By no means complete, the cross-checking of titles to see if they are novels or non-fic take up the most time, so please bear with me. But I thought you might like to see what else Charles Birkin's publisher took on. Any vault interest titles are in red.
Philip Allan 1933, a year after publishing the first of Birkin's anonymous anthologies.
Philip Allan (circa 1970)
Philip Allan & Co.
Philip Allan & John Gilbert Lockhart, co-directors
Address: Quality Court, London WC2 then moved to ‘Quality House’ 68 Great Russell Street WC1 in 1929
Philip Bertram Murray Allan MBE (1884 - 1973)
Educated at Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge took his M.A. in science.
Elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1921
Edited the Police Journal from 1920 until 1950
In 1935 he was the co-founder of the Bishop’s Stortford and District Natural History Society
In 1937 he founded The Journal of Criminal Law which he ran until 1972
In 1939/40 he was a member of a National Trust committee charged with the care of Hatfield Forest
Known names/Pseudonyms: PBM Allan, Alban A. Philip, Philip Murray, O. Eliphaz Keat, Francis Cabochon, Old Moth-Hunter or OMH.
1920
Sareel - Edith Dart (fic/West-County novel)
Five Plays - T.B. Rogers
An Angler's Garland of fields, Rivers, and other country contentments - Eric Parker (non-fic)
G.H.Q. (Montreuil-sur-Mer) - "G.S.O." [i.e. Frank Fox]
The Death-Mask, and other ghosts - H. D. Everett (fic/short stories)The Immortal Caravel. A book of thoughts and aphorisms - Arthur Alfred Lynch (non-fic)
The Street of Faces: glimpses of Town ... With eight drawings - J. D. M. Harvey
1921
Enchanter’s Nightshade - J.B. Morton (non-fic/essays on rambling)
Penny Royal - J.B. Morton (assumed poetry)
The Purple Sapphire - Christopher Blayre (fic/weird tales/ psued of Edward Heron-Allen)The Art of Attaining High Health ... together with Aristology; or, the Art of Dining ... as also a Sure Method of Attaining a Long Life, written originally in the Italian tongue by Signior Lewis Cornaro ... and now made English - ed. by Philip B. M. Allan (non-fic)
The Things Which are seen : a Re-valuation of the Visual Arts - Arthur Trystan Edwards (non-fic)
Wonder Tales of Ancient Wales - Bernard Henderson1922
Barrie Marvell: His Dreams and Adventures - Charles Vince (assumed non-fic)
Playing Fields - Eric Parker (non-fic/life at Eton)
The Fairy Islands - J. Waugh Boden (childrens fic)
The Art of Attaining High Health
The book-hunter at home - P. B. M. Allan [ie Philip Allan] (non-fic)Lely and Kneller - C. H. Collins Baker (non-fic/arts)
Secret societies of Ireland : Their rise progress - Hugh Berlie Campbell Pollard non-fic/pseud: Hugh Bertie Campbell)
Girtin and Bonington - Hugh Stokes (non-fic)
1923
Westminster Abbey - Canon Westlake (non-fic)
Westminster School - Lawrence Tanner, MA (non-fic)
Penicwick Jewels of Mary Queen of Scots - ? (non-fic)
An Outlaw’s Diary - ?
