Homepage HE BATES COMPLETE LIST OF BOOKS I am keen reader of and collector of the books of H E Bates. Here is a complete list of his books as presented by Peter Eads in his invaluable bibliographical study of the author (H.E.Bates: An Autobiographical Study. St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, Hampshire. 1990). The numbers in the left hand column are as tabulated in Eads's book. The final two columns on the right show a list of the H E Bates books in my collection at present. If I can get hold of a First Edition at a reasonable price then I go for it, but in general I do not believe in paying a lot of money for a book. Some of the more expensive ones in the list (ie £100 plus) were given to me as presents. Most of those I have not got are either difficult to obtain or very expensive - as indicated bt the notes in red. HE Bates was a prolific author with a very wide range of interests. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, essays on the countryside and a few plays and poems. Bates is best known for his short stories, of which Eads lists a total of 323. I have read most of them and they are incredibly good. N TITLE DATE Me MY COPY 1 Loyalty 1926 . BBC script. Not published 2 The Last Bread 1926 1 Labour Pub Co. 1st Edition 3 The Two Sisters 1926 1 Cape: 1947 New Edition 4 The Seekers - John and Edward Bumpus 1926 1 John and Edward Bumpus 1926 1st Ed 5 The Spring Song and in View of the Fact that Two Stories 1927 . 100 copies £247 6 Day's End and Other Stories 1928 1 Viking Press, New York: 1928 1st American Edition 7 Catherine Foster 1929 1 Cape: 1943 New Edition 8 Seven Tales and Alexander 1929 1 Scholartis Press 1929 1st Edition 9 The Tree 1930 1 Blue Moon Booklets No 3 E Lahr 1930 1st Edition 10 The Hessian Prisoner 1930 . 500 copies £39 11 Charlotte's Row 1931 1 Cape: 1950 Reprint 12 A Threshing Day 1931 . 300 copies signed £56 - B43/B48 13 Mrs Edmond's Life 1931 . 370 copies £100 14 The Black Boxer 1932 1 Pharos:1932 - First edition 15 Sally Go Round The Moon 1932 1 The White Owl Press, London 16 A German Idyll 1932 307 copies signed £61 - B57 17 The Fallow Land 1932 1 Cape: 1932 - 1st Edition 18 The Story Without End (and) The Country Doctor 1932 1 The White Owl Press 1932 1st Ed 19 The House with the Apricot and Two Other Tales 1933 . 300 copies £165 20 The Woman Who Had Imagination and Other Stories 1934 1 Michael Joseph: ?? The Evensford Edition 21 Thirty Tales 1934 1 Cape: 1934 1st Edition. The Travellers' Library 22 The Poacher 1935 1 Cape: 1951 23 Flowers and Faces 1935 . 325 copies signed £308 24 The Duet 1935 . 250 copies £165 25 Cut and Come Again 1935 1 Cape: 1966 Evensford Edition: Reprint 26 A House of Women 1936 1 J. Cape: 1936 1st Edition 27 Through the Woods 1936 1 Frances Lincoln: 1995 28 Something Short and Sweet 1937 1 Cape: 1935 - First Edition 29 Down the River 1937 1 Victor Gollanz: New Issue 1968 30 Country Tales. Collected Short Stories 1938 1 Readers' Union: 1938. Special Edition. 31 Spella Ho 1938 1 Michael Joseph: 1938 1st Edition 32 Carrie and Cleopatra 1939 . Unpublished Richard Bates has a photocopy 33 I am not myself 1939 . . 34 The Flying Goat 1939 1 Jonathan Cape: 1939 1st Edition 35 My Uncle Silas 1939 1 The Reprint Society 1947 - £2 36 Country Tales. Collected Short Stories 1940 1 Jonathan Cape 1940 1st Edition 37 The Seasons & The Gardener 1940 1 Cambridge University Press 1941 38 The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories 1940 . 