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Walter John De La Mare

Male : Poet & Novelist. Huguenot descent. Married Constance Ingpen in 1899
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Charlton, London

Date of Birth : 1873 Date of Death : 1956 Age : 83

Pseudonyms : Walter Ramal

Other Work : Worked for the Anglo-American Oil Company as a book-keeper 1890-1908. An executive for Faber's

Education : St Paul's Choir School
(All Constable unless stated)
1902-1910
Songs of Childhood
(1902 Longman) (1923 Longmans. Rev Ed - Estella Canziani )
- pseud Walter Ramal
Henry Brocken : His Travels & Adventures
(1904 Murray) - by Walter Ramal
Poems
(1906 Murray)
M E Coleridge
(1907 The Guardian)
The Return
(1910 Arnold)
The Three Mulla-Mulgars
(1910 Duckworth) (1921 Duckworth - Dorothy P Lathrop)
(1924 Selwyn & Blount - J A Shepherd )

1911-1920
The Listeners & other Poems
(1912)
A Child's Day : A Book of Rhymes
(1912) - Carine & Will Cadby
Peacock Pie : A Book of Rhymes
(1913) - unillustrated
(1916 - W Heath Robinson )
(1924 - Claude Lovat Fraser )
(1936 Faber - Jocelyn Crowe )
(1941 Faber - Rowland Emmett )
(1946 Faber - Ardizzone )
(1989 Faber - Louise Brierley )
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The Old Men
(1913 Flying Flame)
The Sunken Garden & other Poems
(1917 Beaumont Press)
Motley & Other Poems
(1918)
Flora : A Book of Drawings by Pamela Blanco
(1919 Heinemann)
Rupert Brooke & the Intellectual Imagination
(1919 Sidgwick & Jackson)
Poems 1901 to 1918
(1920 Constable) - 2 vols. 210 signed

1921-1923
The Veil & other Poems
(1921) (1922 NY)
Crossings : A Fairy Play
(1921 Beaumont Press - Randolph Schwabe )
(1942 Faber - Gwen Raverat )
Memoirs of a Midget
(1921 Collins) - 210 copies signed & numbered. JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE
Story and Rhyme : A Selection from the Writings
(1921 Dent)
Down-adown-Derry : A Book of Fairy Poems
(1922) - Dorothy P Lathrop
Thus Her Tale
(1923 Porpoise Press, Edinburgh)
Some Thoughts on Reading
(1923 Yellowsands Press, Isle of Wight)
(Ed) Come Hither : Collection of Rhymes & Poems for the Young (1923) - 2 vols.
350 signed - wood engravings by Alec Buckels
Lispet, Lispett & Vaine
(1923 Vine Books No 3)
Songs of Childhood
(1923 Longmans) - Estella Canziani. 310 signed by author
The Riddle & Other Stories
(1923 Selwyn & Blount) + Signed Ltd Ed

1924-1925
Ding Dong Bell
(1924 Selwyn & Blount) - 300 numbered and signed
Signed Edition Offered in 1997 for £330
A Ballad of Christmas
(1924 Selwyn & Blount)
Before Dawn
(1924 S & B)
Miss Jemima
(nd.1924 Basil Blackwell) - Alec Buckels
The Three Royal Monkeys
(1925 Faber)
Broomsticks & Other Tales
(1925 Constable) + 278 signed. Bold
Miss Jemima
(1925 Oxford, Blackwell) - Alec Buckels
The Hostage
(1925 S & B)
Readings
(Ed Thomas Quayle) (retold by Mare) (1925-8 Oxford, Blackwell) - 6 vols
Two Tales
(1925 The Bookman's Journal Office) - 250 signed & numbered

1926-1927
The Connoisseur & Other Stories
(1926 Collins)
St Andrews
(1926 A & C Black) - with Rudyard Kipling
Walter De La Mare
(1926 Benn)
Alone
(1927 Faber Ariel Poem No 4)
Selected Poems
(1927 Holt, NY)
Lucy
(1927 Oxford, Blackwell) - Hilda T Miller
Old Joe
(1927 Oxford, Blackwell) - C T Nightingale
Stuff and Nonsense and So On
(1927)
Told Again : Traditional Tales
(1927 Oxford, Blackwell) - A H Watson
Seaton's Aunt
(1927 Faber)

1928-1930
At First Sight : A Novel
(1928 Crosby Gaige, NY) - 650 copies
The Captive & Other Poems
(1928 Bowling Green Press, NY)
Self to Self
(1928 Faber Ariel Poem No 11) - 500 signed Blair Hughes-Stanton
A Snowdrop
(1929 Faber Ariel Poem No 20)
Stories from the Bible
(1929 Faber) - Theodore Nadejen
(1933 Faber - John Farleigh ) (1961 Faber - Ardizzone )
Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe
(1930 Faber) - Rex Whistler
(1930 Faber / Fountains Press - 650 signed)
(1930 Farrer & Rinehart, NY)
News
(1930 Faber Ariel No 31)
To Lucy
(1931 Faber Ariel Poem No 33)
Poems for Children
(1930)
On the Edge
(1930 Faber) - Elizabeth Rivers

