PATRICK J. KEARNEY&
DAVID BOOTHROYDNOTES TOWARDS A CATALOGUE OF THE
BRITISH LIBRARY’S

S.S. COLLECTIONLONDON & SANTA ROSA
2013

Introduction

The Discovery:
The S.S. collection is an informally catalogued accumulation of books, periodicals and other material that has for a variety reasons, to be described below, been suppressed and is
kept from public access.
The first open discussion of the S.S. of any significanceappeared in Peter Fryer’s Private Case, Public Scandal(1966), a marvellous little polemic that grew out of research
he was doing towards a history of contraception.1 Fryer foundthat a number of books he needed to refer to in the course of
his work were kept in the British Library’s Private Case, theirextensive erotica collection.2 Unlike most other national or
academic libraries that have erotic or obscene material on their
shelves, the British Library did not include it in their General
Catalogue, but did maintain a separate and effectively secretcatalogue of it, a copy of which was kept at the issuing desk in
the Reading Room. A reader who was persistent enough could
find out if a book he wanted was in the Private Case, and provided he could establish a good enough reason to see it would
be given to him or her.3
Below the level of the Private Case, though, Fryer foundan even more closely guarded cache of books, which he became aware of when investigating Charles Bradlaugh M.P., aradical Victorian champion of woman’s suffrage and contraception, who was libelled in an 1888 biography of him by
Charles R. Mackay which was kept at the time in the S.S.
This discovery led Fryer to examine the collection as best as

Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers (London: Secker & Warburg, 1965).
Strictly speaking, the British Library was not in existence when Fryer
was working there; it was actually created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the
British Library Act 1972. Prior to that date the Library was part of the British
Museum. For convenience it will be referred to as the British Librarythroughout this paper.
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Due in large part to Fryer’s work, the contents of the Private Case arenow entered into the General Catalogue, and access to the collection has beenmuch eased. My own catalogue of the collection was published by Jay
Landesman in 1981.
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could and devote a chapter to it in Private Case, Public Scandal.

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The Sources:
The following catalogue is based on four separate shorttitle lists:

1945 List
A Xerox copy of the S.S. catalogue as it existed in 1945. This was given to me in 1991
by the late Gershon Legman who had himself received it in 1945 from Henry Thomas,
Keeper, Department of Printed Books.

2005 List
A Word document supplied to me in July
2005 by Duncan G. Heyes, Curator, Modern
British Collections.

2008 List
An 18-page Excel spreadsheet supplied tome in July 2008 under the 2000 UK Freedom of Information Act by Alison Bailey,
Information Champion, British & Early
Printed Collections.

2011 List
An Excel spreadsheet supplied to David
Boothroyd by Catherine Atkinson, a Free3

dom of Information official at the British
Library, in October 2011. This spreadsheet
is identical to the preceding, save for an additional fifty-two titles which are withoutpressmarks because “they are in the processof being added to the Suppressed Safe Collection.” The entries for them appearing in
the catalogue that follows are in their appropriate place, by author/title, with a note appended explaining the absence of an SSpressmark.
More than a few of the additional entries in the 2011
spreadsheet are for quite elderly titles, one published as early
as 1906. In response to a request for information on these, anemail from Ms. Alison Bailey, now Curator of Printed Historical Sources at the BL, informed me that the reason for thepresence of the older titles was because they had been “deliberately damaged by readers in recent years” and replacements
found for them.
A Readers’ Ticket to the BL is not easily acquired, and it’sdisagreeable to think that people with the bona fides to secure
one are capable of such disgusting behaviour. It is, however,interesting to ponder on the fact that so many of the vandalised
books are for specific authors. There are, for example, are noless than six books by or about T. S. Eliot and five for Arthur
Symons, and one might give some thought as to exactly whatform this damage took. Simple physical damage – torn pages
or bindings for example – could be repaired ‘in-house’ by the
BL’s excellent preservation and restoration department unlessthe books were beyond repair, in which case why keep them at
all if they could be replaced? And missing pages or illustrations could be replaced with clean Xerox or photographic facsimiles from sound copies. In a flight of fancy, perhaps thevandalism was of a more sinister character, consisting of libellous or obscene hand-written annotations which might open
the BL to legal action for ‘publishing’ a libel by permitting
readers to see them?
Whatever the situation, Ms Bailey, in a second email, confirmed that “the replacement copies have been assigned the[pressmarks] of the original volumes. A note in each item indicates that it is a replacement copy.”4

In the course of adding the new titles from the 2011
spreadsheet to the catalogue, emails were written to the authors or publishers of three of the more recently publisheditems requesting information as to why the books in questions
should be in the SS. One was ignored, but the authors or publishers of the other two – Kevin Allen’s Elgar in Love (2000)
and Gentlemen’s Dress Accessories (1987) by Eve Ecksteinand J & G. Firkins – replied, saying that they had no idea why
their publications should have been withdrawn by the British
Library, and it was the first they’d heard of it. This led me tothink, rashly, that perhaps all fifty-two new titles may havebeen suppressed because of reader’s vandalism, but a request
to Ms. Alison Bailey for confirmation of this idea led to thefollowing email:“As I suggested in my e-mail of 7 August, material which
has been added to the list of the contents of the Suppressed
Safe Collection since Autumn 2008 falls into several categories. These categories include items which have been received
by the Library but which, for example, have subsequently
been withdrawn by the publisher, or contain personal information that falls within the scope of UK data protection legislation. Some material has been subject to legal action outside
the Library.”
In addition, there are a number of titles whose presence in
the S.S. collection is suspected, but which don’t appear in anyof the four preceding documents, nor in the online Integrated
Catalogue, and a handful which certainly were in the S.S. at
one time, but for brief periods. The former were culled fromthe final chapter of Peter Fryer’s Private Case, Public Scandal(1966) and the latter from P.R. Harris’ A History of the British
Museum Library 1753-1973 (1998).
All four of these documents, as they stand, pose significant
problems, and it is to be hoped that these notes, while notsolving all of them, will perhaps throw some light on the subject and allow others to investigate further.
The biggest difficulty facing anyone attempting to deal
with the S.S., is the fact that its contents are not included in
the General Catalogue, hereinafter, following British Librarypractice, called G.K.4 According to Peter Fryer, a separate
4The ‘K’ in G.K. is the initial letter of the Greek word for ‘catalogue.’
The placers at the British Library would underline in pencil on the titlepage of5catalogue of the S.S. was kept at the inquiry desk in the Reading Room until the Spring of 1965, but following an exchangeof correspondence with the Principal Keeper on the subject ofhis being allowed to examine it Fryer had to report that it wasremoved “for administrative reasons.”5 An attempt I made to
see the catalogue fifteen years later were equally fruitless, but
the Freedom of Information Act of 2000 has had the effect of
weakening the library’s secrecy over its suppressed books.
The two most obvious puzzles arising from the collection
were succinctly laid out in a note added by Legman to the1945 catalogue, in which he queried the word ‘Extracts’ preceding the first entry, and, in view of the small number of titles in the list, the extraordinarily high numbering of some ofthe pressmarks. As to the significance of ‘Extracts,’ I was unable to come to any conclusions, any more than I could with
the name of the collection of itself, which had been variouslyinterpreted as being an acronym for ‘Secret Shelf’ or ‘State
Secret.’ This last mystery was solved with the publication of
The Library of the British Museum (London: British Library,1991), a collection of excellent essays by various hands ablyedited by P. R. Harris. In one of these essays, The Private
Case: a History by Paul J. Cross, the S.S. is revealed to be anacronym for ‘Suppressed Safe’ although internally in the BL it
is also known as the ‘Suppressed Cupboard.’
The meaning of ‘Extracts’ and the high pressmark numbers are more difficult nuts to crack. For a time, I believed thatthe British Library, as a policy, seemed not to use pressmarks
more than once. If, I thought, a book was moved from one
location to another its pressmark would be changed to meetthe requirements of its new home, but the original pressmark
would not be used again. New books may be added to thatshelf in the collection, but the pressmarks allocated to themwould merely be the next highest number available. Thisseemed to me to be a sound policy since it most obviously
avoided the dangers of pressmark duplication.
I have since discovered that this is not in fact true, at least
for the Private Case erotica collection, and for a period bethe book they were cataloguing the main word of the author or title and write‘G.K.’ beside it. Even though the use of these initials was abandoned in 1960,
I prefer to continue its use for the purpose of this document.
5Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal (London: Secker & Warburg,1966), p. 144.

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tween about 1900 and 1914, prompted perhaps by the arrivalof the Ashbee bequest, there was considerable recycling ofpressmarks. The practice was discontinued, but not before agreat deal of damage was done, as I discovered when attempting to create a listing of the Private Case in pressmark order.
The highest numbered pressmark in the 1945 catalogue is
S.S. A. 426, for Parables from Stamps (1939) by T. C. Innes.
(I am assuming that ‘S.S.. [B?] 993’ for Sheila Cousins' To
Beg I am Ashamed is a typographical error.) It is difficult toimagine a single shelf containing so many books, even if they
happened to be slim volumes of verse. The reason for this highpressmark seems to be that since the creation of the S.S. there
has probably been a total of 426 volumes on that particular
shelf, but not at the same time. This in turn suggests the contents are reviewed on a fairly regular basis, and that the turnover rate is high. I suspect books no longer seen as sufferingfrom whatever condition it was that relegated them there in thefirst place are quickly removed elsewhere.
It is of course possible that ‘Extracts’ means precisely that,and the 1945 catalogue supplied to Legman was merely as listof titles whose existence it was felt safe to broadcast to a notoriously persistent scholar. Books, in other words, whose suppression was no longer felt to be necessary. If true, though,this suggests the collection is really as extensive as the numeration of the pressmarks would lead us to believe.
The poor quality of the cataloguing is another source ofconfusion. The holdings of the Private Case, for all the secrecythat at one time surrounded them, were always treated by thecataloguers with as much care as any other class of books.
Even at a time when the ‘4th copy cards’ were hand-written on
slips of thick cartridge paper in beautiful copper-plate, thebooks were carefully described, with full attention given todate and place of publication, pagination and any other relevant information. The cataloguing of the books in the S.S. bycontrast is casual in the extreme, barely qualifying even as a‘handlist,’ and certainly not reflecting the high standards one
is accustomed to find at the British Library.
There are two reasons for these poor cataloguing methods.
The first is the fact that books in the S.S. do not generally passthrough the hands of British Library cataloguers at all, unlessthey are reprieved and released into the general collections.
With a few possible exceptions, books are suppressed in the
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British Library at the request of outside agencies, either the
publishers, authors or in some cases one might imagine thecourts. This leads directly to the second reason; since the public is not permitted access to suppressed books, there is no
reason to expend time and money cataloguing them in theconventional way, and so all that is required, for internal administrative purposes, is a short-title list. I suspect that the S.S.
catalogue mentioned by Fryer that was removed from theReading Room for ‘administrative reasons’ was probably
nothing more than a typed list in a folder.

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The Collection:
The nature of the S.S. Collection was described by Mr. N.
F. Sharp, in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement for 21
October 1965. “The ‘Suppressed Books’ [he wrote]… consistof the following: those which have been pronounced libellous
by a court, those which have been found to infringe copyright,
and those which are at the time of deposit confidential. There
are also certain other books which were originally presented to
the Museum on condition that their presence in its libraryshould not for a period of time be revealed.”6 This is pretty
good as far as it goes, but a closer examination shows somefiner shadings.
One category of suppressed books not covered by Mr.
Sharp’s repertoire are those which include blunders of some
sort, either errors of fact or, if serious enough, problems withthe printing or binding. Most frequently this occurs with advance copies of books, sent out before publication for review
and copyright registration. A good example of this is Gregg
Bear’s novel Legacy (1995), advance copies of which were
distributed without the final page of text. Ironically, the omission escaped the attention of the critics since it received warm
reviews.7
Another example is a 1930 monograph by Wilfred Buckley on the Dutch poet and glass engraver Frans Greenwood
6
Quoted by Peter Fryer, op. cit. p. 158. Noel Farquharson Sharp, was a
Keeper in the Dept. of Printed Books from 1959 to 1966.
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See entry no. 49.

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(1680-1763), which was withdrawn for numerous typographical errors including the misspelling of Greenwood’s firstname as ‘Franz’ on the titlepage.8
In view of the large number of entries in this catalogue thatlack documentation as to why they’re in the S.S. it seems likely that printing or binding problems may account for the bulkof the suppressions.
Other categories of publications that are kept in the S.S.
are those dealing with proprietary processes, trade secrets or
which include membership lists, with their addresses and telephone numbers. Subscription only publications, such as thoseissued by credit rating businesses, are also included, and there
are also a few military publications, together with a handful of
repellent fascist periodicals.
This latter class of material seems to be of relatively recent
origin, and its presence in the S.S. is puzzling since I am unsure whether it was the subject of court action and found tohave contravened the laws relating to incitement, or wasplaced in the collection to forestall such legal action if a reader
complained to the authorities about it; a case could made, I
suspect, for a library making potentially illegal material available to its readers to be charged in a very broad sense withpublication. It seems likely that this possibility might havebeen the reason that an Irish Republican pamphlet containing
an account of the Battle of Belfast was suppressed as well.
Peter Fryer had an experience relating to a similar set ofcircumstances in the early 1960s, when he was approached bya staff member at the British Library and asked if he could
provide them with a copy of the notorious “Spies for Peace”
pamphlet, which leaked detailed information concerning secretbunkers known as ‘RSGs’ or Regional Seats of Government
which had been set up to run the country in the event of a nuclear war. The release of this pamphlet caused the Conservative Government of Harold Macmillan enormous embarrassment, and strenuous efforts were made to seize all copies andarrest those responsible. Fryer asked the official whether, if hewere provide a copy, it would be placed in the S.S. When he
was told that it would, he felt unable to be of help.9
There is, so far as I am aware, no copy of the “Spies for
Peace” pamphlet in the S.S., but there is now one in the GK89

See entry no. 101.
Peter Fryer, op. cit. p. 159.

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and, oddly, the Library even has a webpage devoted to it in its‘Dreamers and Dissenters’ series. Ironically, the late Nicolas
Walter (1934–2000), an anarchist who was one of the activists
behind the pamphlet, was not only the first person through thedoors of the British Library’s new Euston Road premises
when it was opened in 1997, but also the first person to complain about it.10
Because of the nature of the books contained in the S.S.,
and the secrecy surrounding them, a good number of rumours
have sprung up over the years. Peter Fryer mentions some ofthem: “I have it on good authority that a number of books containing information on lock-picking and safebreaking are in
the handlist of suppressed books, perhaps because Scotland
Yard has asked for them to be withheld from readers… [theyare] also forbidden to read up-to-date books on explosives,
which have been suppressed since 1894.”11
This rumour is partially true, as the note to the entry below
for John Ponsonby Cundhill’s Dictionary of Explosives will
illustrate. In 1894 an anarchist was arrested in possession of a‘book ticket’ indicating that he had consulted the British Library’s copy of Cundhill’s book. This caused some alarm in
official circles, and the Library was asked by the Home Office
to remove the book, and anything of a similar nature, frompublic availability. The Library did so, and thirty-eight books
were locked away. With the disappearance of the anarchist
threat by 1917, the books were reprieved. The titles of thesethirty-eight books cannot now be determined for certain, andneither is there any evidence that they were formerly includedin the S.S. collection.
The restriction of such publications seems to have lessenedin later years. The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), a notoriously
dangerous collection of recipes for explosives and poisons
whose connection to the anarchist movement is tenuous to say
the least, seems not to be in the British Library at all. The
book’s author, William Powell, has reportedly disowned it.
But a similar and more reliable publication called The Poor
Man’s James Bond (c. 1972) is in the GK along with four other titles by its author, an eccentric survivalist named Kurt Saxon.

10
On a purely personal note, the present writer made an unguided tour of
the RSG-12 facility at Dover, a remarkable structure built into the face of acliff.
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Peter Fryer, op. cit. pp. 153,4.

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“Books saying unseemly things about the holy family, or
making disloyal revelations about the royal one, are in theS.S.”12 An interesting brace of categories, this, but again only
partially true. In the 1945 S.S. catalogue is included theChristmas 1882 issue of The Freethinker, which included aseries of “Comic Bible Sketches” that were influenced by orcopied from French works by Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine
Jogand-Pagès, who wrote under the pseudonym ‘Léo Taxil.’
The Freethinker was edited by George William Foote andWilliam Ramsay, who were both prosecuted for blasphemy,and did gaol time for it. The publication does not appear in the
two later S.S. catalogues, and has probably been removed to
the Newspaper Library at Colindale.
Fryer believed that the S.S. might contain a copy of Rib
Ticklers, or Questions for Parsons by John William Gott,which was suppressed in 1911. No copy appears to be in the
Library at all, but an account of the trial by Ernest Pack, andpublished at Bradford about 1911 by the Freethought Socialist
League, is. Gott, a trouser salesman by profession, has thedistinction of being the last person in the United Kingdom to
be imprisoned for blasphemy. The experience effectively cost
him his life as well since he was in failing health when sentenced and died soon after he was released.13
It is perhaps interesting to note that a large number ofFrench atheistic publications by the already mentioned ‘Léo
Taxil,’ together with intemperately anti-Catholic propaganda
by Protestant zealots, were at one time in the Private Case, buthave now been relocated to less restricted locations. Noneappear to have ever been in the S.S.
Speculation that the S.S. contains libels or attacks on theRoyal Family has proved unfounded. None of the four S.S.
catalogues appear to include anything of the sort, although
Maid of Honour. A Peep at our Cousins, by a ‘Maid of Honour’ (1888) holds out some promise.14 Other copies are held at
UC Davis, in California, the New York Historical Archives
and Columbia University, all of which include ‘House ofWindsor’ in their subject headings.15 Interestingly, the book isPeter Fryer, op. cit. p. 155.
A copy of Rib Ticklers is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It is a pamphlet of seven pages and is no. 1 of the “Truthseeker” series. The date of
publication is tentatively given as 1900. The pressmark is M03.E00883.
14
See entry no. 431.
15
Pedantically, I believe this to be incorrect for a book published in 1888.
The House of Windsor didn’t come into existence until July 1917; prior to thatdate the British Royal House was that of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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now freely available for download from the internet, and ondemand printed editions may be purchased. Its original publisher, Minerva Publishing Company, seems to have been fairly eccentric. One book appearing under its imprint, and also
published in 1888, was called The American Jew, and subtitled‘An Exposé of his Career,’ is ‘profusely illustrated’ with caricatures that would not be out of place in the pages of Der
Stürmer. ‘T. T. Timayenis’ [Thomas Telemachus], the authorof The American Jew, delivered himself in the same year The
Original Mr. Jacobs (based on Edward Drumont's antisemitic‘classic’ La france juive) and, the following year, a work
called Judas Iscariot: an old type in a new form, whichsounds like more of the same. On the other hand, they seemalso to have published works by Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassantand Anatole France.

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Conclusion:
Fryer again quotes from N. F. Sharp’s October 1965 letterto the Times Literary Supplement: “The list of suppressedbooks which Mr. Fryer complains has been unjustifiably removed from the Reading Room was available to the Reading
Room Staff to help readers with their enquiries, but after atime it was found to lead to requests which could not, because
of insufficient evidence about the reasons for a book’s ‘suppression’, be met.”
This paragraph makes a couple of quite damaging admissions that Fryer examines in some detail, but the important
point for us here I think is that “…the officials admit they
simply do not know why some, at least, of the suppressedbooks were ever suppressed in the first place…”.16
Things don’t seem to have changed in the almost fifty
years since that was written. I sent an email to the British Library requesting information as to why a set of printed Articles
Of Peace Between Charles II.… and several Indian Kings andQueens (1677) was in the S.S. Although the Articles were of
relatively recent entry in the S.S. – they appear only in the2008 catalogue that I was given – the reply was interesting.
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“This is a set of sixteen copies of a work two copies of which
are also found on the Library's integrated catalogue [i.e. theGK] (pressmark BL.29/2 and pressmark O.G.E.70). I’m afraid
the provenance of the set in the suppressed cupboard is notclear.”17
There seems to be some mobility in the S.S. Many of thebooks included in the Legman/1945 catalogue do not appear in
the either of the later catalogues, and the evidence seems tosuggest that over the years some effort has been made to review the contents of the S.S. and release books to the generallibrary population that are no longer thought to be problematical.
For example The Harp of Life (1900) by ‘Elizabeth Godfrey’ [Jessie Bedford], which libeled Sir Dan Godfrey, thefounder of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, who died in
1939. It was included in the 1945 catalogue, but had disappeared from the S.S. by 2008. A copy is currently listed in the
G.K. and one might reasonably suspect this to be the sameone, relocated.18 This certainly happened in the case of a halfdozen titles by ‘Hank Janson’ suppressed in the early 1950s
during the anti-vice drive of the Home Secretary, Sir David
Maxwell Fyfe. They were later relegated to the Private Case.19
Nevertheless, in addition to the casual cataloguing referred
to above, there are a large number of anomalies which suggestthat the contents of the S.S. do not sit high on the Library’s
maintenance schedule. Why a copy of what I take to be the1902 first edition of William James’ The Varieties of Religious
Experience should be in the 2008 catalogue, but not the one
from 1945, is unclear.20 And there are similarly a collection ofreports dealing with individual countries, such as Turkey andAlbania, dating from the First World War and issued by the
French and British Admiralties, which seem sensitive in 2008
but not in 1945. I am sure that historians of the period wouldfind these of great interest.
The secrecy surrounding the S.S. seems to me to be a mistake, and I am unaware of any other national library who
keeps such a collection. The problem with secrets such as thisis that they lead to speculation that is often out of proportion
See entry no. 30.
See entry no. 50.
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See entries 352-357.
20
See entry no. 351.
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to the truth of the matter, as the copy of The Modern Characters of Shakespeare (1778) will illustrate.21 This was purchased by the Library in 1847 for £70, a considerable sum fora single book at the time, and the equivalent of about £4,000
today. According to the minutes of the Trustees of 10 July
1947, the book was ordered to be sealed and placed in the careof Anthony Panizzi, the Keeper of Printed Books. This order
was again enforced in October 1899. The reason for this wasthat the book – a slim 12mo of eighty-eight pages in a nineteenth century London gold-tooled red morocco binding,signed by Hayday – contained manuscript additions purporting
to be in the handwriting of George III. At some point, probably in the 1920s, the book was examined by the Shakespearean scholar Sir Edmund Maunde Thompson who establishedthat the additions were not in fact by the King, and the bookwas subsequently removed to the G.K. Something of an anticlimax, and yet the attractions of annotations by a Monarch
known to be of unsound mind are not insignificant. They certainly appealed to my curiosity when I first read of it, and is
one of the reasons I compiled this catalogue.
One final quote from Peter Fryer on this subject is not outof place here. “I am not demanding that libellous books shouldbe freely available at the BM. It is not inconsistent with literary and scholarly freedom, but rather a condition of such freedom, that a libel be restricted during the lifetime of the person
libelled. About official ‘secrets’ I am not so sure, partly because many of them are open secrets whose continued suppression is mere governmental face-saving.”22

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Acknowledgements:
Our main debt of gratitude for this catalogue goes ofcourse to Peter Fryer, whose book Private Case, Public Scandal has done so much to encourage my own work in this field
as a whole.

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See entry no. 638.
Peter Fryer, op. cit. p. 159.

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We must also thank the officials at the British Library who
have on many occasions taken time out of their busy schedules
to check references for me, and even, in the case of particularly obscure entries, to verify the exact nature of the publication.
Among them are Alison Bailey, Richard Price and John Goldfinch. Similarly, a number of individuals, associations, businesses and other libraries have been generous in checking theirown records on my behalf. Their names are all recognized in
the appropriate places in the catalogue. A few were less helpful, and ignored my requests for assistance and clarification.
Their names are also present.
Patrick J. Kearney
Santa Rosa, California

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1. ABSORPTIONMETRIC DETERMINATION OF
FLUORINE IN BERYLLIUM, The. Industrial Group
Headquarters. 1959. SS.Cup.11.b.19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. This
may well be a publication of Atomic Energy Authority’s Industrial Group headquarters at Risley, Warrington, Cheshire.
– David Boothroyd adds: “Fluorine plays a crucialrole in nuclear power as it is used to produce Uranium
Hexafluoride out of Uranium ore; once Uranium is in
the form of the Hexafluoride it is easy to separate out
the Uranium-235 which is used in nuclear power fromthe Uranium-238 which isn't. However I think this paper is more concerned with Beryllium, which is also
used in nuclear power as a ‘moderator’ which absorbs
neutrons and stops the reaction escalating into a chain
reaction and a nuclear explosion. Fluorine is frequently
present as a contamination.”

2. ACCU Handbook. Association of C and C++ Users.
n.d. SS.Cup.20/58.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– We are indebted to Mr. Richard Price at the British Library for his assistance with this entry and clarifying the acronym ‘ACCU.’ We are obliged to Mr. Mick
Brooks, the Membership Secretary of the ACCU, forwriting to tell us that the Handbook is an annual publication, and that the reason for its suppression is that it
contains a list of ACCU members, together with theiraddresses.

3. ADAM, HARGRAVE LEE. – Woman and Crime. [Withillustrations.] London: T. Werner Laurie [8th April
1914]. In-8°. pp. ix. 306.
– Not included in the SS catalogue of August 2008
or in the 1945 catalogue either. That this title was eversuppressed is a guess; op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 151, but
the suppression was confirmed in P. R. Harris’s A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London: British Library, 1998), p. 386. The original SS
pressmark is unknown to us, but a copy of what Fryer
describes as a ‘modified form’ of the book is presently
shelved at 6056.tt.18. Hargrave Lee Adam was an earlytwentieth century crime reporter who wrote extensively
on Scotland Yard, the C.I.D., Jack the Ripper and similar topics. Copies of what I take to be the ‘modified’16

edition are available at Cambridge (1914.8.632), Glasgow (Sociology X135 ADA), the Bodleian Law Library(Crim 525 A193 (sec coll)), Trinity College, Dublin(75.bb.21). The text of the book is freely available
online, in a version which seems to include the libel described below.
– The author and publisher of Woman and Crime
were charged with libel for resurrecting a celebrated
French double murder case of 1908, and suggesting thatthe chief suspect, although having been found innocent
by the courts in Paris, was in fact guilty.
– The plaintiff in the libel case was Marguerite
Jeanne Steinheil, (née Japy) (1869–1954), a woman
with an outstandingly chequered past. In May 1890, shemarried the painter Adolphe Steinheil but was soon taking lovers from the highest levels of French society, including Félix Faure, the President of the Republic, who
on 16 February 1899 is generally thought to have diedwhilst Marguerite was performing oral sex on him. In
May 1908, Adolphe and Marguerite’s stepmother were
found murdered in their residence in the impasse
Ronsin, off the rue de Vaugirard, Paris, while Marguerite was discovered bound and gagged in a manner
which the police felt to be unconvincing. However, thecharges against her of murder could not be proved, andshe was released. Shortly afterwards she moved to
London, where she became known under the nameMme de Serignac, and it was the publication of Adam’sbook, which essentially accused her of the murder, that
prompted the case. Marguerite published a volume of
memoirs in 1912, and on June 26, 1917 married Robert
Brooke Campbell Scarlett, 6th Baron Abinger, whodied in 1927. Marguerite herself died in a nursing homein Hove, Sussex, on July 17th 1954.

4. ADAMIC, LOUIS (1899-1951). – Dinner at the WhiteHouse. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1946.
– Not included in the SS catalogues of 2005 or August 2008, and for obvious reasons not in the 1945 catalogue either. No copy is listed in the General Catalogue.
That this title was ever included in the SS is a guess;op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 152. Copies of the book published also published in 1946, but with the imprint“New York ; London : Harper & Brothers” are in a
number of UK libraries. The Vere Harmsworth Libraryat Oxford has one available for ‘standard loan’ whileaccess to one at Oxford’s New College Library is ‘restricted.’

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–The publishers and author of Dinner at the WhiteHouse were sued for libel in January 1948 by Winston
Churchill. The book purports to be an account of a dinner party given at the White House by President Roosevelt at which were present both Winston Churchill, thenPrime Minister, and Louis Adamic, the author of thebook in question. With this dinner as a starting point,
Adamic proceeds to engage in personal criticism ofChurchill, and of his actions and policies in relation to
WWII. This, however, was not what troubled Churchill
and the real cause of concern was a footnote to pp. 151,
152, which read: “As Drew Pearson revealed in one of
his columns early in 1945, the motives for the British
policy in Greece were at least partly linked to the factthat Hambros Bank of London, the chief British creditors of Greece (getting up to 17 per cent. on their loans
which the Leftist or E.A.M. Greeks wished to scale
down to 5 per cent.), had bailed Winston Churchill outof bankruptcy in 1912.”– To exacerbate matters, several hundred copies ofthe book were circulated gratis to prominent people inEngland, including a large number of Members of Parliament, presumably by some group wishing to undermine Churchill’s political career.
– The case went in Churchill’s favour, the author
withdrawing the allegations in the offending footnote,and agreeing to its removal from the book.

5. ADAMS, THOMPSON & FRY [a company]. The
Thames from Putney to Staines: a survey of the riverwith suggestions for the preservation of its amenities.
Prepared for a joint committee of the Middlesex and
Surrey County Councils by Adams, Thompson andFry. Ditchling, Sussex : St. Dominic’s Press, 1930.
Folio. 67 pages with [24] pages of plates + 1 sheet(76x85cm folded to 29x20cm). Notes: Two col. maps
on 1 sheet (folded) in end pocket. SS.b.78.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Another copy is shelved at 10360.k.37, which David
Boothroyd examined. He writes: “It’s not in good condition with front boards detached and the spine hanging
on by a few threads. The accession stamp is dated 6
September 1932. There is no indication of any removed
SS pressmark. As this was a report to a public sector
body and mostly consists of recommendations about future town planning decisions, I don't know why itshould be suppressed.”18

6. A. D. A. [Aluminium Development Association]
RECORD. Vols. 1-9 (1947-55), Vols. 10-15 (13items) 1956-61. SS.Cup. 6. b.15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

7. ADINOLFI, MARION D. – Who said I can’t? : a storyof how Ralph really lived with Cooley’s anaemia,
bonded with his sister and became a celebrated artist.
Ely: Melrose Books, c. 2008. 24cm. pp. xvii. 318. Illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. An account of thelife of Ms Adinolfi’s younger brother Ralph Moscato
who suffered from Cooley’s anaemia, also known as
Thalassemia, a fatal hereditary disease. A reviewer
added: “…in addition to a fatal disease, he had a family
that was a dysfunctional mess of co-dependency, guilt,
blame, and violence that held Ralph and his two sisters
in its loveless grip.”– It would appear that the British Library copy has
already disappeared down the SS rabbit-hole since it
doesn’t appear in the online catalogue. However, there
is one at the Bodleian, Oxford, at pressmark:M09.E08054 and in the National Library of Scotland atpressmark: HB2.209.1.766.

8. ADVANCE PRODUCTION NEWS. Crimson Communications. April, 2007. SS.Cup 20/61.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There are a number of companies called Crimson
Communications, but the most likely candidate for thispublication is one based in the UK “providing advance
information on film and television production, providing information for people seeking film.” It is a subscription service, costing “£350 per year for monthly
hard copy or £325 online access per year with weekly
updates.”

9. AIR CLUES; The Royal Air Force Magazine. Air
Warfare Centre, n.d. S Pen BS.2a/65 [sic].
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
pressmark ‘S Pen BS.2a/65’ is as given in the catalogue, and dissimilar to any other BL pressmarks
We’ve seen but is presumably used for suppressed official publications.

