Richard Dalby biblio in progress

[mrhappy]

He wrote the afterword to the 1998 Caliban Press reissue of C.D. Pamely's Tales of Mystery & Terror.

[andydecker]

Is there any interest for his translations? Mostly the christmas anthologies, maybe half a dozen in all.

[Michael Connolly]

According to Wikipedia Richard Dalby's book collection was so extensive that he rented a storage unit to help house it.

I'd break into that.

[mrhappy]

richarddalbyslibrary.com/

They are selling select items from his collection.

Mr. Happy

[cromagnonman]

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 

[jamesdoig]

I can fill in a few. I guess he may have written some of the unattributed 'current prices' column.

1 (3/84)
Book Collecting

5 (7/84)
The Strand Magazine

19 (9/85)
None

28 (7/86)
Walter de la mare

37 (4/87)
Illustrated Books of H.M. Bateman

40 (7/87)
None

42 (9/87)
The Illustrated Books of Maurice and Edward Detmold

45 (12/87)
Collecting the Saturday Book

58 (1/89)
None

64 (7/89)
None

77 (8/1990)
Collecting Jules Verne

89 (8/91)
None

[cromagnonman]

Jan 27, 2018 1:00:06 GMT jamesdoig said:

I can fill in a few. I guess he may have written some of the unattributed 'current prices' column.


Thanks James. Much appreciated. I've amended the list accordingly.

[cromagnonman]

Richard Dalby Articles in the Book and Magazine Collector #s 101 - 150

103.  Oct 92

• Chas Addams
  

105.  Dec 92

• Classic Illustrator H. R. Millar
  

106.  Jan 93

• Mary Norton
  

107.  Feb 93

• Artist and Illustrator Rex Whistler
  

108.  Mar 93

• Classic Illustrator Edmund J Sullivan
  
• Peter Berresford Ellis

109.  Apr 93

• Jean Plaidy
  
• Mary Pickford
  

110.  May 93

• Collecting Loch Ness Monster Books
  

113.  Aug 93

• Mae West
  

114.  Sept 93

• Michael Crichton
  

115.  Oct 93

• The 'Britain In Pictures' Series
  

116.  Nov 93

• The Illustrated Rider Haggard (with Roger Allen)
  
• The Incredible Stories of Norman Hunter

118.  Jan 94

• Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
• The Books of Vincent Price
  

119.  Feb 94

• A. J. A. Symons
  

120.  Mar 94

• Collecting Tauchnitz Editions
  

121.  Apr 94

• The Adult Fiction of Roald Dahl
  
• Alexandre Dumas (British Editions)
  

122.  May 94

• Lord Dunsany
  

123. Jun 94

• Michael Ayrton
  

124.  Jul 94

• John Hadfield
  
• Ellis Peters' 'Chronicles of Brother Cadfael'
  

127.  Oct 94

• The Late Works of Arthur Rackham
  

128.  Nov 94

• Frankenstein

130.  Jan 95

• Ann Radcliffe
  

131.  Feb 95

• The Historical Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle
  

132.  Mar 95

• Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty'
  

133.  Apr 95

• The Animal Stories of Rudyard Kipling
  
• The Abominable Snowman
  

134.  May 95

• The Children's Books of Rudyard Kipling
  
• Two Hundred Years of British Political Cartoons
  

135.  Jun 95

• R. H. Barham and 'The Ingoldsby Legends'
  

136.  Jul 95

• Bodley Head Classic Giftbooks
  

137.  Aug 95

• Donald Maxwell
  

138.  Sept 95

• Robert Service
  

141.  Dec 95

• The Rev. W. Awdry's 'Thomas the Tank Engine' Books
  
• J. Meade Falkner (with Mark Valentine)
  

142.  Jan 96

• Collecting Victorian Yellowbacks
  

143.  Feb 96

• The Illustrated Books of Edmund Dulac
  
• Richard Matheson
  

144.  Mar 96

• Dick King-Smith
  

145.  Apr 96

• Randolph Caldecott
  
• Matthew Lewis
  

146.  May 96

• Ernest Rhys
  

147.  Jun 96

• Erskine Childers
  
• Sir Charles Oman
  

148.  Jul 96

• P. L. Travers: Creator of Mary Poppins
  

149.  Aug 96

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
  

150.  Sept 96

• Ernest H. Sheppard
  
• Victor Hugo

Only five issues were unavailable for consultation this time around. They were #s 101, 111, 117, 125 and 126. Again, if anyone has those issues and can post details of any Dalby contributions I'd greatly appreciate it.

I must confess that I am beginning to harbour serious misgivings about undertaking this task. I haven't felt well since I started it. Data collecting in freezing attic garrets is not conducive to good health and is definitely something not to be recommended. Two sessions and I've been left feeling like one of those tubercular Victorian poets.

[jamesdoig]

Jan 31, 2018 23:37:25 GMT cromagnonman said:

I must confess that I am beginning to harbour serious misgivings about undertaking this task. I haven't felt well since I started it. Data collecting in freezing attic garrets is not conducive to good health and is definitely something not to be recommended. Two sessions and I've been left feeling like one of those tubercular Victorian poets.