1931-1935
The Sunken Garden
(1931 Birmingham School of Printing)
Two Poems
(1931 PP)
Seven Short Stories
(1931 Faber) - John Nash
The Dutch Cheese and The Lovely MyFanwy
(1931 Knopf, NY) - Dorothy P Lathrop
The Printing of Poetry
(1931 CUP)
Lewis Carroll
(1932 Faber)
(Ed) Tom Tiddler's Ground : A Book of Poetry for the Junior & Middle Schools (1932 Collins)
Old Rhymes and New
(1932) - 2 vols
The Fleeting & other Poems
(1933 Constable)
The Walter De La Mare Omnibus
(1933 Collins)
The Lord Fish & other Tales
(1933 Faber) - Rex Whistler
(1933 Faber) - Rex Whistler. Ltd Ed of 60
A Forward Child
(1934 Faber)
Poems 1919 to 1934
(1935)
Poetry in Prose : Warton Lecture on English Poetry
(nd.1935 Humphrey Milford)

1936-1940
The Wind Blows Over
(1936 Faber)
This Year, Next Year
(1937 Faber) - Harold Jones
Poems
(1937 Corvinus Press)
Memory & other Poems
(1938)
Two Poems
(1938 PP)
Arthur Thompson
(1938 PP)
An Introduction to Everyman
(1938 Dent)
Haunted
(1939 Linden Broadsheet)
Behold This Dreamer
(1939 Faber)
Poems
(1939 Np : Corvinus Press) - 52 signed
Animal Stories : Chosen, Arranged & in Some Part Rewritten
(1939 Faber)
Pleasures and Speculations
(1940 Faber)

1941-1945
Bells and Grass : A Book of Rhymes
(1941 Faber 7/6) (1942 Viking NY) - Rowland Emett
Collected Poems
(1941 Holt, NY)
Collected Poems
(1942 Faber)
Songs of Childhood
(1942 Faber) - Marion Rivers-Moore
Time Passes & other Poems
(1942 Faber)
Crossings : A Fairy Play
(1952 Faber) - Gwen Raverat
Mr Bumps and His Monkey
(1942 J C Winston, Chicago) - D P Lathrop
The Old Lion & Other stories
(1942 Faber) - Irene Hawkins
The Magic Jacket & Other Stories
(1943 Faber) - Irene Hawkins
The Almond Tree
(1943 Todd)
The Orgy
(1943 Todd)
Collected Rhymes and Verses
(1944 Faber 12/6) - Berthold Wolpe
The Burning-Glass & other Poems
(1945 Faber) (1945 Viking NY)
The Scarecrow & Other Stories
(1945 Faber) - Irene Hawkins

1946-1950
The Three Royal Monkeys
(1946 Faber) - Mildred E Eldridge
The Dutch Cheese & Other Stories
(1946 Faber) - Irene Hawkins
The Traveller
(1946 Faber) - John Piper
Stuff and Nonsense and So On
(1946 Faber) - Margaret Wolpe
Two Poems
(1946 Dropmore Press)
Collected Stories for Children
(1947 Faber) - Robin Jacques
Rhymes and Verses : Collected Poems for Children
(1947 Holt, NY) - Elinore Blaisdell
J B S Chardin 1699-1779
(1948 Faber)
Inward Companion
(1950 Faber)

1951-1955
Winged Chariot & other New Poems
(1951 Faber) - Joan Hassall
Jack and the Beanstalk
(1951 Hulton Press)
Dick Whittington
(1951 Hulton Press) - Ionicus
Snow-White
(1952 Hulton Press) - David Walsh
Cinderella
(1952 Hulton Press) - Ionicus
Selected Stories and Verse
(1952 Puffin pb)
Selected Stories and Verses
(1952 Puffin)
O Lovely England
(1953 Faber)
Private View
(1953 Faber)
The Winnowing Dream
(1954 Faber Ariel Poem)
Selected Poems
(1954 Faber)
The Morrow
(1955 PP, Bath)
A Beginning
(1955 Faber 12/6) - ss

After 1956
The Story of Joseph
(1958 Faber) - Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Moses
(1959 Faber) - Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Samuel and Saul
(1960 Faber) - Edward Ardizzone
A Penny A Day
(1960 Knopf, NY) - Paul Kennedy
The Magic Jacket
(1962 Knopf, NY)
Poems
(1962 Puffin pb)
Walter De La Mare
(1962 Vista Books/Pocket Poems)
A Choice of De La Mare's Verse
(1963 Faber)
Envoi
(1965 PP)
Complete Poems
(1969) - 1st complete edition
Eight Tales
(1971 Arkham House)
The Warmint : A Poem
(1976 Scribner NY) - Evaline Ness

READING
R L Megroz : Walter de la Mare - A Biographical and Critical Study
(1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
Forrest Reid : Walter De La Mare - A Critical Study
(1929 Faber)
John Atkins : Walter De La Mare - An Exploration
(1947)
Tribute to Walter de la Mare on His 75th Birthday
(1948 Faber)
Kenneth Hopkins : Walter De La Mare
(1953 British Council / Longmans)
National Book League : Walter De La Mare - A Checklist
(1956 CUP)
Leonard Clark : Walter De La Mare
(1960 Bodley Head)
Doris Ross McCrosson : Walter De La Mare
(1966 Twayne, US)
Theresa Whistler : Imagination of the Heart - The Life of Walter de la Mare
(1993 Duckworth)

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