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– The Air Warfare Centre, known as the AWC, is a
Royal Air Force research and testing organization based
at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire in the United
Kingdom. It has a training branch nearby as a lodger
unit of RAF Cranwell and other branches elsewhere,
including at High Wycombe and, at least until 2000, theAir Guided Weapons Operational Evaluation Unit
(AGWOEU) at RAF Valley in Wales. Established in
October 1993, the AWC serves RAF Air Command by
developing and implementing operational-level and tactical-level air doctrine. Additionally, the Air Warfare
Centre is co-located with the tri-service Defence Electronic Warfare Centre and contributes to the operational
capability of the three British armed forces by providing Electronic Warfare support directly to the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood and to various
operational units. The Commander of the Air War Centre is Air Commodore Julian Stinton.
– David Boothroyd adds: Air Clues is an internalmagazine for the Royal Air Force flying training department, which began monthly publication in May
1946. It was published by the Air Warfare Centre; thefirst editor was novelist Arthur Hailey. It is apparently
under the same restriction against consultation until 30
years after publication. The catalogue however statesthat the general reference collection at shelfmark
BS.2a/65 contains only editions from 1946 to 1962.
– Since 2009, the latest editions of Air clues (nowsubtitled ‘The RAF flight safety magazine’) have been
made freely available on the internet at
http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/airclues.cfm.
– In 1996, to raise money for the Royal Air Force
Benevolent Fund, a collection of articles from Air Clues
was published under the title I Learnt about Flying
from That. It was compiled and edited by ‘Wing Commander Spry’, a pseudonym created by Sqn Ldr Christopher Horn MBE (6 April 1921 – 9 September 2010)
to write a humorous column for the magazine, together
with Lindsay Peacock. The British Library has a copyof this at pressmark YK.1998.b.4195.

10. AIX Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/68.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
Xephon, founded in Newbury, UK, in 1980 by Chris
Bunyan, Jeff Hosier and Dave Bates, was a technicaland market research organization focused on the computing needs of organizations with IBM mainframes.
AIX Update was one of a series of booklets, with theword “UPDATE” printed vertically up the cover, andcrammed with all sorts of Basic Assembler Language

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snippets and screen shots. In addition to AIX, these
Updates include CICS Update, VM Update, MVS Update, TCP/SNA Update, DB2 Update, RACF Update,and MQ Update. AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is the name given to a series of proprietary operating systems sold by IBM for several of its computer
system platforms, based on UNIX System V with
4.3BSD-compatible command and programming interface extensions.

11. AKKER, WILLEM LODEWIJK VAN DEN (1887-). – Het
Aloude geslacht van den Akker van 1430 tot heden.
[With portraits and genealogical tables.]. Barneveld,
1945. In-4°. pp. 224. SS.a.121.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A genealogical work on the author’s family. Another copy is
shelved at 9918.k.4 which was examined by David
Boothroyd. He writes: “For a book published in 1945 a
few months after the liberation of the Netherlands, it isexpensively printed on glossy paper. It is entirely in
Dutch. The accession stamp is dated 14 February
1948.”

12. ALBANIE: les clans, le peuple, personnalités politiques, &c. [Paris: Ministère de la guerre, 1916?]
Large 4to. pp. 164 with [4] folded leaves of plates andmaps. SS.c.34.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Printed in the upper left corner of the titlepage and front
cover is: ‘Secret.’ The maps are signed: ‘Compiled by
the Admiralty War Staff I.D. Drawn and printed at the
Ordnance Survey, 1916.’ The book includes an index.
There is a copy in Princeton University Library whichis number 188 of an unspecified limitation, and has thestamps of the Ministère de la guerre. The pressmark is:
Oversize DR910 .A418q.

13. ALDRIDGE, HAROLD EDWARD JAMES (1918 – ). –Signed with their Honour. Boston: Little Brown &Co., 1942. In-8°. pp. 391. SS.a.105.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A serial version appeared in Collier’s under the title of
Flight to the sun. An English edition published by Michael Joseph in the same year. Another copy of the Little Brown edition is in the British Library at pressmark
12724.d.20.

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– James Aldridge was born in White Hills, Victoria
and lived (until recently at least) in Battersea, SouthWest London. Some of his stories are based on the realliving conditions of his hometown such as his 1995
Children's Book Council of Australia book of the year
The True Story of Lilli Stubeck. He lived in Cairo formany years, writing several books about the Middle
East, including a novel The Diplomat and a book tracing the history of Cairo.
– He won a Lenin Peace Prize in 1973 for ‘his outstanding struggle for the preservation of peace’. He has
also won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the World
Peace Council Gold Medal, and the International Organization of Journalists Prize.

14. ALFORD, NORMAN. – The Rhymers’ Club : poets ofthe tragic generation. [Studies of W.B. Yeats, Arthur
Symons, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and JohnDavidson.] Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. 22cm. pp.
ix. 165.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. The BL has
two copies of this edition sheled at YC.1995.a.1230 and
94/26901. A reprint from the same publisher came out
in 1997, and the BL would seem to have a copy of that
too at: YC.1997.a.919.
– David Boothroyd adds: “The original of thisbook appears to have been published in Victoria, British Colombia by Cormorant Press, c.1980. The 1994
edition at YC.1995.a.1230 is stated to be published in
New York by St Martin's Press. The copy at
YC.1997.a.919 states on the title page that it is the 1994
edition (although it appears to be a 1997 reprint). On
the rear endpaper in pencil is ‘Replacement Copy’.”

15. ALLAN, HENRY. – Prize Essay on Kleptomania, witha view to determine whether kleptomaniacs should beheld disqualified for employments of trust and authority under the Crown. [With a preface by David
Wilson.] London [219 Regents Street]: H. Baillière,
1869. In-8°. pp. vii. 75. SS.a.2. [now shelved at
Cup.403.e.28.]– Not included in any of the four lists described in
the Introduction; the existence of this work in the SS
was discovered by David Boothroyd, who quotes froma sheet pasted on the front endpaper:22

– “Allan’s Prize Essay on Kleptomania, printed
by the author, was entrusted for sale to Mrs. Bailliere
who still retains the stock. Only two or three copies
were sold before the publishers discovered its libellous
character, & refused to sell or part with another copy,
through fear of legal proceedings being instituted by
Lord Stanley, now Lord Derby.” Below this, in pencil:“[John] W[inter] Jones showed this book to some of thetrustees – It was directed that the book shd. be retainedin library but not be catalogued &c.”
– An interesting passage concerning this pamphletappeared in The American Literary Gazette and Publishers’ Circular (Volume 13, no. 2, 15 May 1869):– « A few days since this odd paragraph appearedin The Times: “We are requested by Mr. Baillière tostate that he is not the publisher of a prize essay on
kleptomania, lately advertised under his name. He gave
permission to the editor to place his name on the titlepage ; but as soon as he became acquainted with thecontents he asked him to withdraw it, and refused tosell the book.” The following day this card was published : “Sir : in your impression of to-day, you say thatyou have been requested by Mr. Baillière, bookseller,
Regent Street, to state that he is not the publisher of the‘Essay on Kleptomania,’ for which I offered a prize. I
beg to Mr. Baillière saw the essay in proof and agreed
to publish it, as he had done former publications ofmine. I am, etc. D. Wilson, M.D.” »– A copy of this ancient libel is in the Ian Fleming
Collection of 19th-20th Century Source Material Concerning Western Civilization held at the Lilly Library(Indiana University, Bloomington). The catalogue entry
includes the following: “The Essay was directed atsome apparently well-known Minister of State as it
concludes: ‘Only in a country of hereditary legislators
could it be needful to inquire whether a kleptomaniac isfit for public offices of trust and authority yet as statistics attest, our hereditary legislators are particularly
subject to mental derangement.’ ”

16. ALLEN, KEVIN. – Elgar in love : Vera Hockman andthe third symphony. Alverstoke: Kevin Allen, 2000.
25cm. pp. xvi. 148. Illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark.
A biographical work that explores the theory thatat the age of 74, Edward Elgar was inspired to compose
his third symphony by his passion for a Rabbi’s wife
forty years his junior. The author, and publisher, who

23kindly replied to an email requesting information on the
suppression of his book, wrote: “[I have] no idea at all
why this should have happened. It would cause somemild amusement in Elgar circles I imagine.”– A copy is listed in the British Library’s online
catalogue at pressmark YC.2001.a.6049 which David
Boothroyd examined. He writes: the copy at
YC.2001.a.6049 gives no indication of being a replacement copy but does appear to be a first printing.
The accession stamp is 8 September 2001.

17. ALLIGHAN, GARRY (1900–1978). – Four Bonnets toGolgotha. [With illustrations.] London: Macdonald &Co, 1961. In-8°. pp. 256. SS.Cup.12.c.22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Garry Allighan was a British journalist and Labour Party Member of Parliament. The controversial
Four Bonnets to Golgotha offers an unorthodox andpoorly researched portrait of four members of the Booth
family: Catherine, Florence, Evangeline Booth andCatherine Bramwell-Booth.
– David Boothroyd adds: “A small backgroundnote is that Allighan was expelled from the House ofCommons in 1947. A journalist before he became an
MP, he had written an article which stated that someMPs had a regular contract from newspapers to leakconfidential material; it also claimed MPs regularly got
drunk and spilled secrets. When this article was brought
to the attention of MPs, they ordered an inquiry. Allighan, rather unfortunately, at first denied that he had acontract with a newspaper to leak, but then had to admit
it. This attempt to mislead seems to have tipped the balance for MPs to decide to expel him. Allighan seems tohave had a breakdown at the time and emigrated toSouth Africa where he wrote several strange novels.”

ALP, TEKIN. – See: COHEN, MARCEL SAMUEL RAPHAEL.
18. ANALOGUE SWITCHES… Siliconix Limited, 1976.
SS.Cup.14.a.45.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Siliconix is a company based on Easthampstead Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire, U.K. It was incorporated Feb 14,
1969. There is a book published in 1976 by Siliconix
called Analogue Switches and Their Applications. The
authors are Michael Jenkins and Randal Thomas.

2419. ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE STRATEGY –Action Plan 2008-2009. Welsh Assembly Government. OPA.9.x.651.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. Two copies.

20. [ANDERSON, OLIVER.] Julian Pine, pseud. – Rotten
Borough. A Frolic. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. In-8°. pp. 320. SS. a. 425.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.5 and one in
the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.46, the entry
for which is marked ‘Not available for consultation.’
Another is at Cambridge at pressmark Arc.d.93.422.
– A reprint, published at London in 1989 by Fourth
Estate, is in the General Catalogue at pressmark:H.89/497 and it was published under the author's true
name. The blurb on the back wrapper of the reprint
reads: “Just three weeks after Rotten Borough first hit
the bookshops in 1937 it was withdrawn amidst a flurryof writs from assorted Grantham bigwigs… Oliver Anderson, the son of a local Rector, was working on a
Grantham newspaper when Rotten Borough was firstpublished. After serving in the artillery during the Second World War, he returned to Lincolnshire, where hestill lives, and wrote a further dozen novels.” We are
obliged to Mr. Neil Crawford for providing us with thisinformation. He adds: “The jacket graphics [of the reprint] play on the scandal in Grantham plus [Margaret]
Thatcher, since it was published in 1989. This seems tobe the only reason for republication.” Copies of theoriginal are preserved at Cambridge, Oxford and the
National Library of Scotland.
– “Mr. Oswald Hickson. solicitor for Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Limited, publishers, announced lastnight that the firm had decided to withdraw from publication a novel, Rotten Borough, written by an author
who uses the pen name ‘Julian Pine.’ The book was
published about a month ago. Cambridge and Grantham
have both been suggested by readers as the scene of thestory. Lord Brownlow, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, is among those who have been informed of thedecision in view of suggestions in the Grantham district
that the “Lord and Lady Wycherly” of the book may beconstrued as Lord and Lady Brownlow. Mr. Hickson
stated that the book had been withdrawn without any
admission that it was connected with living persons. –The Times, October 20th 1937.

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21. ANNA FREUD CENTRE, The. Bulletin of the Anna
Freud Centre, Vol. II Pt. 1. London: The Anna Freud
Centre, 1988. SS.Cup.15/39.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Anna Freud Centre is a children's charity with alongstanding and multifaceted commitment to the emotional well-being of children. The Centre was established in 1947 by Anna Freud, one of the founders ofchild psychoanalysis whose work has had a profoundand enduring influence on theories of child development. The Centre is located at: 21 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SD. Emails to the Centre for information on this entry were ignored.
– This issue of the Bulletin is also to be found in
the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi. The
catalogue entry is annotated: “RESTRICTED ACCESSPLEASE CONSULT STAFF”

22. APULEIUS, LUCIUS. – Cupid and Psyche. The Excellent Narration of Their Marriage. Translated by William Adlington out of the Latine Bookes of the Golden Asse. London: The Fortune Press, 1927. In-8°. pp.
[60]. SS.b.72.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
“Withdrawn by the publisher.” “700 copies on handmade paper of which 100 were bound in vellum, but
600 were surrendered to the Nonesuch Press to avoid alaw-suit owing to its slavish imitation of that press’s
edition.” Timothy d’Arch Smith, R. A. Caton and theFortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 38.
There is a copy–no. 16 of 100 on vellum–in the British
Library copy at Cup. 510. aa. 1.

23. ARBERRY, ARTHUR JOHN (1905-1965). – Religion in
the Middle East: three religions in concord and conflict. General editor A.J. Arberry. London: Cambridge
University Press, 1969. In-8°. Two volumes.
SS.Cup.13.b.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis another copy in the British Library at pressmark
Cup.702.g.14.

24. ARDEN, LEON. – Seesaw Sunday. London: Whiting& Wheaton, [1966]. SS.12/75.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– Seesaw Sunday, a first novel by an American author, was accepted for publication in the UK by Whiting & Wheaton in 1965, and the book issued in theSummer of 1966. Shortly afterwards, the publishers
were brought out by Robert Maxwell, MP, who recalled
the book from bookshops, libraries and reviewers allover the country because he considered it “not the typeof book which should appear under the imprint of hisgroup, the Pergamon Press.” Mr. Arden suffered a further disappointment in 1981 when he published a novel
called One Fine Day, about a man who finds himself
living the same day over and over again. The Walt Disney Company purchased the film rights, but while
thinking about how best to market the property, Columbia Pictures made Groundhog Day, a very profitable film based on the identical idea. Arden sued, but
lost his case because, according to the Judge, “ideas are
not copyrightable.” A copy of what I take to be this edition–no imprint is given in the catalogue entry–is also
to be found in the Bodleian at pressmark 25616 e.7927.

25. ARGUEDAS, ALEIDES [?ALCIDES]. – The Diary of
Dr. Aleides Arguedas. (15 parts.) 1940-1943.
SS.a.118.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
‘Aleides Arguedas’ may well be a misspelling in the SS
catalogue of Alcides Arguedas (1879-1946), the Bolivian writer and historian who represented his country atseveral diplomatic missions in both Europe and America.

26. ARKA, SRINIVAS – Adventures in self-discovery : thejourney from mind to heart to consciousness. Atlanta
and London: Minerva Press, 1998. In-8°. pp. 216.
SS.Cup.20/48.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “Srinivas Arka is a renowned philosopher known
for his lectures and books that have inspired people toexplore their consciousness. He has developed a uniqueand practical method of intuitive meditation called Arka
Dhyana for people to tap into their unique inherent potential and abilities. He is also an accomplished music
composer.” (From the Centre for Conscious Awarenesswebsite.)– David Boothroyd adds: “The Cambridge University Library notes that there is a loose insert of an errata
sheet in its copy.” The publishers were kind enough to
explain that printing errors were discovered in advance27

copies; these were withdrawn and the errors corrected
for the trade issue.

27. ARMSTRONG, FRANK. – Geometrical Problem. Letters. Pittsburgh, 1937. SS. b. 86.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– “An electro photostat of one page of manuscript.”
There is no copy of a book with this title by Mr. Armstrong in either the British Library, the Library of Congress or any other library that I know of. A book “Reproduced from manuscript” and entitled Higher Plane
Curves by Frank Armstrong is listed in the General
Catalogue at pressmark 8532.f.40. Like Geometrical
Problem, it was published at Pittsburgh in the 1930s.
We are indebted to Mr. Richard Price at the British Library for his assistance with this entry.

28. ARNOTT, JAKE. – Johnny Come Home. London:
Sceptre, 2006. In-8°. pp. 278. SS.Cup.20/74.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Johnny Come Home was withdrawn from sale in
the UK due to the presence in it of a villainous former
bandleader named Tony Rocco; there is a real former
bandleader of that name, who objected to the character's
name. The book was reissued with the character's namechanged to Timothy Royal.

29. ARTHUR, BURT (1898? – 1975). – Thunder Valley.
London: Wright & Brown Ltd., 1962. SS.Cup.12.c.32.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Burt
Arthur was a prolific author of popular Western novels
with title like Blazing Guns and Empty Saddles. Thunder Valley was first published by Doubleday at Garden
City, New York, in 1951.

30. ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN CHARLES II.…
and several Indian Kings and Queens… concluded the29th day of May, 1677. [Printed at] His Majesties
Command [at] London by J. Bill, C. Barker, &c. 1677.
In-4°. pp. 18. SS.Cup.16/20.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Concerning this entry, Mr. Richard Price, Head of Content
and Research Strategy at the British Library, writes:“This is a set of sixteen copies of a work two copies ofwhich are also found on the Library's integrated cata-28

logue (pressmark BL.29/2 and pressmark O.G.E.70).
I'm afraid the provenance of the set in the suppressedcupboard is not clear.”

31. ARTS IN SCHOOLS PROJECT WORKPACT, The.
First Draft. [?York:] SCDC Publications, n.d.
SS.Cup.20/38.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

32. ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN’S OFFICERS. Reports and minutes from meetings. Confidential Supplement to Bulletin No. 96, Sept. 1960. (Two envelopes.) SS.Cup.12.c.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This Association has its origins in the Report of
the Curtis Committee on Children Deprived of a Normal Home Life (1946) and the Children Act of 1948,
which, acting on the recommendations of the Curtis
Committee, legislated for the establishment by local authorities of Children's Departments.

33. ATACK, JOHN. – A Piece of Blue Sky. Scientology,
Dianetics, and L. Ron Hubbard exposed. New York:
Carol Publishing Group, 1990. In-8°. pp. xi. 428. ‘A
Lyle Stuart Book.’ SS.Cup.18/25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Jonathan Caven-Atack (born 5 June 1955) known
as Jon Atack, is a British artist, published author andwidely recognized as one of the most outspoken critics
of the Church of Scientology. Before A Piece of BlueSky had even been released, Scientology attorneys
sought to have a stop put to it in court. Their efforts
were unsuccessful, but in 1995, a British court foundAtack guilty of libel against Margaret Ishobel Hodkin,
the headmistress of Scientology's Greenfields School in
the U.K. and issued an injunction against Atack forbidding him from publishing the offending paragraph on
page 336 of the book. The paragraph, however, is available to be read in full on the court injunction itself andthe text of the book is available on the Internet. Oddly,
Atack was the only person sued in the case; neither his
publishers, Carol Publishing Group, nor any British
book dealers stocking the book appear to have beensued or enjoined, which is most unusual where UK libel
cases are concerned.

2934. AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH. – W.H. AUDEN. Selectedby the Author. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,
1958. SS.Cup.18/6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. One ofthe ‘Penguin Poets’ series.
– David Boothroyd adds: Auden personally supervised this collection of his work. The publication detailstates “Harmondsworth: Penguin books in association
with Faber and Faber, 1958”; this hints at the fact that
his usual publisher was Faber but this particular edition
was in paperback and published by Penguin Books.
Bloomfield and Mendelson's catalogue of Auden's work
lists it as work A40. The same edition appears to havebeen published in the USA by Modern Library; this edition is on open shelves at the Cambridge University Library.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD. See: SCOTT, CYRIL.
35. AUGUSTA CAROLINE SOPHIA, Duchess of SaxeCoburg-Saalfeld. – [Privately printed diary.]– The Duchess was the grandmother of Queen Victoria. The diary was presented to the Library by Victoria in 1893, and sealed up. Extracts from the diary, selected and translated by Princess Beatrice, were published at London in 1941 as In Napoleonic Days (London: J. Murray 1941). A copy is in the British Libraryat B.356.c.18.

36. AUTOMATIC BURGLAR ALARMS BULLETIN(32 parts). ABA, 1957-1964. SS.Cup. 11.b.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

AYNSLEY, CYRIL. – See: HEDLEY, PETER.
37. BAELDER: The
Knowledge.
[A
SS.Cup.20/55.

Pan-European Fraternity of
periodical.]Baelder,n.d.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Baelder is a bi-monthly New Age publication
containing articles on the occult, mythology, folklore,
ethnography, pagan history, religion and spirituality.
Covers the European traditions and heritage as they exist on the continent and worldwide. Includes a membership directory – perhaps the reason for its suppression –and reports of coming events. The periodical is pub-30

lished from 60 Elmhurst Road, Reading, Berkshire,
RG1 5HY, England. The ISSN of the periodical is:1355-1876.

38. BANKOFF, GEORGE ALEXIS (1903 - ). – The Practiceof Local Anæsthesia. London: William Heinemann
Medical Books Ltd., 1942. SS.a.108.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is in the restricted section of Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc.c.94.404. The National Library of Scotland has no less than four editions of thiswork, all published at London and dated 1942, 1943
(described as a ‘revised edition’), 1948 and 1953. The
catalogue entry for the edition of 1948 is marked “Restricted Access Please Consult Staff”, but there is no
similar admonition on the edition dated 1942. George
Bankoff also writes as George Sava. His true name isGeorge Alexis Milkomanovich Milkomane.
– We are greatly obliged to Mr. Keith Skakle of the
National Library of Scotland for examining their restricted copy [Phi.123] on our behalf. He writes: “Thereason our copy of the 3rd (1948) edition of The Practice of Local Anæsthesia is restricted is that there was alegal issue concerning copyright. There is a handwritten
note inside the front cover of the book which reads:‘Given to L.A. on condition of it being kept reserved.
“Legal action in progress about technical breach of
copyright” invoice of 11/3/49.’” He adds: “The L.A. is
the London Agency or London Agent (or now morecorrectly the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries)
who work on behalf of the copyright libraries and deal
with publishers, writers etc.”

39. BANVILLE, JOHN (1945 - ). – The Book of Evidence.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. In-8°. pp. 220.
SS.Cup.20/95.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The reason for the suppression of this book in
unknown, even to its author. In a letter to the compiler
dated November 30th 2008, John Banville wrote: “I’mafraid I can’t help you in the matter of the suppressionof the British Library’s edition of The Book of Evidence. I knew nothing of it until your letter arrived. It’s
most likely for the reason you surmise, a printing orbinding error.”31

40. BARDI, BENNO. – Die Himmelsbarke. Typed manuscript, 1956. SS.Cup.12.c.23.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Die Himmelsbarke, ein Schauspiel … Dritte Fassung ([London:] Barmerlea Book Sales, 1961) by Bardi
is in the BL at pressmark: X.905/249. It is described ashaving 32 pages and is reproduced from typewriting.

41. BARDI, BENNO. – Orchestra Bass Clarinet in B Flat.
String Quintet. 1943. SS.Cup.9.c.12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

42. BARKER, TERRY and William Peterson, editors. –The Cambridge Multisectoral. Dynamic Model of the
British Economy. Cambridge University Press, 1987.
SS.Cup.15.26.
– Included in 2005 catalogue only.
– One of the ‘Cambridge Studies in Applied Econometrics.’ Suppressed July 31st. 2003 for being “illegal.” Note: “stamped.” There are 2 volumes in the General Catalogue that closely match this title. One is atpressmark: YK.1988.b.4099. The other would seem
identical save for Cambridge Studies in Applied Econometrics having the volume number 5 provided. pressmark: 3015.992 no 5 DSC.

43. BARTON, FREDERICK PAGE. – Concentrated Contract. Containing original articles by Col. Beasley…
Jack Dalton… Sir Guy Domville… Edward Mayer,&c. London: Joiner & Steele, 1933. In-8°. pp. 118.
SS.a.391.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue, at pressmark:7920.de.20.
– Mr. Barton was apparently the inventor of a bidding system in the game of Bridge, and the author of anumber of books on the game. He also wrote a volume
of memoirs, We’ll Go no More A-Roving (London:
Joiner & Steele, 1937).

44. BASACIK, D. & Alan Stevens. – Scoping study of
driver distraction. London: Dept. for Transport, 2008.
30cm. pp. 72, with illustrations, some in colour. Road32

safety research report, no. 95; Road safety research
report, 1468-9138 ; no. 95.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. In the spreadsheet,the publisher is given as ‘Transport Research Laboratory.’ There is a copy in the General catalogue at the following pressmark: YK.2009.b.4613.

45. BATTLE OF BELFAST. London: Clann na hÉireann, [c. 1971]. SS.CUP 13.c.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “TheBattle of Belfast is an A3 folded to A4 litho printed
pamphlet, published… by Clann na h-Éireann andprinted in London. It is 24 pages including covers, 20
numbered pages though the text runs on to the (unnumbered) inside back cover. There is no date of publication but many of the news reports quoted are from Julyand August 1971 and there are none later.”– We are very grateful to Mike Weaver of theWorking Class Movement Library, Salford, for providing us with the above description of their copy of thispamphlet. The reason for its suppression is doubtlessthat its account of the events of 1971 was at odds withthose of the Governments of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland, and the press.
– Clann na h-Éireann (‘Children [or Family] of Ireland’) is a social, cultural and political movement for
the Irish in exile, both voluntary and otherwise.

46. BAUER, MAX HERMANN, Professor der Mineralogie
an der Universität Marburg. – [Edelsteinkunde. Eine
allgemein
verständliche
DarstellungderEigenschaften, des Vorkommens und der Verwendung
der Edelsteine…] Precious Stones … Translated …
with additions by L. J. Spencer, &c. London: Charles
Griffen and Company, 1904. pp. xv. 627. pl. XX. C.
SS. b. 67.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Original German edition published at Leipzig by C. H.
Tauchnitz in 1896 [British Library: 7108.dd.3]. The
1904 English version was reprinted at New York by
Dover Publications in 1968 [British Library (2 copies):
W45/1610 and X.311/8218.]33

47. BAUM, VICKI (1888 – 1960). – The Mustard Seed.
London: Michael Joseph, 1953. In-8°. pp. 422.
SS.Cup. 9.a.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

48. [BEACH, THOMAS MILLER (1841-1894).] – Twentyfive years in the secret service [by] Henry Le Caron[pseud.] The recollections of a spy … With portraits
and facsimiles. London: William Heinemann, 1892.
In-8°. pp. vi, 311.
– Ordered to be sealed up for libel in accordancewith a Minute of the Standing Committee of 14 January
1893. (op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 151.) The original SS
pressmark is unknown to us. However, the General Library appears to now have a copy the first edition at
1609/1522 which is very probably the one that wasformerly in the SS. David Boothroyd has examined thiscopy and notes: “Accession stamp 14 November 1892.
The previous pressmark 10825.g.2 has been crossed out
on the obverse of the author's portrait in the frontispiece, and the spine shows signs of previous pressmarks
having been removed.”– There appears to be no reference to a trial for libel in The Times, but there is a warm review of it in The
Times for the issue of October 19th 1892.
– David Boothroyd adds: The earlier editions of thebook were suppressed because of remarks on page 153
about James J. O’Kelly (former Irish Parliamentary Party MP for County Roscommon). Beach stated that hehad procured his election with funds which had been
given to him by revolutionaries to buy arms. It seems
the remarks were removed by the publisher and against
the wishes of the author: in a preface to the 16th edition, Beach says that “Mr. Heinemann, for business reasons, acting under the advice of Sir George Lewis,
made certain alterations in the book. For whatever has
happened in this regard he, not I, must be held responsible.” (Sir George Lewis was a leading libel solicitorof the time)

49. BEAR, GREGG. – Legacy [a novel]. London: Legend,1995. SS.Cup.20.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– We are indebted to the author of Legacy for the
information that an advance issue of his novel printed
by Legend, and intended for critics and copyright regis-

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tration, lacked the final page of text. “It was reviewed
rather well despite the abrupt, avant garde conclusion!”
Mr. Bear adds. The blunder was caught and corrected
before it went on sale.

50. [BEDFORD, JESSIE.] – The Harp of Life [by] Elizabeth Godfrey [pseud.] London: Grant Richards, 1900.
in-8°. pp. 336. SS. a. 59.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– Suppressed for libel, op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 151.
The libelled person was Sir Dan Godfrey (1868-1939),
the conductor of the Bournemouth Municipal Band.
The copy listed in the General Catalogue [X909/19094]
is probably the SS copy, desegregated. There is a copyin the National Library of Scotland (pressmark: U.46.a)
which has no restrictions placed on it.

51. BEECHER, HENRY WARD. – The Beecher-Tilton
Scandal: a complete history of the case… With Mrs.
Woodhull´s statement, &c. New York: F. W. Bancker,
1874. In-8°. pp. 146. SS.b.23.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy of this book in the General
Catalogue at pressmark Cup. 403. t. 2 which David
Boothroyd examined. He writes: I found that previous
pressmarks on the spine had been removed. On the inside front endpaper is the previous pressmark 4986.g.22
which has been struck through; there is an accession
stamp dated 3 December 1888. On the title page is ‘SS.
B. 22’ [sic] struck through. Page 513 of the book accuses Victoria Woodhull and her supporters of having attempted blackmail of Beecher and his wife by demanding money to suppress their version of the Tilton scandal. There is a pencil mark on the right hand side of thisparagraph.
– In the highly publicized scandal known as the
Beecher-Tilton Affair, Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist
clergyman, was tried on charges that he had committed
adultery with a friend's wife, Elizabeth Tilton. In 1870,
Elizabeth had confessed to her husband, Theodore
Tilton, that she had had a relationship with Henry Ward
Beecher. Tilton was then fired from his job at a newspaper because of his editor's fears of adverse publicity.
Theodore and Henry both pressured Elizabeth to recant
her story, which she did, in writing, but subsequently
retracted her recantation. The charges became public

35when Theodore Tilton told Elizabeth Cady Stanton that
his wife, Elizabeth, had confessed to a “free love” relationship with Henry Ward Beecher. Stanton repeatedthe story to Victoria Woodhull and Isabella Beecher
Hooker.
– Victoria became angry, as Henry Ward Beecher
had publicly denounced her advocacy of free love. She
published a story in her paper, Woodhull and Claflin's
Weekly, on November 2, 1872, claiming that America's
most renowned clergyman was secretly practicing thefree-love doctrines which he denounced from the pulpit.
The story created a national sensation. As a result, Victoria was arrested in New York City and imprisoned forsending obscene material through the mail. The Plymouth Church held a board of inquiry and exonerated
Beecher, but excommunicated Mr. Tilton in 1873.
– Tilton then sued Beecher: the trial began in January 1875, and ended in July when the jurors deliberated
for six days but were unable to reach a verdict. His wife
loyally supported him throughout the ordeal.
– A second board of enquiry was held at Plymouth
Church and this body also exonerated Beecher. Twoyears later, Elizabeth Tilton once again confessed to theaffair and the church excommunicated her. Despite thisBeecher continued to be a popular national figure.
However, the debacle split his family. While most of
his siblings supported him, one of his sisters, the nationally known women's rights leader Isabella Beecher
Hooker, openly supported one of his accusers.

52. BEECHER, WILLIAM CONSTANTINE and Samuel Scoville, the Elder. – A Biography of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher… assisted by Mrs. Henry W. Beecher.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1888. In-8°. pp.
713. SS. B. 22.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Withdrawn by order of the Trustees.” Thereis a copy of this book in the General Catalogue (Cup.
403. t. 4) which seems likely to be the SS copy, desegregated.

53. BELCHER, PAULINE HUBBLE. – Iconic Faces : Warts
and all. Ely: Melrose Books, c. 2009. 28x35 cm. pp.
71.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is one
copy in the BL catalogue, shelved at LC.37.a.463.

