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Appendix 2.1
County Tipperary Library Committee
Nationality of authors of books passed for purchased, 9 May 1928
Irish
Author
Title
Ethna Carbery
The Passionate Hearts
Enid M. Dinnis
Road to Somewhere
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas
Seumas MacManus
A tale of the O’Friels
Seumas MacManus
Ballads of a country boy
Seumas MacManys
O do you remember
Katharine Tynan
Kitty at school and college
Elenor Butler
The geography of history
Ethna Carberry
In the celtic past
Rev. M. Cronin
Principles of Social Science
J.J. Doyle
David Comyn
Pauline Henley
Spenser in Ireland
Louise McKay
A little bit of Ireland
S. O’ Cuiv
An comligar cluin an Gaedhilge ?
Patrick A. Sharkey
Heart of Ireland
S. Ceallaigh
Eachtraidheacht
James Hogan
Ireland in the European system
2 unknown titles Dr. Kilgannon, Donegal? Tales,
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
The House of Disappearance (f.)
Jeffery Farnol
Epics of Fancy
William Wymark Jacobs
Sea Whispers
William Pett Ridge
The Two Mackenzies
Sax Rohmer
The moon of madness
H. Russell Wakefield
They return at evening
Edgar Wallace
Good Evans
John Buchan
The scholar gipsies
G.K. Chesterton
The Judgement of Dr. Johnson: a
comedy
F.E. Corrie
Manures and Manuring
Maribel Edwin
Rovers and Stay at homes
T. E. Johnstone
River engineering: principles and
practice
F. H. Pritchard
More Essays of to-day
Helen M. Sidebotham
Mysteries at the zoo
Walter and Leonard
An introduction to finance
Townsend
George. M. Trevelyn
Present position of history
Category
Poetry
Religious
Mystery/horror
Novel
Novel?
Novel
Novel
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Category
Mystery/detective
Boxing
Novel
Novel
Novel/crime
Supernatural
Crime
Non-fiction
Comedy
Non-fiction
Fiction (juvenile)
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction (juvenile)
Non-fiction
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
Patrick Brendan
Bradley*
Eilgeach
Robert Joseph Kane
McCarthy**
Lambert McKenna
Conor O’Brien
Batt O’Connor
Title
Bantry Bay: Ireland in the days of
Napoleon and Wolfe Tone
T. Gaedhealach
From Fetters to Freedom: trials and
triumph of Irish Faith
Grain of the Word
The life and work of Rev. Fr. Cullen
Across three oceans
With Collins in the fight for Irish
independence
Voice of Banba
Oidhreacht
Turas go Paras
Selected Poems
Beach of Terror
Annamore
Anthony Vanroy
Her last message
Gulliver’s Travels
Shadow-show
Brian O’Higgins
O’Muireadha
O’Rinn
Richard Rowley
Beatrice Grimshaw
Timothy Guinan
John Chartres Molony
***Clara Mullholland
Padraig Colum (ed)
Beatrice Margaret
Sheepshanks
*John Haslette Vahey
Mystery at the Inn
*May also be considered British
** No further information, Irish publisher
***CHECK NATIONALITY
British and Commonwealth
Author
Title
Marjorie Astin
Mary Russell Mitford
Dorothy Bartlam
Contrary-wise
Hilaire Belloc
Conversations with a cat
Hilaire Belloc
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Hugh Benson
Confessions of a convert
Earl of Birkenhead
500 Best English Letters
Edith Birkhead
Christina Rossetti and her poetry
Helen Mary Elizabeth
The power and glory girl
Clamp
John Coutts
Everyday Gardening
Charles Dalton
With the Dublin Brigade
Christopher Dawson
Christianity and the new age
William J. Doherty
In the days of the giants
Category
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
(travel)
General Lit.
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit.