2,500 copies £176 - B133 39 The Beauty of the Dead and One Other Short Story 1941 . 20 copies 40 The Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey 1941 1 Nelson: 1945 - Reprint £6 41 The Greatest people in the World and Other Stories 1942 1 Jonathan Cape: 1942 2nd impression. 42 In the Heart of the Country 1942 1 Country Life: 1942 1st Ed. 43 War Pictures by British Artists No.3 R.A.F 1942 1 Oxford Univ Press 1st Edition 44 The Bride Comes to Evensford 1943 1 Jonathan Cape: 1943 - 3rd Impression 45 There's Something in the Air 1943 1 Alfred Knopf NY 1943 1st American Edition 46 Country Life 1943 1 Penguin Books 1943 1st Edition 47 How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories by Flying Officer "X" 1943 1 Cape: 1943 First Edition 48 O More than Happy Countryman 1943 1 Country Life: 1943 1st Edition 49 There's Freedom in the Air 1944 1 His Majesty's Stationery Office 1944 1st Ed 50 The Night Interception Battle 1940-1941 1940 . Pamphlet 51 Fair Stood the Wind for France 1944 1 Joseph 1944 2nd Imp & Little Brown 1944 1st Am ed 52 Something in the Air by Flying Officer "X" 1944 1 Cape: 1944 1st Edition 53 Flying Bombs over England (Edited by Bob Ogley) 1945 1 Froglets Publications 1994 54 The Day of Glory (A Play in Three Acts) 1945 1 Michael Joseph: 1945 - 1st Edition 55 The Spider Love 1946 . Unpublished 56 The Cruise of the Breadwinner 1946 1 Michael Joseph: 1946 - 1st Edition 57 The Tinkers of Elstow 1946 1 Bemrose & Sons 1946 2nd Edition 58 Otters and Men 1947 . 59 The Purple Plain 1947 1 Michael Joseph:1947 1st Ed. Little Brown 1st Am Ed 60 Thirty-One Selected Tales 1947 1 Jonathan Cape Evensord Edition Reprint 1963 61 The Jacaranda Tree 1949 1 Michael Joseph: 1949 - 2nd Impression 62 The Country Heart 1949 1 Country Book Club Edition 1952 63 The Bride Comes to Evensford and Other Tales 1949 1 Jonathan Cape: The Evensford Edition 1964 64 Dear Life 1949 1 Michael Joseph: 1950 - 1st English Edition 65 Edward Garnett 1950 1 Max Parish 1950 1st edition 66 Flower Gardening: A Reader's Guide 1950 1 Cambridge Univ Press 1950 1st Edition 67 The Scarlet Sword 1950 1 Michael Joseph: 1950 - 1st Edition 68 Colonel Julian and other stories 1951 1 Michael Joseph: 1951 - 1st Edition 69 The Cruise of the Breadwinner & Dear Life 1951 1 Michael Joseph: 1951 - 1st Edition (Library copy) 70 Selected Short Stories of H.E.Bates 1951 . . 71 Twenty Tales 1951 1 Jonathan Cape 1951 - 1st Edition 72 The Grass God 1951 . £50 - B198 73 Fawley Achievement 1951 . . 74 The Country of White Clover 1952 1 Michael Joseph: 1952 - 1st Edition 75 The Face of England 1952 1 B.T. Batsford: 1952 - 1st Edition 76 Love for Lydia 1952 1 Joseph 1952 - 1st Edition 77 The Stories of Flying Officer "X" 1952 1 Cape: 1965 - Reprint 78 Pastoral on Paper 1953 1 Medway: 1953 1st Edition (Library copy) 79 The Nature of Love 1953 1 Michael Joseph: 1953 - 2nd Impression 80 The Feast of July 1954 1 Michael Joseph: 1954 - 1st Edition 81 The Daffodil Sky 1955 1 Michael Joseph: 1955 - 1st Edition 82 The Sleepless Moon 1956 1 Michael Joseph: 1956 1st Ed 83 Death of a Huntsman 1957 1 Michael Joseph: 1957 - 1st Edition 84 Selected Stories 1957 1 Penguin: 1957 - 1st Edition 85 Sugar for the Horse 1957 1 Michael Joseph: 1957 1st Edition 86 The Darling Buds of May 1958 1 Michael