Richard Dalby biblio in progress

[mrhappy]

Feb 6, 2018 11:54:12 GMT cromagnonman said:

Dalby's list was a chronological one covering the period 1764 - 1939. You can probably guess who features on it as it is very much a case of the usual suspects. But here's the rogue's gallery in full: Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, H. G Wells, Richard Marsh, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Gaston Leroux, Dennis Wheatley and H P Lovecraft.

Personally I'm gutted that there was no room for Clark Ashton Smith on the list. There's one name there that I'd happily substitute his for.

Thank you for this. And you are spot on with the usual suspects comment.

[Michael Connolly]

Feb 6, 2018 19:34:17 GMT andydecker said:

This is a massive body of work. There are not many translations of his work, but some were rather successful, like Chillers for Christmas which over the years got a few new editions.

Did Dalby made his living as a writer or was this after hours work?

As Richard Dalby was a book collector, book seller, an anthologist, and a writer who contributed to every issue of Book and Magazine Collector (whether he was credited or not - apparently he was consulted on authors' bibliographies and prices etc), it can be said that books was his life.

[Michael Connolly]

Feb 8, 2018 14:54:05 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Feb 6, 2018 19:34:17 GMT andydecker said:

This is a massive body of work. There are not many translations of his work, but some were rather successful, like Chillers for Christmas which over the years got a few new editions.

Did Dalby made his living as a writer or was this after hours work?

As Richard Dalby was a book collector, book seller, an anthologist, and a writer who contributed to every issue of Book and Magazine Collector (whether he was credited or not - apparently he was consulted on authors' bibliographies and prices etc), it can be said that books was his life.

It would be very hard to provide a complete bibliography for Richard Dalby. He also contributed articles to reference books from other editors including the Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural edited by Jack Sullivan and, more recently in 2015, The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History edited by Stephen Jones.

You can see a preview of that last book here: issuu.com/halleonardbooks/docs/artofhorroblad

[Michael Connolly]

Feb 5, 2018 13:40:25 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Feb 3, 2018 21:37:21 GMT jamesdoig said:

301 Dec 2008
In the Salerooms
John Milton

303 Jan 2009
In the Salerooms
Edgar Allan Poe

304 Feb 2009
None

305 Mar 2009
None

310 Aug 2009
In the Salerooms
Stanley Middleton

314 Dec 2009
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

313 Nov 2009
Kit Williams
Van Wyck Mason

321 June 2010
None

322 Jul 2010
In the Salerooms

323 Aug 2010
In the Salerooms

324 Sept 2010
In the Salerooms
Early American Exploration

325 Oct 2010
In the Salerooms

326 Nov 2010
In the Salerooms
L. Frank Baum

327 Dec 2010
In the Salerooms

328 Xmas 2010
In the Salerooms
Anthony Berkeley
The Spook Stories of E.F. Benson

I've just checked. BMC 328 was the last issue. damn, I didn't know about the article on E.F. Benson's ghost stories, which Richard Dalby only briefly covered in issue 18. I'll have to find a copy of 328.




I've just ordered a copy from eBay. 



I want to thank James. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't have known it existed.

[Michael Connolly]

Jan 26, 2018 1:20:31 GMT cromagnonman said:

Never let it be said that Cromagnonman balks at a challenge, however daunting. So here's an initial stab at putting together a listing of all of Richard Dalby's contributions to Book And Magazine Collector. Whilst my own haul of issues is pretty modest, previous visits there had alerted me to the fact that Baggins of Rochester had an extensive file of issues for sale. So fired by the bibliophilic needs of the Vault I deposited myself there this afternoon in one of its freezing attic garrets and began the painstaking task of systematically trawling through every available issue for Dalby credited pieces.

Now it needs to be stressed that not every single issue proved to be available, and nor was Dalby present in each issue that was. Also I lacked the time necessary to do more than go through a third of the issues that were there. But I'm committed to returning to Baggins to complete the task, never fear. And anyway, every journey has to start with a single step. So here's an opening gambit covering the first 100 or so issues of the magazine. The eventual run was somewhere in the region of 326 issues, I believe.

Its worth making the point at the off that in many later issues Dalby contributed the book auction reports but I'm not going to make any attempt to register those. That was mere reportage as opposed to proper journalism, in my estimation, and as such is of negligible interest here. But I have included the new book reviews he contributed where I found them.