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
General Lit
Juvenile fiction
Novel
Novel
Category
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
(romance)
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
E. V. Downs
James Benedict Fitzpatrick
Richard Austin Freeman
Selections from Macaulay
Donjon of Demons
Dr Thorndike investigates
Edmund Valpy Knox
This other eden
Dominic Bevan Wyndham
Lewis
Edward Verrall Lucas
Ann MacBeth
Compton Mackenzie
Welcome to all this
Maxwell Fielding
McTaggart
Henry Vollam Morton
French leaves
Embroidered and laced leatherwork
First Athenian memories
Modern Short Plays
The art of riding
Heart of London
(boxing)
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
(mystery)
General Lit
(satire)
General Lit
(humour)
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
John Henry Newman
Allardyce Nicoll
Discussions and arguments
Theory of Drama
J.B. Priestley
Stanley Rogers
Balconinny and other essays
The Pacific
Richard Streatfield
Edmund Vale
Cecil Adair
Effie Adelaide Maria
Albanesi
Effie Adelaide Maria
Albanesi
Mary Grace Ashton
Henry Christopher Bailey
Henry Christopher Bailey
Henry Christopher Bailey
B-Saunders*
Harold Bindloss
Otwell Binns
Otwell Binns
Algernon Blackwood
Victor Bridges
Dorothy Kathleen Broster
Vincent Brown
Kenneth Robert G. Browne
Basil Carey
GK Chesterton
Richmal Crompton
Simon Dare
Donald Deane
Alfred Drew
The Opera
Shipshape
Golden Mists
White Flame
General Lit.
(history)
General Lit.
General Lit
(drama)
General Lit
General Lit.
(travel)
General Lit.
General Lit.
Fiction
Fiction
All’s well with the world
Fiction
The lonely journey
Master of Gray
Mr Cardonnell
Wild Wind
Upstairs
Harden’s Escapade
Secret Pearls
Flaming Crescent
The Listener
King comes back
Ships in the Bay
Rosanna Returns
Nothing Serious
Dead Man’s Shadow
Return of Don Quixote
Sugar and Spice
The unrisen moon
Luck of Luce
Richard Latimer Next of Kin
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
Stephen Graham
Cecil Freeman Gregg
F. M. Harrison
Jepson**
Dorothy Johnson
Clifford Benn Kitchin
Dorothy Lambert
Eric Linklater
Victor MacClure
Francis Oscar Mass
Laurence Oliver (Brown)
Laurence Oliver (Brown)
Elizabeth Wilson Griersin
Watkin Wynn Williams
Alfred Charles Ward
Oliver Madox Hueffer
Hilaire Belloc
George Gissing
Leonard Alfred Knight
M. Barnard Eldershaw
(Marjorie Barnard/Flora
Eldershaw)
Margaret Peterson
Frank Edwin Verney
Horace Annesley Vachell
Hugh Walpole
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
Ladybrook
Modern Vanity Fair
The Rutland Mystery
The duel of wits
100,000 guineas
Death of a spinster
Sensitive One
Taken at the flood
Juan in America
Galanty Gold
Albert Grope: The story of a belated
Victorian
Rock and Sand
The secret image
Tales of English castles and manors
St Bernard of Clairvaux
Foundations of English Prose
By whose authority?
A conversation with a cat and others
The House of cobwebs
The pawn
Green memory
The eye of Isis
The man with the black patch
Into the land of nod
Farthing Hall
The Street of adventure
Heirs apparent: a novel
The middle of the road
Unchanging quest
Back to life
A master of life
Little novels of nowadays
Out of the Ruins and other little
novels
Georgette Heyer
The conqueror
Lettice Milne Rae
The auld alliance
Dorothy L. Sayers
Five Red herrings
Cecil Freeman Gregg
The Rutland mystery
Christopher Dawson
Christianity and Sex
Doreen Lacy Smith
East Wind
David Oswald Hunter Blair More memories and musings
***S. Burrows
Open door: a popular plea for the
catholic church
Joseph Rickaby
In an Indian abbey: some plain
talking on theology
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Juvenile Fiction
General Lit.
General Fiction
Misc.
Misc.
Misc.
Misc.
Misc.
