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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Male : Essayist, Novelist, and poet. Became a Catholic in 1922. Also a competent amateur artist who illustrated several books by Hilaire Belloc. Married Frances Blogg in 1901. From 1909 to 1935 he lived at Overroads in Beaconsfield
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Campden Hill, London

Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : 1936 Age : 62

Education : St Paul's School, Slade Art School & University College, London
1900-1905
Greybeards at Play
(1900) - poems. Author
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
(1900 Grant Richards)
The Defendant
(1901)
Twelve Types
(1902)
Robert Browning
(1903)
Varied Types
(1903)
G F Watts
(1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
(1904 John Lane, The Bodley Head)
(1906 John Lane, NY) - W Graham Robertson
The Club of Queer Trades
(1905) - ss. Author
Heretics
(1905 JL, Bodley Head)

1906-1910
Charles Dickens
(1906 Methuen)
The Man who was Thursday : A Nightmare
(1908 Arrowsmith, Bristol) (1908 Dodd Mead)
All Things Considered
(1908)
Orthodoxy
(1908 John Lane, Bodley Head)
Tremendous Trifles
(1909)
George Bernard Shaw
(1909 John Lane)
The Ball and the Cross
(1910 Wells, Gardner, Darton)
William Blake
(1910)
Alarms and Excursions
(1910)
What's Wrong with the World
(1910)

1911-1915
The Innocence of Father Brown
(1911 Cassell) (1911 John Lane, NY) - Sidney Seymour Lucas
A Chesterton Calendar
(1911)
The Ultimate Lie
(1911 PP, Riverside Press, Conn)
The Future of Religion
(1911 The Heretics Club, Cambridge)
The Ballad of the White Horse
(1911 Methuen) - poems
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Dickens
(1911)
Manalive
(1912 Nelson's New Two-Shilling Novels series)
A Miscellany of Men
(1912)
The Victorian Age in Literature
(1913)
Fancies versus Fads
(1913 Methuen)
Magic : A Fantastic Comedy
(1913) (1920 Martin Secker - Ltd Ed 150 signed)
The Wisdom of Father Brown
(1914) (1915 John Lane, NY) - Colour frontis by Lucas
The Flying Inn
(1914 Methuen) (1914 John Lane, NY)
The Barbarism of Berlin
(1914 Cassell)
Poems
(1915)
Wine, Water and Song
(1915) - poems
Letters to an Old Garibaldian
(1915)
The Appetite of Tyranny
(1915)
The Crimes of England
(1915 Cecil Palmer & Hayward) (1916 NY)

1916-1920
Utopia of Userers
(1917)
A Short History of England
(1917)
Irish Impressions
(1919 Collins)
The Superstition of Divorce
(1920 Chatto & Windus)
The Uses of Diversity
(1920)
The New Jerusalem
(1920)

1921-1925
Eugenics and Other Evils
(1922)
What I Saw in America
(1922 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Man who Knew Too Much
(1922) - ss
The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Verses
(1922 C Palmer, London)
St Francis of Assisi
(1923 Hodder & Stoughton)
Fancies Versus Fads
(1923)
The End of the Roman Road : A Pageant of Wayfarers
(1924 Classic Press, London)
- T H Robinson
The Superstition of the Sceptic : An Essay
(1925 Heffer, Cambridge) - booklet
The Everlasting Man
(1925)
Tales of the Long Bow
(1925 Cassell) - ss
Offered in 1998 for £950
William Cobbett
(1925)

1926-1930
The Incredulity of Father Brown
(1926 Cassell) - 7500 copies printed
The Queen of Seven Swords
(1926 Sheed & Ward) - poems
The Outline of Sanity
(1926)
A Gleaming Cohort
(1926)
The Catholic Church and Conversion
(1926)
The Secret of Father Brown
(1927 Cassell)
Collected Poems
(1927) - 350 signed
R L Stevenson
(1927)
The Return of Don Quixote
(1927 Chatto & Windus) (1927 Tauchnitz)
The Judgement of Dr Johnson : A Comedy in 3 Acts
(1927 Sheed & Ward)
The Sword of Wood
(1928 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - ss. 530 signed
The Ballad of the White Horse
(1928 London) - Robert Austin. 100 signed
Generally Speaking
(1928 Methuen)
The Father Brown Stories
(1929 Cassell)
It is Not Given for Goods or Gear but for - The Thing
(1929 London)
Ubi Ecclesia
(1929 Ariel Poems, Faber) - 400 signed
The Poet and the Lunatics : Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale
(1929 Cassell) - ss
Offered in 1998 for £1000
GKC as MC
(1929)
The Resurrection of Rome
(1930 Hodder & Stoughton)
Four Faultless Felons : Four Novellas
(1930 Cassell) (1930 Dodd Mead)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)
The Grave of Arthur
(nd.1930 Faber Ariel Poem) - Celia Fiennes
Come to Think of It
(1930)

