Doreen Lacy Smith
East Wind
Fiction
David Oswald Hunter Blair
More memories and musings
Misc. Lit
***S. Burrows
Open door: a popular plea for the catholic church
Misc. 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
Fiction
Eden Philpotts
Alcoyne
Fiction
Eden Philpotts
Found drowned
Fiction
Shirland Quin (Edith Guest)
Dark Heritage
Fiction
Lettice Milne Rae
The Auld Alliance
Fiction
William Pett Ridge
Led by Westmacott
Fiction
****Ripley
Guns in the night
Fiction
William Edward Vickers
The deputy for Cain
Fiction
PG Wodehouse
Big Money
Fiction
PG 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
Continental
Author
Title
Category
Charles Maurice Chenu (French)
My canoe
General lit
Roldolphe Hoornaert
St Teresa in her writings
General Lit
Jacques Maritain (French)
Religion and Culture
General Lit
Jacques Maritain
St Thomas Aquinas
General Lit
Axel Olirik (Danish)
Viking Civilisation
General Lit
Peter Wust
Crisis in the West
General Lit.
Jules Cambon (French)
The Diplomatist
General Lit’
Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
The son avenger
Fiction
Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
Two Kingdoms
Fiction
Arthur Vermeersch (Belgian)
Tolerance
Misc. Lit.
Joseph Tixeront (French)
Apologetical Studies
Misc. Lit
John Peter Arendzen (Dutch)
Profits, priests and publicans
Misc. Lit
Henry Bordeaux (French)
Annette and Philibert: the children’s crusade
Misc. Lit (Children)
United States
Author
Title
Category
Herman Joseph Heuser
From Tarsus to Rome
General Lit
Alfred Powell Morgan
Boy electrician
General Lit.
(juvenile non-fiction)
Bill Adams
Short stories of to-day and yesterday
Fiction
Walt Coburn
Mavericks
Fiction
Maxwell Laurie
Young Man at Sea
Fiction
Frederick Nelson Litten
Sun up on the range
Fiction
Marcia 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
Fiction
Kathleen Norris
The secret life of Margaret Yorke
Fiction
**Maud Monahan
A Boy’s choice: the story of St Louis Gonzaga
Juvenile 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 1919
Note: 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 2.3
Library Association of Ireland,
Advisory Committee on Book Selection
Nationality of authors of books on ‘Book List no. 1 to obtain
without risk of rejection’, 1933
Irish
Author
Title
Category
Richard Ball
Young Jack Fellowes
Fiction
Richard Dehan (pseudo. Clotilde Mary Graves)
Third craft and other stories
Fiction
Beatrice Grimshaw
The long beaches
Fiction
Maurice O’Sullivan
Twenty years a growing
Fiction
Katharine Tynan
An International Marriage
Fiction (novel)
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Category
Andrew Allington
Chator’s: a novel
Fiction
Betty Askwith
Green Corn
Fiction
Hearnden 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
Fiction
Dorothy Kathleen Broster
Almond, wild almond
Novel
Edith Ophelia Browne
The fair age of youth
Fiction
Gordon Casserly
The monkey god
Fiction (science)
*J. Elizabeth Gramswick
The homestead
?