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Misc. Lit
Fiction
Misc. Lit
Misc. Lit
Misc. Lit
Howard. W. Simpson
Modern office Management
Edward Phillips
A daughter of the Marionis
Oppenheim
Doris Peel
Five on Parade
Eden Philpotts
Alcoyne
Eden Philpotts
Found drowned
Shirland Quin (Edith
Dark Heritage
Guest)
Lettice Milne Rae
The Auld Alliance
William Pett Ridge
Led by Westmacott
****Ripley
Guns in the night
William Edward Vickers
The deputy for Cain
PG Wodehouse
Big Money
PG Wodehouse
Doctor Sally
***M.E.M. Young
New J.L. and other stories
***Sertillinge
The Church
*English Publisher, Hutchinson
** English publisher Jenkins
*** English Catholic publisher, Burns, Oates and Washbourne
****English publisher Hurst and Blackett
Continental
Author
Charles Maurice Chenu
(French)
Roldolphe Hoornaert
Jacques Maritain (French)
Jacques Maritain
Axel Olirik (Danish)
Peter Wust
Jules Cambon (French)
Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
Arthur Vermeersch
(Belgian)
Joseph Tixeront (French)
John Peter Arendzen
(Dutch)
Henry Bordeaux (French)
United States
Author
Herman Joseph Heuser
Alfred Powell Morgan
Bill Adams
Walt Coburn
Misc. Lit.
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Misc. Lit
Title
My canoe
Category
General lit
St Teresa in her writings
Religion and Culture
St Thomas Aquinas
Viking Civilisation
Crisis in the West
The Diplomatist
The son avenger
Two Kingdoms
Tolerance
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit
General Lit.
General Lit’
Fiction
Fiction
Misc. Lit.
Apologetical Studies
Profits, priests and publicans
Misc. Lit
Misc. Lit
Annette and Philibert: the
children’s crusade
Misc. Lit
(Children)
Title
From Tarsus to Rome
Boy electrician
Short stories of to-day and
yesterday
Mavericks
Category
General Lit
General Lit.
(juvenile non-fiction)
Fiction
Fiction
Maxwell Laurie
Frederick Nelson Litten
Marcia MacDonald
(Grace Livingston Hill)
*Concordia Merrel
(Mary Phyllis Joan
Logan)
William Byron Mowery
Kathleen Norris
**Maud Monahan
Henry Von Rhau
Talbot Mundy
(lived in US)
James Thurber
Young Man at Sea
Sun up on the range
White Lady
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Adam and some Eves
Fiction
The heart of the north
The secret life of Margaret Yorke
A Boy’s choice: the story of St
Louis Gonzaga
To the Victor
Jimgrim
Fiction
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
The owl in the attic and other
perplexities
Retail Salesmanship
Misc. Lit.
Fiction
(mystical)
Fiction (humour/short
pieces)
Misc. Lit.
Cunliffe Lawrence
Bolling?
Alexander Haggerty
Science of Folklore
Misc. Lit
Krappe
Edith Ballinger Price
Luck of Glenlorn
Fiction (Children)
Charles Wesley Sanders Timber Trail
Fiction
***Austin J. Small
Out of the dark
Fiction (mystery)
(‘Seamark’)
Frank Hamilton
Spanish Lover
Fiction (western)
Spearman
Arthur Alexander
The lilac maid
Fiction
Thomson
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
Richard Ball
Richard Dehan (pseudo. Clotilde Mary
Graves)
Beatrice Grimshaw
Maurice O’Sullivan
Katharine Tynan
British and Commonwealth
Author
Andrew Allington
Betty Askwith
Hearnden Balfour (pseudo. Beryl
Hearnden and Eva Balfour
Charles Barry
Title
Young Jack Fellowes
Third craft and other
stories
The long beaches
Twenty years a growing
An International
Marriage
Category
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(novel)
Title
Chator’s: a novel
Green Corn
Anything might happen
Category
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Death in darkness
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
(thrillers)
Francis Beading (pseudo. Hilary St.
George Saunders and John Leslie
Palmer)
Peter Belloc
The two undertakers
Anthony Berkley et al
Ask a policeman
George K.G. Bettany
Dorothy Kathleen Broster
Edith Ophelia Browne
Gordon Casserly
Talking waters
Almond, wild almond
The fair age of youth
The monkey god
*J. Elizabeth Gramswick
William Harold Lane Crauford
John Easton
Helen Parry Eden
Harry Moreton Edmonds
E.R.G.R. Evans
The homestead
Dogs in clover
Ferrol Bond
Whistles of Silver
The death ship
Spanish death
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Gerard Fairlie
**Elizabeth Ford
Beating the nobblers
Disappearance of Cropton
A rank outsider
The treasure nets
Fog
Below bridges
Fiction
(thriller)
Fiction
(thriller)
Fiction
Novel
Fiction
Fiction
(science)
?