Richard Dalby Articles in the Book & Magazine Collector #s 1 - 100

1.  (3/84)

• "Book Collecting"
  

3.  (5/84)

• "The 'Britain In Pictures' Series
  

5.  (7/84)

• "The Strand Magazine"
  

6.  (8/84)

• "Cinema Magazines"
  
• "Dictionary of British Book Illustrators: the 20th Century" (Book Review)

11. (1/85)

• The 'Wide World' Magazine
  

13. (3/85)

• "A. Henry Savage Landor"
  

16. (6/85)

• "The Ghost Stories of M R James"
  

17. (7/85)

• "Pearson's Magazine & Pearson's Weekly"
  

18. (8/85)

• E. F. Benson
  

21. (11/85)

• "A. P. Herbert"
  

22. (12/85)

• "Elliott O Donnell"
  

28.  (7/86)

• "Walter de la Mare"
  

29. (8/86)

• "Nash's & Pall Mall Magazine"
  

33. (12/86)

• "The Illustrated Books of Edmund Dulac"
  

34. (1/87)

• "Sheppard's Book Dealers in the British Isles, 1987" (Book Review)
  

35. (2/87)

• "William Hope Hodgson"
  

36. (3/87)

• "Arthur Mee's KING'S ENGLAND Series"
  

37.  (4/87)

• "The Illustrated Books of H M Bateman"
  

38. (5/87)

• "Gaston Leroux: Creator of 'The Phantom of the Opera'"
  

42.  (9/87)

• "The Illustrated Books of Maurice and Edward Detmold"
  

45.  (12/87)

• "Collecting the Saturday Book"
  

46. (1/88)

• "The Christmas Books of Charles Dickens"
  

47. (2/88)

• "The Illustrations of Warwick Goble"
  

48. (3/88)

• "Mary Shelley: Creator of 'Frankenstein'"
  

52. (7/88)

• "Lewis Spence"
  

57. (12/88)

• "The 'Windsor' Magazine"
  

63. (6/89)

• "The Crime Novels of Ellis Peters"
  

77.  (8/90)

• "Collecting Jules Verne"
  

81. (12/90)

• "Andrew Lang's Fairy Books"
  

83. (2/91)

• "Anthony Trollope Reprints"
  

90. (9/91)

• "The London Mystery Magazine"
  

91. (10/91)

• "Bram Stoker"
  

92. (11/91)

• "The Horror Stories of J. Sheridan Le Fanu"
  

93. (12/91)

• "Willy Pogany"
  

94. (1/92)

• "Laurel & Hardy"
  

96. (3/92)

• "Rene Bull"
  

97. (4/92)

• "Amelia B. Edwards"
  

98. (5/92)

• "Poem of the Month Club"
  

99. (6/92)

• "The Stories of Ambrose Bierce"
  
• "William M. Timlin: Author-Artist Extraordinary"

100. (7/92)

• "The Horror and Adventure Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
  

Here is a list of the issues which I haven't consulted copies of as yet. If anyone has copies and can post details of any Dalby material contained within them then I will amend the above list accordingly and slowly but surely we'll have the beginnings of something comprehensive:

2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 39, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 95 

I missed that you did not cite issue 2 (4/84), which contains Richard Dalby's first article on Dracula.  It seems that he himself chose the subjects for his articles right until the end.  

[jamesdoig]

A few more:

230 May 2003
Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Bicentenary Tribute

268 May 2006
At Auction (part 3 of an article called "Saleroom Special!")

272 Sept 2006
200 Most Valuable Crime Novels of All Time (this one is unattributed, but surely RD had a hand in it)

302 Xmas 2008
In the Salesroom
Willy Pogany

305 March 2009
The First 25 Years (reminiscence of 25 years at the Book and Magazine Collector - "As the most prolific contributor (with over 200 articles, and 100 saleroom reports), I have greatly enjoyed my quarter-century with Book and Magazine Collector...)

[Michael Connolly]

This is a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to identify a particular issue of Book and Magazine Collector that I used to have. Some writer (not Richard Dalby) once wrote to me about advice on non-Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes books. As the information he asked me to comment on was full of mistakes it was obvious he did not know the subject very well. I sent corrections and made some suggestions and comments. The article did appear, with no mistakes. I was acknowledged for having helped. However, I am still waiting for the complimentary copy that I was promised! I think it was in the early 1990s (last century!).

[dem bones]

Richard Dalby's contributions to Jack Sullivan (ed.) Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror & The Supernatural (Penguin/ Viking, 1986)

Baker: Denys Val, (1917-1984)
Campbell: Gilbert (Edward) (Sir), (1838-1899)
Gift: Theo (psuedonym of Dorothy Henrietta Havers, later known as Mrs. George L. Boulger) , (1847-1923)
Lewis: L(eslie) A., (1899-1961)
Mulholland: Rosa, (1841-1921)
Nisbet: Hume, (1849-1923)
Northcote: Amyas, (1864-1923)
Phillpotts: Eden, (1862-1960)
Quinn: Seabury, (1899-1969)
Ropes: Arthur R., (1859-1933)
Ryan R(achel) R., (?-?)
Small: Austin J., (1894-1929)
Stevenson: Robert Louis, (1850-1894)
Stoker: Bram, (1847-1912)
Turner: James, (1909-1975)

[cromagnonman]

Feb 10, 2018 13:20:33 GMT Michael Connolly said:

This is a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to identify a particular issue of Book and Magazine Collector that I used to have. Some writer (not Richard Dalby) once wrote to me about advice on non-Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes books. As the information he asked me to comment on was full of mistakes it was obvious he did not know the subject very well. I sent corrections and made some suggestions and comments. The article did appear, with no mistakes. I was acknowledged for having helped. However, I am still waiting for the complimentary copy that I was promised! I think it was in the early 1990s (last century!).