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54. BELL, ARTHUR CLIVE HEWARD. – Peace at Once.
Manchester & London: National Labour Press,[1915.] In-8°. pp. 56. SS.a.8.
– Two copies are shelved at: Cup.403.s.3. andW25/4764.
– Suppressed for anti-war sentiments. David
Boothroyd inspected the copy at Cup.403.s.3, andwrites: On the front cover… is ‘SS.a.8’. The inside
front cover has a pasted-in note on British Museum paper which says “Seized by the Police. This copy forwarded by the Public Prosecutor. July, 1916. E.B.” The
accession stamp is dated 18 July 1916. This pamphlet isnamed in the ‘Books Received’ column of the Manchester Guardian of 14 July 1915 (p. 9). The content of
the pamphlet, while pacifist, isn’t in any way seditious,
but presumably the Police must have been very sensitive at the time. Clive Bell, the author, is the wellknown art critic from the Bloomsbury Group.

55. BELL, EDWARD. – The Times Book Club & The Publisher’s Association. Typewritten. 1906-08 [1910].
SS.b.58.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

56. BELL, JOSEPH, M.D., F.R.C.S. – Notes on Surgery for
Nurses. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. Edinburgh:
Oliver & Boyd, 1899. In-8°. pp. 194. 7482.aa.8.
– Following a complaint in 1900 by a nurse who
felt libeled for a reference in Dr. Bell’s book to ‘fast
women’ masquerading as nurses, the offending leaf was
replaced by a new one in which the reference was removed. Whether the volume was at any time in the SS
We are unable to say. Cf. Peter Fryer, p. 152.

57. BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. Instructions to Staff (2parts). Messrs. William Thomson & Company, 1952 &1965. SS.Cup.13.a.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
origins of the William Thomson company started in
1839 with the completion of the sailing shipCARRARA for William and Alexander Thomson toimport marble from Italy. In 1847 Alexander Thomson
retired from the partnership and William Thomson &Company, Leith was founded. The main trade at thistime was coal to Canada, returning with cargoes of timber. In 1859 the first voyage to Singapore, China and37

Japan took place and eventually the Far East became
the company's major trade route. Routes were extended
to the Baltic and Mediterranean, and the Canadian timber trade ceased in the mid-1880s. In 1919 the company
became Ben Line Steamers Ltd and in 1927 the last of
the Baltic Sea ships was sold. In 1976 Sheaf SteamShipping Company, Newcastle, was taken over, but by
1991 with the decline in British shipping, Ben Linecombined with East Asiatic Company, Copenhagen to
operate a weekly service to the Far East and the following year sold their remaining ships. By 1996 their only
remaining maritime asset was an oil rig.

58. BENNETT, ENOCH ARNOLD. – Arnold Bennett´s Letters to his Nephew (Richard Bennett), 1921-1931.
[Edited by R. Bennett. With a portrait.] With a Preface
by Frank Swinnerton. London: William Heinemann,
1935. In-8°. pp. xix.329. SS.a.418.
Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy of this book in the General
Catalogue at pressmark 010920.b.40. Its catalogue entry makes no reference to a Preface by Frank Swinnerton, but it was examined by David Boothroyd who
writes: [it] does have the preface by Frank Swinnerton.
The accession stamp is 28 February 1936 and there areno signs of any other pressmark which suggests that the
SS copy is still in place.

59. BENNETT, DOROTHY CHESTON (1891-1977). –Arnold Bennett. A Portrait Done at Home. Together
with 170 letters from Arnold Bennett. [With facsimiles.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. In-8°. pp. 350.
SS.a.407.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:010822.df.4. which David Boothroyd examined. He
writes: [it] was rebound in 1981 with the current pressmark in gold lettering on the spine. The accession
stamp is 19 June 1935; on the final page in pencil is‘28/116’.
– Dorothy Cheston was an actress who met Bennett
in 1922, shortly after his separation from his wife Marguerite Soulié. Dorothy and Arnold lived together until
his death. She changed her last name to Bennett bydeed poll, although they were never legally married.
They had one child, Virginia, born in 1926.

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60. BERLIN, SVEN. – The Dark Monarch. A Portrait
From Within. [The author’s struggle after the war torevive his creative talent as an artist.] With drawings
by the author. London: The Gallery Press, 1962. In8°. pp. xi. 204. SS.Cup.12.c.41.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.8.
– A thinly-veiled exposé of the politics of the artistic community of St Ives in the early 50s. Four of theartists and writers portrayed in it began actions for libel,
and the book was withdrawn.

61. BERNARD, OLIVER PERCY. – Cock Sparrow. A True
Chronicle. [Autobiographical reminiscences.] London:
Jonathan Cape, 1936. In-8°. pp. 384. SS.a.417.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy of Cock Sparrow in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010822. df. 44.
– Oliver Percy Bernard and Dora Hodges (18961950), an opera singer, were the parents of the wellknown journalist and alcoholic Jeffrey Bernard (19321997). Dora Hodges was apparently Bernard’s second
wife. Muriel Theresa Bernard, (née Lightfoot), also a
singer, divorced him for “statutory desertion and adultery” in May 1923. The adultery would seem to havetaken place between Bernard and Fedora Roselli, a student of Muriel’s. cf. The Times, May 19, 1923, p. 4. Itis perhaps details of this divorce in Bernard’s ‘reminiscences’ that were the cause of the book’s suppression.

62. BERTRAM, AUSTIN & William Francis Lloyd. –American prosperity studied with particular reference
to the engineering industry during a recent visit. London: Waterlow & Sons Ltd., 1926. Folio. 36 leaves.
SS.c.56.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Typescript facsimile. Confidential. For private circulation
only. Another work from the authors that gave us The
Secret of High Wages (London: T. Fisher Unwin,
1926).

63. BETJEMAN, JOHN (1906 – 1984). – Continual Dew.
A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse. London: John
Murray, 1937. SS.CUP 13.b.6.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Advance copies had the authorship credited to‘John Bateman,’ a dedication “To Lord Berners In
Memory of Happy Meals at Faringdon House” and 26
poems on 46 pages. The first edition offered for sale tothe public had 33 poems on 45 numbered pages, and a
dedication that reads: “To Gerald Berners”. We are indebted to Steve Phillips, a member of the John Betjeman Society, for his assistance with this entry.

64. BILTON, DAVID T. – Survey of the Distribution andStatus of the Diving Beetle Agabus Brunneus (Fabricious, 1798) in the British Isles. Peterborough: English Nature, 1997 (English Nature Research Reportno. 237). Pp. 237. 25 fig; paperback. SS.Cup.20/49.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Dr David T. Bilton, the author of this work, generously replied to an email requesting information on
the reason for its being restricted: “This was a report toEnglish Nature, and I think the reason it was nevermade fully available publicly was to avoid too many
people visiting the remaining sites where this species
occurs, as they are quite small and potentially vulnerable to excessive disturbance. So confidentiality I guess,and nothing to do with libel, errors etc.”

65. BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN (1929 - ). – The Towers ofLove. London: Collins, 1962. In-8°. pp. 255.
SS.Cup.12.c.21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: Nov.3811.
– The Towers of Love, the author’s third book, wasfirst published at Boston by Little, Brown and Co. in
1961. Mr. Birmingham’s year of birth is given as 1929
by the British Library and 1932 by the Wikipedia article on him.

66. BISHOP, CECIL. – From information received; thereminiscences of Cecil Bishop, late Criminal investigation department, New Scotland Yard. [With plates,incl. portraits.] London: Hutchinson, 1932. In-8°. pp.
286. SS.a.386.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:40

6059. ff. 3. A copy is in the restricted section of Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc. c.93.403.

67. BLOOM, URSULA (1895 - ). – The Mightier Sword.
London: Robert Hale, 1966. In-8°. pp. 173.
SS.Cup.13.a.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W61/6469. The Mightier Sword is a biographical work recounting Bloom’s journalistic experiences.

68. BLYTH, JAMES (1864-1933). – The Tyranny. London: William Heinemann, 1907. In-8°. pp. viii. 275.
(Copy recalled by publisher. See letter [in book?])
SS.a.58.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
The British Library General Catalogue lists some 60 titles by this author, none of which are titled The Tyranny. There is, however, a copy in the Bodleian at pressmark 254399 e.120, one at the National Library of
Scotland, at pressmark U.48.c. and a third at Cambridge
at 1907.7.2375. Alexandra Fisher, Senior Library Assistant at Cambridge, kindly examined their copy on ourbehalf, but found “no letter or supplement with the volume to explain why it was withdrawn.”– James Blyth lived for many years in the village
of Fritton in Norfolk, about five miles South West ofGreat Yarmouth, which is well known for its lake andthe nearby Somerleyton Hall. Blyth found inspirationfrom the local Broadland landscape for many of his
works.
– He was educated at Norwich Grammar School
and Cambridge University, and then worked as a solicitor in London until 1898, when he suddenly changed
his name by deed poll (he was originally Henry Clabburn) and returned to rural Norfolk.
– He was apparently somewhat eccentric, but managed to earn a meagre living from his writing. His firstnovel was entitled Juicy Joe: A Romance of the Norfolk
Marshlands (1903), and he went on to write some twenty-two more between 1906 and 1909.

69. BODINGTON, NICOLAS (1904 – 1974). – The Awakening Sahara. [With plates and a map.] London: Andre
Deutsch, 1961. In-8°. pp. 175. SS.Cup.12.c.33.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: 10494.b.5 and W59/1406.

70. BOOTH, CHARLES. – Life and labour of the people in
London. London: Macmillan, 1892. In-8°. Nine volumes, with maps. X23/3101-3110.
– “In 1904, the Trustees ordered that a libel on p.
101 of volume 1… be obliterated; if this was done, no
trace of the obliteration remains.” Cf. Peter Fryer, p.
152. There is another edition in the British Library, infive volumes, dated 1902.

71. BOWLES, MAMIE. – Charlotte Leyland. London:
Grant Richards, 1900. In-8°. pp. 418.
– Not included in either the 1945 the 2008 catalogues. “…withdrawn from circulation by its publisher…; the trustees ordered that it be ‘removed from the
Library shelves and kept under lock and key in the Department’.” Op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 151. The original SS
pressmark is unknown to us, but a copy is presently
shelved at YA.1990.a.19372 which may well be the SS
copy, desegregated sometime prior to 1945. There are
restricted copies at Cambridge, at pressmark
Arc.d.90.401, and at the Bodleian Library at pressmark
Res. e.2.
– “AMONG the novels that have reached us lately
we had set aside Charlotte Leyland for a special review
on account of certain qualities which distinguished it.
The review was in preparation when we received thefollowing communication from Mr. Grant Richards, thepublisher of the book: ‘I published on May 22 Charlotte Leyland, by M. Bowles, of which a copy was sent
you on that day for review. Since its publication I havelearnt that one of the characters is so drawn as to constitute a libel against a lady well-known in London society. Her solicitors threaten me with proceedings unless I
withdraw the book from circulation, which I am now
doing; they also ask me to warn you against reviewing
the book in its present shape.’ As the three chief characters in Charlotte Leyland revolve in orbits very far removed from ‘London Society,’ and as the story is mainly concerned with them, we hope that the book will berepublished after the excisions that ‘constitute a libel’have been made. It would be a great pity if such excellent and promising work were to be denied the recognition that Miss Bowles deserves.” Extracted from: The
Academy, A Weekly Review of Literature and Life, no.
1467, 16th June 1900.

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72. BRADSTREET'S REGISTER. (18 volumes.) Bradstreet’s Register, 1953-1977.
73. BRADSTREET'S REGISTER. (31 volumes.) Bradstreet’s Register, 1953-1961.
74. BRADSTREET'S REGISTER. (32 volumes.) Bradstreet’s Register, 1956-1961.
75. BRADSTREET'S REGISTER. Cumulative Index(numerous parts). Bradstreet’s Register, Late 50s to
early 60s?
– Included in the 2008 catalogue only and all four
entries have the same pressmark: SS.CUP 9 c 19. A
confidential, subscription-only source providing detailsof companies and their credit worthiness. That theseworks should be called Bradstreet’s Register, for thedates noted, is puzzling since Bradstreet hasn’t operated
under that name alone since the early 1930s.
– In 1849, the John M. Bradstreet Company was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. Two years later, the Bradstreet organization popularized the use of credit ratings
with publication of the first book of commercial ratings.
However, there was a rival. In 1841, an enterprisingbusinessman named Lewis Tappan founded The Mercantile Agency, located in New York City and established a network of correspondents that would function
as a source of reliable, consistent and objective credit
information. It was one of the first organizations
formed for the sole purpose of providing business information to customers. In 1849, Tappan turned the
Agency over to Benjamin Douglass, a former clerk,
who capitalized on the improved transportation andcommunication of the time by expanding his network ofoffices, essentially providing the Agency with both newcustomers and superb information. Ten years later, in
1859, Douglass turned over the Agency to his brotherin-law, Robert Graham Dun, and the company continued in business under the new name, R.G. Dun &Company.
– For almost half-a-century the two companies
were in strong competition until the effects of rivalryand economic depression on both R.G. Dun and The
Bradstreet Companies could no longer be ignored, andin 1933, the arch competitors merged to form Dun andBradstreet.

4376. BRAND, HENRI, Rabbi. – A Frenchman in London.
[Verses] London (101 Dunsmure Rd, N16 5HT): Passy Books, 1972. In-8°. pp. [2]. 25. SS.Cup.14.a.38.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is entered in the General Catalogue at pressmark
X.908/24298. There is a ‘restricted’ copy of this workin the Bodleian (Res. e.115), and a freely available‘abridged edition’ published the same year at pressmark: 28001 e.10921/11; this may be the same edition
the British Library has in their General Catalogue. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.152 and another at Cambridge where it has the pressmark
Arc.c.97.402.
– We are grateful to Ms. Sarah Wheale of the Rare
Books Section of the Department of Special Collections
at the Bodleian Library, for writing to tell us that theauthor of A Frenchman in London had withdrawn thebook “on the advice of his solicitor.”

77. BRION, MARCEL (1895 – 1984). – The Medici : agreat Florentine family… translated [from the French]
by Giles and Heather Cremonesi, photographs by
Wim Swaan and others. London: Paul Elek, 1969. In4°. pp. 216. Illustrations, coat of arms, facsimiles andportraits (some in colour). SS.Cup.14.a.29.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: q74/40578. Copies of this book are in a
number of libraries in the British Isles, and none seemto be obviously restricted in any way, although the copyin the Guildhall Library is pressmarked: Closed Access
B:M 489.

78. BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SHIPPING AND
FORWARD-ING AGENTS, The. SS.a.403.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Association of Shipping and Forwarding Agentswas Incorporated in 1930 and Dissolved in 1950.

79. [BRITISH
CAST
IRON
RESEARCHASSOCIATION] BCIRA Abstracts. BCIRA, n.d.
SS.Pen 5/1.

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80. [BRITISH
CAST
IRON
RESEARCHASSOCIATION] BCIRA Technology, (33 items).
BCIRA, 1900 [sic]-1990. SS.Cup.5/1.
81. [BRITISH
CAST
IRON
RESEARCHASSOCIATION] Research and Cast Metals Practice.
BCIRA, 1976-1990. SS.Cup.Res 5/1.
82. [BRITISH
CAST
IRON
RESEARCHASSOCIATION] (Six parts.) BCIRA, 1986. SS.Cup.
8.a.10.
83. [BRITISH
CAST
IRON
RESEARCHASSOCIATION] Annual Report 1988-89 (3 parts).
Council at the Offices of BCIRA. October 1889.
SS.Cup.8.a.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
duplication of pressmarks occurs in the SS catalogue.
The British Cast Iron Research Association was createdin 1921 to promote the scientific and technical advancement of the ironfounding industry. Most of its
work is concerned with the improvement of methods ofproduction of iron castings and their quality, but it also
provides an advisory service for users of iron castings
and acts as a centre for the collection and disseminationof information on cast iron, and this includes, among
other things, advice on the corrosion characteristics ofthe metal. Its laboratories were originally sited in Birmingham but in 1942 it moved into its present home at
Bordesley Hall, some 13 miles south of the city. In
1962, a new block of laboratories was completed inwhich the staff of the investigations department, including the corrosion investigators, is now housed.

84. BRITISH CERAMIC RESEARCH (14 parts). 198690. SS.Cup.14.a.35.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

85. BRITISH EXPORT GAZETTE, The. London: July
1922. SS.c.52.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

86. BRITISH
FOOD
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES. Layman's Guide to Cooking. (210parts.) 1947-72. SS.Cup.13.c.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

4587. BRITISH
FOOD
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES. Scientific and Technical Surveys (38parts). 1947-61. SS.Cup.13.c.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

88. BRITISH
FOOD
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES. Research Report. (2 parts) 1979-80.
SS.Cup.13.c.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

89. BRITISH
GLASS
INDUSTRYRESEARCHASSOCIATION. BGIRA, 1961-1973. SS.Cup. 15/1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

90. BRITISHHYDROMECHANICSRESEARCHASSOCIATION. (50 items.) 1949-69. SS.Cup. 6.b.21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

91. BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORP. LTD. News
release. 21st, Jan. 1974. (3 parts.) SS.Cup. 14a.17.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

92. BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, The. Quarterly Bulletin. (27 parts.) July 1948-Sept. 1955.
SS.Cup.11.b.18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

93. BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY, The. The County
Branches. Vol.1. 1917. SS.c.25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

94. BRITISHSHIP
BUILDINGRESEARCHASSOCIATION, The. B.S.R.A., 4th Report 1948-50.
5th Report 1950-53. 1964-67. SS.Cup.6.b.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

95. BRITTEN, BENJAMIN (1913-1976). – Five Courtly
Dances from Gloriana (2 parts). London: Boosey &Hawkes, 1964. SS.12.c.60.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Gloriana (1953) is an opera in three acts, written
by Britten (the music) and William Plomer (the libretto). It is based on Gilles Lytton Strachey's Elizabethand Essex, and its composition doubtless inspired by
the Coronation of Elizabeth II in June 1953. There arecopies at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at Mus. 224 c.6,
at Trinity College, Dublin, at M4-65- 296 and the Royal
Academy of Music at SHELVES 26 BRITTEN.

96. BROADSWORD. Issues 3 and 4. British Movement,
1994. SS.Cup.20/87.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Movement is a fascist organization founded
originally in 1968 by Colin Jordan (1923-2009), amathematics teacher at a Coventry grammar school,
which grew out of the National Socialist Movement,that had been founded in 1962. Internal strife andbreakaways led to the organization collapsing in September 1983. It re-emerged during the 1990s by becoming heavily involved in the distribution of white powermusic, but although it still exists, it has a tiny, largely
inactive, membership.
– Colin Jordan was a major figure in the postWWII fascist movement in England. He was briefly
married to Marie Françoise Suzanne Dior, the niece ofthe fashion designer, who at the time was supposedly
engaged to John Tyndall, a close friend and associate of
Jordan’s, then in prison for paramilitary activities.
Françoise, who famously aggravated a Jewish cab driver outside Victoria Station in London by ostentatiously
flaunting a gold swastika necklace, abandoned the marriage and returned to France where she declared that
Jordan was a ‘middle-class nobody.’

97. BROMIGE, IRIS (1912 – ). – The Conway Touch.
London, &c.: White Lion Publishers, 1975. In-8°. pp.
186. SS.Cup.14.a.28.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There is a copy in the General catalogue at thefollowing pressmark: Nov.23690. First published by
Hodder & Stoughton in 1958.

98. BROOKES, EWART. – Turmoil. [On the rescue tug“Turmoil.” With plates.] London: Jarrolds Ltd., 1955.
In-8°. pp. 180. Illustrations. SS.Cup.11.a.2.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: W51/9602 and X21/2263.

99. BROOKES, PETER (1943 – ). – Nature Notes: the
New Collection. London: Little, Brown, 1999. In-4°.
pp. 111. SS.Cup.20/47.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Chiefly coloured illustrations. These satirical ‘Nature Notes’
cartoons first published in The Times between July
1997 and June 1999, and portray various fictitious
beasts, based on the appearance and supposed habits ofwell-known politicians.
– David Boothroyd adds: The reason for the suppression of this book of light-hearted cartoons reprinted
from the Times was given in the Times Diary on 23
December 1999 (p. 14 of that day's paper): “Our finecartoonist Peter Brookes has been cheered by events in
the High Court. Before meeting their nemesis, Neil andChristine Hamilton forced Brookes to withdraw hisbook of cartoons: Nature Notes The New Collection.
The couple were touchy about a portrayal of Christine
as a vixen, and her husband as Giant Toad (Hamiltonus
corruptus) … Mrs H was so ratty, she made a show ofripping out the offending pages in the middle of a party.
– The books, which were stored pending the outcome of the trial, can now be released. Says Brookes: ‘I
might get my own back and rip a couple of pages out of
their books.’ ”– The Neil Hamilton caricature is on page 7 andwas printed in The Times of 5 July 1997; the Christine
Hamilton cartoon is on page 23 and is from The Timesof 8 November 1997. The High Court action referred to
was Hamilton's failed action against Mohamed Al
Fayed, which finally failed on 21 December 1999.

100. BROOKS, WILLIAM COLLIN, (1893–1959). – Devil’s Decade: Portraits of the Nineteen-Thirties. [Withportraits.] London: Macdonald & Co., 1947. In-8°.
SS.a.120.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy of this edition at Cambridge University Library with the pressmark Arc.c.94.403. The catalogue
entry includes the words: “Restricted. Contact Cambridge University Library staff.” A copy in the National
Library of Scotland ([Phi] ; Reference use in NLS) has
a note dated 23 March 1948 which read “Withdrawn

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from open shelves at publisher’s request.” There is nofurther clarification. We are indebted to Dr Anette I.
Hagan, Senior Curator of Rare Books at the National
Library of Scotland, for her help with this entry.

101. BUCKLEY, WILFRED. – Notes on Franz [sic]Greenwood and the Glasses that he Engraved. London: Ernest Benn, 1930. In-8°. 14 pages text + 30
pages black and white plates. SS.b.76.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– One of the first edition, limited to 250 copies,that was withdrawn owing to a number of typographicaland other errors, including the misspelling of the engraver’s name – ‘Franz’ rather than ‘Frans.’

102. BULLETIN, The. Food Manufacturers' Federation
Inc. 1954-1956 (29 parts), 1947-61, SS.Cup. 9.b.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Food Manufacturer’s Federation was, in
1961, established at Wembley Park, Middlesex, but according to a Food and Agriculture Organization of theUnited Nations document of 1969 later moved to 4
Lygon Place, London S.W.1., an address which today
houses such rare wonders as the Estonian Associationof Appraisers. Their present whereabouts is unknown tous.

103. BULLOCH, JOHN. – M.I.5. The origin and history of
the British counter-espionage service. [With plates,
including portraits and a facsimile.] London: Arthur
Baker Ltd., 1963. In-8°. pp. 206. SS.12.c.37.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: W73/4208 and 6327.n.5..

104. BURGESS, ANTHONY, (1917-1993). – The Wormand the Ring. London: Heinemann, 1961. In-8°. pp.
273. SS.Cup.12.c.27.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The novel was withdrawn from circulation following a libel action by Gwendoline Bustin, the secretary of Banbury Grammar School where Burgess taught
in the early fifties. Several characters were recognisableas figures from the school, but only Miss Burstin, later49

Lady Mayoress of Banbury, objected. Heinemannagreed to “amend all unsold copies of the book” (TheTimes, October 25, 1962) but actually pulped them. A
revised version, omitting the offending references, waspublished in 1973.

105. BURLAND, COTTIE ARTHUR. – The Magical Arts: a
Short History. [With plates.] London: Arthur Baker,
Ltd., 1966. In-8°. pp. viii.196. SS.Cup.13.c.8– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: X24/8388.

106. BURNS, ROBERT (1759 – 1796). – A Suppressed
Ballad by Robert Burns (Why should na Poor Peoplemow?). [With a Foreword by Clement Shorter.] Clement Shorter [London, 1916]. In-4°. SS.b.15(1).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy of this book in the General
Catalogue (Cup. 500. n. 10), which may be the SS
copy, desegregated. One of twenty-five copies printed
for private circulation. “The song is Poor Bodies donaething but m-w, p. 80 in the original ed. [of The Merry Muses of Caledonia] of c. 1800, here printed fromthe holograph MS. by Burns, with his letter of transmission to Cleghorn, 12 Dec. 1792.” – The Merry Muses of
Caledonia, edited by G. Legman (New Hyde Park, New
York: University Books, 1965, p. 293.

107. BURR, J. MILLARD and ROBERT O. COLLINS. –Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic
World. [With maps and illustrations.] Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. In-8°. pp. xx.348.
– In August 2007, the publisher, Cambridge University Press, removed the work from circulation underpressure from a libel action lawsuit filed against themby wealthy Saudi Khalid Salim A. Bin Mahfouz because the book accused him of funding al-Qaeda. Mahfouz had previously also forced the censorship of fourother books: * June 2006: The Forbidden Truth / La
Vérité Interdite by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume
Dasquié. * April 2006: Funding Evil; How Terrorism
is Financed and How to Stop It (Los Angeles: Bonus
Books, 2003), by Rachel Ehrenfeld. * July 2004: Terrorism financing: roots and trends of Saudi terrorism
financing, a report prepared for the President of theUnited Nations Security Council by Jean-Charles

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Brisard and which is freely available online. * March
2004: Reaping the whirlwind (London: Pluto Press,
2001) by Michael Griffin.
– Within hours, Alms for Jihad became one of the
100 most sought after titles on Amazon.Com and eBayin the United States. Cambridge University Press sent a
letter to libraries asking them to remove copies fromcirculation. Cambridge University Press subsequently
sent out copies of an “errata” sheet. The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries
still holding Alms for Jihad: “Given the intense interestin the book, and the desire of readers to learn about thecontroversy first hand, we recommend that U.S. libraries keep the book available for their users.”– As of writing – December 2008 – the book is still
to be found listed in the British Library’s online catalogue, but will probably be eventually withdrawn andplaced in the SS. The copy in Cambridge University
Library is in their restricted section and has the pressmark Arc.c.200.417.

108. BURROWS, GUY, Captain. – The Curse of Central
Africa… to which is incorporated A Campaign
amongst Cannibals by Edgar Canisius. London: R. A.
Everett & Company, 1903. In-4°. xxviii, [10], 276 p.,[6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. KYS [BUR-]– Suppressed for libel, following a case in London
on March 26 1904 in which Burrows was sued by Captain Henri de Keyser, an officer in the Congo Free
State, for allegations of inhuman conduct towards thenatives. Somewhat surprisingly in view of the celebrated brutality of colonial rule in Africa generally at thetime, de Keyser won his case and Burrows was obliged
to pay $500 in damages. Two other suits against Burrows were brought by Captains Chaltin andDuerlecuick, both Congo officials, which were settled
in court, Burrows agreeing pay to each of the plaintiffs$50.
– That it was suppressed is confirmed by Peter
Fryer, op. cit. p.155. The book does not appear in the
Library’s online integrated catalogue, but according tothe online Copac Academic & National Library Catalogue a copy of the book is presently in the British Museum’s Anthropology Collection, which is quite separate from the British Library, at the pressmark given
above. It does not appear to be subject to any restrictions.

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109. C18. SS.Cup.20.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. One of
the most cryptic of all SS entries. ‘C18’ is a publicationof Combat 18, frequently called C18, the “armed wing”
of the British fascist organisation Blood & Honour. The
number ‘18’ is commonly used by neo-Nazi groups,
and is derived from the initials of Adolf Hitler; A and H
being the first and eighth letters of the alphabet.
– David Boothroyd adds: Probably suppressed because the publication might have infringed the law onincitement to racial hatred. Michael Whine, in Nationalist Myths and Modern Media (ed. By Jan Herman
Brinks, Stella Rock and Edward Timms, Tauris Academic Studies, 2006, p. 73), refers to the “glossy booklets entitled ‘Combat 18 Issue, No. 1’ and ‘Combat 18,
Issue No. 3’ containing crude anti-Jewish themes, outright [holocaust] denial material and photographs of
Combat 18 members visiting Auschwitz, where several
had climbed into the crematorium ovens.”

110. CALOW, PETER, editor. – Evolutionary physiological ecology, edited by Peter Calow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. In-8°. pp. 234. Suppressed by reason of a “print error.” Note: “stamped.”
SS.Cup.15.23.
– Included in 2005 catalogue only. A copy is in the
General Catalogue at pressmark: (B) CE 82 with thepagination given as 239.

111. CAMERON, IAN. – Wings of the morning. The storyof the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War. [Withplates, including portraits.]. London: Hodder andStoughton, 1962. In-8°. pp. 288. SS.12.c.31.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.96. There isa copy in the General catalogue at the following pressmark: W25/4448.

112. CAMPDEN FOOD & DRINK RESEARCHASSOCIATION. (114 parts) Chipping Campden:
Campden Food & Drink Association, 1983-90.
113. CAMPDEN FOOD & DRINK/PRESERVATIONRESEARCH ASSOCIATION. (111 parts) Chipping52

Campden: Campden Food & Drink Association,
1981-94.
114. CAMPDEN FOOD PRESERVATION RESEARCHASSOCIATION. Chipping Campden: Campden Food
Preservation [sic], 1984-93.
– Included in the 2008 catalogue only, and all withthe uniform pressmark: SS.11.b.3. “CCFRA [Campden
Chorleywood Food Research Association] Group is theUK's largest independent membership-based organisation carrying out research and development for the foodand drinks industry worldwide. It is committed toproviding industry with the research, technical and advisory services needed to ensure product safety andquality, process efficiency and product and process innovation.”

115. [CAMPDEN FOOD AND DRINK RESEARCHASSOCIATION.] Technical Memorandum. Chipping
Campden: Campden Food & Drink Association,
1988-1994,. SS.Cup.11.b.3.
– Not included in any of the three catalogues.

116. CAMPAIGN GUIDE, The. Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 1964. SS.Cup.12.c.51.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

117. CARGILL, DAVID and Julian Holland. – Scenes of
Murder. A London Guide, &c. with a foreword by Dr
Francis Camps. [With plates, including portraits andplans.] London: Heinemann, 1964. In-8°. pp. ix.230.
SS.Cup.12.c.53.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Withdrawn by the publisher for ‘inaccuracies.’ There is no
copy of this work in the General Catalogue. The copy
at Cambridge (236.c.96.112) was reported missing in
December 1973, while the catalogue entry for the copyin the National Library of Scotland, pressmarked
Phi.83, is annotated: “RESTRICTED ACCESSPLEASE CONSULT STAFF.” The copies in the Bodleian and Trinity College, Dublin, appear unrestricted.
– David Boothroyd writes: A copy previously
owned by crime writer Jonathan Goodman on Abebooks notes that it contains a “Letter laid in loose from
Heinemann to Goodman stating that the book was suppressed on publication as it was found to contain nu-

53merous errors (which presumably might have led to litigation); also 1973 note from a bookseller to Goodman
noting his interest ‘just in case’ – ‘As you know it isvirtually unobtainable as all copies were withdrawn before publication.’, and note by Goodman to the same effect.”118. CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. Stenographic Record of a Conference on the future Policy on Europe of the Division ofIntercourse and Education. London, June 22nd, 1939.
SS.b.101.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in
1910, its work is nonpartisan and dedicated to achieving practical result.” Emails to the Carnegie Endowment requesting information about this item were notanswered.