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(juvenile)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Robert Gathorne-Hardy
John Gibbons
Val Henry Gielgud and Holt Marvell
Elizabeth Gill
Other Seas
Fiddler at Lourdes
Under London
Crime de luxe
Thomas Watson Haynes (Australian)
James Hilton
Our daily bread
Knight without armour
Edgar Holt
Gavin Holt ( seudo. Charles Percival
Rodda)
Sydney Horler
Quick work
The mark of the paw
John Ironside (Pseud. Euphemia
Margaret Tait)
Selwyn Jepson
Romilly and Katherine John
The Marten mystery
***Nora Kennedy
Ronald A. Knox
Heroic Symphony
The body in the silo
****D.M. Large
Frank G. Layton
*^John Light
Compton MacKenzie
Angus MacVicar
William J. Makin
V. Markham
Alice Massie
Esther Meynell
Laurence Meynell
Constance Miles
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian)
John Bingham Morton
William Douglas Newton
The open arms
The little doctor
Render unto Caesar
Water on the brain
Purple Rock
Adventures of Red Hand
Inspector Rushby’s Finale
The Wicked Captain
Quintet
Paid in Full
Coffee Please
Pat of Silver Bush
Morton’s Folly
The Beggar and other
stories
The Real Thing
Austin Philips
J.B. Priestley
George Preedy (Marjorie Bowen)
Man who shook the earth
Heads and tails
Heads or tails
Martin Porlock (Philip MacDonald)
Wonder Hero
Dr Chaos and the devil
snar’d
X v. Rex
Sapper (H.C. McNeile)
Knock-Out
Sara Seale (A.D.M. MacPherson)
Margery Sharp
Doreen Smith
Ray Sonin
Chase the moon
The flowering thorn
The gates are open
The Death Pack
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
Fiction
(adventure)
Fiction
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
(thriller)
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
Fiction
(detective)
Fiction
Fiction
(detective)
Fiction
Semi-fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
Fiction
(horror)
Fiction
(detective)
Fiction
(thriller)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
D.M. Stuart
Henry Longan Stuart
R.E. Swartwout
Girl through the ages
Weeping cross
The Boat Race Murder
Taffrail (Henry Taprell Dorling)
Arthur Alexander Thomson
Princess Paul Troubetskoy
Valentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey)
Valentine (Archibald Thomas Pechey)
James Morgan Walsh (Australian)
Cecil Waye (Cecil Street))
Dover-Ostend
Heart’s Content
Storm Tarn
At your beginnings
Round the corner
Spies are abroad
The Prime Minister’s
pencil
Frost in May
The Roof
Antonia White
David Whitelaw
Noel MacDonald Wilby
Alison Williamson
P.G. Wodehouse
Clotilde Wollersen
Alexander Tomlyn: A tale
of Old Cambridge
The Lightning Conductor
Comes Back
Heavy Weather
Strange Prisoners: the
story of modern life
Semi-Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(crime)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(mystery)
Fiction
Fiction
(novel)
Fiction
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
William Ashley Anderson
Lucille Papin Borden
Donald Henderson Clarke
Isabel C. Clarke
Isabel C. Clarke
William Blair Morton Ferguson
(pseudo. William Morton)
Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Mary Johnston
Sophie Kerr
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Elizabeth Madox
Title
Yellow Flood
Silver Trumpets Calling
John Bartel Jr.
Feet upon the mountains
That which was lost
The Reckoning
Category
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Death by request
Miss Delicia Allen
In for a penny
The legend of Susan Dane
The Haunted Mirror
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
(horror)
Fiction
(romance)
Fiction
Fiction
May Stanley
Blue Meadows
Mary Theresa Waggaman
Christopher L. Ward
Carroll Dare
The Strange Adventures of
Jonathan Drew
Ranchero
Steward Edward White
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
Allen, A.
Allen, B
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J. Blaine
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Water to Burn
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
Peter Pan
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
Beverley Gray’s Assignment
Beverley Gray Freshman
Beverley Gray’s Island Mystery
Beverley Gray’s in the Orient
Beverley Gray on a Treasure Hunt
The mystery of the Iron box
The secret of wildcat swamp
Hans Brinker??
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
Peeps Elliott & family
Top horse of Crescent Ranch
By the light of the study lamp
The circle of footprints
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Ollivant, A.
Oakes, V.
Otis, J.
Ouida
Rockwell, C.
Sawyer, R.
Schaare, C.R.