I can't give you a definitive answer unfortunately, but the back issues contents listings do throw up a couple of likely candidates. The first is # 73 (Apr 90) which has a guide to collecting Holmesian ephemera and memorabilia. The other is # 109 (Apr 93) which has a piece on Sherlock Holmes film and tv tie ins. Both issues are currently being offered on e*ay if you wish to consult the covers.

[andydecker]

Feb 8, 2018 14:54:05 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Feb 6, 2018 19:34:17 GMT andydecker said:

This is a massive body of work. There are not many translations of his work, but some were rather successful, like Chillers for Christmas which over the years got a few new editions.

Did Dalby made his living as a writer or was this after hours work?

As Richard Dalby was a book collector, book seller, an anthologist, and a writer who contributed to every issue of Book and Magazine Collector (whether he was credited or not - apparently he was consulted on authors' bibliographies and prices etc), it can be said that books was his life.

Thanks for the info!

[Michael Connolly]

This information is already on the Vault under "BFS Publications", but the cover has gone AWOL.

Masters of Fantasy 3: M.R. James edited by Richard Dalby (British Fantasy Society Booklet No.10, 1987)

Quotations
Introduction by Richard Dalby
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James by Richard Dalby
Ghosts – Treat Them Gently by M.R. James
In the Footsteps of M.R. James by Rosemary & Darroll Pardoe
A School Story by M.R. James
Selected Bibliography: First Editions by Richard Dalby




I have two copies of this, one signed by Richard Dalby on 12 June 1987.

[Michael Connolly]

Feb 10, 2018 19:29:02 GMT cromagnonman said:

Feb 10, 2018 13:20:33 GMT Michael Connolly said:

This is a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to identify a particular issue of Book and Magazine Collector that I used to have. Some writer (not Richard Dalby) once wrote to me about advice on non-Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes books. As the information he asked me to comment on was full of mistakes it was obvious he did not know the subject very well. I sent corrections and made some suggestions and comments. The article did appear, with no mistakes. I was acknowledged for having helped. However, I am still waiting for the complimentary copy that I was promised! I think it was in the early 1990s (last century!).

I can't give you a definitive answer unfortunately, but the back issues contents listings do throw up a couple of likely candidates. The first is # 73 (Apr 90) which has a guide to collecting Holmesian ephemera and memorabilia. The other is # 109 (Apr 93) which has a piece on Sherlock Holmes film and tv tie ins. Both issues are currently being offered on e*ay if you wish to consult the covers.

Thanks. #73 seems to be the most likely one.

[Michael Connolly]

According to Mike Ashley in Scream Factory 14, Hugh Lamb had "a surprisingly modest personal collection" of books, now being sold through Cold Tonnage Books. Richard Dalby's collection has created a business. Richard Dalby's Library has written to me (on the inner wrapping of a parcel) "Richard's house was/is floor to ceiling with books, magazines, paperwork, etc. He kept everything." Is there a lesson here?

[Jojo Lapin X]

Jan 30, 2020 13:24:19 GMT Michael Connolly said:

According to Mike Ashley in Scream Factory 14, Hugh Lamb had "a surprisingly modest personal collection" of books, now being sold through Cold Tonnage Books. Richard Dalby's collection has created a business. Richard Dalby's Library has written to me (on the inner wrapping of a parcel) "Richard's house was/is floor to ceiling with books, magazines, paperwork, etc. He kept everything." Is there a lesson here?

I do not see what it would be. After you die, somebody else can make money from your possessions? Why should you care?

[Michael Connolly]

Jan 30, 2020 13:44:07 GMT Jojo Lapin X said:

Jan 30, 2020 13:24:19 GMT Michael Connolly said:

According to Mike Ashley in Scream Factory 14, Hugh Lamb had "a surprisingly modest personal collection" of books, now being sold through Cold Tonnage Books. Richard Dalby's collection has created a business. Richard Dalby's Library has written to me (on the inner wrapping of a parcel) "Richard's house was/is floor to ceiling with books, magazines, paperwork, etc. He kept everything." Is there a lesson here?

I do not see what it would be. After you die, somebody else can make money from your possessions? Why should you care?

I'm taking my money with me.