Warning - Pamela Wynne (fic/ about mixed race relationships - pseud of Winifred Mary Scott)
The Transformation of Uncle Parker - A. Thatcher & C.J. Hogarth (fic)
Wrack O’ Doom - Halliwell Sutcliffe (fic/assumed ‘romantic’ novel)
Old Man’s Beard - J.B. Morton (fic/non-fic mix)
Moreland and Ibbetson - B.L.K. Henderson (non-fic/art)
Vathek - William Beckford (fic)Wilson and Farington - Frank Rutter (non-fic)
All about ceremonies ... of the Church - I. Caudwell (non-fic)
An outlaw's diary : revolution - Cecile Tormay (non-fic)
Fame's Twilight. Studies of nine men of letters - Kenneth Newton Colvile (non-fic)
1924
The Borderland: Some Problems of Insanity - Theo Bulkeley Hyslop MD (non-fic)
Good and Bad Manners in Architecture - A. Trystan Edwards (non-fic)
Adventures in Tripoli - Dr E.H. Griffin MD (non-fic)
Sparks Among the Stubble - Constance Elizabeth Maud (fic)
Perils of the Sea: A Book of Shipwrecks and Escapes - J.G. Lockhart (non-fic)
Mysteries of the Sea - J.G. Lockhart (non-fic)A Boy’s Book of Verse - Alban M. Phillip
A Boy’s Book of Prose - W.H.lL. Watson
Wonder Tales - Bernard Henderson, C. Calvert and Stephen Jones
Labour in Transition - William Aylott Orton (non-fic)
The Confessions of a Turf Crook - ed. Cathal Bellingham (non-fic)
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith (fic)
A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
Waveney - Bernard Granville Baker (non-fic)
Fragments From My Diary - Maxim Gorki (fic)1925
The Happy Dragon and Other Stories - A. Thatcher and C.L. Hogarth (fic)
A Girl’s Book of Verse - Mary Lyttleton (fic)
Sanctuary - Blanche Hardy (fic/set in time of King Edward IV)
The Changing Order - Kenneth Ingram (non-fic/socialism)
The Red Marshall - Gordon Casserly (non-fic)
The Lives of the Rakes - E. Beresford Chancellor (non-fic)
The Songs and Poems of Shakespeare (fic)
The Songs and Poems of Ben Johnson (fic)
The hand and its mysteries - Karma (non-fic)
The Delectable Story of Princess Pirlipatine and the Nutcracker (fic)
1925
The Enchanted Wood - Sir Francis Newbolt (prose)
Dominion - John Presland (fic/novel about South Africa)
A Vision of Greece - Vera Willoughby (non-fic)
The Second Mate - R.F.W. Rees (fic/dead captain’s daughter rescues ship when it’s abandoned)
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (fic)
Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides - Samuel Johnson, ed. P.B.M. Allan (non-fic)
Politics Retold: 1880-1924 - Philip George Cambray (non-fic)
Through inner deserts to Medina - Countess Malmignati (non-fic)
Recollections of a fox-hunter - Scrutator (non-fic)
The House of God : a history of religious architecture & symbolism - E. H. Short (non-fic)
More Guidance from Beyond - Catherine Elizabeth Wingfield (non-fic)
1926
A Little Book of Loneliness: For Those Who are Wont to be Alone - ed. P.B.M. Allan (unknown)
The Man Who Paid - Archibald Luck (fic/pseud of Mrs Alma (Orthwein) Feraldo)
Penelope Finds Out - Pamela Wynne (fic)
The Silver Ship - Sir Samuel H. Scott (non-fic)
The Cost of Living - Norman Dearle (non-fic)
The Huntress Hag of the Blackwater - Sir Harold Boulton (fic/medieval romance)
Nuces Relictae - Dougal Malcolm (assumed fic)
A Book of Beauty - Hugh Cecil (non-fic/picture book of women)
The Book of Revelation - ed. Ernest H. Short (non-fic)
Old English Love Songs and Madrigals - ed. P.B.M. Allan
Between the Wickets : an anthology of cricket - compiled by Eric Parker (non-fic)
In Savage Australia. An account of a hunting and collecting expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land - Knut Dahl (non-fic)
1927
Sea Escapes and Adventures - ‘Taffrail’ (non-fic)