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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
Riding Days
Bob son? Of battle
The bamboo gate
Toby Tyler
A dog of Flanders
Stand by for more
Old Con and Patrick
Life of Davy Crocket
Expeditions of Lewis and Clark
Five little Peppers abroad
Our Davie Pepper
Clue of the Cypress Stump
Hidden Stone mystery
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Webster, J.
Waissenstein, H.
Wells, H.
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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
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
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
The prince and the pauper
Dear enemy
We four together
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
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Wiggin, K.D.
Wirt, M.A.
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The secret of magnolia manor
Silver wings for Vicki
Vicki finds the answer
H.M.S. Pinafore?
New chronicles of Rebecon
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
Secret of the Dark House
Author
Asimov, I.
Burroughs, E.R.
“
“
“
“
“
“
Crane, S.
Doyle, A.C.
Gardner, E.S.
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
[Adult] Fiction
I, Robot
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
The red badge of courage
Best of Sherlock Holmes
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)
4
Name of book
Edition or
editions to
which
prohibition
order relates
Name of
author
Home to
Harlem
All
Claude McKay
19
The Party
Dress
Painted Veils
All
All
52
Jews without
Money
Soldier’s Pay
55
Elmer Gantry
All
56
Horses and
Men
Look
Homeward,
Angel
A woman on
her way
All
All
John Van
Druten
GP Putnam’s
Sons, London
Name of book
Edition or
editions to
which
prohibition
order relates
Name of
Author
Name of
Publisher
Act of
Darkness
American
Earth
Anitra’s Dance
Anthony
Adverse
Appointment in
All
John Peale
Bishop
Erskine
Caldwell
Fannie Hurst
William
Hervey Allen
John O Hara
Jonathan Cape
27
49
62
65
No. on
Register
To 31 March
1938 (total
prohibited =
955)
All
All
All
All
All
All
All
Name of
publisher
Harper and
Bros NY and
London
Joseph
AA Knopf,
Hergesheimer
London
James Huneker T Werner
Laurie,
London
Michael Gold
Noel douglas,
London
William
Chatto and
Faulkner 1949 Windus
N Prize
Sinclair Lewis Grosset and
1930 N Prize
Dunlap,
London
Sherwood
Jonathan Cape,
Anderson
London
Thomas Wolfe W Heinemann,
London
Martin Secker,
London
Jonathan Cape
V Gollanez
London
Faber adn
Samarra
As I lay dying
All
William
Faulkner
Anonymous
Babylon on
Hudson
All
Aphrodite
All English
versions
All
Pierre Louys
(French)
William J
Robinson Md
All
Thorne Smith
The Book of
Love
All
Upton Sinclair
1942 Pul Priz
Birth Control,
Companionate
Marriage
The book of
Love
All
Dr David H
Keller
All
Upton sinclair
154
Brothers in the
WEst
All
Robert
Reynolds
97
Cats’Meat and
Kings
all
499
all
all
James Bruce
114
The constant
sinner
Cultural and
Scientific
Pictorial
Studies in Sex.
Anatomy and
the TEchnique
of coitus
Dark Bridwell
George Baker
(G Pierce
Baker?)
Mae West?
all
120
Dawn
all
924
Diseases and
Problems of
old age
all
Vardis Fisher
1939 Harper
Prize Novel
Award
(Mormon)
Theodore
Dreiser
David H Keller
291
279
609
697
Brith control:
the limitation
of offspring
The Bishop’s
Jaegesr
Faber London
Chatto and
windus
Harper and
Brothers, New
York and
london
Arden Book co
New York
Eugenics
Publishing co.