William Harold Lane Crauford
Dogs in clover
Fiction
John Easton
Ferrol Bond
Fiction
Helen Parry Eden
Whistles of Silver
Fiction
Harry Moreton Edmonds
The death ship
Fiction
E.R.G.R. Evans
Spanish death
Fiction (juvenile)
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Beating the nobblers
Fiction
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Disappearance of Cropton
Fiction
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
A rank outsider
Fiction
Gerard Fairlie
The treasure nets
Fiction
**Elizabeth Ford
Fog
Fiction
Robert Gathorne-Hardy
Other Seas
Fiction
John Gibbons
Fiddler at Lourdes
Fiction
Val Henry Gielgud and Holt Marvell
Under London
Fiction
Elizabeth Gill
Crime de luxe
Fiction (crime)
Thomas Watson Haynes (Australian)
Our daily bread
Fiction
James Hilton
Knight without armour
Fiction (adventure)
Edgar Holt
Quick work
Fiction
Gavin Holt (seudo. 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
Fiction
Romilly and Katherine John
Heads or tails
Fiction (detective)
***Nora Kennedy
Heroic Symphony
Fiction
Ronald A. Knox
The body in the silo
Fiction (detective)
****D.M. Large
The open arms
Fiction
Frank G. Layton
The little doctor
Semi-fiction
*^John Light
Render unto Caesar
Fiction
Compton MacKenzie
Water on the brain
Fiction
Angus MacVicar
Purple Rock
Fiction
William J. Makin
Adventures of Red Hand
Fiction
V. Markham
Inspector Rushby’s Finale
Fiction
Alice Massie
The Wicked Captain
Fiction
Esther Meynell
Quintet
Fiction
Laurence Meynell
Paid in Full
Fiction
Constance Miles
Coffee Please
Fiction
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian)
Pat of Silver Bush
Fiction
John Bingham Morton
Morton’s Folly
Fiction
William Douglas Newton
The Beggar and other stories
Fiction
Austin Philips
The Real Thing
Fiction (crime)
J.B. Priestley
Wonder Hero
Fiction
George Preedy (Marjorie Bowen)
Dr Chaos and the devil snar’d
Fiction (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
Fiction
Margery Sharp
The flowering thorn
Fiction
Doreen Smith
The gates are open
Fiction
Ray Sonin
The Death Pack
Fiction
D.M. Stuart
Girl through the ages
Semi-Fiction
Henry Longan Stuart
Weeping cross
Fiction
R.E. Swartwout
The Boat Race Murder
Fiction (crime)
Taffrail (Henry Taprell Dorling)
Dover-Ostend
Fiction
Arthur Alexander Thomson
Heart’s Content
Fiction
Princess Paul Troubetskoy
Storm Tarn
Fiction
Valentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey)
At your beginnings
Fiction
Valentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey)
Round the corner
Fiction
James Morgan Walsh (Australian)
Spies are abroad
Fiction
Cecil Waye (Cecil Street))
The Prime Minister’s pencil
Fiction
Antonia White
Frost in May
Fiction
David Whitelaw
The Roof
Fiction (mystery)
Noel MacDonald Wilby
Alexander Tomlyn: A tale of Old Cambridge
Fiction
Alison Williamson
The Lightning Conductor Comes Back
Fiction (novel)
P.G. Wodehouse
Heavy Weather
Fiction
Clotilde Wollersen
Strange Prisoners: the story of modern life
Fiction (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 States
Author
Title
Category
William Ashley Anderson
Yellow Flood
Fiction
Lucille Papin Borden
Silver Trumpets Calling
Fiction
Donald Henderson Clarke
John Bartel Jr.
Fiction
Isabel C. Clarke
Feet upon the mountains
Fiction
Isabel C. Clarke
That which was lost
Fiction
William Blair Morton Ferguson (pseudo. William Morton)
The Reckoning
Fiction
Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Death by request
Fiction
Mary Johnston
Miss Delicia Allen
Fiction
Sophie Kerr
In for a penny
Fiction
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
The legend of Susan Dane
Fiction
Elizabeth Madox
The Haunted Mirror
Fiction (horror)
May Stanley
Blue Meadows
Fiction (romance)
Mary Theresa Waggaman
Carroll Dare
Fiction
Christopher L. Ward
The Strange Adventures of Jonathan Drew
Fiction
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 2.4
County Tipperary Library Committee
‘List of books from the Court Bookshop, 142 Capel Street,
Dublin
American Titles’, April/May 1953
Author
Title
Juvenile
Allen, A.
Water to Burn
Allen, 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 warning
J.M. Barrie (British)
Peter Pan
J. 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 mystery
Blank, C.
Beverley Gray’s Assignment
“
Beverley Gray Freshman
“
Beverley Gray’s Island Mystery
“
Beverley Gray’s in the Orient
“
Beverley Gray on a Treasure Hunt
Campbell, B.
The mystery of the Iron box
Dixon, F.W.
The secret of wildcat swamp
Dodge?, 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 pony
Hall, A.
Peeps Elliott & family
Hastings, H.L.
Top horse of Crescent Ranch
Keane, 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 mystery
Oliver, N.M.
Riding Days
Ollivant, A.
Bob son? Of battle
Oakes, V.
The bamboo gate
Otis, J.
Toby Tyler
Ouida
A dog of Flanders
Rockwell, C.
Stand by for more
Sawyer, R.
