Best Stories of Walter de la Mare (BS) (1942)
This selection of sixteen stories published in collections was made by de la Mare himself. It contained: ‘The Almond Tree’, ‘Miss Duveen’, ‘Seaton’s Aunt’ and ‘The Vats’ from R (1923), ‘Missing’, ‘The Nap’ and ‘All Hallows’ from C (1926), ‘Crewe’, ‘The Orgy: An Idyll’, ‘The Picnic’ and ‘An Ideal Craftsman’ from OE (1930), and ‘“What Dreams May Come’”, ‘Physic’, ‘Miss Miller’, ‘The House’ and ‘The Trumpet’ from WBO (1936). No stones for children were included.
The Old Lion and Other Stories (1942)
A selection of four stories from the children’s collections, illustrated by Irene Hawkins. They were ‘Maria-Fly’ from Br (1925), and ‘The Lord Fish’, ‘The Old Lion’ and ‘Sambo and the Snow Mountains’ from LF (1933).
Mr Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
Dorothy P. Lathrop did the illustrations for this edition of ‘The Old Lion’ (LF (1933)), published in Philadelphia in 1942.
The Magic Jacket and Other Stories (1943)
A selection of four stories for children from R (1923) (‘The Riddle’), Br (1925) (‘Miss Jemima’) and LF (1933) (‘The Magic Jacket’ and ‘Dick and the Beanstalk’). It was also illustrated by Irene Hawkins.
The Orgy (1943)
Reprinted by itself with an illustration by Frank R. Grey. In OE (1930) the story was called ‘The Orgy: An Idyll’.
The Almond Tree (1943)
Reprinted by itself with an illustration by Frank R. Grey. The story originally appeared in R (1923).
The Scarecrow and Other Stories (1945)
Another selection of four stories from the two children’s collections, illustrated by Irene Hawkins. They were ‘Broomsticks’, ‘The Lovely Myfanwy’ and ‘Visitors’ from Br (1925), and ‘The Scarecrow’ from LF (1933) (called ‘The Scarecrow or Hodmadod’ here).
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1946)
The fourth selection of children’s stories illustrated by Irene Hawkins, containing five this time: ‘The Dutch Cheese’, ‘Lucy’, ‘The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire’ and ‘Alice’s Godmother’ from Br (1925), and ‘A Penny a Day’ from LF (1933).
Collected Stories for Children (CSC) (1947)
Brought together in one volume all except three of de la Mare’s stories for children in Br (1925) and LF (1933), and also ‘The Riddle’ from R (1923). The three omitted were ‘Pigtails, Ltd.’, ‘The Thief’ and ‘A Nose’ in Br (1925). It contained seventeen stories in all, and was illustrated by Irene Hawkins. The second edition (1957) was illustrated by Robin Jacques. See also the Introduction on page viii.
The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare (CT) (1950)
A selection published in New York of twenty-four out of the forty-seven stories in R (1923), DDB (1924, 1936), C (1926), OE (1930) and WBO (1936). It was edited by Edward Wagenknecht. ‘The Connoisseur’ (C (1926)) was given complete. The stories were as follows. R (1923): ‘The Almond Tree’, ‘Miss Duveen’, ‘Seaton’s Aunt’, ‘The Bowl’, ‘The Three Friends’, ‘Lispet, Lispett and Vaine’, ‘The Tree’, ‘The Creatures’, ‘The Riddle’ and ‘The Vats’; C (1926): ‘Missing’, ‘The Connoisseur’, ‘The Nap’, ‘All Hallows’ and ‘The Wharf’; OE (1930): ‘Willows’, ‘The Orgy: An Idyll’ and ‘An Ideal Craftsman’; DDB (1936): ‘Strangers and Pilgrims’; and WBO (1936): ‘Cape Race’, ‘Physic’, ‘The Talisman’, ‘In the Forest’ and ‘The Trumpet’.