New York
Doubleday,
Doran and co,
New York
T Werner
Laurie,
London
Roman
Publlishing co
New York
T Werner
Laurie,
London
Harper and
Brothers, NY
and london
E Partridge,
London
John Long,
London
Falstaff press,
NY
Gollanez,
London
Constable and
co London
Roman
Publishing,
NW
109
The Doctor
Looks at Love
and Life
Don’t you
weep ... Don’t
you moan
Dwell in the
wilderness
Ethical Sex
Relations, or
the New
eugenics
Eugenics and
Sex Harmony
Family
Limitations
A Farewell to
Arms
all
Joseph collins
all
Richard
Coleman
All
Alvah c Bessie
all
CS Whitehead
MD charles A
Hoff MD
all
all
55
Forty Second
Parallel, the
Elmer Gantry
all
Herman H
rubinMD
Margaret
Sanger
Ernest
Hemingway
1953 Pul, 1954
Nobel
John Dos
Passos
Sinclair Lewis
539
The foundry
all
Albert Halper
417
Gentlemen, I
address you
privately
The Glorious
Pool
God’s Little
Acre
Great laughter
all
Kay Boyle
all
Thorne smith
all
all
Erskine
Caldwell
Fannie Hurst
Home to
Harlem
Horses and
men
How like a
God
all
Claude Mckay
all
all
Sherwood
Anderson
Rex Stout
518
I see no sin
all
Vardis fisher
49
Jews without
all
Money
Light in August all
Michael gold
577
819
587
364
2
693
47
611
400
900
4
56
133
323
All
all
William
Faulkner
Garden city
publishing co.,
NY
The Macmillan
co NY
Constable and
co London
Bleirir and
Brown, NY
Pioneer
Publishing NY
Rose Whitcop,
London
John Lane,
London
Constable,
London
Grosset and
Dunlap, Nw
York
Cassesll,
London
Faber adn
Faber, London
Arthur Baker,
London
Martin Secker,
london
Jonathan Cape,
London
Harper, NY
Jonathan Cape
Morley and
Mitchell
kennerley, Lon
Boriswood,
Lon
Noel douglas,
L
Chatto and
windusLondon
62
Angel Look
Homeward
Love
all
Thomas Wolfe
Heineman, L
all
Bernard S
Talmey MD
Love,
courtship,
Marriage
Lust for Life
Manhattan
Transfer
Men and
Brethern
all
Dr David H
Keller
Eugenic
Publishing,
NY
Roman
Publishing NY
all
all
760
Kneel to the
rising sun
all
Irving Stone
John Dos
Passos
James Gould
Cozzens 1948
P
Erskine
Caldwell
218
A Modern hero
all
890
Mother and
Baby
My fight for
birth control
My next Bride
The New
Motherhood
Nineteen
nineteen
Nudism comes
to America
all
956
The mother
All english
642
The thief, the
All english
mother
Of time and the all
river
Our mysterious all
life glands
432
904
617
405
700
129
551
10
228
903
939
502
all
All
all
all
all
all
Louis
Bromfeld 1926
Pult
Dr David H
keller,
Margaret
Sanger
Kay boyle
Margaret
Sanger
John dos
Passos
Frances and
Mason Merrill
Sholem Asch
(us citizen
1930)
Ibid
Thomas Wolfe
John Lane,L
Constable, L
Longman, L
Martin Secker
and Wargurb,
L
Cassell, L
Roman Pub co
New York
Farrer adn
Rhinehart NY
Faber&F,L
Jomathan
Cape, L
Constable L
Garden city
PubNY
Routledge, L
Gollancz L
Heineman L
27
Painted Veils
all
450
Pasquerella
and Madonna
Babetta
Passions spin
the Plot
All english
versions
William g
Eugenics PubRobinson,
NY
PhD, Md
James Huneker T.Werner
laurie,L
Giovanni
The Biblion
Bocaccio
soc NY
all
Vardis fisher
554
Borriswood L
11
all
580
The Pivot of
Civilisation
The Postman
alwasy rings
twic
A private
anthropoligcal
cabinet
Pylon
150
Queer People
all
736
666
Rain in the
all
doorway
Safe counsel or all
Practical
Eugenics
121
Santuary
all
522
Sane Sex life
and Sane Sex
living
Seed on the
wind
Sex and
common sense
Sex and family
through the
ages
Sex and society
Sex behaviour
in marraige
Sex in
civilisaton
all
Jeffries bg,
Nichols jl,
Davis os,
Drake ef
William
faulkner
HW Long Md
all
Rex Stout
all
A Maude
Royden
Dr David H
Keller
Sex knwledge
for men
Secual
diseases and
abnormalities
of Adult Life
The Sexual ed
of the young
man
The sexual ed
of the young
woman
The sexual
all
426
696
80
906
888
871
713
434
536
887
925
889
583
Margaret
Sanger
James M Cain
Jonathan Cape,
L
ibid
all
Robert
Meadows
Falstaff press
Ny
all
William
Faulkner
Carroll &
Garret Graham
Thorne Smith
Chatto and W
L
Crosset &
dunlap, NY
Arthur Barker
L
JL Nichols,
Naperville,
USa
all
all
all
all
Chatto&Wind,
L
Eugenics Pub
NY
Morley&Mitch
el
GP Putnam,
NY
Roman Pub Ny
Ibid
Charles A
clinton, MD
Edt VF
Calverton, DS
Schmalhausen
William J
Robinson MD
Dr David H