Old Con and Patrick
Schaare, C.R.
Life of Davy Crocket
“
Expeditions of Lewis and Clark
Sidney, M.
Five little Peppers abroad
“
Our Davie Pepper
Striker, 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 scar
Sutton, 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 phantom
Tatham, 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 supervisor
Twain, M.
The prince and the pauper
Webster, J.
Dear enemy
Waissenstein, H.
We four together
Wells, 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 answer
Wheeler, O.
H.M.S. Pinafore?
Wiggin, K.D.
New chronicles of Rebecon
Wirt, 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 cave
Young, F.Y.
Secret of the Dark House
Author
[Adult] Fiction
Asimov, I.
I, Robot
Burroughs, 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 Tarzan
Crane, S.
The red badge of courage
Doyle, A.C.
Best of Sherlock Holmes
Gardner, 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 egg
Hale, G.
Substance of a dream
Haycox, E.
Action by night
“
Border trumpet
“
Bugles in the afternoon
“
Canyon passage
“
Deep west
“
Sundown ??
“
The wild bunch
Hilton, J. [British]
Nothing so strange
??ller, R. deW. E. [British]
True stories of the super-natural
Norton, A.
A case for the baron
O’Brien, J.
Silver Chief to the rescue
Smith, R. (ed.) [British?]
Saturday Evening Post Sport Stories
Source: TLS, TJLSC, ‘List of books from the Court Bookshop, 142
Capel Street, Dublin, ‘American Titles’, April/May 1953
Appendix 2.5
Selection of American titles on Register of prohibited
publications (Books) between 31 March 1931 and 31 March 1938
Check for repetition and theme and add into p.40 before fn
178
No. on Register
To 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 Lewis
1930 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 Register
To 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 Cape
Anthony Adverse
All
William Hervey Allen
V Gollanez London
Appointment in Samarra
All
John O Hara
Faber adn Faber London
As I lay dying
All
William Faulkner
Chatto 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 Sinclair
1942 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,L
405
Manhattan Transfer
all
John Dos Passos
Constable, 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,L
10
The New Motherhood
all
Margaret Sanger
Jomathan 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
ibid
713
Sex behaviour in marraige
all
Charles A clinton, MD
Pioneer 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 history of the world war
all
Dr Magnus Hirschfeld
The Panurge 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 L
605
To a God Unknown
all
John Steinbeck 1940 P 1962 N
Heinemann
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
ibid
92
Twenty-four hours
all
Louuis Bromfeld
Cassell L
704
Union Square
all
Albert Halper
Cassell
729
We are Betrayed
all
Vardis Fisher
Borriswood London
416
We are the Living
all
Erskine Caldwell
Martin 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, 1999
Larousse dictionary of Writers editor Rosemary goring, NY,
1994
Bloomsbury guide to Women’s literature, edited by claire buck,
London 1992
Appendix 2.6
Nationality of authors with most books banned by the CPB,
1930-9
Author
Banned
Nationality
Anonymous/NA
15
George Ryley Scott
9
English
Neil Bell
9
English
Maurice Dekobra
8
French
David H. Keller
8
American
(Science Fiction/horror/fantasy)
Marie Stopes
8
Scottish
Richard Aldington
7
English
Colette
7
French
Rhys Davies
6
Welsh
William Faulkner
6
American
Vardis Fisher
6
American
Philip Lindsay
6
American
Margaret Sanger
6
American
Vicki Baum
5
Austrian
G. Courtenay Beale
5
British?
John Brophy
5
English
Erskine Caldwell
5
American
Joan Conquest
5
English
Elliot Crawsley-William
5
?