A Great Sea Mystery: The True Story of the Mary Celeste - J.G. Lockhart (non-fic)
The Taverns of Old England - H.P. Haskell (non-fic)
Fish, Fishing & Fishermen - William Caine (non-fic)
Analysis of the Turf - J. Fairfax Blakenborough (non-fic)
The Revelation of St. John the Divine - Ernest H. Short (non-fic)
Here are mysteries - J. G. Lockhart (non-fic)
Sixteen to Forty. By a Woman of Temperament -Marna (non-fic)
The Prison-Breakers. A book of escapes from captivity - Alban M. Phillip [ie Philip Allan] (non-fic)
1928
Aunt Clive’s Excursions - Gertrude Hollis (assumed religious work)
Perils of the Sea: A Book of Shipwrecks and Escapes - J.G. Lockhart
The Looking Glass of Lambeth - The Unknown Layman (non-fic/religious)
Concealed Turnings - Pamela Wynne (fic)
The Gulistan - Sir Richard Burton (trans.) (fic)
Escape Me - Never! - John Presland (fic/pseud of Gladys Skelton)
The Frequent Gun and a Little Fishing - Patrick R. Chalmers (non-fic)
Matheson Fever - John Easton (fic/possible supernatural, contains a ‘curse’)The Pilgrim Shrines of England - B.C. Boulter (non-fic)
A Hangman’s Diary - ed. C. Calvert (non-fic)
Vanderbilt - A.D. Howden Smith (non-fic)
The Silent Force - T. Morris Longstreth (non-fic/Mounties)
Unemployment and its Cure - W.A. Appleton
Toryism and the Twentieth Century - Walter Elliot MP (non-fic)
Mysteries of the sea : A book of strange tales - J.G. Lockhart (fic)1929
The Painter in History - Ernest H. Short (non-fic)
The Story of HMS Victory - Geoffrey Callender (non-fic)
Women Who Pass By - Vina Delmar (fic)
At the End of the Avenue - Pamela Wynne (fic)
Second Choice - Elizabeth Alexander (fic/love story,now a ‘lost’ film)
Rainbow in the Spray - Pamela Wynne (fic)
Mademoiselle Dahlia - Pamela Wynne (fic)
Admiral Byng and the Loss of Minorca - Brian Tunstall (non-fic)
By Dancing Streams - Douglas McCreath (non-fic/fishing)
Enigma - Rupert T Gould (non-fic)
Life (or) Life of Lobengula - H. Marshall (non-fic)
Of the High Seas - E. Keble Chatterton (fic)
Sykes of Sledmere - J. Fairfax-Blakeborough (non-fic)
The Old Road - Mary Crosbie (fic)
The Happy Mountain - Maristan Chapman (fic)
Mosaic - John Presland (fic)
The Taverns of Old England - Henry Parr Maskell (non-fic)
The Buccaneers - A. H. CooperPrichard (non-fic)
Strange Adventures of the Sea - J.G. Lockhart
1930
Flights of Naval Genius - Brian Tunstall (non-fic)
The Jameson Raid - Hugh Marshall Hole C.M.G. (non-fic)
The Case for the Sea Serpent - Commander R.T. Gould (non-fic)Vancouver: A Life - George Godwin (non-fic)
The Folk Lore Calendar - George Long (non-fic)At the Sign of the Dog & Gun - Patrick R. Chalmers (non-fic)
A Little Flat in the Temple - Pamela Wynne (fic)
The Other Woman - Vina Delmar (fic)
Why Stay We Here - George Godwin (fic)
The Ayesha - H. Von Mucke (non-fic)
Oddities and Enigmas - Commander R.T. Gould (non-fic)Homeplace - Chapman Martisan (unknown)
The Prison Breakers - A.M. Phillip (non-fic)
Great Storms - L.G. Carr Laughton (non-fic)
Whalers and Whaling - E. Keble Chatterton (non-fic)
The Brief Hour - H. du Coudray
A Summer on the Test - John Waller Hills (non-fic)
East is Always East - Pamela Wynne (fic)
1931
Where the Spring Salmon Run - Patrick R. Chalmers (non-fic)
Colonel Hawker’s Shooting Diaries - Eric Parker (non-fic)
Claude Monet - Countess of Lathom (non-fic)
Prisoner at the Bar - A.R.L. Gardner (non-fic)
Life of Admiral Sir John Narbrough - Florence E. Dyer (non-fic)
Bird Life in England - John Kearton (non-fic)
Endurance - Commander Frank Worsley (non-fic)
The People of the Leaves - Vivian Meik (non-fic)
Four Years out of Life - Lesley N. Smith (non-fic)
Rooms of Mystery - Elliott O’ Donnell (non-fic)The Diplomatist - Jules Cambon (non-fic)