119. CARSON, Edward Henry, Baron Carson (18541935). – Report on the Muniments of Lord Carson Of
Duncairn. [?London:] [Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts : National Register of Archives],[1973?] 32cm. Two volumes. SS.Cup.15/7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the National Library of Scotland at pressmark GRH.11.(126). Their catalogue entry adds:“Please consult NLS staff concerning access to this material.”– Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC, Kt.,
KC (often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson) was a leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. Lord
Carson held numerous positions in the Cabinet of theUnited Kingdom and pursued a career as a senior barrister and a judge; he became one of seven “LawLords.” Upon his death, in 1935, he was one of the few
non-monarchs to receive a United Kingdom state funeral.

120. CARSWELL, CATHERINE MACFARLANE. – The
Savage Pilgrimage. A narrative of D.H. Lawrence.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. In-8°. pp. [xiv]. 296.
SS. -?-.
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– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are two other copies in the General
Catalogue (823.9 *3291* and X.989/4898) one ofwhich might well be the SS copy, desegregated. Thereis a restricted copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, atpressmark Res.e.23 marked “Not for consultation” andanother at Casmbridge at pressmark Arc.d.93.402.
– The Chatto and Windus edition of this work waswithdrawn following complaints by John Middleton
Murry who objected to what was said about him in it.
Carswell´s book was written to refute his own book Son
of Woman, which included some unfavorable evaluations of Lawrence's character, particularly that he wasthe victim of an Oedipal complex and incapable of ahealthy sexual relationship. Needless to say, Frieda
Lawrence took exception to this; she burned a copy,
and sent Murry the ashes. (We are obliged to Prof.
Gertzman of Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, for
information regarding this work.) Martin Secker issued
a revised text of the book later in 1932 (British Library:
010827.ff.53), with the authorship credited to Catherine
Roxburgh according to the online catalogue entry. The
original edition was republished in 1981 by Cambridge
University Press (British Library: X.950/8857).

121. CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM, A. London: British Museum
Publications, 1922. SS.Cup.12.c.52.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

122. CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS (12 Items).
London: British Museum Publications, 1922.
SS.Cup.12.c.72.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A duplicate of the preceding?

123. CATALYST: FOR ENGLISH REVOLUTIONARYNATIONALISM. ENM, [English Nationalist Movement?] n.d. SS.Cup.20/85.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

124. CATCH. Manual and Eight Exercise Books. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. SS.Cup. 15/43 (6parts).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

55125. CHILD STUDY. Vol. IX, no. 7, Nov. 1916. Editedby H. Holman. Published by Edward Arnold. (Ac2262b). (Withdrawn from circulation C.O. [court order?] 2049, 1916). SS.b.33.
Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.

126. CHRISTIE'S Forthcoming sales. Christies [London?] May-June 1975, June-July 1975. SS.Cup.
14.a.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

127. CIBA. Technical notes. The Bonded Structures Division of CIBA. [Cambridge?] CIBA, 1969.
SS.Cup.13.a.19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

128. CICS Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/71.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

129. CLARKE, JOHN JOSEPH, (1879- ). – Introduction to
Public Health Law. London: Cleaver-Hume Press
Ltd., 1949. In-8°. Pp. 138. A ‘Short bibliography’ occupies pp. 129-130. SS.b.109.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: W8/3339 and 6429.f.36. These may becopies the second printing, appearing also in 1949,
which has ‘The National Health Service’ printed at thehead of p. 27 rather than ‘The National Health Service
Act, 1946’ which heads the same page in the first printing. Copies are preserved in the restricted sections of
the National Library of Scotland (Phi.111) and Cambridge University Library (Arc.c.94.405). This work is
a companion volume to the author’s Introduction toPlanning Law.

130. CLARKE, MICHAEL. – Citizen’s financial futures:the regulation of retail investment financial services in
Britain. Aldershot & Brookfield USA: Ashgate, 1998.
In-8°. pp. ix. 245. SS.Cup.20/22.

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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.34.
– David Boothroyd adds: Almost immediately after publication in May 1998, the solicitors acting for
Knight Williams wrote to financial journalists to saythat the contents of the book were defamatory andshould not be repeated. Knight Williams, an investment
advice company, had collapsed in 1995. Martin Waller(“Called back”, The Times, 1 August 1998, p 25) wrote:“The publisher faced with a lengthy battle with a top
City law firm over a book of which only 300 copies
were ever printed, has now thrown in the towel and has
written to anyone who received Citizens’ Financial Futures asking them to send it back and not go aroundquoting the offending paragraph.”131. CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, A, biography, geography,
and mythology. Edited by Henry Beauchamp Walters,
Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum. Cambridge: The University Press, 1916. In-8°.
pp. x. 1103. Illustrations. SS.Cup.12.c.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– We are grateful to Mr. Ed Potten, the Head ofRare Books at Cambridge University Library, for examining their copy of this work (Arc.c.91.403) on our behalf. He writes: “This book was the subject of an action
at law brought by John Murray against the Cambridge
University Press. It was pointed out that certain articles
had been ‘lifted’ without acknowledgement from
Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities. Judgment was given
for Murray & the Press was ordered to destroy all copies.”

CLONMORE, Lord. – See: HOWARD, WILLIAM CECIL
JAMES PHILIP JOHN PAUL, Earl of Wicklow.
132. CLUBCULTURES READER, The : readings in
popular cultural studies. Edited by Steve Redhead
with Derek Wynne and Justin O'Connor, photographs
by Patrick Henry. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. In-8°.
SS.Cup.20/16.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Library General Catalogue lists two copies, both
from
the
same
publisher.
One[pressmark:YC.1998.a.2695] was published in 1997, but

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printed in 1998, and has pp. ix.230 and 16 pages ofplates. The other [pressmark: 97/22092 DSC] was published in 1997 and has pp. ix.251 and 8 pages of plates.
– David Boothroyd adds: The reason for the suppression of this book lies in the essay “Not Waving, but
Drowning: Urban Narratives of Dissent in the Wild
Zone” by Chris Stanley which forms chapter 3 (pages
36-54). Mike Presdee, reader in criminology at Sunderland University, complained to the publisher that Stanley had drawn too heavily on his work without giving
any attribution. According to Peter Wilby (“Carbon
copies”, The Guardian, 5 May 1998, p IV), “Blackwell's response was prompt. The publisher has taken theunprecedented step of agreeing to pulp all copies of thebook remaining in its warehouse and to place advertisements in scholarly journals announcing that Stanley's chapter will be removed if and when it is reissued.” (The original, with the Stanley essay, is unrestricted in Cambridge)

133. COCKETT, RICHARD. – Thinking the Unthinkable:
think-tanks and the economic counter-revolution
1931-1983. [With plates, illustrations and portraits.]
London : HarperCollins, 1994. In-8°. pp. x. 390.
SS.Cup.18/17.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: YC.1995.a.2924 and 94/15503.

134. COHEN, ALBERT (1883 – 1961). – The Turkish andPan-Turkish Ideal, by Tekin Alp, pseud. London: Admiralty. Naval Staff. Naval Intelligence Division,
1917. Folio. pp. 48. SS.c.48.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 8026.l.16 and an undated copy or edition at
f956 *14*. Other copies are held at Aberdeen(f9(42:43) Alp) and the National Library of Scotland(GAB.2/9). A reprint with a new Introduction was published about 1992 at London by Liberty Press. The British Library copy of this is shelved at YC.1994.a.647.

COLLINS, ROBERT O. – See: BURR, J. MILLARD.
135. [COMBER, ELIZABETH.] – China in the Year 2001
by Suyin Han, pseud. London: C. A. Watts, 1967. In8°. pp. viii. 268. SS.13.a.3.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Part of
the New Thinker’s Library. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark: X.0908/52.(22.). There arecopies of this edition in all the other major libraries in
the UK, but there is no evidence from their catalogue
entries to suggest any problems with the work.

136. COMMERCIAL LISTS. London: Seyd & Company.
– Seyd & Company issued a number of these confidential and subscription-only credit index publications
on a regional basis – The Irish Commercial List, The
Bristol, South Wales and Gloucester commercial list&c. – at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of
the 20th. That they were suppressed and kept from readers is confirmed by P. R. Harris in A History of the British Museum Library (London: British Library, 1998), p.
387. Many if not all are now returned to the General
Catalogue.

137. COMMON SENSE ABOUT SMOKING. [By]Charles Montague Fletcher, Harvey Cole, Baroness
Lena May Jeger, Christopher Harald Wood. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963. In-8°. pp. 124.
SS.Cup.12.c.44.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Penguin Special. no. S213. There is a copy in the General
catalogue at the following pressmark: X6/0253. A second edition, dated 1965, is in the British Library at
12208.a.2/213. A copy is preserved in the restrictedsection of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark
Phi.131.
– An email from Dr Anette Hagan of the National
Library of Scotland concerning their copy states that:“According to a pencilled-in note in the book, it waswithdrawn by the publishers following a libel action.
There is also a reference to an article in the TLS of 26
July 1963, p. 583.”

138. (CONFESSIONS.) The Indiscreet Confessions of a
Nice Girl. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935. in-8°. pp.
276. SS.a. 416.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at
Cup.805.de.13 which may be the SS copy, desegregated. A restricted copy is in the Bodleian Library atpressmark Res. e.34, and another at Cambridge atpressmark Arc.d.93.406.

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– According to the catalogue entry for the copy in
the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library ofWales], this book seems to have been originally published about 1934 at New York by “W. Goodwin, Inc.”
This may be a misprint for W. Godwin, Inc., a firm
founded in New York in 1931 by Samuel Curl and Alex
Hillman, some of whose publications enraged the Catholic Church. We are indebted to Professor Jay Gertzman for this information. A reprint, done in 1951 at
Stoke-on-Trent by the Harborough Publishing Company, is in the General Catalogue at Cup. 367. b. 23. It is
in-8° and has pp. 126. Other copies of the 1935 edition
are preserved at Cambridge (Arc.d.93.406), Trinity College, Dublin (BAN 615), and the National Library of
Scotland (Vts.235.b.3).
– “T. Werner Laurie, Limited, publishers, were at
Bow Street Police Court yesterday ordered by Sir Rollo
Graham-Campbell to pay a fine of £50 and 20 guineas
costs for publishing an indecent book entitled The Indiscreet Confessions of a Nice Girl, by an anonymous
author. Mr. G. B. McClure and Mr. R. L. Jackson appeared for the prosecution: Mr. J. A. Stooke-Vaughan
defended. Mr. McClure said it would be surprising tohear any one making a claim that the book possessed
any literary merit. From beginning to end there was no
particular passage which, by itself, could be describedas indecent, but the whole tenor of the book was suggestive. The author had remained anonymous. The
book was imported from the United States, and Mr.
Werner Laurie, a director of the defendant company,
had stated that he had not read it. After reading some of
the chapter headings and passages from the text, counsel said there were some wretched attempts at humour,but it was about the dullest sort of book that one could
imagine. Mr. Stooke-Vaughan said that Werner Laurie
regretted having published the book, and as soon as
their attention was drawn to it they took immediate
steps to withdraw every copy from circulation. Theybought 998 copies of this book in sheet form from a
New York firm. It was read by three of Werner Laurie’s
readers, none of whom condemned it.” The Times, December 12th, 1935, p. 4.

139. CONNELL, VIVIAN (1905-1981). – September inQuinze. London: Hutchinson, 1952. in-8°. pp. 304.
SS.Cup.9.c.13.
140. CONNELL, VIVIAN (1905-1981). – September inQuinze. New York: Dial Press, 1952. in-8°. pp. 306.
SS.Cup.9.c.14.
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– Neither edition included in the 2005 or 2008
catalogues.
– September in Quinze was suppressed in September 1954 during Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe's anti-vicecrusade; op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 147. Both the publishers
and the printers, and Katherine Henrietta Webb a director of both companies, were fined £500 each; cf. The
Times, September 18th 1954, p. 3. Fryer notes that boththe English and American first editions were suppressed, and that the pressmarks were respectively S.S.
Cup. 9.c.13 and S.S. Cup. 9.c.14. However, the online
BL catalogue lists only the English edition, the pressmark of which is now Cup.1000.aa.18.
– Vivian Connell was a playwright and novelist,born in Cork and largely self-educated. He wrote theplays Throng o' Scarlet (1941) and The Nineteenth Holeof Europe (1943), before embarking on novels that include The Chinese Room (1943), a wartime best-seller
dealing with sexual freedom, The Golden Sleep (1948)
which has an autobiographical hero, and The Hounds ofCloneen (1951), an extra-marital romp set in the foxhunting circles of Cobh, County Cork.

141. CONTACT. A Unique forum for pӕdophile opinion.
(5 parts.) Sept.-Oct. Dec 1981, Feb. July, Sept. 1982.
SS.Cup.16/11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

142. CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, The. No. 533. Editedby Sir Percy William Bunting. London: Horace Marshall & Son, May 1910. SS.b.26.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

COOKRIDGE, E. H. See: SPIRO, EDWARD H.
143. CORELLI, MARIE (1855 – 1924). – [Temporal Power] Une Famille royale. [traduit de l’anglais.] Paris:
Société d’Éditions et de Publications Libraire Felix
Juven [1904]. In-12°. pp. 284. SS.a.74.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
front wrapper carries the legend: “Mœurs princières dutemps present.” The book is listed in the Catalogue Général de la librairie française (Paris: 1908, vol. 18, p.
388) where the ‘traduit de l’anglais’ appears, although
it is not to be found in title of the book itself.

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– Une famille royale is a translation of Marie Corelli’s novel Temporal Power (1902) – an abridged one
might reasonably assume in view of the fact the English
original ran to almost 600 pages – a fact I was only
able to learn thanks to the kind assistance of Mr. Michel
Snoeck, who has a page on his website dedicated to Corelli’s work, and Ms. Linda A. Hutchings of the Harold
B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University who generously supplied us with scans of the first three chaptersof the French text.
– The French edition is of considerable rarity. Excepting the copies at Brigham Young and the British
Library, I was able to locate only three others on
Worldcat: Bibliothèque nationale de France. – Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire, Lausanne, Switzerland. – Bibliothèque de la Ville de la Chaux-de-Fonds,
also in Switzerland. None, save the copy in the SS, appears to have any restrictions placed on them.
– The reason for the presence of the book in the SSseems obscure, and British Library have no idea either.
An email addressed to them on the subject prompted a
doubtless thorough investigation, and an email in response which read: “I regret that the British Library appears not to have any records of why the British Museum placed this item in the Suppressed Safe Collection.”
Realizing how awkward this admission might be, ourcorrespondent added : “…its storage may be reviewed
in due course.”– Temporal Power is an odd novel, a roman à clef,
although Corelli denied it, in which members of theMonarchy and British Society of the day appeared,
thinly disguised. So far as can be determined, the book
did not run afoul of the authorities when first published,or subsequently, and so it seems probable that the reason for its suppression in this French version may havebeen that it was either unauthorized and/or abridged; asMichel Snoeck, an authority on Corelli, remarked in an
email to us that “she would never allow shortened versions.”

144. CORKRAN, ALICE ABIGAIL (1852-1916). – Miniatures. London: Methuen & Co. 1904. One of the series‘Little books on art.’ SS.a.93.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the Bodleian Library (at pressmark
Res. f.1 ) which has to be ‘applied to the staff’ for, andanother is preserved at Cambridge at pressmark
Arc.e.90.401.

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– Suppressed for breach of copyright following legal action brought by George Bell & Company. Op. cit.
Peter Fryer, pp. 152,3.
– Alice Abigail Corkran was the daughter of the
Irish author and journalist John Corkran. Writing in
1888 Wilde praised Corkran's work: “…I have beenreading your charming and clever story, Meg's Friend,and have said a few words about it in my Christmas
number… You have certainly a most sympathetic
touch, and a very graceful style.” (Complete Letters,
p.370). Later that year, Wilde repeated his praise:"…everything that you write is full of grace and delicacy of literary style…" (Complete Letters, p.376).

145. CORPORATE COLLAPSE : regulatory, accounting
and ethical failure. By Frank L. Clarke, G.W. Dean,
Karl Gaius Oliver. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1997. In-8°. pp. xx. 294. SS.Cup.20/15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
catalogue entry for this at Cambridge (Arc.c.99.410) is
marked ‘Restricted.’– David Boothroyd adds: The book “investigates
the role of accounting in the sudden collapse of companies which were apparently reaping healthy profits”(publisher's description) and concentrates on case studies which are primarily companies in Australia. A hardback published on 7 July 1997 was followed by a paperback on 14 August. Whatever caused the book to be
suppressed was removed and the book was reprinted. I
had a look at the 1998 printing at the Cambridge University Library (on open access at 425.c.99.4090) andfound a disclaimer in the acknowledgments that two tables are based on information supplied by the Victorian
Government and the Australian Stock Exchange, butthat they cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information.

146. CORPORATE STRATEGY : Lecturer's Guide.
SS.Cup.20/14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Another obscurity.

147. COUSINS, FRANK W. – The Anatomy of Evolution.
1994. SS.Cup.18/14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– Frank Cousins was a member of the Council of
the Evolution Protest Movement until 1966. EPM
changed its name to the Creation Science Movement in
1980. Frank was the author of the book Fossil Man, as
well as numerous CSM pamphlets. He died before The
Anatomy of Evolution, his final book, could be published, which suggests that it may be the author’s manuscript preserved in the SS.

148. COUSINS, SHEILA. pseud. – To Beg I Am
Ashamed. London: George Routledge, 1938. in-8°.
pp. 283. SS. [B?] 993.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– Written by Ronald Matthews, with the discreet
assistance of Graham Greene. Hostile reactions to review copies by the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and theSpectator led to the Public Morality Council to complain to the Director of Public Prosecutions. The publishers were leaned on by the police, and in consequence the book was withdrawn. It was reprinted in
1954 without any problems. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark Cup. 802. ee. 8 which may
be the SS copy, desegregated.

149. COWARD, DWAIN LINCOLN, Dr. (1979 - ). – The
Darkholde. London: Black Ice Corporation Ltd., 2001.
In-8°. pp. 215. SS.Cup.20/78.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: A very bizarre book.
Known on the back page as ‘the black paged book’, it isa book of magic in which all the text (apart from a few
Latin words quoted) is in ornate italics. The first part(pages 1-24) is the life story of the author's alter ego‘Coward the Conqueror’; the second part (pages 25209) is “an ancient tome of sorcery which contains
many powerful spells and much mystic knowledge foruse by only the most skilled practitioners of the mysticarts”. Performing some of the spells requires animal
sacrifice. Note that the 2005 edition is attributed notjust to Dwain Lincoln Coward but also to Dean Patrick
D’Souza (1979 - ).
– The Black Ice Corporation was located at 71
Northwold Road, London, E5 8RN. It was incorporated
3 Aug 2000 (company registration no.: 04046673) but
dissolved 18 Oct 2012.

64150. CRATON, MICHAEL. – A History of the Bahamas.
[With plates including portraits, illustrations including
maps, and a bibliography.] London: Collins, 1962. In8°. pp. 320. SS.12.c.65– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W7/2397.

151. CRAWFORD, ARTHUR TRAVERS (1835-1911). –The Broken Pledge. A brief summary of facts and arguments. [London:] A. Bonner, [ca. 1890]. 42 cm. ff.
21, 3, 5. SS.c.11.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue (which gives thedate as 1892), but not the 2008 catalogue. There is acopy in the General Catalogue at Cup.1259.e.11 which
is very probably the SS copy, desegregated.
– “On the immunity from prosecution offered by
the Government of Bombay to persons giving evidence
on charges of corruption brought against A. T. Crawford.” Crawford has a number of works listed in the
General Catalogue; their subject matter seems all related to India or British colonial dealings with India.
– “The most notorious case of corruption in Victorian India concerned Arthur Travers Crawford, a Bombay Civilian born in 1835 who behaved as if he were
living in the India of Clive and nabobs. As a younger
colleague reported, he had ‘run away with two women,
been separated from his own wife, and during one Poona season lived with two actresses whom he imported
from America.’ … In 1874 he did not get the commissionership of Berar because of suggestions of impropriety… During the mid-1880s Crawford's debts–chiefly
the result of women and a large number of children–
encouraged him to accept a variety of bribes, loans andadvances from certain rajas in his division… Placed
under house arrest by his own Government in the summer of 1888, Crawford escaped from Poona, bolted forthe sea and was apprehended in Bombay wearing a
false beard… The Secretary of State [was persuaded] todismiss him without a pension.” David Gilmour, The
Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj,
(London: John Murray, 2005.)

152. CRAWFORD, DONALD. – Notes on Crawford v.
Crawford, Queen´s Proctor Intervening. [A defense ofof the conduct of Sir Charles Dilke.] Cinderford,
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Gloucestershire: J. Cooksey, [1891] In-8°. pp. 121.
SS.a.63.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue (which gives thedate as ‘[1886?]’), but not the 2008 catalogue. The
General Catalogue has two issues, both with the samedate, at the following pressmarks: 1609/6250 and
1609/1551. One is presumably the SS copy, desegregated. J. Cooksey, the publisher of this pamphlet, wasthe pro-Dilke editor of the Dean Forest Mercury.

153. CRAWFORD vs. CRAWFORD. (The Queen’s
Proctor intervening.) Evidence taken on the hearing,with notes. (With reference to the second trial in thesuit for divorce brought by Donald Crawford against
his wife Virginia, citing Sir Charles Dilke.) London:
F. W. J. Henning, [1886] In-8°. pp. 336. SS.a.63(1)– Included in the 1945 catalogue but not the 2008
catalogue. The General Catalogue has a copy
(1609/1569) which may well be the SS copy, desegregated. Two others, described as belonging to Sir
Charles Dilke, are shelved at B.P. 18/3 and B.P. 18/4.
See also: MALOT, HECTOR.

154. CREASEY, PAULINE (1956 - ). – Structural adjustment in Europe: public policies and the creation of aEuropean industrial base. London: Pinter Publications, 1987. In-8°. pp. 124. Illustrations.
SS.Cup.15/19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 88/00907. One of the series ‘Studies in international political economy.’

155. CREATIVE RESPONSES TO CHILD SEXUAL
ABUSE: challenges and dilemmas. Edited by Sue
Richardson and Heather Bacon. Foreword by Frank
Cook. London & Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001. In-8°. pp. 240. SS.Cup.20/59.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: This is a collection of articles and papers about approaches to preventing sexual
abuse of children, but one of the main subjects is theCleveland Child Abuse crisis of 1987 which is still ahighly disputed subject. Frank Cook, author of theforeword, is the former MP for Stockton North. Editor

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Sue Richardson was a child abuse consultant for the social services department of Cleveland County Council,
and supported the doctors who reported seeing the signsof abuse in many local children.

156. CREDIT INDEX. London: Julius Seyd, Bishop,
Johnson & Co., 1892-1909. W.906/10– Original SS pressmark not known, but that thisconfidential, subscription-only publication was suppressed and kept from readers is confirmed by P. R.
Harris in A History of the British Museum Library(London: British Library, 1998), p. 387. From 1895/96
published by the Credit Index Co. – From 1904 to 1909
also published by the Credit Reform Association.

157. CRUSADER, The. [?London:] English Nationalist
Movement, 1993-1996. SS.Cup.18/21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Unusually, this SS entry is to be found in the British Library’s Periodical Catalogue.

158. CUNDHILL, JOHN PONSONBY., Colonel. – A Dictionary of Explosives. [Edited by Francis J. Day.]
Chatham: Royal Engineers, 1889. pp. x [xvi]. 109.
– I do not know the original SS pressmark if thiswork, which is currently shelved at 8903.g.12, or indeed whether it was the edition complained of, but in1894 the Home Office asked if this book could be removed from public access because “an anarchist who
had been arrested had a book ticket showing that he had
used the Museum copy of the book.” The Trustees
complied. “Twelve years later the Director was concerned to discover that books on explosives were being
issued to readers without restriction. He had all suchworks received in the library since 1880 locked up andinstructed [George Knottesford] Fortescue [the Assistant Keeper] only to issue them to readers who gave satisfactory reasons. A total of thirty-eight such works
were removed to a cupboard… in July 1906.” See: P. R.
Harris, A History of the British Museum Library (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 387,8. In 1917, the“…Trustees decided to make available the works on
explosives withdrawn in 1906… since there no longer
seemed to be any danger that they would be used by
Nihilists. They added, however, that the names of persons using these book should be noted.” [P. R. Harris,
op. cit. p. 482.

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159. CURZON, GEORGE, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. – [Curzon papers.] SS.Cup.7.a.1.
– “Seven volumes of the Curzon papers–the weekly reports written by Lord Curzon of Kedleston (18591925) while viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905–are in
the handlist of suppressed books (pressmark
SS.Cup.7.a.1), together with about twenty-five volumesof additional correspondence by Curzon relating to India.” Cf. Peter Fryer, p. 155.

160. CUST, LIONEL HENRY, SIR (1859 – 1929). – Van
Dyck… in two parts. London: At the sign of the Unicorn, 1903. In-8°. Two volumes. Artist’s Library series, edited by Laurence Binyon, vols. 6 and 7.
SS.a.353.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Bodleian Library, Oxford, has a copy of this work witheach volume possessing its own pressmark: Cary C
1222 and Cary C 1223. Each is marked “Restricted use another copy” without elaboration, referring to two
other copies that appear to have no restrictions placedon them.

161. DALLAS, Sue & Diana North and Joanne Angus. –Grooming manual for the dog and cat. Oxford :Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 25cm. pp. xiii. 258. Illustrated chiefly in colour.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. There are two copies in the General Catalogue at YD.2006.a.6659 andYK.2007.a.12416. Emails to the publisher for clarification on the book’s suppression were ignored.

162. DARVALL, FRANK ONGLEY. – Popular disturbancesand public order in Regency England; being an account of the Luddite and other disorders in England
during the years 1811-1817, and of the attitude and activity of the authorities. New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. 8vo. 363 pp. Suppressed “at the request ofDavid & Charles, Newton Abbot. Devon 1969.”
SS.13.a.12.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only.
– There appears to be a copyright conflict here;
however the situation is murky. According to the information supplied to us by Mr. Heyes, the suppressed

68edition is indeed the one published by Kelley in New
York. However, no such edition appears to be in British
Library. David & Charles are (or were) a reprint housein England who may well have been planning an edition of the book, and requested that the imported American edition be suppressed to protect their investment.
But oddly, no David and Charles edition appears extant
and the only one dated 1969 in the BL was publishedby the Oxford University Press. Pressmark:X.809/7358.

163. D’AUVERGNE, EDMUND BASIL FRANCIS. – “ThisSloppy Sentimentality about Animals,” &c. Clipping[1944?] SS.Cup.11.b.25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Presumably a cutting from some unidentified newspaper or
periodical.
– Edmund Basil Francis D’Auvergne was a prolificauthor of historical biographies and travel works during
the approximate period 1905-1935. His works include
biographies of Lola Montez and Pierre Loti, a travelbook on Switzlerland and, which sounds interesting,Some Left-handed Marriages, Misalliances, Irregularand Secret Unions of Royalty (London: Hutchinson &Co., [1927]).

DAVIES, TONY. – See: ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.
164. DAWKINS, WILLIAM GREGORY. – A review ofLord Coleridge's Judgment in the Court of Common
Pleas. [London? 1879.] 26cm. pp. 16. SS.B.48. [Nowshelved at 1601/150.]–There is no Accession date stamp. The British Library catalogue entry for this work includes the following note: On the summing-up in the libel action “Dawkins versus Williamson” brought by W. G. Dawkins
against the “Examiner” newspaper. With “Notes on an
appeal to law against the Travellers' Club”.
– David Boothroyd kindly provided this additional
information: Lt-Col. W. G. Dawkins had been strippedof his commission in the Coldstream Guards by a Courtof Inquiry, and afterwards published a pamphlet alleging that the Duke of Cambridge and other senior officers who made up the Court had corruptly conspired
against him. He sent a copy of this pamphlet to The Examiner, which had given it a review whose contents canbe summarised by its title “Dawkins’s Diatribe”. W. G.
Dawkins then sued The Examiner newspaper for libel.

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Lord Coleridge, the Lord Chief Justice, presided overthe libel trial and gave a summing-up which was not favourable to his case. The libel jury found the article was
not libellous without even retiring to consider their verdict.
– Dawkins seems to have taken the view that if
hostile reviews were not libellous, then two could playat that game. The separate case against the Travellers’
Club arose when Dawkins was excluded from the clubfor his earlier pamphlet (one of those accused was a fellow member of the club) and sued for a declaration thatthe resolution purporting to expel him was invalid. He
lost that case too, but it is of interest because it becamea leading case on the powers of the Courts over purely
private clubs: Dawkins v Antrobus (1881) 17 Ch D 615.

165. DAWSON, RICHARD, M.D.– An Essay on Spermatorrhœa and Urinary Deposits, with observations on
the nature, causes, and treatments of the various disorders of the generative system… The Fourth Edition.
London: Hugh Hughes, 1848. In-12°. pp. xv. 150.
SS.a.64.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “A quack book.” A copy is in the General
Catalogue (W12/9420) which is probably the SS copy,
desegregated.

166. DAY AND NIGHT. A weekly journal of news, romance and amusement. London: Nos. 1 - 36. (12Aug.1871 - 13 April 1872). SS. -?-. (1871-1872 LON
184 [1871-1872])
167. DAYS' DOINGS, The: An illustrated and amusing
record of passing events.. Vol. 1, no. 1. SS. -?-.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue only. Nos. 1-82,
30 July 1870 - 17 Feb.1872. Continued as: Here andthere [New series.] nos. 1-44, 24 Feb. - 21/28
Dec.1872. Pressmarks: 1870-1871 LON M30209 NPL.
– 1870 LON 142 [1870] NPL. – 1871; Unfit for use
LON 118 [1871]. – 1872 LON M30210 NPL. – 1872
LON 87 [1872] NPL.

168. DEBUS, ALLEN George. – Science and education in
the seventeenth century. The Webster-Ward debate.
[With facsimiles of Academiarum Examen by John
Webster, Vindiciae Academiarum by John Wilkins
and Seth Ward and Whip for Webster by Thomas
70Hall.] London and New York: Macdonald & Co.,
American Elsevier, 1970. SS.Cup.13.b.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark W39/7425 but without a mention of ‘American Elsevier’ being present in the imprint in the catalogue entry. The copy at Cambridge (240.c.97.53) does.

169. DECIDUOUS FRUIT BOARD. Report by the Overseas Representative (21 items). [?Cape Town:] Deciduous Fruit Board, 1956-1969. SS.Cup.12.c.47.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Deciduous Fruit Board would appear to be South African organization founded in 1910, and currently (2008)
located at: 16 Mill Street, Cape Town, Cape ProvinceSouth Africa.

170. DEFENCE RECOGNITIONIMTTP Issue 3, 2007.

JOURNAL.

RAF

171. DEFENCE RECOGNITION JOURNAL. HQ STC.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. BothDefence Recognition Journal entries share the pressmark: S.Pen.BS 72/3(2).

172. DE GAULLE, CHARLES ANDRE JOSEPH MARIE(1890 – 1970). – War Memoirs. 1944-1946. Salvation.
Translated by Richard Howard. [With, in volume 2,
documents translated by Joyce Murchie and Hamish
Erskine.] London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. In8°. Two volumes. SS.Cup.12.c.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy at the University of Southampton: D 743
GAU v.2 3-WK-LOAN.