1931-1935
All is Grist
(1931)
Christmas Poems
(nd Burns Oates & Washbourne)
Chaucer
(1932 Faber)
Sidelights on New London and Newer York
(1932)
All I Survey
(1933)
St Thomas Aquinas
(1933)
Christendom in Dublin
(1933)
Avowals and Denials
(1934)
The Scandal of Father Brown
(1935 Cassell)
The Well and the Shallows
(1935)
The Father Brown Omnibus
(1935 Dodd Mead NY)
The Way of the Cross : An Interpretation by Brangwyn with Commentary by Chesterton
(1935) - Frank Brangwyn. 250 signed by both

After 1936
As I Was Saying
(1936)
Autobiography
(1936 Hutchinson)
The Paradoxes of Mr Pond
(1937 Cassell) - ss
The Coloured Lands
(1938 Sheed & Ward) (1938 NY) - author
[This was an anthology of Chesterton's artistic work, but most of the stock
was destroyed during the Blitz]

The End of the Armistice
(1940)
Wine, Water & Song
(1943 Methuen) - Sillince
The Father Brown Stories
(1947 Cassell)
The Common Man
(1950 Sheed & Ward)
The Surprise : A Play
(uncompleted. Posthumously publ 1952) (1953 NY)
A Handful of Authors
(1953)
The Father Brown Stories
(1953 Cassell)
The Glass Walking-Stick & Other Essays
(1955 Methuen 10/6)
Lunacy and Letters
(1958)
The Spice of Life
(1964)
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Hilaire BELLOC : The Great Inquiry
(1903 Duckworth)
Emmanuel Burden
(1904 Methuen)
The Green Overcoat
(1912)
The Haunted House
(1927 Arrowsmith)
The Missing Masterpiece
(1929 Arrowsmith)
The Man Who Made Gold
(1930 Arrowsmith)
The Postmaster General
(1932 Arrowsmith)
E C BENTLEY : Biography for Beginners
(1905 Werner Laurie) - by E Clerihew
Clerihews Complete
(1951 T W Laurie) - & Bentley, & Others
The Complete Clerihews of E Clerihew Bentley
(1981 OUP) - & Bentley, & Others
The First Clerihews
(1982 OUP)

READING
1908-1960
Cecil Chesterton : G K Chesterton - a Criticism
(1908) - an anon study by his brother
Patrick Braybrooke : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1922 Chelsea Publishing Co)
W R Titterton : G K Chesterton - A Portrait
(1936 Douglas Organ, London)
Maurice Evans : G K Chesterton
(1939 Cambridge)
Hilaire Belloc : On the Place of Chesterton in English Letters
(1940)
Maisie Ward : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1944 Sheed & Ward)
John Sullivan : G K Chesterton - a Bibliography
(1958 Univ of London)

After 1961
Garry Wills : Chesterton - Man and Mask
(1961 Sheed & Ward)
(Ed) A L Maycock : The Man Who was Orthodox - A Selection from the Uncollected
Writings of G K Chesterton
(1963 Dennis Dobson £4.95)
Christopher Hollis : The Mind of Chesterton
(1970 Hollis & Carter 42/-)
Dudley Barker : G K Chesterton - A Biography
(1973 Constable)
John Sullivan : G K Chesterton
(1974 National Book League)
John Sullivan : G K Chesterton - A Centenary Appraisal 1874-1974
(1974 Elek)
Ian Boyd : The Novels of G K Chesterton - A Study in Art and Propganda
(1975 Paul Elek)
Richard Ingrams : Mr Chesterton Comes to Tea
(1977 Rampant Lions Press £45)
- 370 Numbered & Signed
Margaret Canovan : G K Chesterton - Radical Populist
(1978 Harcourt Brace £6.80)
Michael Ffinch : G K Chesterton - A Biography
(1986 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £16)
(Ed) D J Conlon : G K Chesterton - A Half Century of Views (1987 OUP £15)
Joseph Pearce : Wisdom & Innocence - A Life of G K Chesterton
(1996 Hodder & Stoughton £25)

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