Imagine a Man in a Box - H. Russell Wakefield (fic/supernatural)Song of the Wheatfields - Ferenc Mora (fic)
Conversations with Oscar Wilde - A.H. Cooper Prichard (non-fic)
A Short History of Imperial Preference - Major G.G. Tyron, MP (non-fic)
Women and Politics - Duchess of Atholl (non-fic)
Illustrated Deck Sports - M.H. Feddersen (non-fic)
Anne’s An Idiot - Pamela Wynne (fic)
Hindenburg: Peace, War, Aftermath - Gerhard Schultze-Pfaelzer (non-fic)
Prince Consort - Frank B. Chancellor (non-fic)
The Last Days of September - Pamela Wynne (fic)
The Steep Steps - Kenneth Ingram (fic/detective)
The Superconscious Mind - Edith Lyttleton (non-fic)
Houdini’s Escapes - W.B. Gibson (non-fic)
The Art of Crime - Arthur Gardiner (non-fic)
Pyramid - Lionel Birch (fic/assumed school novel)
Damien, The Leper Saint - Irene Caudwell (non-fic)
1932
The System - Lionel Birch (girl’s school novel)
Women Live Too Long - Vina Delmar (fic/ about an actress struggling to be recognised)
Love in a Mist - Pamela Wynne (fic)
Days & Nights of a Scottish Angler - Lamond (non-fic)
At the Tail of the Weir - Chalmers (non-fic)
Creeps - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Shivers - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Shudders - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)Sarah Churchill - Frank Chancellor (non-fic)
Imperial Brother - Maristan Chapman (non-fic)
Wild Flower Preservation - Mary Coley (non-fic)
Desirable Young Men - Patrick Carleton (fic/undergraduates at Cambridge)
Robino and other Stories - Umberto Fracchia (fic)
The Strange Papers of Dr Blayre - Edward Heron-Allen (fic/short stories - mix of satirical and supernatural)
Zambezi Interlude - Vivian Meik (non-fic)
The Case Against Einstein - Dr. Arthur Lynch (non-fic)
Shooting Days - Eric Parker (non-fic)
Bed-Time Stories For Every Night in the Year - Mary Graham Bonner (non-fic)
The Production of Religious Plays - E. Martin Browne (non-fic)
Things Every Dog Owner Should Know - Major A.T. Dawson (non-fic)
Uncertain Glory - Marigold Watney (fic/multiple-character novel with interlocking stories)
Bird Haunts in Wild Britain - R.N. WInall and G.K. Yeates (non-fic)
Passing of the Black Kings - Hugh Marshall Hole C.M.G. (assumed non-fic)
Days and Ways of a Scottish Angler - Henry Lamond (non-fic)
Land of the Gold Mohur - Lady Mohur (non-fic/travel)
Youth Looks at Religion - Various (non-fic/one essay written by Christopher Casson, son of actress Sybil Thorndike)
The Truth About Forced Labour in Russia - Duchess of Atholl (non-fic)
Everybody’s Dog Book - Major A.J. Dawson (non-fic)
Death Comes at Night - Kenneth Ingram (fic)
The Pastures of Heaven - John Steinbeck (fic/short stories)
1933
High Days and Bye Days - Ralph Greaves (non-fic: hunting)
Mundy’s Child - Alice Lindley (fic)
Shooting Days - Eric Parker (non-fic)
Insect Behaviour - E. Cheesman (non-fic)
Bird Life in England (John Kearton)
Nightmares - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Quakes - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Terrors (fic) ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Horrors (fic) ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)My Gun and I - Lewis Carey (non-fic)
Those Were the Days - Atwood Clark (non-fic)
Imagination and Religion - Canon Lindsay Dewar (non-fic)
The Young Priest - Rev. C.P. Hankey (non-fic)
The Elephant God - Gordon Casserly (fic/fantasy set in India)Who Maimed Spurto? - John Fairfax-Blakeborough (fic/horse racing, crime)
Saint Francis of the Hop-Fields - Miles Sargent (non-fic/religious views on beer)
The Disappearance of Cropton - John Fairfax-Blakeborough (fic)