173. DEIGHTON, LEONARD CYRIL (1929 -). – Len
Deighton’s London Dossier. [compiled and annotatedby Len Deighton; with contributions by Adrian Bailey… et al.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. In-8°. pp.
352.
174. DEIGHTON, LEONARD CYRIL (1929 - ). – Len
Deighton’s London Dossier… Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967. In-8°. pp. 304. Penguin book. no.
NF 2717.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Bothcopies of Len Deighton’s London Dossier share thesame pressmark: SS.Cup.13.b.11. There are copies in
the General catalogue at the following pressmarks:
X.708/7724 and W46/4699.
– Len Deighton’s London Dossier, issued simultaneously in both cloth and paperbacks editions, was the
subject of a case brought against the author, publishers
and printers of the book by William Barclay Harris andothers, who ran and owned the small Rowton Hotelchain. The plaintiffs claimed that a passage in Deighton’s book libeled them because it “suggested that
Rowton Houses were doss-houses for down-and-out
and defeated men, that the accommodation, now in theform of cubicles, had consisted at one time of dormitories and that Mount Pleasant Hotel was no more than aconverted hostel and did not give fair value for money.”
The case went in favour of the plaintiffs, who wereawarded a “substantial sum in damages and indemnified in respect of their legal costs.” The defendants also
“agreed to make suitable amendments to all unsold copies in their possession, and in all future editions.” (See:The Times, 13 July 1967.)– We are very much obliged to Mr. Robert Mallows and Mr. Timothy d’Arch Smith for their generous
assistance with this entry.

175. DE LA MARE, WALTER. – The Three Royal Monkeys … with drawings by Mildred E. Eldridge. London: Faber & Faber, 1946. In-8°. pp. 272. Illustrations (some coloured) and plates (some coloured).
SS.Cup.14.a.40.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
may be found at Cambridge University Library(CCC.49.200 and 1946.8.215) and a number of otherUK libraries with no apparent restriction placed onthem.

176. DENIS, MICHAELA (1914-2003). – Ride a Rhino.
London: W. H. Allen, 1959. In-8°. pp. 215. Illustrations. SS.Cup.12.c.30.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are four copies in the General catalogue at the following pressmarks: YD.2010.a.1154. – 10110.bb.26. –W14/1712. – W18/3924. A copy was preserved in the
restricted section of the National Library of Scotland atpressmark Phi.88, but is now shelved NF.1282.c.18.

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– We are grateful to Ms Emma Horrell, a Reference Services Assistant at the National Library of Scotland, for looking into the reasons for Ride a Rhino being suppressed. She writes: “The book might have previously been held at the restricted shelfmark you mention for legal reasons until such time as the legal matterhas been resolved, so this may be a possible explanation
as to why the book was previously held at the Phi.88
shelfmark.” Ms Horrell volunteered no specific explanation of the ‘legal reasons’ and it may be that any inserted documentation in the book–a publisher’s letterfor example–was removed when the legal problems
were resolved and the book was placed in the general
population.

177. DENNING, ALFRED THOMPSON, Lord (1899 –
1999). – What Next in the Law. London: Butterworths, 1982. In-8°. pp. xxiii.352. SS.Cup.16/5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 82/13584.
– In What Next in the Law Lord Denning, prompted perhaps by the trial resulting from the St. Pauls Riot
in Bristol in 1980, appeared to imply that some members of the black community were unsuitable for jury
service, and that and that certain immigrant groups may
have different moral standards to native Englishmen.
Two jurors on the St. Pauls case threatened to sue him
and the Society of Black Lawyers wrote to the Lord
Chancellor requesting that Denning be “politely andfirmly” made to retire. Denning apologised for his remarks and resigned. Whether Denning’s racist insinuations were the reason for his book’s suppression, andamended copies issued to replace it, is impossible tosay.

178. DENNIS, GEOFFREY POMEROY (1892-1963). – Coronation Commentary. London: Heinemann, 1937. In8°. pp. 337.
– Included in neither the 1945 nor the 2008 catalogues. The presence of Coronation Commentary in the
SS collection is inferred; op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 152.
But there is certainly one in the restricted section of the
National Library of Scotland, where it is shelved at
Phi.113, and in the Bodleian Library at the restrictedpressmark Res. e.42. Another is restricted at Cambridgewith the pressmark Arc.c.93.412. There are three copies
in the British Library’s General Catalogue (W2/7115
and W57/0674 and YC.1988.a.14192). Assuming Fryer73

to be correct, one of these may be the SS copy, desegregated. An account of the libel action will be found in
The Times, November 23rd, 1937, p. 5.
– Anti-Semitic, but of course suppressed for libelling the Duke of Windsor. In a chapter called ‘Abdication,’ which seems more hastily written than the rest of
the book and which may have been a last-minute addition, it is claimed that Wallace Simpson was the Duke’s
mistress prior to their marriage and that the real reason
for the abdication, rather than his marriage to an American divorcee, was that the Duke was incompetent at his
official duties: “Until this marriage was mooted, they
had no notion how to get rid of him. She [Wallace
Simpson], whom they pretended was a disaster, was infact a Godsend.” The book also implied that the Duke
had a drinking problem.

179. DESIGN OF DEEP BEAMS IN REINFORCED
CONCRETE, The. Ove Arup & Partners. Cica Publications, Jan. 1977. SS.Cup.16/13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Ove
Arup & Partners are “…a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants. Outstanding
solutions, innovation and value characterise our work…
[they] have a vast pool of technical expertise across theworld, enabling [them] to achieve the best possible results for our clients.” The company has an office on 13
Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BQ but has other premises throughout the UK, Europe and the USA. Cica
Publications remain unidentified.

180. DEWAR, ALFRED CHARLES, Lieut. [afterwards Captain]. (1876 – 1969). – On certain naval matters. [Onverso:] This paper is for private circulation only. Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable, April 7th 1908. In-8°. pp.
66.
– Included in neither the 1945 nor the 2008 catalogues, and there is no copy listed in the General Catalogue. The presence of this work in the SS at any time
is purely speculative; op. cit. Peter Fryer, pp. 154. It islisted in the Registrum Librorum Eroticorum (London;
Privately Printed, 1936) by ‘Rolf S. Reade’ [Alfred
Rose] at entry 3358 with the note stating that “[t]his paper treats of the unnatural vice of Sodomy in the Navy.”
A copy was at one time shelved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at Phi.e.166 but has been removed andplaced at an uncatalogued location. There is, however, acollection of '[Navy] : [pamphlets and offprints]' by74

'A.C. Dewar [et al.]. ' which is kept in New College Library, Oxford, with 'Restricted Access'. The pressmark
is: NC/DEW

181. DIRINGER, DAVID (1900 – 1975). – The illuminated book: its history and production … New edition,
revised and augmented with the assistance of Dr.
Reinhold Regensburger. [With plates.] London: Faber& Faber, 1967. In-8°. SS.13.a.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: 2710.aa.10 and OIA 096.1.

182. DODSON, JOHN. – The Doubling and Manufactureof Cotton Threads. London: Longmans, Green & Co.,
1903. In-8°. pp. xiv.309. SS.b.38.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the Joule Library of Manchester University
at pressmark U:677.2152 DOD.
– The Doubling and Manufacture of Cotton
Threads was deposited in the Copyright Office on May
15 1903, and shortly afterwards the publishers requested that it be returned to them because it contained confidential trade information. The Trustees refused to doso, but agreed that it should be “locked up in the special
cupboard and used to hold libelous books, and withheld
from readers.” See: P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library (London: British Library, 1998), p.
387.

183. DODWELL MARKETING CONSULTANTS …
Industrial Groupings in Japan. Dodwell & Co. Ltd.,
1970. SS.Cup.13.b.14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

184. DOUGLAS, ALFRED BRUCE, Lord (1870-1945). –Letters to my Father-in-Law, no. 1. London, 1914.
SS.a.34.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– An attack on Colonel Frederic Hambleton Custance for engaging George Lewis, a solicitor, as Lewis
was using Custance “as a catspaw” in the interests ofRobert Ross “the notorious Sodomite” and Ross's secretary, Christopher Millard. Signed: Alfred Bruce Doug-75

las. Drop-head title. The letter is headed: 19, Royal Avenue: Sloane Square, S.W, March 20 1914, and begins:“Colonel Custance: your advertisement to all Englandof the kind of people the Custances are …” There is
now a copy in the General Catalogue (C.194.a.235)
which is probably the SS copy, desegregated.

185. DOUGLAS, ALFRED BRUCE, Lord (1870-1945).
– The Murder of Kitchener, and the Truth about theBattle of Jutland and the Jews. Galashiels: J.
McQueen [1923]. [Reprinted from the ‘Border Standard.’] In-8°. pp. 8. Three copies in the BL: Eccles
1194. – Eccles 1194. – X.805/2277.
– There is no evidence that this pamphlet, theprinted text of a speech given by Alfred Douglas at theMemorial Hall, London, was ever in the SS, but itwould certainly be a good candidate for being placed
there. The pamphlet alleges that Sir Ernest Cassel gave
Winston Churchill a large sum of money for issuing a
false report on the Battle of Jutland, thereby assisting
him to bring off a financial coup. He also claimed that
Kitchener, who died on a diplomatic mission to Russia
when his ship struck a German mine, was the victim ofa Jewish plot. Alfred Douglas was found guilty of libeland sentenced to six months hard labour. Oddly, in
1941 he wrote a sonnet in praise of Churchill, cf. Douglas Murray, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas(London, 2000), p. 317.

186. DOUGLAS, ALFRED BRUCE, Lord (1870-1945). –The Rossiad. London, 1916. SS.b.16.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. A copy of the second edition (Galashiels:
Robert Dawson & Son, [1916]. In-8°. pp. 15) is in the
General Catalogue (X.909/20162) which may be the SS
copy, desegregated. There is a copy of the second edition in the restricted collection of Cambridge University
Library at pressmark: Arc.c.91.401.
– An attack on Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde’s friend
and executor.

187. DOWNING, Robert. – Madeleine. A Most Heartbreaking and Extraordinary Disappearance. London:
Express Newspapers, 2007. 24cm. pp. 192. Coloured
illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark.

76

– A book telling the story of the disappearance on
the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007, shortly before
her fourth birthday, of a British child named Madeleine
McCann who went missing from a holiday apartment in
Praia da Luz in the Algarve in Portugal, in which she
was staying with her parents. Madeleine’s parents tookout actions for libel against a number of individuals andnewspapers including the Daily Express and its sisternewspaper, the Daily Star, as well as their Sunday
equivalents, following the newspapers’ coverage of thecase. It is interesting to note that the only library in the
UK covered by the COPAC search engine toacknowledge having a copy is the National Library ofWales at Cardiff, where is it shelved at HV6762.P6.D6.
– BBC News on its website for Wednesday, 19
March 2008 reported that: “A newspaper group is paying £550,000 to the parents of Madeleine McCann after
it settled a libel case over reports of her disappearance.
– “Express Newspapers’ titles, including the Daily
Express, Daily Star and Sunday Express, are also printing front-page apologies.
– “They say they were wrong to suggest the couple, of Rothley, Leicestershire, were responsible for
Madeleine's death.”

188. DOYLE, John. E. P. – Plymouth Church and its Pastor, or, Henry Ward Beecher and his accusers … Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Compnay, 1874. In-8°.
pp. 566. SS.a.13.
– Suppressed for reproducing matter ascribed toVictoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927), the wife ofJohn Biddulph Martin, but disclaimed by her. This is
one of six books which John Martin requested that the
Library suppress because they libeled his wife, or contained obscenities about her, cf. Fryer, pp. 148-150. The
book has subsequently been desuppressed, and is currently shelved at: 6617.aa.1.

189. DRAKE-KNIGHT, NICK [and Fran OsmanNewbury?] – Sales hypnosis: the structure and use of
hypnotic phenomena & indirect suggestion in sales.
[Lake:] Hypnotic Business, 2004. In-8°. pp. 224.
SS.Cup.20/83.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
SS catalogue gives Drake-Knight’s name as sole author,
but a copy of the book in the General Catalogue(YK.2006.a.2686) indicates Osman-Newbury as co-77author. Whether the suppressed copy was solely thework of Drake-Knight is unclear.

190. DUFFY, MICHAEL NICHOLAS (1934 - ). – The 20th
Century. Illustrated by Kathleen Gell; maps and diagrams by Colin Judge. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964.
In-8°. pp. viii.292. SS.13.a.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: L65/1593.

191. DUQUESNE, TERENCE. – The Ballad of a Ferrous
Female. [London: The Author,] December, 1983.
SS.Cup.16/10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Ballad of a Ferrous Female was privately
printed by the author in an edition of 50 copies, comprising a card folded in half. Terence Duquesne is theauthor of a number of texts on the subject of Ancient
Egypt and related matters. As Terence Deakin, he is theauthor of the useful Catalogi librorum eroticorum - A
Critical Bibliography of Erotic Bibliographies andBook Catalogues (London: Woolf, 1964) and Testament of a roach-eating saint : poems and translations(London: Woolf, 1973). We’ve been unable to find any
reference to The Ballad of a Ferrous Female anywhereother than that in the SS. We are indebted to Mr. Richard Price at the British Library for his assistance withthis entry.

192. DU MAURIER, GEORGE LOUIS PALMELLA BUSSON.
– Trilby. [New York: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Volume 0088 Issue 526 (March, 1894).]– Suppressed because of a libel against James Abbott McNeill Whistler in the third instalment of theoriginal magazine publication of Du Maurier’s famousnovel. The original SS pressmark is not known to us,
but the existence of the libel is mentioned by P. R. Harris is A History of the British Museum Library (London:
British Library, 1998), p. 386.

193. DURANT, WILL & ARIEL. – The age of Louis XIV:
a history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Hilton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinosa: 1648-1715. New York: Simon &78

Schuster, 1963. In-8°. pp. xviii.802. [20] leaves ofplates. Maps on endpapers. SS.12.c.62.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Part 8of the series ‘The story of civilization.’ There is a copyin the General catalogue at the following pressmark:X22/3520.

194. DYEHOUSE NEWS. Vol. 1. [?London:] Imperial
Chemical Industries Ltd., 1942. SS.a.102.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

195. EASTERN EUROPE CONSENSUS FORECASTS.
Consensus Economics Inc., n.d. SS.Cup.20/20.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “Consensus Economics, founded in 1989, is the world's leading international economic survey organization andpolls more than 700 economists each month to obtain
their forecasts and views. These surveys cover estimates for the principal macroeconomic indicators (including growth, inflation, interest rates and exchange
rates) in over 70 countries. The forecasts are compiled
into a series of publications, devoted to the world's major Industrialized Countries (G-7 & Western Europe),
the emerging economies of Asia Pacific, Latin America
and Eastern Europe, and International Currencies. Eachshows consensus forecasts as well as individual forecaster predictions, and is distributed to our subscribers
in hard copy format and via e-mail as PDF and Excel
spreadsheet files.”

196. ECKSTEIN, EVE and J & G. Firkins. – Gentlemen’s
Dress Accessories. Aylesbury: Shire Publications,1987. 21cm. pp. 32. Illustrations. Shire Library 205.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. The BL has
three copies of this work, shelved at X.0972/143(205)and X.0972/143(205a) and 8266.55 205. A new edition
with amendments, was published in 1994.

197. EDINBURGH REASONING SERIES. Hodder &Stoughton contents book, manual & four test papers.
[?London:] Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. SS.Cup.15/42(6 parts).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

79198. EDMONTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. Housing andBuilding Committee. Minutes. 23rd, April 1963.
SS.CUP 12.c.46.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

199. ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. – T. S. Eliot. A symposium … compiled by Richard March and Tambimuttu.
[By various authors. With plates, including portraits.]
London: Editions Poetry London, 1948. In-8°. pp.
259.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There seems to
be two copies of this in the GK at pressmarks:
11867.h.14 and 821.9 *4295*. In the spreadsheet column usually set aside for publisher is written: ‘PL
1948’.

200. [ELIOT, THOMAS STEANS] RIQUELME, JOHN
PAUL. – Harmony of dissonances : T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination. Baltimore & London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 23cm. pp.
xv.354.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies of this work in the BL which are shelved at
YC.1993.b.4512 and 91/02577.

201. ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. – The Invisible Poet. By
Hugh Kenner. London: W. H. Allen, 1960. In-8º. pp.
xiv. 298.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There seems to
be two copies of this in the GK at pressmarks:
11876.i.7. and L60/1832.

202. ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. – The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen &Barnes & Noble, 1960. 21cm. pp. 171. Volume 11 of
the University Paperbacks series.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. Two editions of
this work were published in 1960; the one describedabove [BL pressmarks W81/7408 and 012212.b.1/11.],and the other, described as the ‘7th ed.’ by Methuen

80alone. This latter doesn’t seem to be in the BL, butthere are copies at Imperial College and Sheffield.

203. ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. – The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry, edited and introduced by Ronald
Schuchard. London: Faber & Faber, 1993. 24cm. pp.
xi. 343. illustrations, facsimiles & portraits.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. Contains the
Clark lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge,
1926 & entitled On the metaphysical Poetry of the Seventeenth Century, with special reference to Donne,
Crashaw and Cowley, and the Turnbull lectures delivered at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933 which examined Donne, Crashaw, Laforgue and Corbière. Eliot
himself was reluctant to publish the lectures as he considered many of his remarks in need of qualification,clarification and the checking of details of fact and authority. The British Library has two copies:
YC.1994.b.4009 and 98/24779.

204. ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS. – The Waste Land. [Essays on The Waste Land, edited by Tony Davies andNigel Wood.] Buckingham: Open University Press,
1994. 22cm. pp. xii. 162.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL: YK.1994.a.10727 and 98/15204.

205. ELLIS, JOHN and Jim Smith, with Roy Bainton. –Spirit in the Wheel. Mansfield: EMc Press Ltd., c.
2009. 23cm. pp. 156. Illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. This work proposes an innovative theory explaining the possible
methods used by the Ancient Egyptians when building
the Great Pyramid. There is one copy in the BL,
shelved at YK.2010.a.35489.

206. ELLMAN, RICHARD (1918-1987). – Edwardians andlate Victorians : English Institute essays, 1959, editedwith a foreword by Richard Ellman. Columbia University Press & Oxford University Press, 1960. In-8°.
pp. x. 245.

81

– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL, shelved at Ac.2683.d and W47/2993.

207. ELWELL-SUTTON, LAURENCE PAUL. – Elementary
Persian Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1963. In-8°. pp. x. 223. SS.Cup.16/2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Library has an edition “Reprinted with corrections and additions 1969.” There are copies dated 1963
in a number of other libraries in the UK–viz. Cardiff,national Libraries of Wales and Scotland, &c., &c.–but
it’s uncertain that they’re not the same 1969 corrected
reprint.

208. EMMETT, W.G. – Deeside Non-Verbal Reasoning
Tests, No. 1. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1961.
SS.Cup.12.c.40.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copiesof Tests nos. 1 &2 together with the Teacher’s Handbooks for both tests are preserved at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pressmark: SSHEL
Tests.

209. EMPIRE REGISTER COMPANY LTD., The. Listof Buyers, Importers, &c. The Empire Register Company Ltd. [Stamped:] 1926. SS.a.362.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

210. ENCASE, Version 4 [CD Rom]. Guidance Software,
n.d. SS.Cup.20/13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. EnCase is a series of proprietary forensic software products produced by Guidance Software. It is used bymany law enforcement agencies around the world. EnCase is capable of making forensic quality recordingsof data stored on PCs, and of recovering some insecurely deleted data. Special training is usually required tooperate the software in a law enforcement capacity.
Emails to the company requesting the release date ofversion 4 of the software, and the reasons for its presence in the SS collection, were ignored.
– David Boothroyd adds: There have been attempts
by computer hackers, employed by major criminal enterprises, to look at the way EnCASE operates in order82

that they can hide their data and stop the law enforcement authorities recovering it.

211. ENOCK, ESTHER ETHELIND. – Frances Ridley
Havergal : the Christian poetess. London & Glasgow:
Pickering & Inglis, 1927. SS.a.381.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Editions of this work are in the Bodleian Library and elsewhere dated between 1928 and 1948, but only the one
in the SS catalogue is dated 1927. All are from the same
publisher.
– Esther Ethelind Enock is the author or co-authorof a number of work on Christian matters, including
Cannibalism Conquered (London & Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1930). Frances Ridley Havergal (18361879), the subject of Ms. Enock’s book, was an English
poet and the author of a number of hymns.

212. ESQUIRE. The Magazine for Men (3 issues). New
York, Feb-April 1941. SS.Cup.6.b.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

213. ESSAYS AND STUDIES by Members of The English Association Vol. XXVIII. Edited by R. W. Chapman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1943. In-8°. pp. 83.
SS.a.107.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Contents: I. Alfred the scribe, by N.R. Ker. – II. Marching
song, by J.A. Chapman – III. The action of Comus, by
E.M.W. Tillyard. – IV. The addition to the canon ofJohnson's writings, by L.F. Powell. – V. Harmonius
Jones, by R.M. Hewitt. – VI. Balder dead (1855), by F.
Page. – VII. The love poetry of Thomas Hardy, by V.H.
Collins.

214. EUROPEAN STRATEGY. Portfolio Strategy.
HSBC James Chapel [sic] Group, 1997. SS.CUP
20/12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This is presumably a publication of HSBC Holdings plc, a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales, and headquartered in London. It is theworld's largest company and the world's largest banking
group, as calculated based on different metrics by theannual Forbes list of the world's largest firms published83

on April 2, 2008. In February 2008, HSBC was named
the world's most valuable banking brand by The Banker
magazine.
– David Boothroyd clarifies: ‘James Chapel’ is a
mistyping of ‘James Capel’, an international securities
company who were bought by HSBC in 1986; thebrand name was kept separate from the parent company
until 1995. Possibly suppressed for commercial confidentiality although the Cambridge University Libraryclaims to hold a continuous run from 1997 at classmark
L220.b.1385.8592.

215. EVANS, BENJAMIN IFOR. – English Poetry in the
Later Nineteenth Century. London: Methuen, [1933].
23cm. pp. xxv. 404.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL: 20017.c.1 and W5/7864.

216. EVANS, LLOYD and Philip J. Pledger. – Contemporary Sources and Opinions in Modern British History.
London & New York: Frederick Warne, 1967. In-8°.
Two volumes. Tables and facsimiles. SS.Cup.13.b.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are three copies in the General catalogue at the following pressmarks: X.0700/155 and X16/9664 andW60/3206.

217. EVERETT, HENRY GORDON. – [Three leaflets on
the administration of Islington Guardians’ Association, comprising: Election Address, General Election,(April 1922). – A Grave Islington Scandal (1921). –Judge made law.] [London:] Henry Gordon Everett,1921-1922.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the2008 catalogue. Listed separately in the 1945 catalogue, with the pressmarks: SS. A 341(1-3). The
new pressmark is YK.1995.b.13963. Judge madelaw was described in the 1945 catalogue as ‘libelous.’ A presumably non-libelous Election addressby Everett, printed at his own expense, was issued
during a subsequent election: Election Address[for the Islington Guardians Election, 1928].
(London: H. G. Everett, [1928.] s. sh. In-4o.) The
pressmark is: 1865.c.19.(52.)

84

– “Sentence of six months' imprisonment in
the second division was passed at London Sessions yesterday on Henry Gordon Everett, 39, apublic speaker, for attempting to commit suicide
by taking 110 aspirins.” The Times, September 13,
1935, p. 7.
– Mr. Everett was in difficulties earlier, in
1920: “By a majority the Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed the appeal by Henry Gordon Everett from a judgment of the Lord Chief Justicedismissing his action against Mr. Humphrey John
Griffiths, chairman of the Islington Board of
Guardians, and Dr. A.K. Anklesarin, the medical
officer of the board.
– “Mr. Everett, who described himself as aself-taught law student, conducted the appeal himself. He claimed damages for his wrongful certification as a lunatic, and alleged that, without taking proper care to ascertain the facts, they had
caused his incarceration in Colney Hatch Lunatic
Asylum for about 13 days. He escaped by climbing a wall.
– “At the first hearing the jury disagreed andwere discharged. The Lord Chief Justice held thaton the evidence the defendants were entitled tojudgment.
– “Lord Justice Bankes, deciding for the dismissal of the appeal, said a medical man called on
to give an opinion on a matter of opinion, and giving that opinion honestly, was not responsible forthe soundness of it, nor for the consequences, orfor any proceedings the authorities might take.
– “Lord Justice Scrutton agreed to the dismissal of the appeal.
– “Lord Justice Atkin dissented. The judgment, he said, should be set aside, and there
should be a new trial. There was a duty on those
who administered the lunacy laws to take every
reasonable care to ascertain the true mental condition of a person before ordering his detention.
They had no right to subject anybody to the unspeakable torment of having his sanity condemned and his liberty restricted.
– “Mr. Everett said he should appeal to theHouse of Lords.” – The Daily Mail, Wednesday
March 31, 1920, Page 485

218. FACULTY OF ADVOCATES, The. DIRECTORY
1997. SS.Cup.20/1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers
who have been admitted to practise as advocates before
the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session
and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a constituent part of the College of Justice andis based in Edinburgh.

219. FALCHIKOV, NANCY and PETER A. HERON. –Approaches to Studying and Stress in Undergraduate
Students: an exploratory study. Edinburgh: Department of Industrial and Social Studies, Napier University, 1993. Social Science Working Paper No. 11. 26
pages, with illustrations. SS.Cup.20/31.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
copy in the library of Napier University (at pressmark
371.30281 FAL) is available without restriction. We are
obliged to Ms. Jane McDowel of Napier University forassistance on this entry.

220. FARNELL, R. G. W. – Extracts From the Report on
the Suchar Process. June, 1926. SS.b.70.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
R. G. W. Farnell was a research chemist for the
British Empire Sugar Research Association. He was theauthor of The Pectic Substance of Sugar Cane Fibre(issue 25 of the ‘Sugar Cane Journal’ published in
1925). The Suchar Process was a method of refining
sugars and syrups using activated carbon, research on
which was initiated in 1925.

221. FARRIS, EDMOND JOHN. – Art Students’ Anatomy.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1944.
SS.Cup.9.a.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
of a ‘2nd ed. rev.’ are in the Bodleian, Oxford, the National Library of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin.
The imprint is: ‘Philadelphia ; London [etc.] : J. B. Lippincott company, [1944]’.

222. FASHION FOLIO, nos. 58 and 62 ITBD 1986/7 and1988/9. SS.Cup.20/42.
86223. FASHION FOLIO,
SS.Cup.20/43.

no.

[?]

ITBD,

1987.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thesemay be publications of International Textile Benjamin
Dent Ltd., of Bloomsbury Square, London, publishersof fashion periodicals, or publications of the Institute ofTechnology and Business Development.

224. FAULKNER, Trader. – Peter Finch : A Biography.
Foreword by Liv Ullmann. London: Angus & Robertson, 1979. In-8°. pp. 312. [16] pages of plates and portraits. SS. Cup.16/1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: Cup.408.l.16 and 79/15441.
– In reply to an email requesting information on
this book, Trader Faulkner wrote: “I am amazed to hearthat my book is suppressed and cannot imagine why, as
it was sold from the bookshops on publication.” This
would seem to imply that early copies of the book, sentout for copyright registration, were found to be in someway imperfect by the publisher who requested they bewithdrawn and replaced by corrected ones.

225. FIELDING, HENRY. Fielding. A collection of critical essays. Edited by Ronald Howard Paulson. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962. In-8°. pp. vi.186.
One of the series ‘Twentieth Century Views.’ SS.
Cup.14.a.16.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 11880.bb.2/9. The catalogue entry includes‘(Current printing … 8.)’ which may indicate a later
edition.

226. FINANCIAL ON-LINE INFORMATION REPORT,
The. (Numerous parts) 1998. SS. Cup.15/38.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a publication called Financial Online Information
Report: The Definitive Guide to Online Services, by
Stephen Tillman, Sally Bett, and published by First
Market Intelligence, which may or may not be connected to this entry.

87227. FIRST AID COURSE PRATICAL & THEORYEXAMINAT-IONS. Fire Service. Blue Stamped.
1993. BS 18 [sic].
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

228. FITZGIBBON, CONSTANTINE. – When the Kissing
had to Stop. London: Cassell, 1960. SS.12.c.71.
– Included in the 2008 catalogue.
– According to Peter Fryer, this novel treating of
an imagined Russian takeover of England was suppressed for libeling a night club proprietor. Op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 152. However, the more precise reason wasthat the proprietor of the club objected to his club’s
name being used in the book. A second issue was printed with a cancel leaf inserted very near the beginning of
the first chapter. Later, presumably corrected, reprints
dated 1962 and 1978 are in the General Catalogue. We
are obliged to Mr. Timothy d’Arch Smith for the information on this entry.

229. FITZROY, (A. T.) pseud. [i.e. Rose Laure Allatini,
afterwards Scott] – Despised and Rejected. London:
C. W. Daniel, 1918. In-8°. pp. 350. SS.a.87.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. A novel suppressed under the Defence of theRealm Act (1914) because of its anti-recruiting sentiments and its sympathetic treatment of its gay and lesbian characters. The publisher was fined £160 for histrouble. There is a copy in the General Catalogue(Cup.403.c.26) which is probably the SS copy, desegregated.
– “At the Mansion House yesterday, before Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield, fines and costs amounting
together to £460 were imposed in the case of C. W
Daniel (Limited), Tudor-street, and Charles William
Daniel, a director of the company, who were summoned, for making statements in a book entitled Despised and Rejected likely to prejudice the recruiting,training, and discipline of persons in his Majesty's forces, and for having 234 copies of the book in their possession. The summonses–eight in number–were issued
under Regulation 27(c) of the Defence of the Realm
Regulations. The defendants pleaded “Not Guilty.” It
was stated at the previous hearing that the book was
written by Miss Rose Allatini, whose nom de plumewas ‘A. T. Fitzroy.’88

– “Sir Richard Muir prosecuted; Mr. Cecil Whiteley appeared for the defence; Sir Charles Mathews, Director of Public Prosecutions, was present during thehearing.
– “Mr. Whiteley, for the defence, submitted that infact no offence had been committed. The book was anovel, not a tract or a pamphlet. Practically every one of
the speeches which the prosecution complained of weremade by the hero Dennis. It was only fair that attention
should be called to the arguments which were put forward by other characters in the book in opposition to
Dennis's pacifist views. The reader had the anti-pacifist
side as well as the pacifist placed before him all
through. The title Despised and Rejected referred to theabnormal sequal [sic; i.e. ‘sexual’?] tendencies of thehero, and not to his pacifist views.
– “Sir R. Muir said that in 1917 the defendant was
fined £40 at Bow-street Police Court in respect of apamphlet called A Knock-out Blow which was of afrankly pacifist nature. The defendant was a person who
assisted those who desired to propagate the pacifist idea
by printing for them these pamphlets. This was a pacifist pamphlet in the disguise of a novel.
– “Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield said that thequestion whether the book was obscene was not before
him, but he did not hesitate to describe it as morally unhealthy and most pernicious. He held all the offences
fully proved. He had had considerable hesitation
whether he ought not to send the defendant Daniel toprison. On summonses one and two, and three and four
he fined each defendant the maximum penalty of £100with £10 costs. If Mr. Daniel did not pay his personal
penalties he ordered in each case 90 days imprisonment
in default of distress, the terms to be concurrent. In eachof the summonses five, six, seven, and eight he imposeda penalty of £5, with, in Mr. Daniel's case, 20 days imprisonment in default. He also ordered all copies of thebook in the possession of the defendants to be forfeited.
He allowed defendants until November 7 in which to
pay the money.” The Times, October 11th 1918, p. 5.
– The ‘frankly pacifist’ pamphlet referred to was
doubtless A KNOCK-OUT Blow (London: New Order
Press [1916]), a work of fifteen pages. Copies are to befound at the London School of Economics, and the
Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. There are no copies in the British Library’s online
catalogue that we’ve been able to locate, but there may
be one buried in the SS.

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230. FLEMING, PETER (1907-1971) – News from Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. 8vo. “Deposit copy 21/07/36… Replaced 07/91.” SS.Cup.18/3.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. We are
obliged to Ms. Alison Bailey, Curator, Printed Historical Sources at the BL, for investigating this entry: “Thisshelfmark is no longer in use. A replacement copy waspurchased and placed at shelfmark: 010056.aa.3.”– Cape reprinted News from Tartary together withthe same author’s One’s Company in a single volume in1948 as Travels in Tartary. Peter Fleming was the older
brother of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond espionage novels, and Special Correspondent of The Times.
He was accompanied on his Asian travels by Ella Maillart, a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writerand photographer.