I know what you mean - my copies of BMC are in a couple of boxes beneath a pile of boxes, so I've usually broken my back by the time I get to them. Then I lose about half a day reacquainting myself with various BMC articles I'd forgotten about - all those Lofts/Adley articles on obscure things, Mike Ashley articles, Steve Holland on Curtis Warren publications etc etc. But it's well worth the effort - and a noble enterprise Cro! I'll see if I've got any of those issues.

[cromagnonman]

Feb 1, 2018 20:01:58 GMT jamesdoig said:

Jan 31, 2018 23:37:25 GMT cromagnonman said:

I must confess that I am beginning to harbour serious misgivings about undertaking this task. I haven't felt well since I started it. Data collecting in freezing attic garrets is not conducive to good health and is definitely something not to be recommended. Two sessions and I've been left feeling like one of those tubercular Victorian poets.

I know what you mean - my copies of BMC are in a couple of boxes beneath a pile of boxes, so I've usually broken my back by the time I get to them. Then I lose about half a day reacquainting myself with various BMC articles I'd forgotten about - all those Lofts/Adley articles on obscure things, Mike Ashley articles, Steve Holland on Curtis Warren publications etc etc. But it's well worth the effort - and a noble enterprise Cro! I'll see if I've got any of those issues.

Thanks James, I'd appreciate that. The more I go through them and fully appreciate the sheer extent of the contributions made by Ashley, Whitehead, Holland and several others the stronger the case seems for compiling a full inventory of all the contents of all the issues. But there is absolutely no way in a hundred blue supermoons or a century of sundays that I would ever ever contemplate volunteering for such a sisyphusian task. As it is only the generous support of yourself and other appreciative colleagues is motivating me to crawl wheezing from my iron lung and persevere with the Dalby researches. 

[jamesdoig]

Jan 31, 2018 23:37:25 GMT cromagnonman said:

Only five issues were unavailable for consultation this time around. They were #s 101, 111, 117, 125 and 126. Again, if anyone has those issues and can post details of any Dalby contributions I'd greatly appreciate it.

I don't have any of those five, unfortunately.

[jamesdoig]

Does anyone have the contents for Dracula's Brethren, the anthology Richard Dalby did with Brian Frost?

[Michael Connolly]

Feb 3, 2018 4:05:20 GMT jamesdoig said:

Does anyone have the contents for Dracula's Brethren, the anthology Richard Dalby did with Brian Frost?

I've seen a copy of the book. Its contents can be seen here: www.amazon.co.uk/Draculas-Brethren-Collins-Chillers-Richard/dp/0008216487/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517665594&sr=1-1&keywords=Dracula%27s+brethren

Introduction - Brian J. Frost

The Bride of the Isles - Anonymous (1820)
The Unholy Compact Abjured - Charles Pigault-Lebrun (1825)
Viy - Nikolai Gogol (1835)
The Burgomaster in Bottle - Erckmann-Chatrian (1849)
Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse - Louisa May Alcott (1869)
Professor Brankel's Secret - Fergus Hume (1882)
John Barrington Cowles - Arthur Conan Doyle (1884)
Manor - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884)
Old Aeson - Arthur Quiller-Couch (1890)
The Mask - Richard Marsh (1892)
The Last of the Vampires - Phil Robinson (1893)
The story of Jella and the Macic - Professor P. Jones (1895)
The Ring of Knowledge - William Beer (1896)
A Beautiful Vampire - Arabella Kenealy (1896)
The Story of Baelbrow - E. & H. Heron (1898)
The Purple Terror - Fred M. White (1899)
Glámr - Sabine Baring-Gould (1904)
The Vampire Nemesis - 'Dolly' (1905)
The Electric Vampire - F. H. Power (1910)

[Michael Connolly]

Jan 31, 2018 23:37:25 GMT cromagnonman said:

Richard Dalby Articles in the Book and Magazine Collector #s 101 - 150

103.  Oct 92

• Chas Addams
  

105.  Dec 92

• Classic Illustrator H. R. Millar
  

106.  Jan 93

• Mary Norton
  

107.  Feb 93

• Artist and Illustrator Rex Whistler
  

108.  Mar 93

• Classic Illustrator Edmund J Sullivan
  
• Peter Berresford Ellis

109.  Apr 93

• Jean Plaidy
  
• Mary Pickford
  

110.  May 93

• Collecting Loch Ness Monster Books
  

113.  Aug 93

• Mae West
  

114.  Sept 93

• Michael Crichton
  

115.  Oct 93

• The 'Britain In Pictures' Series
  

116.  Nov 93

• The Illustrated Rider Haggard (with Roger Allen)
  
• The Incredible Stories of Norman Hunter

118.  Jan 94

• Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
• The Books of Vincent Price
  

119.  Feb 94

• A. J. A. Symons
  

120.  Mar 94

• Collecting Tauchnitz Editions
  

121.  Apr 94

• The Adult Fiction of Roald Dahl
  
• Alexandre Dumas (British Editions)
  