keller
ibid
Pioneer Pub
nY
The Macauley
NY
all
Ibid
ibid
all
Ibid
ibid
all
Dr Magnus
The Panurge
all
all
The Eugenics
co NY
Roman
Publishing NY
923
905
712
history of the
world war
The sex life of
men and
women after
forty
Sexual Power
Hirschfeld
Press, NY
all
Keller
RP NY
all
Chester Tilton
Stone MD
Prof Paolo
Mantegazzza
D appleton
Century NY
Falstaff Press,
NY
all
Mae West
John Long L
Arthur Barker,
L
Falstaff Press
Ny
C and W L
Sexual
relations of
mankind
She done him
wrong
Skin and bone
all
all
Thorne smith
120 days of
Sodom
Soldier’s Pay
all
Dr Iwan Bloch
all
all
575
Somebody in
boots
The strange
case of Miss
Annie spragg
Strange Loves
William
Faulkner
Nelson Algren
735
Studs Lonigan
all
665
Summer in
Williamsburg
Three cities
To a God
Unknown
Tobaccco road
all
To have and
have not
Topper takes a
trip
The Trouble
I’ve Seen
They shoot
horses don’t
the
Turnabout
Twenty-four
hours
Union Square
We are
all
498
688
478
52
649
920
870
605
377
935
619
759
614
376
92
704
729
Constable and
co L
Bodley Head L
all
Louis
Bromfeld
all
Potter La
forest MD
James T
Farrell
Daniel Fuchs
Robert
Dodsley, NY
Constable L
Sholem Asch
John Steinbeck
1940 P 1962 N
Erskine
Caldwell
Ernest
Hemingway
Thorne smith
Gollancz L
Heinemann
all
all
all
all
all
all
all
all
all
all
Martha
Gellhorn
Horace mcCoy
Thorne smith
Louuis
Bromfeld
Albert Halper
Vardis Fisher
Constalbe, L
The Cresset P
L
JCape L
Arthur Barker
L
Putnam, L
Arthur Barker
L
ibid
Cassell L
Cassell
Borriswood
416
859
12
886
622
290
302
Betrayed
We are the
Living
We, the Living
all
all
What every
mother should
know
White Horses
of vienna
Why Birth
control?
all
Woman: her
sex and love
life
Ann vickers
Erskine
Caldwell
Ayn Rand b.
russia
Emigrated to
US 1926
Margret
Sanger
London
Martin Secker
L
Cassell, L
Jonathatn
Cape, L
all
Kay Boyle
Faber adn F L
all
Harold P
Preston
all
William J
robinson MD
Pioneer
Publications
NY
Eugenics Publ
NY
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
Anonymous/NA
George Ryley Scott
Neil Bell
Maurice Dekobra
David H. Keller
Banned
15
9
9
8
8
Nationality
English
English
French
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
Adrian Alington
Ruby Mildren Ayers
Title
The career of Julian Stanley
WilliamsSpoilt Music
Charlotee Bronte
Hugh Brooke
John Galsworthy
Philip Gibbs
Norman Giles (pseudo. N. McKeown)
Jan Gordon
Bruce Graeme (pseudo, Graham
Montague Jefferies
H. Cecil Hunt
F. Tennyson Jesse
William Le Queux
Villette
Man made angry
Man of property
Golden Years
Green Valley
Beans spilt in Spain
Unsolved
Eric Linklater
Compton Mackenzie (Scottish)
Richard Oke (pseudo.Nigel
Stansbury)
Ernest Raymond
Juan in America
Carnival
Frolic wind
Maurice Richardson
Owen Rutter
Ethel Winifred Savi
Ethel Winifred Savi
Eleanor Smith (Lady)
*Ben Strong
Strong man needed
White Rajah
Beauty Market
Vagrant Love
Famous novels of to-day
Shadow on the course
Old Barty
Many latitudes
The catspaw
Family that was
Margaret Cole
Twelve studies of Soviet
Russia
Emmeline Morrison
Three of a kind
*English publisher, Hodder and Stoughton
United States
Author
Mary Borden
Mary Borden
Mary Borden
*Isabel C. Clarke
Isabel C. Clarke
Margaret Horton Potter
Title
Jane our stranger
Jericho sands
A Woman with white eyes
It happened in Rome
Strangers of Rome
Sister Anne resigns
Category
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Fiction
Category
Novel
(crime)Novel
(romance)
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel (crime)
Novel
Novel (crime)
Novel
(mystery)
Novel
Novel
Novel
Fiction
(mystery)
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel
(mystery)
Fact
Novel
*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
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song
Evelyn Everett-Green Squib and his friends
Edward Albert
Edward Mathers
Hugh Cecil Asterley
Henry Taylor Folkes
Rhodes
United States
Author
Martha Finley
Tod Robbins
Val Lewton
Herrin’ Jennie
Splendid Quest
Tale of two murders
Clues and crimes: the science of criminal
investigation
Title
Elsie’s friends at WoodburnWho wants a green bottle?