231. FLIGHT DECK: JOURNAL OF NAVALAVIATION. Flag Officer Naval Aviation, Yeovilton,
n.d. S.Pen BS.88/76.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Issues
for the years 1990-2009 are included in the General
Catalogue at the pressmark above.

232. FLUGGE, EVA VON, Doctor. – Photostatic Publication on Turkey (8 parts). [ c. 1938.] SS. Cup.11.a.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

233. FOERSTER, NORMAN, editor. – Humanism andAmerica : Essays on the outlook of modern civilization. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. 22cm. pp.
294.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. The British Library seems to have just one copy of this title in their
Document Supply Services at pressmark 973 *1604*.

234. FOOT, MICHAEL RICHARD DANIELL (1919 - ). –SOE in France : an account of the work of the British
Special Operations executive in France 1940-44. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966. In-8°. pp.
xxvii, 550. SS.13.a.1.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.91 and one
in the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. d.85 and athird at Cambridge at pressmark Arc.b.96.402. A copy
dated 1966 is in the BL at pressmark W60/6794– In 2004 Professor Foot produced a revised version incorporating newly available information which
was published at London by Frank Cass.

235. FORD, LEONARD Augustine (1904 - ). – Chemical
magic : mystery demonstrations for science clubs,classes, and general entertainments programs. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. In-8°. pp. 141.
SS. Cup.12c.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
catalogue entry for this in the Bodleian Library (Res.
e.93) is marked ‘Restricted: ask Duke Humfrey staff.’
There seem to be no restrictions on the copy at Trinity
College, Dublin (184.d.89), but the copy in the National
Library of Scotland is in their restricted section atpressmark Phi.119, as is one at Cambridge(Arc.c.96.401).
– We are obliged to Dr Francesca Galligan of the
Bodleian Library for looking into this work on our behalf. She writes: “Our note in the handlist to the Res.
books states that Chemical Magic “Contravenes Explosives Act”, and was restricted for that reason.”236. FORD, RICHARD. – Anna Craft. London: Peter Davis, 1936. SS.a.421– Included in the 2008, but not the 1945 catalogue,
which suggests the book’s suppression occurred someconsiderable time after publication.
– A first novel, well received by the likes of theTimes Literary Supplement, but suppressed because it
allegedly libelled a prominent woman journalist. Op.
cit. Peter Fryer, p. 152. There are copies preserved at
Oxford, the National Library of Scotland and Trinity
College, Dublin. See The Times, October 27th, 1936.

237. FORTE, JOHN. – The Commodore and the Colonels.
Corfu: Corfu Tourist Publications and Enterprises,
1981. In-8°. pp. 48. SS. Cup.16/9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A newedition, published at London in 2009 by Olympia Pub-91

lications [no relation to the famous Paris publishinghouse of the 50s & 60s], is in the British Library atpressmark YK.2010.a.31729. With 123 pages, the newedition would seem to have been expanded.
– A curious pamphlet, by the British Vice-Consul,
outlining an attempt by Lafayette Ron Hubbard to set
up a University of [Hubbard's] Philosophy on the islandof Corfu. Largesse by the Church of Scientology wastreated with grave suspicion by the islanders, but welcomed by the cash-strapped fascist regime of “theColonels.” The effectiveness of the suppression of thispamphlet is somewhat weakened by the fact that thefull text is freely available on the Internet, although thesite carrying it has “May not be archived in the UK”
prominently displayed on the opening page, suggesting
it may be under an injunction.

238. FOULKES, Bill. – Back at the Top. [By] Bill Foulkes as told to Ben Wright. [With plates, including portraits.] London: Pelham Books, 1965. In-8°. pp. 123.
SS.12.c.69.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General Catalogue, at X.441/578
and X23/6531.
– William Anthony Foulkes (born 5 January 1932)
is a former English footballer who played for Manchester United in the ‘Busby Babes’ teams of the 1950s and1960s.

239. FRANK, Gerold (1907-1998). – The Deed : the Assassination of Lord Moyne. London: Jonathan Cape,
1964. In-8°. pp. 317. SS.12.c.56.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W24/8573. First published in 1963 by Simon & Schuster. A copy is preserved in the restrictedsection of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark
Phi.6 and one in the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res.
e.104, the entry for which is marked ‘Not available for
consultation.’ A copy is also restricted at Cambridge,
with the pressmark Arc.d.96.406.
– Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO
and Bar Queen's South Africa Medal MID PC (1880 –
1944) was a British politician and businessman. He
served as the British minister of state in the Middle East
until November 1944, when, in part because of his perceived anti-Semitism, he was assassinated by a militant

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Zionist group Lohamei Herut Israel, also known by the
British as The Stern Gang.
– We are grateful to Ms. Sarah Wheale of the Rare
Books Section of the Department of Special Collections
at the Bodleian Library for informing us that the publisher withdrew the book following a libel action. It waspresumably re-issued in an emended form since copies
are freely available in the internet.

240. FREETHINKER. – Freethinker. Christmas Number.
London, 1882. (Blasphemous). SS.c.9.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. A weekly newspaper edited by George William Foote and William Ramsay, under the aegis of theFreethought Publishing Company. A series of “Comic
Bible Sketches” in the periodical caused problems andit was prosecuted for blasphemy. Foote got a year inprison and Ramsay nine months. Foote, a militant andprolific atheist, wrote an account of his troubles withthe law in Prisoner for Blasphemy (London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1886), the text of which isavailable online from Project Gutenberg. For further details, see Donald Thomas, A Long Time Burning (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), pp. 233,4. David Boothroyd notes that this ‘Christmas Number’ ismissing from the bound set of the Freethinker in the
BL’s Newspaper Library.

241. FROST AND SULLIVAN LTD. Equipment Reports. 8 vols. Frost & Sullivan, 1976-77. SS.
Cup.15/15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

242. FRY, ROGER ELIOT. – Giovanni Bellini. London: At
the Sign of the Unicorn, 1899. In-8°. pp. 48. 23 plates.
SS.a.353.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. ‘The
artist's library’, vol. 2. There is a copy in the General
catalogue at the following pressmark: 7858.q.39/2.

243. FÜHRER. ALOIS ANTON. – Archaeological Surveyof Northern India. Vol. [?] London: W. H. Allen &Co., 1878. SS.c.24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– A bit of a mystery, this. Alois Führer, an archaeological surveyor for the Government of the North-West
Provinces and Oudh, wrote extensively on India, butnot, so far as I can tell, as early as 1878. The SS catalogue entry has ‘Vol.’ following the title, but no number, suggesting perhaps that ‘Archaeological Survey
of… India’ is a series title, and the suppressed volume
is called something else. However, We’ve found nothing like this published by W. H. Allen in 1878 or in1887 either which I looked into thinking that the datemight have been reversed.

244. FURGUSON, REX. – Report Series PS.2. Metric v
British Weights & Measures. Typed Report, 1959.
SS.Cup.11.b.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

245. GALE, NORMAN ROWLAND (1862-1942) – Close ofPlay. [Verses.] Rugby: George Over, 1936. in-8°. pp.
46. SS.b.67.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. We are obliged to Ms. Alison Bailey, Curator, Printed Historical Sources at the BL, for investigating this entry: “I have not been able to trace this workon the finding list of the contents of the Suppressed
Safe Collection.” There are, however, two copies in the
General Catalogue (11655. c. 24 and X.989/5341).
There are two copies in the Bodleian, one of which is
restricted at pressmark Res. e.40 and is “not available
for consultation.” The Bodleian copies are described as
being “Bound in light green cloth; stamped in gold. In
dust jacket.”

246. GAMES FOR THE HOME, PUBS, CLUBS ANDTELEVISION. Edited by Convey Webster. London:
Arcade Recording Circuit, May 1992. In-8°. pp. 28.
SS. Cup.18/11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
are held at Trinity College, Dublin, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the National Libraries of Scotland
and Wales. None appear to be restricted in any way.

247. GAY NEWS. No. 96. London, June 3-16. 1976. SS.
Cup.16/18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– Suppressed following legal action for publishingan allegedly ‘obscene and blasphemous’ poem by Professor James Kirkup called The Love that Dares Not
Speak its Name.

248. GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL. List of Erasuresfrom Medical Register. 1900-1934. SS.a.405.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. This
would appear to be a list of medical practitioners‘struck off’ during the years indicated.

249. GERRISH, JOHN R. and RICHARD CHARLES
WHITFIELD. – A Modern Course of Organic Chemistry. [Teacher’s notes.] London: Longmans, 1977. In4°. pp. [3], 23. SS. Cup.15/10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.615/1969 and 78/5835. A restricted copy
is in Cambridge University Library (Arc.b.97.402).

GODFFREY, ELIZABETH. – See: BEDFORD, JESSE.
250. GOLDRING, DOUGLAS (1887 – 1960). – Pot Luck in
England. London: Chapman & Hall, 1936. In-8°. pp.
xxxv.278. 17 leaves of plates. SS.b.92.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 10353.a.25.
– Douglas Goldring was born in Greenwich, England, and died in Deal, Kent. He left Oxford University
without a degree in 1906 and subsequently served on
the editorial staff of Country Life, The English Review,and his own literary magazine, Tramp. He enlisted in
1914, but was invalided out and from 1916 onwards he
was a conscientious objector. He started to develop anti-American/pro-Soviet attitudes prior to World War II.
He was a lecturer in English at Gothenburg, Sweden,
1925-1927, visited New York and Boston, lived on the
Riviera, and returned to the United Kingdom in 1930.
He founded the Georgian Group, a branch of The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1937.
He contributed to journals, wrote letters to editors, andwrote 25 books, including poetry, novels, literary criticism, travel and two autobiographies.

251. GLASS'S GUIDE TO CAR VALUES. Glass's
Guide, Jan 1993.
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252. GLASS’S GUIDE TO CAR VALUES. EurotaxGlass, April 1999-2007.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Although listed separately, both the preceding have thesame pressmark: SS.CUP 21.a.1. Glass’s Guide is theleading British motor trades guide to used car prices,
often referred to in the trade as “The Bible.” The company was founded by William Glass who was born in
Scotland in 1881 and was an engineer by trade. As wellas publishing the first Guide to Used Vehicle Values,
Glass had an innovative and enquiring mind and made anumber of inventions including the portable hydraulicjack, the electric switch-off kettle, the self-filling fountain pen and the through-the-propeller machine gun firing mechanism. Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a private
equity group, acquired Glass's Information Systems Ltd
in 1998 and Eurotax AG in 2000, and the companies
are merged to form EurotaxGlass's AG, registered inFreienbach, Switzerland.

253. GLASS’S GUIDE TO CARAVAN VALUES.
Glass’s Guides, March 1993. SS. Cup.Res. 1.e.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

254. GLASS’S GUIDE TO CARS. Checkbook. Glass's
Guides, 1993. SS. Cup.12.b.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

255. GLASS’S GUIDE TO CARS. Checkbook. Older
Cars. Glass's Guides, 1996. SS. Cup.20/11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

256. GLASS’S GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL VEHICLESCHECKBOOK. Glass’s Guides, 1993. SS.
Cup.12.b.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

257. GLASS’S GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL VEHICLEVALUES. Glass’s Guides, 1993. SS. Cup.12.b.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

258. GLASS’S GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL VEHICLEVALUES. EurotaxGlass, April 2007. SS.Cup b 5.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

259. GLASS'S GUIDE TO MOTORCYCLE VALUES.
Glass's Guides, January, 1993. SS. Cup.12.b.3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

260. GLASS'S GUIDE TO MOTORCYCLE VALUES.
EurotaxGlass, April 2007. SS.Cup b 3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

261. GLASS'SGUIDETOMOTORCYCLESCHECKBOOK. (4 parts.) Glass's Guide, 1993-1996.
SS. Cup.12.b.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

262. GLIMPSES … Mr. & Mrs. Jones of Pantglâs [Carmarthenshire]. [Correspondence.] n.p., 1862. In-8°.
pp. 257. SS. a. 26.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “On the treatment by David Jones ofPantglâs of his wife Margaret Charlotte [née Campbell].” There is a copy in General Catalogue(1609/1531) which is presumably the SS copy, desegregated. There is also a copy in the National Library ofWales (Dyb2005B44) with no indicated restrictions,and available for inter-library loan.
– David Jones was born on 1 November 1810 at
Llwynberllan, near Llandovery, into a banking family,
and was Conservative member of Parliament for theCounty of Carmarthenshire from 1852 to 1868, shortly
before his death on 1 July 1869. He married MargaretCharlotte Campbell, eldest daughter of Sir George
Campbell of Edenwood in the county of Fife, on July
29 1845. The pair settled in Glanebrane Park, Llandovery, where they had four children, two daughters andtwo sons.
– Mr. D. L. Baker-Jones, M.A., J.P., of the County
Record Office, Carmarthen, wrote a most interesting
essay on the Jones families of Pantglâs, in which Margaret Charlotte Jones is described as “a very colourful
and original personality, to say the least.” He continues:“It appears that she circulated privately a book which
she had written describing the landed gentry of Carmarthenshire in most scurrilous terms; and there were manytales current years ago of her somewhat daring and un-

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conventional behaviour. Indeed within six months [ofDavid Jones’ death] she married Sir George Augustus
Levinge, Bart., of Knockdrin Castle in the county ofWestmeath. But any marital bliss with her second husband was brief, as she died on 5 November 1871.”
Whether the book referred to by Mr. Baker-Jones is
Glimpses is uncertain; she was, however, the author ofa short novel titled Lott-ery (London & New York: G.
Routledge & Co., 1858). Curiously, the first-person
narrator of Lott-ery is named Augustus Levinge.

263. GLOBAL DISASTER SCENARIO III. The Merchant International Group Ltd. SS.Cup.20/62.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “Merchant International Group (MIG) is a strategic researchand corporate intelligence company dedicated toproviding a unique range of support services to corporate and private clients in both established and emerging markets. MIG has supported and advised some of
the world's largest companies in the discreet identification, evaluation and management of all manner of risks,
weaknesses and threats.” MIG’s head offices are at 1
Grosvenor Crescent, London, SW1X 7EF.

264. GODDARD, DONALD. – Trail of the octopus: fromBeirut to Lockerbie - inside the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] … with Lester K Coleman. London:
Bloomsbury, 1993. In-8°. pp. x.326. SS.Cup.20/93.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
are preserved in the restricted sections of the National
Library of Scotland (Phi.82) and Cambridge(Arc.c.99.407).
– David Boothroyd adds: Lester Coleman, the coauthor, claimed to have been an agent of the DefenseIntelligence Agency. His book claims that bombing of
Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie was achieved when acovert US anti-drugs operation let Iranian-backed terrorists through airport security. The book led to a libel
action from Michael Hurley, head of operations for the
Drug Enforcement Administration in Nicosia, whom
Coleman had implicated in the plot. In early 1996
Bloomsbury and Penguin Books, publishers of the paperback edition, accepted there was no truth in the allegations against him and paid damages and costs.

265. GOUGH, HUBERT, General Sir. – Note of Lectures
given at the Home Guard Training School, Hurling98

ham. (Two parts.) First (Provisional) Edition, n.d. [BLstamp 1941.] SS.c.72.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– General Sir Hubert Gough is presumably Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963), best known perhaps
for relieving Ladysmith against orders in the Boer War.
He served as a cavalry officer during the First World
War, leading a division of the British Expeditionary
Force (BEF) on the Western Front during 1914-15. He
became a corps commander in 1916, taking part in theSomme offensive later that year, and subsequently at
Arras and Ypres. Gough retired as a full general in
1922, penning a self-vindication of Fifth Army in 1931.
He was knighted in 1937.

266. GOWER, MARY CAROLINE SUTHERLAND LEVESON,
Duchess of Sutherland. – Pamphlet printed and issued
by the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland. [1892.] 22cm.
pp. 12. Original SS pressmark unknown, but now
shelved at 1609/1478. Accession date stamp: 10 October 1892.
–According to the BL catalogue entry, thisplaquette treats of “the relations between the 3rd Dukeand Duchess of Sutherland and the Marquess of Stafford, afterwards 4th Duke, the Earl of Cromartie, andLady Alexandra Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, theDuke’s children by his first marriage.” On page 2 there
is a manuscript addition reading: “The Duchess (Countess Cromartie) died 25 Novr. 1888. The Duke marriedon the following March 4th 1889 the writer of thispamphlet. Lady Alex died 16 April 1891.”– David Boothroyd provides the following precisions: After he was widowed in November 1888, the
3rd Duke of Sutherland met Mary Blair (née Michell)in Florida and they became engaged. He wrote to his
son and daughter (Lady Alex) to tell them and hope thatthey would receive the Duchess kindly. Their replies
were very hostile and unkind. As a result the date of themarriage was brought forward and the Duke and Duchess returned quickly to his London home at Stafford
House. On arriving they found the entire contents of thehouse had been removed to a warehouse by Lady Alex.
The 3rd Duke died on 22 September 1892; his willleaving £150,000 to his widow was contested. During
the course of the case she was allowed to remove papers from Stafford House, but while doing so threw one
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served six weeks' imprisonment. The will was eventually held valid.

267. GREAT BRITAIN’S SHIPPING INDUSTRY. (8items.) The Union-Castle Line, 1902-1914. SS.a.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Union-Castle Line was a prominent shipping line that
operated a fleet of passenger liners and freighters between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977.

268. GREAT CASES OF SCOTLAND YARD. Volume
One. Introduction by Eric Ambler. The Readers Digest Association, 1978. SS. Cup.15/8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Library has another copy, with no mention ofEric Ambler in the online catalogue entry, at pressmark:79/25637 Vol 1 DSC. There is a copy in the restrictedsection of Cambridge University Library at pressmark
Arc.c.97.407 where it is said to have been ‘withdrawn
by the publisher.'269. GULF BULLETIN 10. London: Gulf Committee,
Oct. 1975. The British Cop Who Rules Bahrain. SS.
Cup.14.a.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
British Library has issues nos. 1-5, 7, 9 & [the suppressed issue] 10 in the general catalogue at pressmark
P.805/227. Whether the openly catalogued copy of issue 10 has had the offending article removed it is impossible to say.
– The ‘British Cop’ referred to in this entry is almost certainly Ian Henderson, who served in the British
Colonial Police in Kenya in the 1950s and later became
head of the General Directorate for State Security Investigations in Bahrain, a position he held for some 30
years, retiring in February 1998.
– Mr. Henderson enjoyed a most unenviable reputation as ‘torturer-in-chief’ during his service Kenya
during the Mau-Mau insurgency. His activities in Bahrain were no less enthusiastic, and the subject of an investigation by the British Government. At a parliamentary session on 3 June 1997, MP George Galloway described Ian Henderson as “Britain's Klaus Barbie.” For
his services to law and order, Queen Elizabeth IIawarded Mr. Henderson a CBE (Commander of the
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).

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270. GRANDMOTHER, A. – Laughter of Life, by A
Grandmother. London: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd.,
1938. In-8°. pp. 111. SS.b.90.
– Included in the 1945, 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
WorldCat – an online search engine that accesses library catalogues around the Globe – indicates that a
copy of this book is held also in the National Library ofWales, but attempts by the staff there to locate it on ourbehalf were unsuccessful. In WorldCat, the author’sname is given as: ‘A" "Grandmother, pseud.’271. GRANTA. – The Granta. 10 March 1933. Cambridge. SS.b.79.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. Granta (as it is known today) was founded in1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, and edited by R. C. Lehmann who later became amajor contributor to Punch. In this form the magazine
had a long and distinguished history and published thejuvenilia of several writers who later became wellknown, including: Michael Frayn, Ted Hughes, John
Simpson, A. A. Milne, Sylvia Plath and Stevie Smith.
During the 1970s the publication encountered financial
difficulties and increasing levels of student apathy, andas a result had to be rescued by a group of interested
postgraduates. It was re-launched in 1979 as a magazine of “new writing” aimed both at writers and at awider audience than its original one in Cambridge.
– The reason for the suppression of the March 10th
1933 issue seems almost certainly connected to a perceived libel in the review of a play by a critic signinghimself “The Moke.” The play in question was The
King’s Messenger by Frederick Jackson, a playwright
who seems to have written almost exclusively for its
leading player, Sir John Martin-Harvey (1863-1944),
who has been described as “one of last great romantic
actors of the English theatre.” What part of the review
was found to be offensive is not clear, but two passages
are likely candidates:– “…this acting consisted solely in the exploitation of the personal contact made by such manœuvres
as a romantic first entrance and the manner of a maleprostitute.”
And:– “In particular the whore with the heart of gold
was over-acted excellently by Miss N. de Silva [LadyMartin-Harvey] – the only way to deal with such a ludicrous part.”101

– Mr. Christopher Goddard, Sir John MartinHarvey’s cousin, suggested to us plausibly in an emailthat ‘male prostitute’ may, in a 1930s context, have referred to the state of being a gigolo rather than a gay
hustler, in which case the weight of the offense mightreasonably lie with the second quotation instead.
– Whichever remark it was that caused the problem, The Granta published an apology in the following
issue, for April 19th, reading in part: “We greatly regretthat these comments and the unhappy language of “TheMoke” (who is young and inexperienced) have caused
annoyance and distress to Sir John Martin-Harvey.”
This apology evidently proved insufficient for in thenext issue (April 26) on p. 380 there is a longer andmore fulsome one, obviously drawn up with legal assistance, and referring to a sum of £25 paid by the paper toMartin-Harvey to be passed on to a theatrical charity.
– We are greatly indebted to Mr. William Hale ofCambridge University Library for generously checking
their copy of The Granta for us, and to Mr. Christopher
Goddard for providing details of the play and the additional quotation from “The Moke’s” review, and also
for drawing our attention to a life of Martin-Harvey ofwhich we was unaware: Nicholas Butler, John Martin
Harvey: the biography of an actor-manager (Wivenhoe, Essex: The author, 1997).

272. GRAVES, ROBERT VON RANKE. – Good-bye to all
That. An Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape,
1929. In-8°. pp. 448. SS.a.374.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– “Withdrawn by the publishers.” According to F.
C. Higginson, A Bibliography of the Works of Robert
Graves (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1966), later
states of this book were expurgated to remove a brief
passage from p. 290 and a poem by Siegfried Sassoon
occupying the last four lines of p. 341 and all of pp.
342,3. The SS copy is now placed at either
Cup.410.d.77 or Cup.410.d.78; both are for first editions of Graves’ book, but it’s unclear which was removed from the SS.

273. GREEN, JONATHON. – All dressed up : the sixties
and the counter-culture. London Jonathan Cape, 1998.
In-8°. pp. xiv. 482. SS.Cup.20/27.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

102

– All Dressed Up was published October 1998.
Within a few days the publishers, Cape, had received
letters from lawyers alleging libel against Caroline
Coon, the founder of the drug help line 'Release' andGeorge Harrison, of the Beatles. From recent newspaper interviews with Ms. Coon that have been republished on the Internet, it appears that the author of thebook repeated a rumour, widely disseminated in the late1960s, that Ms. Coon provided oral sex to well-heeledrock stars in return for cash from them which she used
to subsidize the drug help line she’d help create. George
Harrison was one of the musicians alleged to have enjoyed her favours, and Mick Jagger another, although
Jagger is supposed to have refused payment because theservices provided failed to meet his expectations. A
bowdlerized version of the book was issued later.

274. GREENIDGE, TERENCE LUCY. – Brass and Paint: aPatriotic Story. London: Fortune Press, 1934. pp. 254.
SS.a.398.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues. A
copy is in the restricted section of Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc.d.93.420.
– There appears to be no copy of this book in the
General Catalogue, although a number of other works
by the same author are, including Degenerate Oxford?
(London, 1930). Brass and Paint, together with Greenidge's novel The Magnificent (1933), were among several books published by the Fortune Press to be seizedby the police in 1934 and successfully prosecuted for
obscene libel. According to Timothy d’Arch Smith, R.
A. Caton and the Fortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 56, the publisher failed to comply with thedestruction order in the case of The Magnificent, and aslate as 1971 copies were still in stock and available forsale.
We are grateful to Mr. Andrew Parry for the following precisions concerning this novel: “Terence
Greenidge’s Brass and Paint: a Patriotic Story … is actually a rather entertaining novel of exploits in the British film industry, a field in which Greenidge (a friendof Evelyn Waugh) had himself worked. As far as the
publishing history is concerned, after the prosecution
the book was thoroughly revised and re-written by
Greenidge and re-issued by The Fortune Press under thetitle Tinpot Country: A Story of England in the Dark
Ages in 1937. I haven’t got my copy to hand but I think
I’m right in saying Brass and Paint is missing fromGreenidge’s bibliography on the dustjacket of Tinpot
Country whereas The Magnificent is credited.”

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Mr. Parry kindly provided the dustjacket ‘blurb’
for Tinpot Country:“This story contains a remarkable account of life in
an English film studio. But the film industry is treatedmerely as a typical institution of post-war England,
which - far from being a land fit for heroes - with its
false values and its speeding-up of everything threatens
to destroy those who may have learnt true values andfelt the slow march of real progress, perhaps even at anancient seat of learning. The New Morality certainly
enters into the hero's managing of love-affairs, but hewas with the ages when he concentrated on Beauty andforgot everything else. The concluding chapters inwhich the hero, who has violently adapted him-self to
his surroundings, begins to crack under his own violence at the same time that England too is cracking under the strain of her self-imposed vulgarity, and all thisin cross-cutting - if the phrase may be pardoned - thesechapters are marvellous alike in their structure and theircontent.”
There is an author’s note:“This is a work of fiction ; all the characters are
fictitious ; Albion Pictures is an imaginary firm ; Celluloid is an imaginary paper.
“As internal evidence will show, this book was
written a few years back, but owing to certain circumstances its publication had to be delayed. The author
has in the meantime re-written and - he hopes - improved considerable passages Anyhow, he feels that inmany parts of England the clouds still return after therain and that the film industry remains the film industry.”275. GRENVILLE, THOMAS, Right Hon. Bibliographical
Mema [?Memoranda]. SS.b.2.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Although on the list, the item has not been
traced in the suppressed cupboard nor on the Integrated
Catalogue or COPAC. It may be a possible cataloguing
error for Bibliotheca Grenvilliana.” We are indebted to
Mr. Richard Price at the British Library for his assistance with this entry.
– A number of works by Grenville are listed in the
General Catalogue, mostly of a bibliographical or historical nature, but none appear to relate directly to thistitle. Assuming this be the same individual as the authorof the work in question, Thomas Grenville (1755–1846)

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was a British politician and bibliophile. He was the sonof George Grenville, a British prime minister. His
younger brother, William, also became prime minister.
Both brothers were educated at Eton.
– In 1778, he was commissioned ensign in theColdstream Guards and in 1779 promoted a lieutenant
in the 80th Regiment of Foot, but resigned his commission in 1780. He was, with one interval, a member ofparliament from 1780 to 1810, and for a few months
during 1806 and 1807 President of the Board of Control
and First Lord of the Admiralty, but is perhaps morefamous as a book-collector than as a statesman; he bequeathed his large and valuable library to the British
Museum. In 1798, he was sworn of the Privy Council.
He died at Piccadilly.

276. GRIERSON, HERBERT JOHN CLIFFORD, Sir. – Seventeenth Century Studies. Preface by J. Dover Wilson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. 23cm. pp. xv, 415.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies of this in the BL shelved at 012357.m.73. and
820.94 *5366*.

GROSCHOFF, VERA ILONA. – See: ROEDELBERGER,FRANZ ADAM.
277. GROSVENOR, LOELIA MARY, Duchess of Westminster (1902 – 1993). – Grace and Favour. [Memoirs.] London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961. In-8°.
pp. SS.Cup.12.c.18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X20/7183 and W11/9135 and W18/6208.
– Loelia Mary Grosvenor (née Ponsonby) was thethird wife of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879–1953). The pair were married in 1930 anddivorced in 1947, after several years of separation.

278. [GUELPH, JOHN R. WETTIN (1861 - )] – The memoirs of Prince John de Guelph, Rex Et Imperator deJure of Great Britain and Ireland. New York: B. W.
Dodge & company, 1910. In-8°. pp. xxxi.461. Frontispiece, portraits and facsimiles. $2.00. SS.a.3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

105

– The book is freely available online, and at anumber of American universities. This is a work ofgreat eccentricity by a man claiming to be the son ofKing Edward VII. In 1909, he was thrown out of the St.
Regis Hotel in New York after failing to pay his bill.
During his stay at the St. Regis, he was visited by a“number of well-dressed women.” An account of his attempt to sue the hotel for $500,000 as a result of his
eviction will be found in The New York Times, April
20th, 1909.

279. HAIG, DOUGLAS, 1st Earl Haig. – The Haig Memorandum. Add MS 52460.
A Memorandum of operations on the Western
Front during the command of Field Marshal Douglas
Haig, 1st Earl Haig, 1916-1918. One of six typewritten
copies, comprising ff. x+78. Compiled by Haig's successive Chiefs of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Sir Launcelot Edward
Kiggell and Gen. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence It
was revised by Haig and deposited in the British Museum in 1920 by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd ViscountEsher, on the instructions of Earl Haig. Because of its
criticisms of the French High Command and the British
Government, it was reserved from public use on Haig’s
instructions until 1940, and then for further periods until 1964. (see R. Blake, The Private Papers of Douglas
Haig (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952), pp. 365-9,where short extracts are published. There is no evidence
that this Memorandum was ever in the SS, but it wascertainly suppressed.

280. HALL, LENA. – A Comprehensive Survey of Social
Behaviors in the O.J. Simpson Case. From A to Z.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Lampeter : Edwin Mellen Press,
1999. In-8°. pp. xiii. 282. SS.Cup.20/55.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Volume 58 of the Symposium series. There is a copy in the
General catalogue at the following pressmark:8585.771000 vol 58.
– David Boothroyd adds: Book News, Inc. notedthat “This book has been withdrawn from publication
because of many errors in its production”. I have had alook at the copy in the BL Document Supply Centre
and I couldn't really say they were obvious.

281. HALL, MARGUERITE RADCLYFFE. – The Well of
Loneliness. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. In-8°. pp.
511. SS.a.370.
106

– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Withdrawn from Publication by publishers
at request of Home Office, August 22, 1928.” There are
two copies in the General Catalogue (Cup.804.bb.21
and W32/3401), one of which is probably the SS copy,
desegregated.

282. HAN, SUYIN, pseud. – See: COMBER, ELIZABETH.
283. HANWORTH, ROSAMOND. – The Rapsley Roman
Villa. The Surrey Archaeological Society, 1976.
SS.Cup.14.a.19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is catalogued in Cardiff
University(DA147.R2.H2).
– We are obliged to Ms. Hannah Jeffery of the Surrey Archaeological Society Library for letting us knowthat the Hanworth book on the Rapsley Roman Villa
was for some unspecified reason found to be unsatisfactory and withdrawn from publication. A pre-publication
copy sent to the British Library was, at the Society’s
request, sealed up and put in the SS.

284. HARDILL, ALAN. – Shakespeare and the Lost
Myth. Shipley, West Yorkshire: Ariadne Books,
c.2002. In-8°. pp. ii, 234. SS. Cup.20/76.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: Restricted in both Cambridge University Library (Arc.c.200.407) and the Bodleian (Res. e.155). A review in Bibliothèqued’Humanisme et Renaissance (Travaux et documents,
Volume 67, No. 2, 2005) by Leonard R.N. Ashley says,
possibly cryptically, “let us have more scholars self
publishing. Many have much to say and traditional publishers are growing too wary, or too greedy, thesedays”. Attempts to contact the author for clarification
on why his book was suppressed were ignored.