Joseph: 1958 - 1st Edition 87 A Breath of French Air 1959 1 Michael Joseph: 1959 - 1st Edition 88 The Watercress Girl 1959 1 Michael Joseph: 1959 - 1st Edition 89 An Aspidistra in Babylon 1960 1 Michael Joseph: 1960 - 1st Edition 90 When the Green Woods Laugh 1960 1 Michael Joseph: 1960 - 1st Edition 91 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1961 1 Michael Joseph: 1961 - 1st Edition 92 The Day of the Tortoise 1961 1 Michael Joseph: 1961 - 1st Edition 93 Achilles the Donkey - Dobson Books 1962 1 Franklin Watts 1963 - 1st American Edition 94 The Golden Oriole: five novellas 1962 1 Michael Joseph: 1962 - 3rd impression 95 A Crown of Wild Myrtle 1962 1 Michael Joseph: 1962 - 1st Edition 96 Achilles and Diana - Dobson Books 1963 1 Dobson Books 1963 - 1st Edition 97 Oh! To be in England 1963 1 Michael Joseph: 1963 - 1st Edition 98 Seven by Five 1963 1 Michael Joseph: 1963 - 1st Edition 99 The Fabulous Mrs V 1964 1 Penguin: 1970 100 A Moment in Time 1964 1 Companion Book Club: 1964 101 Achilles and the Twins - Dobson Books 1964 1 Franklin Watts 1964 - 1st American Edition 102 The Wedding Party 1965 1 Michael Joseph: 1965 - 1st Edition 103 The Distant Horns of Summer 1967 1 Michael Joseph: 1967 - 1st Edition - (Library copy) 104 The Four Beauties 1968 1 Michael Joseph 1968 1st Ed 105 The White Admiral 1968 1 Dobson Books: 1968 1st Edition 106 The Wild Cherry Tree 1968 1 Michael Joseph: 1968 - 1st Edition 107 The Vanished World: An Autobiography Vol 1 1969 1 Michael Joseph: 1969 - 1st Edition 108 A Little of What You Fancy 1970 1 Michael Joseph: 1970 - 1st Edition 109 The Triple Echo 1970 1 Michael Joseph: 1970 - 1st Edition 110 The Blossoming World: An Autobiography Vol 2 1971 1 Michael Joseph: 1971 - 1st Edition 111 Dulcima 1971 1 Penguin: 1971 1st Edition 112 A Love of Flowers 1971 1 Michael Joseph: 1971 - 1st Edition 113 The Song of the Wren 1972 1 Michael Joseph: 1972 1st Ed 114 The World in Ripeness: An Autobiography Vol 3 1972 1 Univ of Missouri Press: 1972 - American Edition 115 A Fountain of Flowers 1974 1 Michael Joseph: 1974 - 1st Edition (Library copy) 116 The Grapes of Paradise: Eight Novellas 1974 1 Penguin 1960 117 The Good Corn and other stories 1974 . . 118 H.E.Bates 1975 . Cannot find ISBN not valid 119 The Poison Ladies and other stories 1976 1 Wheaton 1976 1st Edition 120 The Yellow Meads of Asphodel 1976 1 Michael Joseph: 1976 - 1st Edition 121 The Yellow Meads of Asphodel (the single story) 1976 . 350 copies 122 The Best of H.E.Bates 1980 1 Michael Joseph: 1980 1st Edition 123 Perfick, Perfick (The Pop Larkin Chronicles) 1985 1 Michael Joseph 1991 New Edition 124 A Month by the Lake and other stories 1987 1 New Directions Books: 1987 - 1st Edition 125 A Party for the Girls: Six Stories 1988 1 New Directions Books: 1988 - 1st Edition 126 Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree 1989 1 New Directions 1989 - 1st Edition . . TOTAL 103 . . BOOKS ABOUT HE BATES . . . 130 H E Bates: A Bibliographical Study by Peter Eades 1990 1 St Paul' Bibliographies, Winchester 1990. 131 The Life and Times of H E Bates by Peter Eades 1995 1 Northamptonshire County Council 1995 132 The Darling Buds of May: Book of the Seasons Ed Neil Philip 1992 1 Michael Joseph 1992 133 Give them their life. The Poetry of H E Bates 1990 1 Evensford Productions 1990 134 H E Bates 1905-1974 by Jean Ervin 1 Univ of Minnesota Libraries