Selected Stories and Verses of Walter de la Mare (SSV) (1952)
This Puffin included six of de la Mare’s stones for children: ‘The Dutch Cheese’ and ‘The Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire’ from Br (1925), and ‘A Penny a Day’, ‘The [Magic] Jacket’, ‘Dick and the Beanstalk’ and ‘The Old Lion’ from LF (1933).
A Beginning and Other Stories (Beg) (1955)
De la Mare’s last major published work before his death in 1956. It came out sometime after June 1955. It contained thirteen short stories, and of these ‘The Quincunx’ had been serialized in 1906, ‘Odd Shop’ in 1937 and ‘The Guardian’ in 1938. Others too had originally been written years before, e.g. ‘A Beginning’, the title story, which dates from before 1900. But some were recent.
In his introduction, de la Mare wrote as follows: ‘Most of (the stories) have passed through changes – seldom rich, alas, but occasionally strange. Some of them are middle-aged. And, worse, may only too clearly look it. Most have been revised repeatedly; while some were born all but spick and span, only a springtime or so ago. One of them, cut down by half, actually came into being when Queen Victoria was still on the throne. Some of them, finally, in a different shape, have been “on the air”, and many have been serialized…’ See also the Introduction on page viii.
‘Odd Shop’
(a) Listener, 31 March 1937 (where it was called ‘Odd Shop: A Dialogue for Broadcasting’)
‘Music’
(a) Adelphi, April-June 1952 (where it was called ‘Music from the Sea’)
‘The Stranger’
(a) London Magazine, September 1954 (where it was called ‘The Stranger: A Dialogue’)
‘Neighbours’
‘The Princess’ (two notes on the TS read ‘13.3.37’ (the day on which it was broadcast by the BBC) and ‘revised again Jan. 1954’)
(a) Good Housekeeping, October 1952
‘The Guardian’
(a) John O’London’s Weekly, 10 June 1938
The Best British Stories of 1939, ed.
Edward O’Brien (Boston, 1939)
Second Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith (1952.)
‘The Face’
(a) World Review, December 1950
‘The Cartouche’
(a) Encounter, December 1954
‘The Picture’
(a) Argosy, February 1955
‘The Quincunx’
(a) Lady’s Realm, December 1906
(b) GS (1956)
‘An Anniversary’ (originally written in or before 1945)
(a) Saturday Book, No. 12 (1952)
(b) GS (1956)
‘Bad Company’
(a) Listener, 1 April 1954
(b) GS (1956)
‘A Beginning’ (originally written in about 1900)
Walter de la Mare: Ghost Stories (GS) (1956)
A Folio Society selection of seven de la Mare ghost stories, edited by Kenneth Hopkins and with lithographs by Barnett Freedman. It included ‘Out of the Deep’ from R (1923), ‘The Green Room’ from OE (1930), ‘The House’ and ‘A Revenant’ from WBO (1936), and ‘The Quincunx’, ‘An Anniversary’ and ‘Bad Company’ from Beg (1955).
Eight Tales (1971)
This was a selection of eight very early de la Mare stories, all of them serialized (except possibly ‘A:B:O.’) but none later collected, that Edward Wagenknecht embarked on in about 1952 with de la Mare’s approval. They were ‘Kismet’ (1895), ‘The Hangman Luck’ (1895), ‘A Mote’ (1896), ‘The Village of Old Age’ (1896), ‘The Moon’s Miracle’ (1897), ‘The Giant’ (1901), ‘De Mortuis’ (1901) and ‘A:B:O.’ (dated 1896 or earlier according to Theresa Whistler). Wagenknecht wrote an introduction and the volume was published by Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. See also the CT (1950) entry and the Uncollected Stories sections in Short Stories 1895–1926 and Short Stories 1917–1956.
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1988)
A new selection of eight children’s stories, published in the Puffin Classics series. It had six stories from Br (1925), ‘The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire’, ‘Alice’s Godmother’, ‘The Dutch Cheese’, ‘Broomsticks’, ‘Miss Jemima’ and ‘The Lovely Myfanwy’; one from LF (1933), ‘The Lord Fish’; and one from R (1923), ‘The Riddle’. It was different from the volumes published in 1931 and 1946.
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