285. HARDY, THOMAS (1840-1928). – Compassion. An
Ode. In Celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. [?London:] Privately Printed for A. J. A. Symons [at theMorland Press], [1924]. In-8°. SS.b.97.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. Limited to 50 copies. There are two in the
General Catalogue (Cup. 500. h. 4. and Cup. 503 a. 30.)107

one of which is probably the SS copy, desegregated.
The latter includes a letter from Symons to T. J. Wise.

286. HARDY, THOMAS (1840-1928). – Domicilium. [Apoem.] [London: 1916.] In-4°. pp. 7. “Twenty-fivecopies have been privately printed by Clement Shorterfor distribution among his friends.” SS.b.15(2).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. The new pressmark is Cup. 503. n. 12. A reprint done in 1918 by Florence Emily Hardy, also in an
edition of twenty-five copies, is shelved at Ashley3344. The latter has a MS. dedication from Thomas
Hardy to T. J. Wise.

287. HARLOCK, JOHN [H. G. Massingham]. – George
Lavington. A novel. London: Arthur H. Stockwell,1923. In-8°. pp. viii. 434. SS.a.347.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Suppressed for libel in 1924. Copies are held at the National Library of Scotland, Trinity College, Dublin, and the
Bodleian Library, Oxford, with no apparent restrictions
placed upon them.

288. HARTLEY [née LEWIS], CATHERINE GASQUOINE(1866 - 1928). – The Cathedrals of Southern Spain.
Introductory Sketch (only). [1911?] SS.a.92.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– “See Report to Trustees, 31.12.[19]21.” The
General Catalogue lists the following work by Hartley:
The Cathedrals of Southern Spain. [With illustrations.]
London: T. Werner Laurie [1913]. In-8°. pp. viii.248.
Part of the Cathedral Series. Pressmark: 07816. g. 31.

289. HARTLEY [née Lewis], CATHERINE GASQUOINE(1866 - 1928). – The Story of Santiago de Compostela. London, J. M. Dent & sons, Ltd.; New York, E. P.
Dutton & co., 1912. In-8°. pp. xii, 332, incl. illus.,
plates. plates, fold. plans. SS.a.91.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
“Withdrawn by order of High Court. See note in book.”
There is a copy of this book in the British Library General Catalogue (X20/3854) with the imprint limited, apparently, to J. M. Dent only. But there are a great manyin American University libraries with both Dent and108

Dutton in the imprint, and a facsimile text is available
for free download from the internet.
– Catherine Gasquoine Hartley (1866[69?]-1928),
author, journalist, headmistress and feminist; also
known as Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan and Mrs. Arthur D.
Lewis. Born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Hartley was
the second daughter of Reverend Richard Griffiths
Hartley and Catherine Gasquoine. She was schooled
privately and had no formal education until she was 16.
Her first job was teaching, and in 1894 she became
headmistress at Babington House School in Kent, England–a position she held until about 1903, when she left
Kent and her job to begin a career as a writer in London. After composing an unsuccessful novel, Hartleywent on to become a prolific journalist and author of
non-fiction. She published books on art, Spanish culture
and society, feminist issues, human sexuality, and children. She also wrote articles for the New Age, Art Journal, Connoisseur, the English Review, and the Daily
Express. Her first marriage was to Walter M. Gallichan;
her second, to Arthur D. Lewis.
– Hartley contributed several art reviews in the firsttwo volumes (1907-8) of the New Age. Her pieces discussed recent exhibits by British artists–like Charles
Shannon, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and John Collier–who had established their reputation in the late 19th
century and sometimes indulged a taste for classical antiquarianism in their work. In a review titled “The Confusion of Art,” Hartley criticized the artistic outlook of
a number of Fabians as being too doctrinaire and missionary; here she may have offered New Age readers analternative to the socialist, guild-minded outlook that A.
J. Penty and A. Romney Green brought to their New
Age art reviews in other weeks.

290. HARVEY, GEORGE. – Does Dr. John Wilson MP,
secretary of the Durham Miners’ Association, Servethe Working Class? Durham: Chester-le-Street andDistrict Industrial Union Group, June 1912. In-8°. pp.
32.
– There is no evidence that this is in the SS, but it
is a good candidate for membership.
– “This was an enraged response to a ‘joke’ Wilson
cracked at the retirement ceremony of Charles Fenwick,
Liberal MP for Wansbeck and a DMA official. Lord
Joicey, a mine owner, had awarded Fenwick a gift of£260. At the presentation, Wilson remarked that he, on
his retirement, would like a similar ‘bribe’. Harvey’s
answer to his pamphlet’s title was very firmly in the109negative: Wilson’s ‘aim has always been to bolster up
capitalism, and he, more than any other leader perhaps,
has swayed the miners to take that particular action
which is either harmless or beneficial to the capitalistclass ... If £260 is the price, then miners’ leaders arecheap and worth getting at’. Wilson, who had written alengthy and sycophantic paean to Joicey on his death inlate 1911, demanded a withdrawal of the accusation,
which Harvey refused. The libel case went to trial in
November 1912. Harvey maintained in court that Wilson was an ‘enemy of the working class and servant of
capitalism’ and provided examples such as Wilson’s
agreement to a 5% reduction in miners’ wages whicheven an Umpire had deemed unwarranted. The judge
found in favour of Wilson, who was awarded £200
damages and £100 costs.” – Lewis H. Mates, The Syndicalist Challenge in the Durham Coalfield before
1914.
– This pamphlet is not listed in any of the SS catalogues We’ve had access to, nor does it appear in the
British Library’s General Catalogue, and the only copy
We’ve found is in the Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

291. HATON, Jean-Paul, editor. – Fundamentals in
Computer Understanding: speech and vision. Editedby Jean-Paul Haton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. In-8°. pp. xi.276. SS.Cup.15.25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 87/21201.
– A collection of papers presented at a conference
held at Versailles in May 1985. The copy in the British
Library General catalogue is dated 1987. Jean-Paul Haton has been a professor at Université Henri-Poincaré,
Nancy, since 1974. He teaches various aspects of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and heads thedepartment of “Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle” (Pattern Recognition and Artificial
Intelligence) at LORIA/INRIA which has about 50
members.

292. HEADMASTERS’ CONFERENCE. Report, 191218. London, 1913-1919. Private and Confidential.
SS.b.39.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are a number of works in the General
Catalogue which fit this general description. Knowing

110which one was formerly in the SS is clearly impossible
without examining them all in situ. However, Report of
the Headmasters’ Conference, held on … December
22nd and … 23rd, 1914 (-January 1st. and … 2nd1919), &c. at pressmark P.521/447 might be a place tostart looking.

293. HEATH-STUBBS, John. – The Darkling Plain. A
study of the later fortunes of romanticism in English
poetry from George Darley to W. B. Yeats. London:
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. In-8°. pp. 221.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are threecopies in the BL of this work, shelved at 11868.p.14
and W5/0684 and W7/5790.

294. HEDLEY, PETER and CYRIL AYNSLEY. – The D
Notice Affair. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1967. In8°. pp. 144. SS.13.a.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.709/6022 and W32/7452 and W22/9586.
– A D-Notice – they have been called DA-Notices
since 1993 – is an official request by the British Government to news editors not to publish or broadcast
items on specified subjects, for reasons of national security. D-Notices and DA-notices are merely a request
and therefore not legally enforceable and consequently
news editors can choose to ignore them without (in theory) official repercussions, although they are generally
accepted by the media. The D-Notice Affair, the subjectof this book, was prompted by a journalist named
Chapman Pincher who in February 1967 revealed in the
Daily Express that the British Government routinely
monitored overseas cable traffic. The Government ofHarold Wilson was not amused. Peter Hedley and Cyril
Aynsley, the authors of the book, were sub-editors on
the Daily Express.

295. [HEMPSTEAD, EDWARD CHARLES.] – Introduction
to the Study of the Psychology and Physiology andBio-Chemistry of The Sexual Impulse among Adults
in Mental and Bodily Health. By Edward Charles,[pseud.] London: Boriswood, 1935. In-8°. pp.
xiii+306. Plates and tables. SS.a.408.

111

– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. Received by the British Library on March
27th 1935. Moved at some point to pressmark
Cup.364.f.8 but presently (August 2008) at P.C.20.b.26.

296. HENDERSON, CECIL. – Death in the Dark. London:
Lincoln Williams & Co., 1933. SS.a.410.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– Prosecuted successfully in September 1933 forslavishly plagiarizing Dashiell Hammett’s novel The
Maltese Falcon which had been published three years
before by Cassell. For an account of the case, see The
Times for September 28, 1933, p. 4.

297. HENDERSON, IAN G. and Mark Hulme. – Assessing Potential Disturbance Events, Activity Patterns and Reproductive Success on Territory Placement in Stone Curlews at Porton Down. BTO research
report no. 585. Thetford : British Trust for Ornithology, 2011. 30cm. pp. 45. Illustrations and maps. Spiralbound.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is one
copy in the BL catalogue, at pressmark
YK.2011.b.10260.
– We are greatly obliged to Mr. Ian Henderson forproviding the following reason for the suppression ofthis work: “The report was withdrawn solely because it
was an interim document for an ongoing project withpotential issues of confidentiality still to negotiate. A
final report, superseding this one, will be published indue course (expected in 2013) with any issues of confidentiality resolved in advance.”

HERON, PETER A. – See: FALCHIKOV, NANCY.
298. HESELTINE, PHILIP ARNOLD (1894 – 1930). – Limericks. Undated typescript. SS.Cup.12.c.24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Philip Arnold Heseltine was an Anglo-Welsh
composer and music critic, apparently of some eccentricity, whose death from gas poisoning remains somewhat mysterious. He was partial to alcohol and hashish,interested in the occult and had a marked taste for flagellation. He also, as evidenced here, had a gift for composing obscene limericks. He composed under the name112‘Peter Warlock,’ but his criticism appeared under histrue name.

299. HIGGINS, RITA ANN. – Hurting God : part essay,
part rhyme. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2010. In-8°. pp. 85. YC.2011.a.11860.
– Whether this book is in the SS is uncertain, but it
seems likely that it soon will be. More than 900 copiesof the Galway poet’s book were pulped by her publisher following objections from her millionaire brother Joe
Higgins who’d taken exception to references in the collection to him and the pair’s mother which he and othermembers of the family characterised as ‘offensive’ and‘untrue’. The publisher’s are reportedly planning to reprint the work with the offensive passages expunged.
For details see: The Connacht Tribune, September 23,
2010.

300. HIGGINSON, ELLA RHOADS. – Alaska, the GreatCountry. New York: Macmillan, 1908. In-8°. pp. x,
537, [49] leaves of plates: ill., map. SS.a.48.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis also a copy kept at Cambridge, at pressmark
Arc.d.90.403.

301. HISTORICAL METALLURGY SOCIETY LTD.,
The. Listed Members. The Historical Metallurgy Society, October 1995. SS.Cup.20/5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “TheHistorical Metallurgy Society provides a forum for exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy. It aims to gain recognition for the subject fromthe community at large and to be consulted when issuesof preservation and recording arise.” From their website, the Society is evidently based in England, but noaddress is in evidence.

302. HOBHOUSE, JOHN CAM, Baron Broughton (17861869). – A Contemporary Account of the Separationof Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction ofLord Byron´s Memoirs. [With manuscript additions.]
London: Privately Printed, 1870. 8vo. pp. iv+239.
SS.b.21.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.

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– The British Library purchased this work at a public sale, but Richard Garnett, the superintendant of theReading Room and later Keeper of Printed Books, feltthat it should be kept from the public until 1900. He approached the Trustees on this matter, and they concurred with his opinion. When the matter was raised
again by the Principal Librarian in 1900, the Trustees
ordered that it “should still be kept in the suppressedcollection.” (P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973, p. 387.)– The description of this work in the original
typewritten 1945 catalogue is confusing, giving the date
1816 and the authorship jointly credited to both Hobhouse and a Viscount R. A. Cross. Who the latter is inconnection with Byron I have no idea, although he held
the post of President of the Board of Control for theyears 1886-92, a position held earlier (1846-52) byJohn Cam Hobhouse. A Viscount Richard Assheton
Cross appears in the General Catalogue, but neither thisname nor anything like it occurs in the works on Byron
that We’ve consulted on this matter, but in truth our researches have not been too thorough. We assume thatthe book referred to, as described above, is the one deposited in the SS; it is certainly mentioned by Peter
Fryer in his chapter on the subject in Private Case,
Public Scandal. The text is extracted from Hobhouse’s
then unpublished Recollections of a Long Life (London,
1909-1911, 6 vols). See G. Wilson Knight, Lord Byron´s Marriage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1959), p. 233. The British Library has two copies in the
General Catalogue, at pressmarks: Ashley 2742 (part of
the Wise Collection) and 1560/162. We have no idea
which, if either, was formerly in the SS collection. A
third copy is currently (September 2002) being offered
for sale on the Internet by Alex Alec-Smith Books ofHull, United Kingdom, for the princely sum of £3,600.

303. HOCHHUTH, ROLF. – [Soldaten.] Soldiers; An Obituary For Geneva. A Tragedy. Translated by Robert
David MacDonald London: Andre Deutsch with Penguin Books, 1969. In-8°. pp. 256. SS.Cup.13.a.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
British edition of a book that seems first to have been
published by Grove Press at New York in 1968. An
Andre Deutsch edition in the Bodleian Library is dated‘[1968]’. Whether the edition in the SS collection that isdated 1969 is in any way different We are unable to
say.

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304. HODSON, HENRIETTA. – A letter from Miss Henrietta Hodson, an actress, to the members of the dramatic profession, being a relation of the persecutions
which she has suffered from Mr. William Schwenck
Gilbert, a dramatic author. [London, 1877.] 22cm. pp.
22.
– A title of which we were unaware until David
Boothroyd discovered it and notes: “I think the original
is now 1609/1540; there is another copy at
C.132.g.43(1) which is bound together with Gilbert’s
reply and bears an accession stamp from 11 May 1935.”
The original SS pressmark is not known.

305. HOGWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. – Haydn’s Visit toEngland. London: The Folio Society, 1980. 8vo. 116
pp. ill., music, facsim., ports. Suppressed for having“imperfect copyright.” SS.Cup.16/4– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. A copy is in
the General Catalogue at pressmark: X.809/48919.

HOLLAND, JULIAN. – See: CARGILL, DAVID.
306. HOLMAN, DOUGLAS. – Mother Care for Children
in Hospital. Ilfracombe: Arthur H Stockwell Ltd.,
1973. In-8°. pp. lxxxiii. SS.Cup.14.a.18– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The title as reproduced above is as it appears in the SS catalogue. There are, however, copies of a work called
Mothers’ Guide to Children in Hospital by Holman in a
number of libraries in the UK, including the British Library. It was also published in 1973 by Arthur H.
Stockwell.

307. HOPKINSON, Henry Thomas, Sir (1905-1990). – In
the Fiery Continent. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962.
In-8°. pp. 376. SS.Cup.12.c.26.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– In the Fiery Continent is a memoir by the celebrated editor of “Picture Post” and treats mostly of his
somewhat stormy years (1958-1961) as editor-in-chiefof the African picture paper “Drum.”308. HORAIN, CZESLAW MICHAEL. [pseudonym of Emil
Novak-Slavek, died 1966.] – The Enigma of the115Robbed Manuscript… (2 parts.) First part of an unpublished manuscript. 1951. SS.Cup.9.a.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There seems to be little information available on
this author, under either his pseudonym or his true
name, save that he was a Polish historian living in Palestine and that his archives, which are subject to restrictions, are preserved in the Bibliothèque de Genève.

309. HORAIN, CZESLAW MICHAEL. [pseudonym of Emil
Novak-Slavek, died 1966.]. – The Levantinian Piastres Ghrush and Zolotah. Typed thesis, 1953.
SS.Cup.2.c.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. We’ve
been unable to discover anything about this thesis, but
speculate that it might deal with the currencies of the
Ottoman Empire.

310. HORNBY, EDMUND GRIMANI, Sir (1825-1896), Diplomatist and Jurist. Sir Edmund Hornby : an autobiography, with an introduction by D.L. Murray. Constable & Co Ltd. 1928. 8vo. pp. xiv, 396, [l] leaf ofplates : port. SS.a.368.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The following review of this posthumously published memoir appeared in the Times for January 18th
1929: “Few autobiographies are so frank or revealing asthat of Sir Edmund Hornby, so long ‘the Supreme
Judge’ in Turkey, China and Japan. If he delighted in an
occasional ‘sledge-hammer dispatch’ to the Department
which stood in such awe of him, he delighted evenmore in recording precisely what he thought, and often
said, about persons, people and things. Although theworld has had to wait a generation for his memoirs it
will find that they have improved with age and that thelapse of time has justified several of his prophecies,
shown the adoption of some of the reforms which headvocated, and made it possible for Mr. Murray to preserve a number of references which, had they appearedin the last Victorian decade, would have infuriated theworshippers at the shrines of certain idols then still
fashionable. As it is, we can look back and see what fun
our fathers and grandfathers could have for all theirsupposed Victorian stiffness, how picturesque could be
the scandals in the remoter branches of the public service, and how the most formidable officials could be
faced and floored by the redoubtable Hornby, who may

116be said to have invented his own job drafted his own
governing Orders in Council, and to have played thedespot almost at his own sweet will to the vast benefit
of innumerable British subjects and foreigners, and thegreat enhancement of British prestige in the East both
Near and Far. He would berate a Secretary of State, rebuke an Ambassador, and bluff or bully for their own
ultimate benefit any number of high foreign officials.
Single-handed he used the Japanese Cabinet as a weapon to crush the trade in Chinese slaves between Portuguese Macao and Peru, he declined to be brow-beaten
by Exeter Hall in its most powerful and meddlesome
days, overcame the inertia or ill-will of the Chinese
Mandarins, and, as a quite unknown man, would noteven allow the ruling class in Turkey to steal its own
Government’s money, although there is every reason to
suppose that it had been borrowed expressly for thatvery purpose. There is a sardonic humour about the fatein this, the only loan to have been honestly applied forthe benefit of the Turkish people. It was the very first to
be repudiated by the Turkish Government. Hornby
knew Turkey in the spacious days of the Great Elchi,
for whom he had immense admiration, and of diplomatic splendour when his Excellency rode in an imposing
cavalcade to impose his will upon the Sublime Porte, ofdictatorial and rapacious Consuls of almost any race
than British who augustly created British subjects withfull right to profit by the Capitulations by a mere strokeof their speculative pen. Hornby’s first bailiwick extended from where the frontiers of Poland now are to
beyond Khartoum, and throughout that area, or a gooddeal of it, he was the English Law, though sometimes
the Turks insisted on his giving them the benefit of his
judicial decisions. In Turkey he travelled comfortably
enough, but his experiences of road work in China werepositively shattering, and the book does not last longenough for his opinion of moving through up-country
Japan. In his autobiography Sir Edmund, authoritative,
jealous of the prestige and independence of his ermine,never hesitates to express an opinion, however uncomplimentary. He provides interesting estimates of thecharacters of the various Foreign Secretaries and Ambassadors who were nominally his chiefs; he attacks
missionaries in China and Turkey, giving instances ofmalpractices or dangerous bigotry to support his diatribes.”

311. HORNMAN, WIM. – [De rebel.] The Rebel Priest.
Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. London: Collins, 1971. 8vo. pp. 319. [Based on the life of Fr.
Camilo Torres.] SS.Cup.13.b.12.
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– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. Suppressed
for having a “print error,” and noted as having been
“replaced.” A presumably corrected copy is in the General Catalogue at pressmark: X.989/10258.

312. HORTON, DICK CROFTON. – Ring of Fire : Australian Guerilla Operations Against the Japanese in WorldWar II. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983. In-8°. pp.
x. 164., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. “A Leo
Cooper book.” SS.Cup.15/18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.84 and one
in the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.151, the entry for which is marked ‘Not available for consultation.’A third is kept at Cambridge, at pressmark
Arc.c.98.404.
– We are grateful to Ms. Sarah Wheale of the Rare
Books Section of the Department of Special Collections
at the Bodleian Library for writing to us with the information that the restricted copy of Ring of Fire in the
Bodleian contains a note pasted in from Library Association Record, (April 1988, p.200) indicating that thebook had been withdrawn following a libel action.

313. HOWARD, WILLIAM CECIL JAMES PHILIP JOHN
PAUL, Earl of Wicklow (1902-1978). – Family Failing[a novel]. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1937.
SS.a.424.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
“Publication ‘unavoidably postponed’. Apparently
withdrawn by the publisher owing to errors. Cf. Copyright Agent's letter dated 5 Oct. 1937. On 22 Dec. 1937
Copyright Agent reported further ‘Longmans Green &Co. have just said ‘Will not be published’”. A copy ispreserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.56 and one in the
Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.47, the entry forwhich is marked ‘Not available for consultation.’– The dust wrapper ‘blurb’ for this book includes
the following: “To put it quite bluntly this family's failing consisted in having illegitimate offspring and thewheel turned full circle when the younger generation
followed the older in the matter. But there is plenty ofhumour as well as pathos in this story and nothing sordid.”118

– We are greatly indebted to Mr. William Hale ofCambridge University Library for providing us with information on their copy of this book.
– William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard,
the 8th Earl of Wicklow, was known as ViscountClonmore until he succeeded to the Earldom in 1946.
He was educated at Eton College, Magdalen College,
Oxford and St Stephen's House, Oxford and ordained
deacon and priest in the Anglican Communion. He
worked for the Magdalen Mission in Somers Town,
North London. Having been a zealous Anglo-Catholic,he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1932 and thereafter lived as a layman. He was disinherited by his father and banished from the family home on Sundays
because he was thought to be an embarrassment on account of his attending Mass with the servants, who were
Catholics. During the Second World War he served as a
Captain in the Royal Fusiliers. He published in 1937 abiography of Pope Pius XI and two years later edited ananthology of pieces by Catholic writers on the subjectof Christmas. Clonmore was a close friend of John Betjeman–the two were at Oxford together–and the authorof the Shell Guide to Kent (Architectural Press, April
1935). Copies of Family Failing are preserved at Oxford, Cambridge and the National Library of Scotland.
There seems to be no copy in the General Catalogue ofthe British Library. Interestingly, the MARC display ofthe copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, includes thefollowing admonition: “(Not available for consultation)
Restricted: ask Duke Humfrey staff.”314. HOY, HUGH CLELAND. – 40 O.B.; or, How the War
was Won. Foreword by Sir Basil Thomson, K.C.B.
With 31 illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1932. In8°. pp. 287, [15] leaves of plates. frontis., illus., facsim., plates, ports. SS.a.387.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are a number of editions of this book. The Bodleian,
Oxford, has three copies of what is described their catalogue as the 7th impression, one of which (at pressmark
Res. e. 24) is marked ‘Not Available for Consultation’and a status of ‘Embargoed.’ A restricted copy at Cambridge has the pressmark Arc.c.93.405.

315. HOZIER, H. M., Sir. – Hozier's Shipping Code (2parts). 1905. SS.c.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

119316. HOZIER, H. M., Sir. – Hozier's Triplex Code (3parts). October 1904. SS.b.42.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

317. HOZIER, H. M., Sir. – Hozier's Triplex Code (3parts). October 1904. SS.b.43.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

318. HOZIER, H. M., Sir. – Hozier's Triplex Code. 1904.
SS.b.44.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

319. HOZIER, H. M., Sir. – Hozier's Triplex Code. 1904.
SS.b.45.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

320. HUNTER, ALEXANDER. – Britain is my Home.
[With illustrations and maps.] Edinburgh & London:
W. and A. K. Johnston & G. W.Bacon, 1959. In-8°. pp.
128. SS.Cup.11.b.23.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. ‘Living in Geography’, no. 1. There is another copy in the
General catalogue at pressmark: W.P.16540/1.

321. HUNTER, ROGER, pseud. – The Peer in theBookseller’s Shop, or, The Cuckold of Royalty
Frightened at his Wife’s Caricature. [A satire inverse.] [London: W. Benbow, 1820.]– Whether this work is in the SS in speculative. Peter Fryer (op. cit. p. 156) mentions it as a possibility.
There seems to be no repository copies.
– ‘Roger Hunter’ is also credited as the author of A
peep into the cottage at Windsor, or, “Love among theroses” : a poem, founded on facts … Dedicated, withdeep humility and profound respect, to all the noble andillustrious c-ck-lds in the House of Peers (London :Printed and published by W. Benbow, 1820), a satire
directed against King George IV. The BL have twocopies of this scurrilous pamphlet published in 1820,
one shelved at 8135.f.36.(19.) and the other, the second
edition, at C.131.d.14.(10.) A copy of the third edition,
published in 1821, is shelved at 1509/791. ‘Roger

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Hunter’ may be the pseudonym of Jack Mitford (17821831), a British naval officer, poet and journalist.

322. HUNTINGFORD, GEORGE WYNN BRERETON. – Elementary lessons in Dhuo-Luo. [London:] School ofOriental and African Studies, University of London,
1959. In-8°. pp. iii. 85. SS.Cup.12.c.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

323. HUTCHINS, CHRIS & Peter Thompson. – Athina,
The Last Onassis. [With illustrations.] London: Smith
Gryphon, 1996. In-8°. pp. 249. SS.Cup.20.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Restricted copies are preserved in the National Library of
Scotland (Phi.49) and at Cambridge (Arc.c.99.405).
– David Boothroyd adds: “Athina Onassis (b. 28
January 1985) is the only child of Christina Onassis andthe heir of the Onassis shipping fortune; she was said tobe the richest child in the world. The biography tells of
a number of family rifts. It was published in March
1996; a revised edition was published by Blake in 1999.
The Cambridge UL catalogue describes the 1996 edition as 'withdrawn issue' and has it restricted, but bizarrely holds a second copy at 9004.c.1654 which bears
an accession stamp dated 31 October 1996.”

324. HUTCHINSON, Walter. – Hutchinson’s History of
the Nations. A popular, concise, pictorial, and authoritative account of each nation from the earliest times tothe present day. vol. [?] London: Hutchinson & Co.,
1915. SS.b.66– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Published in four volumes between about 1913-1916.
Which volume or volumes were suppressed is impossible to tell from the SS catalogue.

325. ICHABOD, pseudonym. – John Bull in Italy. A
warning by Ichabod. [In verse. An attack on Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget (1823-1896) and Edward Henry
Stanley, Earl of Derby (1826-1893).] London: Turnbull & Son, 1877. In-8°. pp. 15. SS.a.32 [Now atpressmark: X.900/3783.]

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– The Accession Stamp is dated 28 January 1878.
A rare verse satire; the only other copy that can be located is in the State Library of Victoria.

326. ILFORD. Government Nett Price List. (Numerous
parts.) Index card states first copy as 1961.
SS.Cup.12.c.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “Ilford” could possibly refer to the English photographic
company manufacturing primarily b&w film and processing materials since 1879.

327. INDIAN SOCIOLOGIST, The. An organ of freedom, and of political, social, and religious reform.
[London, Paris and Geneva:] vol. 1. no. 1.-vol. 10. no.
8/12. Jan. 1905-Aug./Dec.1914.
– Vol. 5. no. 9-vol. 10. no. 2. were issued in Parisand vol. 10. no. 8/12 was issued in Geneva. Wanting
vol. 5. no. 10, 11; vol. 6. no. 3; vol. 7. no. 7, 10, 11; vol.
8. no. 4, 5; vol. 10. no. 3-7.
– The Indian Sociologist was an Indian nationalist
newspaper edited by Shyamji Krishnavarma. When
Krishnavarma left London for Paris, fearing repression
by the authorities, the printing of the newspaper was
first taken over by Arthur Fletcher Horsley. However,
he was arrested and tried for printing the issues for
May, June and July 1907. At Horseley's prominent trial
the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Alverstone, indicated thatanyone printing that sort of material would be liable forprosecution. Nevertheless, Guy Aldred, an Anarchistand advocate of the free press, published it, bearing his
own name. The police obtained a warrant and seized
396 copies of the issue. Aldred received a sentence of
twelve months hard labour. Subsequently publication
was undertaken in Paris and Geneva.

328. INDUSTRY AND THE BRITISH ECONOMY.
Cambridge Econometrics, n.d. SS.Cup.20/23.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Cambridge Econometrics “…was established in1978 to provide commercial access to research in the
University of Cambridge, in particular to the work carried out in developing the Cambridge Multisectoral
Dynamic Model of the British economy (MDM). Its
first honorary president was Prof Sir Richard Stone,
Nobel Laureate in Economics for his pioneering workin the development of the international system of na-

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tional accounts, which remains fundamental to ourlarge-scale economic models. Cambridge Econometrics
has always been supported by the commercial successof its forecasting and analysis services. In 1985, there
was a management buy-out in which it became a private limited company. It took over responsibility for
MDM, which represents a distinctive and independent
alternative to the official models. In 2006, control of thecompany passed to the charitable trust referred to above[i.e. the Cambridge Econometrics Trust for the Promotion of New Thinking in Economics.]”

329. INFORMATION SECURITY BULLETIN. CHI
Publishing, n.d. SS.Cup.20/13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “CHI Publishing produce Information Security
Bulletin, which is an international technical/scientific
IT security magazine, which is published in English andGerman. They have a circulation of approximately 9000
in each edition. They also publish Professional Web
Master which is a technical magazine for people inlarge organizations who commission, build or maintainwebsites.”

INGALLS, JOHN C. – See: LEE, WITNESS.
330. INNES, THOMAS CHRISTIE. – Parables from Stamps
for Young and Old. London: Pickering & Inglis, 1939.
In-8°. pp. 159. Eight coloured plates. SS.a.426.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at
Cup.410.f.617 and a re-issue the same year with black
and white plates at pressmark: 20034. aa. 3. A copy isin the restricted section of Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc.d.93.417.
– We are greatly indebted to Mr. Alfred Armstrong
for providing us with the reason for the suppression ofthis work. In an email of Nov. 12th 2009, he writes:“…it was removed from general circulation because it
breached the law on the reproduction of postage
stamps, as they are shown at approximately 1:1 scale
and without any overprinting to render them unusable
as counterfeits.”

331. INSIDE STORY OF TIMKEN TAPEREDROLLER BEARINGS, The. British Timken Ltd. 1962.
SS.Cup.12.c.17.
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– Included in the 2005 catalogue only.
– “During the 20th century, British Timken was[England’s] principal manufacturer of tapered roller
bearings. Until the Second World War production took
place at Aston in the West Midlands but, in an effort toavoid bomb damage, a new factory was built on a green
field site at Duston. The new factory was opened in1942 under the direction of Mr (later Sir) John Pascoe.
The factory expanded considerably during the later 20th
century as production expanded and new production
techniques were introduced. At its peak, over 4000
people were employed in the factory, making it one of
the largest employers in the area. Production ceased in
2002 and the factory is currently being demolished.”

332. INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VIBRATIONRESEARCH. University of Southampton. (67 parts.)
University of Southampton, 1974-87. SS.Cup.15/3.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only.
– Suppressed August 6th 2003, for being “Commercial – in confidence.” We are indebted to Ms. Sarah
Brooks, a Library Assistant at the University of Southampton’s Institute of Sound & Vibration Research, forsuggesting a reason for the restrictions placed on this
item: “I’m afraid I don’t know for certain what they are
as I didn’t start working here until 2005 but I strongly
suspect that they are a series of contract reports. That is,research that was done under contract (i.e. paid for) bycommercial companies so they would hold the copyright. We still produce contract reports but don’t supply
a copy to the British Library. Our Technical Reports &Technical Memoranda series are all public domain andcan be found on our website or on the BL Catalogue.”

333. INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND VIBRATIONRESEARCH. University of Southampton. (60 parts.)
University of Southampton, 1981-90. Suppressed August 6th 2003, for being “Commercial - in confidence.” SS.Cup.15/3.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only.