The sword of the cosack
Category
FictionFiction
(juvenile)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction (crime)
Non-fiction
Category
Fiction (juvenile)
Fiction (fantasy)
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
Alice Marjorie Barnicot
The shadow of the woman
Thomas Owen Beechcroft A young man in a hurry
*Francis Beeding
Mr Bobadil
Ursula Bloom
Pastoral
Marjorie Bowen
The triumphant beast
Gerald Bullet
Eden River
Francesca Claremont
Turn again ladies
**Brian Cottrell (pseudo.) Sinister eden
***Agnes Cresswell
Brood O’ the Way
Guy Fletcher
The forest echoed fool
Hulbert Footner
Murder runs in the family
(Canadian)
Val Gielgud
Gravel hanger
A.C.G. Hastings
Venom
****A.P. Herbert
Holy Deadlock
*****John Heygate
Talking Picture
Michael Home
Denis Kincaid
Henrietta Leslie (pseudo.)
Mrs Gladys Shütz
Philip Lindsay (Australian)
Eric Linklater
Alun Llewellyn
Belloc Lowdnes
Hugh Patrick McGaw
Claude McKay
H. Fletcher Moulton
Daphne Muir
*****Ronald Nirden
Christine Grant Millar Orr
(Scottish)
******Aishie Farrell
Conrad H. Sayce
(Australian)
Edward Shanks
John Sorsky
Joan Temple
*******Trevelyan
Reginald Underwood
In this valley
Cactus Land
Mother of Five
Category
Novel
Novel
Novel (crime)
Novel (romantic)
Novel (gothic romance)
Novel
Novel
Novel
Novel (romance)
Novel
Fiction (detective)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Novel (semiautobiographical)
Fiction (crime)
Fiction
Fiction
London bridge is falling
The Revolution
The Deacon
Another man’s wife
Rude Society
Banana Bottom
The Unofficial Executor
Very Heaven
Edwin Jeune, Gentleman
Tattered Feathers: a story of
these dangerous days
Infidelity
Comboman
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Tom Tiddler’s Ground
The Bond
Duologne
As it happened in the
beginning
Bachelor’s Hall
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
?
Fiction
Fiction
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
*Vicki Baum
(emigrated to US
1931)
**Gleb Botkin
A.I. Voinova
Title
Falling star
Category
Novel (book banned in Germany
also)
Her Wanton Majesty Novel
Semi-precious
Novel
stones
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
Kay Boyle
James M. Cain
*George W. Cronyn
**Means Davis
***Ben Hecht
****Frederick Jackson
Alison Lide and Margaret
Johanson
Francis Van Wyck Mason
Janet Curren woen (pseudo.)
Helen Gould Curren Owen
Mary Robert Rinehart
Wallace Smith
Mae West
Title
Gentlemen, I address you privately
The postman always rings twice
The fool of venus
The hospital murder
A Jew in love
Pantoufle
Dark Possession
Category
Novel
Novel (crime)
Novel
Novel (crime)
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
The Shanghai Bund Murders
Late Flowering
Novel
Novel
The case of Elinor Norton
The captain hates the sea
She done him wrong
Novel (mystery)
Novel
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 antiNazi 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
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