Beating the Nobblers - John Fairfax-Blakeborough (non-fic)
Midsummer Sanity - Kenneth Ingram (fic/novel of the fantastic)The Hawk and the Tree - Patrick Carleton (fic)
Devil’s Drums - Vivian Meik (fic/occult)On England - Right Hon Stanley Baldwin (non-fic)
Family ghosts and ghostly phenomena - Elliott O'Donnell (non-fic)1934
Modern Buried Treasure Hunters - Harold T. Wilkins (non-fic)
Vagabond - J.B. Morton (non-fic)
Morning Glory - Ruth Alexander (fic)
The Lust of Treasure - H. Carson Marksman (fic)
Strange Cults and Secret Societies of Modern London - Elliott O’Donnell
Monsters - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Panics - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Powers of Darkness - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Fifty Years on the Test - C. Ernest Pain (non-fic)
The Expert Roach Fisher - J.W. Gosling (non-fic)
For Fishermen Only - Atwood Clark (non-fic)
The Crime at the Quay Inn - Eric Aldhouse (fic/murderer allows police to find vital clue)
From Blue Danube to Shannon (non-fic)
Sport and Travel in East Africa - H.R.H. Prince of Wales (non-fic)
One Breath - Patrick Carleton (fic/Circus life)
Under the Mosquito Curtain - Pamela Wynne (fic)
The One Before - Barry Pain (fic)
A Turf Mystery - J. Fairfax-Blakeborough & Rupert St.Cloud (fic)
The Rat - Phyllis Bottome (fic/novelisation of Ivor Novello play)
The Lady Noggs, Peeress - Edgar Jepson (adopted orphan saves MP’s grandson from a ‘foreign’ adventuress)
Come Out of the Pantry - Alice Duer Miller (fic)
Country Mixture - Atwood Clark (non-fic/sport, country life)
Books on the Shelf - T.J. Hardy (non-fic)
Veils of Fear - Vivian Meik (fic/occult)The Painter of Leiden - H.S. Ashton (non-fic)
The Golden Ladies of Pampeluna - Francis Cabochon (fic/pseud of P.B.M. Allan)
1935
Green Isle - Alice Duer Miller (fic)
English Fairy Book - Ernest Rhys (fic)
Irish Fairy Book - A.P. Greaves (fic)
Welsh Fairy Book - W. Jenkyn Thomas (fic)
Scottish Fairy Book - Elizabeth W. Grierson (fic)
Thrills - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Tales of Fear - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Creeps Omnibus - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)Salmon Fishing - W.J.M. Menzies (non-fic)
Trout Fishing - H.D. Turing (non-fic)
Golden Rain - Owen Rutter (fic/ ‘white girl and Borneo chief try to stop war provoked by English official’)
Naomi of the Mountains - Christopher Culley (fic/Western)
Laurine - Bruce Graeme (fic-early detective novel. Previously published as La Bella Laurine by another house)
The Woman Deborah - Alice and Claude Askew (fic)
There and Back Again - Mary Crosbie (fic)
The Treasure of the Bucoleon - Arthur D Howen Smith (fic)
The Crimson Azaleas - H. De Vere Stacpoole (fic/Two Scots meet a blind man who offers to conjure up the devil if they give him money)The Ballad-Maker of Paris - Ursula Torday (fic/apache poet who agrees to pay 20 crowns if he attempts to ‘make love’ to a woman he has just rescued)
Spy No. 13 - Robert W Chambers (fic/ known as Secret Service Operator 13 in the US)
Patsy - H. De Vere Stacpoole (fic)
Saturday to Monday: A Novel - Patrick Carleton (fic)
The Devil’s First - Edouard A. Aujard (fic/war)
The Confusing Friendship - Jefferson J. Farjeon (fic/assued crime)
The Rajah - F.E. Penny (fic/ name of Fanny Emily Penny)
Vampires Overhead - Alan Hyder (fic/vampires from outer space)The Bed Book - Ian Fenwick (fic/humour)
Coconuts and Creoles - J.A.P. Ozanne (non-fic)
The Devil of the Depths. A strange story of the south seas - Jack Maclaren - (non-fic/monsters and such like)1936
The Grey Man - S.R. Crockett (fic/scottish thriller set in 16th c.)