Rupert Croft-Cooke
5
English
Aldous Huxley
5
English
Norah C. James
5
English
Jack Lindsay
5
Australian
Norman Lindsay
5
Australian
Liam O’Flaherty
5
Irish
Kitty Shannon
5
English
Source: 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 2.7
County 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
Category
Adrian Alington
The career of Julian Stanley Williams-
Novel (crime)-
Ruby Mildren Ayers
Spoilt Music
Novel (romance)
Charlotee Bronte
Villette
Novel
Hugh Brooke
Man made angry
Novel
John Galsworthy
Man of property
Novel
Philip Gibbs
Golden Years
Novel
Norman Giles (pseudo. N. McKeown)
Green Valley
Novel
Jan Gordon
Beans spilt in Spain
Novel
Bruce Graeme (pseudo, Graham Montague Jefferies
Unsolved
Novel (crime)
H. Cecil Hunt
Old Barty
Novel
F. Tennyson Jesse
Many latitudes
Novel (crime)
William Le Queux
The catspaw
Novel (mystery)
Eric Linklater
Juan in America
Novel
Compton Mackenzie (Scottish)
Carnival
Novel
Richard Oke (pseudo.Nigel Stansbury)
Frolic wind
Novel
Ernest Raymond
Family that was
Fiction (mystery)
Maurice Richardson
Strong man needed
Novel
Owen Rutter
White Rajah
Novel
Ethel Winifred Savi
Beauty Market
Novel
Ethel Winifred Savi
Vagrant Love
Novel
Eleanor Smith (Lady)
Famous novels of to-day
Novel
*Ben Strong
Shadow on the course
Novel (mystery)
Margaret Cole
Twelve studies of Soviet Russia
Fact
Emmeline Morrison
Three of a kind
Novel
*English publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
United States
Author
Title
Category
Mary Borden
Jane our stranger
Novel
Mary Borden
Jericho sands
Novel
Mary Borden
A Woman with white eyes
Novel
*Isabel C. Clarke
It happened in Rome
Novel
Isabel C. Clarke
Strangers of Rome
Novel
Margaret 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 2.8
County Cork Library Committee
Full titles, authors’ names, nationality of authors on ‘Books
objected to’, 1933
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Category
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sunset Song
Fiction-
Evelyn Everett-Green
Squib and his friends
Fiction (juvenile)
Edward Albert
Herrin’ Jennie
Fiction
Edward Mathers
Splendid Quest
Fiction
Hugh Cecil Asterley
Tale of two murders
Fiction (crime)
Henry Taylor Folkes Rhodes
Clues and crimes: the science of criminal investigation
Non-fiction
United States
Author
Title
Category
Martha 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 2.9
Library Association of Ireland,
Advisory Committee on Book Selection
Nationality of authors of books on ‘Book List no. 3
(Rejections)’, 1934
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Category
Alice Marjorie Barnicot
The shadow of the woman
Novel
Thomas 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
Novel
Francesca 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
Novel
Hulbert Footner (Canadian)
Murder runs in the family
Fiction (detective)
Val Gielgud
Gravel hanger
Fiction
A.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
Fiction
Henrietta Leslie (pseudo.)
Mrs Gladys Shütz
Mother of Five
Fiction
Philip Lindsay (Australian)
London bridge is falling
Fiction
Eric Linklater
The Revolution
Fiction
Alun Llewellyn
The Deacon
Fiction
Belloc Lowdnes
Another man’s wife
Fiction
Hugh Patrick McGaw
Rude Society
Fiction
Claude McKay
Banana Bottom
Fiction
H. Fletcher Moulton
The Unofficial Executor
Fiction
Daphne Muir
Very Heaven
Fiction
*****Ronald Nirden
Edwin Jeune, Gentleman
Fiction
Christine Grant Millar Orr (Scottish)
Tattered Feathers: a story of these dangerous days
Fiction
******Aishie Farrell
Infidelity
Fiction
Conrad H. Sayce (Australian)
Comboman
Fiction
Edward Shanks
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
Fiction
John Sorsky
The Bond
Fiction
Joan Temple
Duologne
Fiction
*******Trevelyan
As it happened in the beginning
?
Reginald Underwood
Bachelor’s Hall
Fiction
Eric Warman
No place for the young
Fiction
Evelyn Charles Vivian
Jewels Go Back
Fiction
********Spencer Watts
Mongrel
Novel
Geoffrey 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 Germany
Barbara 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
Continental
Author
Title
Category
*Vicki Baum
(emigrated to US 1931)
Falling star
Novel (book banned in Germany also)
**Gleb Botkin
Her Wanton Majesty
Novel
A.I. Voinova
Semi-precious stones
Novel
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 States
Author
Title
Category
Kay Boyle
Gentlemen, I address you privately
Novel
James 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
Fiction
Alison Lide and Margaret
Johanson
Dark Possession
Fiction
Francis Van Wyck Mason
The Shanghai Bund Murders
Novel
Janet 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
Novel
Mae 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 1936
http://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