122.  May 94

• Lord Dunsany
  

123. Jun 94

• Michael Ayrton
  

124.  Jul 94

• John Hadfield
  
• Ellis Peters' 'Chronicles of Brother Cadfael'
  

127.  Oct 94

• The Late Works of Arthur Rackham
  

128.  Nov 94

• Frankenstein

130.  Jan 95

• Ann Radcliffe
  

131.  Feb 95

• The Historical Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle
  

132.  Mar 95

• Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty'
  

133.  Apr 95

• The Animal Stories of Rudyard Kipling
  
• The Abominable Snowman
  

134.  May 95

• The Children's Books of Rudyard Kipling
  
• Two Hundred Years of British Political Cartoons
  

135.  Jun 95

• R. H. Barham and 'The Ingoldsby Legends'
  

136.  Jul 95

• Bodley Head Classic Giftbooks
  

137.  Aug 95

• Donald Maxwell
  

138.  Sept 95

• Robert Service
  

141.  Dec 95

• The Rev. W. Awdry's 'Thomas the Tank Engine' Books
  
• J. Meade Falkner (with Mark Valentine)
  

142.  Jan 96

• Collecting Victorian Yellowbacks
  

143.  Feb 96

• The Illustrated Books of Edmund Dulac
  
• Richard Matheson
  

144.  Mar 96

• Dick King-Smith
  

145.  Apr 96

• Randolph Caldecott
  
• Matthew Lewis
  

146.  May 96

• Ernest Rhys
  

147.  Jun 96

• Erskine Childers
  
• Sir Charles Oman
  

148.  Jul 96

• P. L. Travers: Creator of Mary Poppins
  

149.  Aug 96

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
  

150.  Sept 96

• Ernest H. Sheppard
  
• Victor Hugo

Only five issues were unavailable for consultation this time around. They were #s 101, 111, 117, 125 and 126. Again, if anyone has those issues and can post details of any Dalby contributions I'd greatly appreciate it.

I must confess that I am beginning to harbour serious misgivings about undertaking this task. I haven't felt well since I started it. Data collecting in freezing attic garrets is not conducive to good health and is definitely something not to be recommended. Two sessions and I've been left feeling like one of those tubercular Victorian poets.

Here's two more:

18 (August, 85) "E.F. Benson"

250 (Xmas, 2004) "M.R. James: The centenary of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary".

[cromagnonman]

Richard Dalby Articles in the Book and Magazine Collector #s 151 - 200

153.  Dec 96

• Rupert T. Gould
  

154.  Jan 97

• The Crime Fiction of Guy Cullingford
  

155.  Feb 97

• Carlo Collodi's PINOCCHIO
  

156.  Mar 97

• Horace Walpole
  

158.  May 97

• The Shadow of E. Charles Vivian (with Peter Berresford Ellis)
  

159.  Jun 97

• Bram Stoker's 'DRACULA': A centenary celebration
  

160.  Jul 97

• Rider Haggard's 'KING SOLOMON'S MINES' (with Roger Allen)
  

162.  Sept 97

• Mervyn Wall
  

163.  Oct 97

• Richard Marsh
  

164.  Nov 97

• L. Sprague de Camp
  

166.  Jan 98

• Fantasy Art And Illustrated Books (Auction Reports)
  
• Henry Fielding

168.  Mar 98

• Arthur Conan Doyle And The Paranormal
  

169.  Apr 98

• Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  

170.  May 98

• Hall Caine: A Victorian Phenomenon
  

174.  Sep 98

• Spotlight on Agatha Christie
  

176.  Nov 98

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  

178.  Jan 99

• Children's Books (Sotheby's Auction Report)
  

179.  Feb 99

• Basil Copper
  

181.  Apr 99

• Oliver Cromwell
  

182.  May 99

• Honore De Balzac British Editions
  

184.  Jul 99

• Mignon G. Eberhart
  

185.  Aug 99

• Alfred Hitchcock: Books, Magazines and Tie-ins
  

186.  Sept 99

• The Mummy
  

187.  Oct 99

• Marie Corelli
  

188.  Nov 99

• The 'Unknown Counties' Books
  

189.  Dec 99

• The Haunting of Shirley Jackson
  

190.  Jan 2000

• Washington Irving
  
• The 'Strange' World of Robert Aickman

192.  Mar 2000

• Gilbert & Sullivan
  

194.  May 2000

• Gustave Flaubert
  

198.  Sept 2000

• Fanny Burney: 'The Mother of English Fiction'
  

200.  Nov 2000

• Sherlock Holmes: A Survey of Recent Prices
  
• Lovat Dickson: Biographer and Publisher of Grey Owl
  

The issues as yet unconsulted for this section are as follows: 167, 171, 172, 175, 177, 180, 183, 191, 193, 195, 196, 197 and 199. The usual appeal therefore follows. I believe 177 carries a piece by Dalby on Boris Karloff but I need to confirm that.