Tales of Dread - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)Out of the Mists - Mary Theresa Parnell (poetry)
Death Sentence - Alice Duer Miller (fic)
Riding the High Country - Patrick T. Tucker (fic)
Tales of Death - ed. Charles Lloyd (Birkin) (fic)
Devil’s Spawn - Charles BirkinMy Sporting Life - rt Hon J.W. Hills (non-fic)
John Jeremy: Cracksman - Jeffrey Montague (fic/science teacher by day, criminal by night)
Stingaree - E.W. Hornung (fic - Australian bushranger)
Hurricane Williams’ Vengeance - Gordon Young (fic/adventure novel)
Mr. Chedworth Hits Out - Francis Morton Howard (fic/forgery, gambling and gangsters)
Pearl of Pearl Island - John Oxenham (fic/a simple love story)
The Blood Ship - Norman Springer (ex-sea captain finds that new ship he is on is captained by brute who stole his previous ship)
November Joe - H.H. Prichard (fic/a Canadian Sherlock Holmes)
The Post-Captain - John Davis (fic/naval novel includes story about being a prisoner of Native Americans)
Old Ebbie: Detective Up To Date - Capt. F.A.M. Webster (fic)
Captain Salvation - Frederick William Wallace (fic/sea story)
Rank Outsider - J. Fairfax-Blakeborough (non-fic/horse racing)
Gift of the Desert - Randall Parrish (fic/Western)
His Majesty and Company - Joy Hays (non-fic)
Desert Madness - Harrison Conrad (fic/Wester, Gold Rush novel)
The Kai Lung Omnibus - Ernest Bramah (fic)
The Undying Monster - Jessie Douglas Kerruish (fic/werewolf)The Back of Beyond - Edmund Snell (fic/Borneo pulp adventure)Horror on the Asteroid - Edmond Hamilton (fic/short stories)
The Space Raiders - Barrington Beverley (fic/aliens come to take over world, a professor who can repel them - love gets in the way)
The Green Man of Kilsona - Festus Pragnell (fic/ green-haired caveman living on the component parts of an atom)Playing Fields: A Story of Public School Life - Eric Parker (non-fic)
The Curse of Red Shiva - Vivian Meik (fic/Indian cult)Trout Heresy - P.B.M. Allan (non-fic)
Beatty - Geoffrey Rawson
Camping Out for Girls. [With plates.] - Celia Helen Falcon (non-fic)
1937
1937
You Can’t Kill the Dead: The Story of Three Trials - Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (fic)
A Moth-hunter’s Gossip - Philip Bertram Murray Allan (non-fic)
Commonwealth or Anarchy? : A Survey of Projects of Peace - John A.R. Marriott (non-fic)
The Art and Craft of Loch Fishing - H. P. Henzell (non-fic)
Napoleon and Talleyrand - trans. Christopher R. Turner (non-fic)
Daughter of Egypt - Compton Irving (fic/supernatural/mummy)
The Blossom Belle - Roy Norton (fic/Western)
The Relief of Man's Estate - James Mulligan (non-fic)
A Bird Lover's Britain - George Kirkby Yeates (non-fic)
Wildfowling - C. T Dalgety (non-fic)
Managed Money - Right Hon John Waller Hills (non-fic)
The Sultana of Marib - Robert Ames Bennet (fic/historical novel/originally published in
Argosy)
Nine Wives. A novel - Jasper Howlett (fic)
Introducing British Butterflies - ed. J. E. Pryde-Hughes (non-fic)
Green Memory of Days with Gun and Rod - J.B. Drought (non-fic)
This Sliding on Wood -.Bernard Henty (fic/pseud Sir Bernard Henry Coode)
Big Game of India -Hubert Conway Maydon (non-fic)
1938
A bird watcher's notebook : studies of Woodcock, Snipe and other birds - J. W. Seigne (non-fic)