334. INSTRUCTIONSFOREXIDE-IRONCLADSUBMARINE BATTERIES. The Chloride Electrical
Storage Company Ltd., 1925. SS.a.361.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– The Chloride Electrical Storage Company Ltd.
seems to have begun life under a slightly different namein 1891, apparently for the purpose of making and distributing batteries in Europe and the British Empire under license from American designs.

335. INTERNATIONAL CONSTRUCTION MONITOR.
5 editions or issues. Chichester: SLI Publications, n.d.
SS.Cup.20/40.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– S.L.I. Publications Limited was founded on 05
Nov 1975 and has its registered office in West Sussex.
The organisation's status is dissolved, and they have 6
associated directors – all of which are current. The
company has no known group companies. The company’s Final Dissolution Notice was posted 15 Dec 1992,
and so the five issues of International Construction
Monitor under notice must have been published before
that date.
– The periodical was issued throughout the 1980s
and early 90s in regional editions, in the Far East, Europe, Africa, Middle East & ‘Other Countries.’

336. INTERNATIONAL
POLICEASSOCIATIONYEARBOOK. Three parts: 1985-86, 1986-87, 198788. SS.Cup.16/21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– A copy of the volume for 1978-1979 was offeredon the Internet in 2008 by Reedmore Books whose advertisement for it gives the authorship as “International
Police Association.” The publisher is M & W Publications of Liverpool, and it is described as a “Pocket size
paperback.” There is an admonition quoted: “Contains
confidential information … for the use of officers of theInternational Police Association only.” The International Police Association is described on their website as“an independent body made up of members of the police service, whether on active duty or retired, andwithout distinction as to rank, sex, race, colour, language or religion. Its purpose is to create bonds offriendship and to promote international co-operation.”
M & W Publications are located at: 42 Stanley Street,
Liverpool, L1 6AW.

337. INTERNATIONAL STATUS REPORT ON
PLASTICS FOR 1978. The British Plastics Federation, 1979. SS.Cup.16/14.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is theleading trade association of the UK Plastics Industry(representing approximately 80% of turnover), a
springboard for industry action, existing to exploit
common opportunities and resolve shared problems.”
They are located at: 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3JE. Requests to the BPF for clarification of why this report may have been restricted wereignored.

338. INTERNATIONALER
VERBANDVON
MUSEUM BEAM-TEN (7 packages). [1898-1938?]
339. INTERNATIONALER
VERBANDVON
MUSEUM BEAMTEN:- Archiv des verbandes vonmuseum beamten. 1907-1927.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Although catalogued separately, the two preceding entries share a common pressmark: SS.Cup.6.b.1.
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France, at pressmark
Ya2-148-4, has a work called Abbildungen aus dem
Archiv des Verbandes Von Museum beamten. ([Hambourg], 1907-1909-1910-1911-1913) which may or
may not have any bearing on this on this entry. The
BNF have added ‘[Reproductions d’objets faux étudiés
par une société de 150 conservateurs de Musées.]’ tothe entry, by way of explanation.

340. INTERPRETER, The. An analysis of Communist
aims and activities. [London: HM Government], 19521976. SS.10.a.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
–Various issues with dates ranging from June 1957
to November 1968 are preserved in the National Library of Australia at pressmark S 335.405 INT. A noteto their catalogue entry indicates that The Interpreterwas “published by an unknown agency of the British
government.” Further issues, from April 1963 throughDecember 1971, are kept by the Open Society Archives
at the Central European University, Budapest. Their
catalogue entry indicates that The Interpreter was amonthly publication, “with special issues and indexes.”
We are indebted to Mr. Richard Price at the British Library for his assistance with this entry.
–A copy of the issue for March 1957, offered forsale on the Internet site of ZVAB [Zentrales Verzeich-126

nis Antiquarischer Bücher] indicates a work of 37 pages
with the following list of contents: “I. Introduction; II.
Soviet foreign police; III. The Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe; IV. Internal developments in the Soviet Union;
V. Communism outside the Soviet bloc.” No publisher
or place of publication is provided.

341. IRISH RADIO & ELECTRICAL JOURNAL, The.
(4 parts.) Dublin: Castle Publications Ltd. 1963.
SS.Cup.12.c.38.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

342. IRVING, DAVID JOHN CALDWELL. – The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17. London: Cassell, 1968. In-8°.
pp. vii, (5), 337. SS.Cup.13.c.3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.99 and one
in the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.116.
– Captain J E Broome, DSO, RN, the escort commander in this 1942 North Russian convoy disaster,
sued David Irving for libel after the publication by Cassell and Co. Ltd. of this book in October 1968. The casecame to trial in February 1970, and after seventeen days
the jury awarded Broome what was then one of thelargest sums of damages, including punitive damages,
in history.

343. IRVING, DAVID JOHN CALDWELL. – The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17. London: Corgi Books, 1970.
In-8°. pp. SS.Cup.13.c.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

344. JAARBOEK
SS.Cup.12.c.29.

YEARBOOK[S].

1950-1987.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Since‘jaarboek’ and ‘yearbook’ mean the same thing, it isdifficult to know to what this entry might refer, lacking
further information. Something jointly in Dutch andEnglish one might reasonably assume, and there are agood many references on the Internet to architectural“Jaarboek Yearbooks” which might be the culprits.

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345. JACKSON, Aubrey Joseph. – British civil aircraft,
1919-59. Vols. I & II. London: Putnam, 1959-60. In8°. Two volumes. SS.Cup.15/9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

346. JACKSON, HOLBROOK. – The Eighteen Nineties: a
Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the 19th Century. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1913. In-8°. pp.
304.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. The BL appear
to have three copies of this edition shelved at:
W53/1620 and W47/7627 and 012354.ff.39.

347. JACKSON, LILLIAN. – My Diary and extracts…
London: Privately Printed, 1942. SS.a.103.
– Included in the 1945, 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
There appears to be no work of this description in the
General Catalogue, the Library of Congress or any other library that We’ve checked.

348. JACOB, NAOMI ELLINGTON (1889–1964). – Second
Harvest. London: Hutchinson, 1953. In-8°. pp. 320.
SS.Cup.9.a.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

349. JACOBSTHAL, PAUL. – [An account of his experiences in connection with his internment during theWar.] Typed manuscript, 1941. SS.Cup.11.a.3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Paul Jacobsthal was Professor of Archeology at
Marburg University from 1912 until his dismissal in
1935. An expert on Greek vase painting, Jacobsthal wasappointed to a post at Christ Church in 1937. His studies on the influence of Mediterranean civilisations on
early North Alpine cultures led to his also becoming
University Reader in Celtic Archeology. Dean Williams
had enlisted the support of Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden (himself a former student at Christ Church) to obtain permission from the German authorities for Jacobsthal to leave Germany. Despite Jacobsthal’s credentials in his field of study, his well-known anti-fascist
sympathies and the fact he was Jewish, the British authorities in their wisdom arrested him in July 1940 as an128‘enemy alien’ and placed him in the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Wight.

350. JAGOSE, ANNAMARIE (1965 –). – Lesbian Utopics.
New York & London: Routledge, 1994. In-8°. pp. 214.
SS.Cup.20/45.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis another copy in the British Library at pressmark
95/07440 DSC and restricted copies are kept in the National Library of Scotland (Phi.124) and at Cambridge(Arc.c.99.402).
– Annamarie Jagose is a writer of academic andfictional works. She gained her PhD (Victoria University of Wellington) in 1992, and worked as a lecturer inEnglish at Melbourne University before returning to
New Zealand in 2003, where she is currently Associate
Professor in the Department of Film, Television andMedia Studies at the University of Auckland. We arevery much obliged to Ms Jagose for the following information:– “I was unaware that my first book was held in the
BL Suppressed Safe. Although I cleared copyright permissions with the estate of Tessa Boffin regarding thecover image, I understand that the photographed subject
made a complaint to Routledge about the circulation ofher image in this context. Perhaps that is related somehow?”– Tessa Boffin’s cover photo seems not to havebeen changed, and it may be that the objections of themodel appearing in it were in some way overcome, andthe copy of the book deposited in the SS when the objections were first raised may have been simply left
there due to an oversight. Ms. Boffin died by her own
hand in 1993.

351. JAMES, NORAH CORDNER. – Sleeveless Errand.
London: Scholartis Press, 1929. In-8°. pp. 238.
SS.a.372.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Seized by police before publication and ordered to be destroyed. NOT TO BE AVAILABLE TO
READERS.” There is Copy in the General Catalogue atCup. 802. a. 43, which is presumably the SS copy, desegregated. Two copies are preserved in the restrictedsection of the National Library of Scotland at pressmarks Phi.9 and Phi.10.

129352. JAMES, William (1842 – 1910). – The Varieties of
Religious Experience. A Study of Human Nature. Being the Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at
Edinburgh in 1901-1902. London & New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902. In-8°. pp. xii. 534.
SS.a.354.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Varieties of Religious Experience was firstpublished in June 1902 and reprinted, with unexplained
revisions, in August of the same year. All subsequent
editions have been taken from the August 1902 printing. One might reasonably imagine that the edition in
the SS is a copy of the June 1902 printing.

353. JANSON, HANK [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Accused. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1954]. In-8°.
pp. 128. SS.Cup. 9. c. 3. [Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa.
10.]354. JANSON, HANK [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Amok.
London: New Fiction Press [c. 1954]. In-8°. pp. 143.
SS.Cup. 9. c. 4. [Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 14.]355. JANSON, HANK [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Killer.
London: New Fiction Press [c. 1952]. In-8°. pp. 128.
SS.Cup. 9. c. 6. [Formerly at Cup. 367. bb. 36; now
shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 7.]356. JANSON, HANK [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Persian Pride. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In8°. pp. 127. SS.Cup. 9. c. 7. [Now shelved at P.C. 21.
aa. 11.]357. JANSON, Hank [Stephen Daniel Frances]. – Pursuit.
London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In-8°. pp. 143.
SS.Cup. 9. c. 8. [Now shelved at P.C. 21. aa. 12.]358. JANSON, HANK [Stephen Daniel Frances]. –Vengeance. London: New Fiction Press [c. 1953]. In8°. pp. 142. SS.Cup. 9. c. 9. [Now shelved at P.C. 21.
aa. 13.]359. JANSSENS, Jules. – Avicenna: Tussen Neoplatonisme En Islam. [A thesis.] Leuven (Belgium):
Katholieke Universiteit, 1983-84. (Two parts.)
SS.Cup.16.15.
130

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā
(Persian: ‫نایله ابن سابن عبدال نیالحس یابو عل‬, Arabic: ‫( ;)نایبن عبدﷲ بن س نیأبو علي الحس‬born c.
980 in Bukhara Khorasan,died 1037 in Hamedan), also
known as Ibn Seena and commonly known in English
by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός),was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician andIslamic philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, logician, palaeontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and Islamic theologian.
– We are obliged to the author of this work for his
email explaining why his work was placed in the SS:“the reason is that it was a common policy at the time tokeep away unpublished theses from the public (I think
for a period of fifty years, but I am not absolutely sure
about this). Only with explicit permission of the author
access was (and is) possible. As an author, I agreed
with that policy (since the thesis remains accessible albeit in a limited way). I imagine that when a thesis is
not published, the author has reasons not to do so. In
my case, it was because I had to write it in difficult circumstances and that I was aware that some of its parts
were not fully elaborated in the way I wanted them.”

360. JEWISH LADS' BRIGADE & CLUB. Report. London: Jewish Lads’ Brigade, 1960. SS.Cup. 12.c.5– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “The Jewish Lads’ Brigade, the oldest surviving
Jewish youth organisation, was formed in 1895 under
the aegis of Colonel Albert Edward Williamson Goldsmid. In inspiration, the Brigade had much in common
with contemporary uniformed Christian youth organisations, such as the Boys' Brigade, with an emphasis on
national defence, morality and physical fitness. Its connection with Judaism was, however, more closelyaligned with codes for behaviour and social responsibility than the Christian organisations, for which religious
practice was frequently prominent. The Brigade wasand continues to be linked with Orthodox Jewry, although it has had an inclusive approach to membership.
Since 1963, girls have been admitted. The Brigade wasinitially based in London, although the first company
outside the capital was set up in Liverpool as early as
1898. Thereafter further companies were establishedacross Great Britain and in British colonies. In 1913 the
purpose-built centre named Camperdown House was131

opened, which served as the headquarters of the Jewish
Lads' Brigade until 1939.” The organization is currently
situated on Beechcroft Road, South Woodford, London
E18 1LA.
– The archives of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade are
maintained by the Hartley Library at the University ofSouthampton, and K. Robson, kindly favoured us withthe following note on the Reports in general: “The annual reports for 1959-60 and 1960-1 are glossy A5landscape publications of 32 pages each, published in
London. They follow what appears to be an establishedformat in common with the other annual reports, the only difference being the 1959 one is the first in the landscape format.” However, there are no obvious clues as
to why the 1960 report was suppressed. Emails to The
Jewish Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade requesting informationon the subject were ignored.

361. JOHNSON, A. F. – Type Designs: Their History andDevelopment. London: Grafton & Co., 1934. In-8°.
pp. viii. 232. Facsimiles. SS.a.369.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W2/0104.

362. JOHNSTON, SUZY. – The Naked Bird Watcher.
[With a portrait.] Brentwood: Chipmunkapublishing,
2003. In-8°. pp. 202. SS.Cup.20/77.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The autobiography of a young, bi-polar woman.
David Boothroyd adds: “I had a look at the Cambridge
UL copy, which is unrestricted. It contains some criticism of a psychologist who treated the author on pages
118-121, which may explain the suppression.”– Letters to the publishers of this work requesting
clarification of the reasons for its suppression were ignored.

363. JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS. (Five Parts.) JET.
1988-89? SS.Cup.18/26.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Joint European Torus (JET) is a programme todevelop nuclear fusion as an efficient energy source,
headquartered at Culham, UK. JET became operational
in 1983. Today, its work is governed by the European
Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) and involves

132some of the most sophisticated research in the fusion
field. JET’s programs include the largest experimental
facility in the world for magnetic fusion containment.
The purpose of this facility is to confirm the scientifictheory behind fusion and test the scientific feasibility ofusing fusion to generate electric power. The name ofthe programme is misspelled ‘Joint European Tours’ in
the SS catalogue.

364. JONES, JEFFERSON. – The Fall of Tsingtau, with astudy of Japan's ambitions in China … With illustrations. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1915. In-8°. pp. xvii. 214.
– This book was suppressed for the duration of
WWI because of its hostile attitude toward the Allies,
op. cit. Peter Fryer, pp. 139,40. The original SS pressmark is unknown to us, but it is presently shelved at9084.df.19.

365. JORDAN, PHILIP. – There is no Return. [Reminiscences of travels in various countries.] London: Cresset Press, 1938. In-8°. pp. 350. SS.d.98.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: 10026.t.6 and X.989/5349. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at Phi.108 and one in the
Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.50, the entry forwhich is marked ‘Not available for consultation’; a“corrected issue” is shelved at 24336 e.95.
– Withdrawn by the publisher for unspecified reasons. The presence of unrestricted copies in some libraries suggests the book was re-issued with the problems resolved.
– From the Kirkus Book Review: “This is not a routine journalist’s book, either in context or style. It is
written in vivid, rhythmic prose, with an aesthetic quality one would not expect from a diplomatic and war correspondent. An Englishman, he took journeys near andfar, ranging from days of the past, with the Sacco [&]Vanzetti case and his early journalistic experiences toGerman munitioneering in Africa, the revolt against
Franco at Tetuan, the Spanish Basque country today,
the peasant and the man in the street and so on. Interviews – essays – random reminiscences – sheer description. None of the daredevil and scoop school of journalism, but an interpretative, impressionistic account ofvaried things.” Philip Jordan was a correspondent for133the News Chronicle, a left-leaning newspaper that folded in 1960.

366. JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL CRIME. Henry Stewart Publications, n.d. SS.Cup.20/88.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Journal of Financial Crime seems no longer tobe published by Henry Stewart; at least, it doesn’t figure on their website. However, a periodical of thatname is currently published by Emerald Group Publishing of Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, United Kingdom.
– David Boothroyd adds: “Given that the Suppressed Safe pressmark appears to have been granted
around 1995, it is notable that around this time an article in the Journal by Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn attracted press attention for criticising the London auction
houses for their willingness to sell objects which had
been looted from foreign museums.” See Norman Hammond, “ Looted artefacts ‘sold openly in London’ ” ,The Times, 9 October 1995.
– David notes further: “By chance I came across acomplete run of this Journal in the London School of
Economics Library. That title was only adopted fromvol 2 no 4 (March 1995). The Colin Renfrew article is
Art Fraud: Raiders of the Lost Past in vol 3 no 1, pages
7-9. It does single out some institutions for particularcriticism, particularly the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.”

367. JOURNAL OF NAVAL ENGINEERING. HM Government, n.d. S.Pen.BS.1/170.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– A periodical published at Bath by The Admiralty,
at least originally. Publication began in 1947. The front
wrappers are headed: “RESTRICTED | (not to be communicated to anyone outside HM Naval Service)”.

368. JOURNAL OF NAVAL SCIENCE [later]
JOURNAL OF DEFENCE SCIENCE. HM Government, n.d. S.Pen.BS.1/167– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Journal of Naval Science was published at
Orpington, Kent, by The Defence Research Information
Centre. In January 1996 the name was changed to The

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Journal of Defence Science, and the periodical published at London by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.

369. KAFKA, FRANCIS J. – The Hand Decoration of Fabrics. [With illustrations.] New York: Dover Publications, 1973. In-8°. pp. 198. SS.Cup.14.a.32.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Copies of The Hand Decoration of Fabrics published, apparently jointly, in 1973 by Dover Publications and Constable are in a number of UK libraries,
none of which appear to be restricted in any way. A reprint of the ed. published by McKnight & McKnight
Pub. Co., Bloomington, Ill.

370. KAVAN, ROSEMARY. – Love and Freedom. Foreword by Arthur Miller ; introduction by William
Shawcross ; epilogue by Jan Kavan. London: Grafton
Books, 1985. In-8°. pp. [288] SS.Cup.18/8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
SS catalogue entry gives publication details as in theentry above, but all online library catalogues indicatethat the Grafton edition was published in 1989, and thatthe 1985 edition was published by Verso. A copy ispreserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.26.
– David Boothroyd adds: “Note that the Cambridge
UL also includes a restricted copy published by Grafton. The Bodleian Library does likewise with a routinepressmark but then says that this is a “previous shelfmark” because the copy is now in “JR’s cupboard”. Faber and Faber published what appears to be the same
edition, possibly minus the epilogue by Jan Kavan, in2008 (BL H.2010/.5956); I wonder if this indicates that
Grafton accidentally published something they did nothave the rights to?”371. KELLEY, KITTY (1942 - ). – The Royals. New York:
Warner Books, 1997. In-8°. pp. xii. 547, [32] pages ofplates. SS.Cup.20/91.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in Cambridge University Library at
S540.c.99.16 and at the Bodleian, Oxford, where it has
the provocative pressmark “JR’s cupboard.” A 2010 reprint, done at New York by Grand Central Publishing,is in the British Library at YD.2011.a.8006.

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– The Royals was published in September 1997,
but not in the United Kingdom due to threat of libel action. In the book, Kelley stated that the Windsors obscured their German ancestry and described scandals
surrounding the members of the Royal Family.

KENNER, Hugh. – See: ELIOT, Thomas Stearns.
372. KERMODE, FRANK, Sir. (1919-2010). – Romantic
Image. [On the poetic image, with special reference
to modern poetry and criticism.] London: Routledge &Kegan Paul, 1957. In-8°. pp. xi. 171.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are several copies in the BL: 11872.tt.31. – X27/7157. –W77/6897. – 821 *1*.

373. KERMODE, FRANK, Sir. – [Another edition of thepreceding.] Romantic Image. [On the poetic image,with special reference to modern poetry and criticism.]London: Fontana Books, 1971. 18cm. pp. 187.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. Fontana Books
were a paperback division of Collins, the publisher
credited with this edition by the 2011 spreadsheet.
There is one copy of this in edition in the BL shelved at
X.900/7814.

374. KERR, SUSAN LEE. – Creative writing - the matrix :exercises & ideas for creative writing teachers. London: Paxton, 2005. In-8°. pp. vi. 138. SS.Cup.20/96.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: “I ordered up the copy inthegeneralreferencecollection(shelfmark
YK.2008.a.8332) and found it had a letter in with itfrom the author stating that the pre-release copies werewithdrawn shortly before the book was published due toa ‘problem … with permissions’. She then says ‘I notified Legal Deposit and was told the version I had already sent would be put in the Suppressed Cupboard’
but goes on to ask for its return of ‘assurance of destruction’.”375. KING, CECIL HARMSWORTH (1901 – 1987). – The
Cecil King Diary 1970-1974. London: Jonathan Cape,
1975. In-8°. pp. 415. SS.Cup.15/6.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.989/50563 and 76/26823.
– Cecil Harmsworth King was chairman of International Publishing Corporation, and later a part-time Director at the Bank of England (1965-68). Fuelled by aparanoid fear of hyperinflation and social unrest because of it, in 1968 he became involved, together withPeter Wright of MI5, Hugh Cudlipp, Lords Cromer &Robens, and Sir Basil Smallpeice in an absurd plot tobring down the Labour Government of Harold Wilson
and replace it with a coalition led by Lord Mountbatten.
The plot failed, and after publishing a virulently antiWilson article in the Daily Mirror under his own name,King was dismissed by the directors of International
Publishing Corporation. In retirement he wrote articles
for The Times, and published autobiographies and diaries. The latter further damaged an already tattered reputation because it was felt that he had betrayed confidences.

376. KING, HENRY EDWARD. – General Certificate
Woodwork. London: Harrap, 1975. Large 8vo. 127
pp. Suppressed by reason of a “print error.”
SS.Cup.15.13.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There are
two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks:
X.611/7337 & YK.1989. b. 1825.

377. KING'SFUNDCATERING
ADVISORYSERVICE. General Hospital Diets. King Edward's
Hospital Fund for London, 1969. SS.Cup.13.a.21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The King's Fund Catering Advisory Service wasestablished in 1943. By 1944 it was running its firsttraining courses for hospital cooks and catering officers.
As a result of the success of these courses, it was decided to set up a permanent School of Hospital Catering.
This opened in 1951 and was housed in the old laundryblock of St Pancras Hospital. It offered training both inpractical cooking and in catering administration.
– In 1963 the Fund decided to discontinue thecookery courses as training in cookery was now available at technical colleges. Instead it would concentrateon administrative training for hospital caterers. As St
Pancras Hospital required the School building for the
expansion of hospital facilities, the School moved in1371965 to 27 Palace Court, Bayswater, London W2,
where it reopened as the Staff College for Hospital Caterers.
– In 1968 the King's Fund College of HospitalManagement was formed by amalgamating the four
staff colleges, namely the Hospital Administrative Staff
College, the Staff College for Matrons, the Staff College for Ward Sisters and the Staff College for Hospital
Caterers. The Catering Branch remained at 27 Palace
Court until February 1971 when it moved to 22 Holland
Park. It closed in July 1973.

378. KIPLING, JOSEPH RUDYARD (1865 – 1936). – Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses. London: Methuen & Co., 1892. In-8°. pp. xix. 208. SS.a.357.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
first series of these ballads were published in 1892, andwent through at least four editions in that year. Whichwas suppressed is uncertain, but the first, for a printing
error [?], is a possibility.

379. [KIRBY, DEREK AMOS.] – Soho Street Girl by
Marty Ladwick. London: Kaye Publications [c. 1954].
8vo. pp. 134. Pictorial wrappers. Accession date: 19
March 1954. SS. Cup 9.c.17.
– Formerly shelved upon receipt by the Library at
Cup. 367.c.109. Following legal action it was removed
to the S.S but has subsequently been moved again to thePrivate Case where it is shelved at P.C. 28.a.50.

380. KIRTON, J. P. Chronological Record of Yorkist
Dynasty 1475-1485. [?Lowestoft:] Printed for theRichard III Society, 1974. In-8°. Two volumes.
SS.Cup.14.a.15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Mr. Kirton’s Chronological Record of the Yorkist
Dynasty was apparently self published by the author
who, anticipating for some reason the imprimatur of the
Richard III Society, added their name to its titlepage.
However, when the work was reviewed by the Society’s Committee it was found to contain “…errors whichwere unacceptable to us. The secretary, on behalf of thecommittee, was instructed to tell [the author] that theSociety's name could not be used in conjunction withhis work and apparently a second version was producedwith a sticker over the statement that it was published138

by the Society.” We are greatly obliged to Ms Wendy
Moorhen, the Research Officer for the Richard III Society, for her assistance on this entry.

381. KNOLLYS, HENRY, Sir. – Life of General Sir Hope
Grant, with selections from his correspondence. Edited by Henry Knollys … With portraits of Sir Hope
Grant, and maps and plans. Edinburgh & London:
William Blackwood & Sons, 1894. In-8°. 2 vols.
– Included in neither the 1945 nor the 2008 catalogues, but see Peter Fryer, Private Case, Public Scandal, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1966, pp. 153.) There
are now three copies of this work in the General Catalogue, at 1609/1861, T10872 and 010855.b.15. One
contains press cuttings “relating to the action for libel
brought by the Rev. T. W. Belcher against the author,”
but from the online catalogue entries it's not entirely
clear which one.
– “The Rev. T. W. Belcher, who was formerly acensor of the Dublin College of Physicians, but left the
profession for the Church, sued Colonel Knollys for alibel contained in his life of Sir Hope Grant. The colonel gave currency in the book to a scandal which heseems to have heard, that the reverend doctor on one
occasion preached an “immodest” sermon. The colonel
was let off with an humble apology and the costs incurred.” – George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop
Stedman, Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery (New York: William Wood & Company, May 8th 1897, p. 680.)– The offending passage appears on page 322 of
the second volume: “A certain Rev. Thomas Belcher,incumbent of St. Faith’s, London, had been asked by
the principal Episcopalian chaplain, Mr. Wheeler, to officiate during the absence of the regular chaplain. Officers indignantly declared that the sermon was one thatshould not have delivered in the presence of a congregation which included young single as well as married
women; that it was not fit for ladies to listen to; that one
officer took his wife out of the church during the service; and that, in fact, the whole discourse was unnecessarily offensive.”– The author adds: “The subject was that of Bathsheba, and the suggested amplification of the Bible record was extremely realistic.”– Peter Fryer, in his reference to this book, refers toa somewhat different ‘libel’: “The SS has a copy ofColonel Sir Henry Knollys’ Life of Sir General Hope139

Grant (1904), in which the double crime of having borrowed £100 from a bank manager in his youth and having, later in life, saved the same bank by depositing£30,000 is wrongly attributed to a Mr. Levi or Levy of
the Daily Telegraph.” This is indeed the case. The offending passage appears on p. 270 of the second volume, and apologetic erratum slips were inserted into thebook after the mistake was discovered.

382. KOEHLER, JOHN O. (1930-2012 ) – Stasi. The untold story of the East German secret police. [With illustrations.] Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press,
1999. In-8°. pp. xvi, 460. SS.Cup.20/52.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: YC.1999.b.8762 and 99/15173. The copy
at Cambridge is restricted at pressmark Arc.c. 99.416,
but copies in other UK libraries don’t seem to have restrictions placed on them which suggests that revised
copies were issued. A request to Cambridge for information on their copy prompted an challenging reply
from Mr. Ed Potten, which I slightly paraphrase: “yourrequest [about Stasi] raises an interesting question, aquestion which as the curator of the collection I havefelt the need to pass on to our legal team. The problem
is that the book contains information relating to its suppression, but by dint of its nature that information isdeemed by us to be confidential – its disclosure may
constitute a breach of a duty of confidence… Under thecircumstances (and I am sure this isn't what you arehoping to hear…) the advice I have been given is that inthis case we cannot release the information without
consent from either the author or publisher.”– The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry
for State Security), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation German: Staatssicherheit, literally State Security), was the secret police of East Germany. The
hardback edition of the book was withdrawn by the
publisher, but letters to them for clarification were ignored.
– John Koehler was a journalist, served in the
United States Army and United States Army Reserveand in 1987 became assistant to the President and Director of Communications under Ronald Reagan. He
was a controversial figure, especially when, one day after being appointed to the White House post, it was revealed that as a ten-year-old in Germany he’d been amember of the fascist Jungvolk. Mr. Koehler, who
seemed much preoccupied by the Bolshevik threat, was140

also the author of Spies in the Vatican: the Soviet Union’s War Against the Catholic Church (2009).

383. LABOUR PARTY DIRECTORY. (Six parts) The
Labour Party. 1978-80. Jan & July, 1983. Feb. 1984.
SS.Cup.16/6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

384. LADIES’ DIRECTORY. no. 7-10 [i.e. 1-4]. [London:] Shaw Publishing Co. [1959,60]. In-8°. SS.
Cup.12.c.2.
–The Ladies Directory was a sort of mimeographed
trade paper for prostitutes in which they could pay toadvertise with descriptions–highly detailed in some instances–of their services and specialties. The Directory
was published at 7s. 6d. a copy by an entrepreneurial
Soho man named Frederick Charles Shaw, and became
the subject of a celebrated court case with appeals thatwent as far as the House of Lords. The copies are
shelved at Cup.1001.d.5. Another issue, a revised version of no. 7 [i.e. no. 1] with a supplement, is at
Cup.1001.d.5a.F.

LADWICK, MARTY. – See: KIRBY, DEREK AMOS.
385. [LAMONT, H. P.] SAINT-MANDÉ, WILFRED
pseud. – War, Wine, and Women. London: Cassell &Co., 1931. In-8°. pp. 552. SS.a.385.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues. A
novel of the author's experiences in the trenches of
WWI. There is a copy of the tenth edition in the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010821.f.46. It was published in 1936. A reprint was published at London in1951 by Cassell. Copies of the original edition of 1931
are preserved at Trinity College, Dublin, Llyfrgell
Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library of Wales] andOxford. A copy is also kept in the restricted section of
the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.112.
– Mr. Ed Potten, of Cambridge University, kindlyinspected their copy of this title and wrote: “…this has
two press cuttings pasted within, both of which areclearly in the public domain, although I have thus far
failed to identify which newspapers they appeared in.
The first, dated 29/4/31 is bluntly factual: ‘War Book
Withdrawn. Every copy of War, Women and Wine, a
war novel, by Wilfred Saint-Mande, which Messrs Cas-

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sell were to have issued to-morrow, has now been recalled by the publishers.’– “The second, dated May 1932, gives some context…: ‘Pretoria, Monday. Professor H.P. Lamont, amember of the Senate of the University of Pretoria, andLecturer in French, was to-day tarred and feathered andthrown out of a motor car in the main square of thetown. He was clad only in a pair of bathing slips, and aplacard had been slung on his neck, inscribed, War,Wine, and Women. Later four young men called upon
the police and confessed to the outrage. The incident
marks the climax of a wave of indignation which has
lasted several weeks over a war book entitled War,Wine, and Women, which contained passages deemed
to be derogatory to the Dutch community in South Africa. … It is stated that two of the men concerned are
grandsons of the late President Kruger.’ ”– Articles published in the London Times provide
further information:– FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT PRETORIA,
May 23. Professor H. P. Lamont, of the University of
Pretoria, the author of the book War, Wine, and Women, was tarred and feathered to-day by four men as aprotest against the anti-Afrikaans sentiments which, it
was said, he expressed in the book. He was roughly
handled and released almost naked in the middle of thecity. The public conscience has been stirred and the police are taking action. The incident is the culmination ofa “heresy hunt” lasting several weeks. Professor Lamont wrote the book under the pen-name of WilfredSaint-Mandé. War, Wine, and Women was publishedlast year and at once aroused vehement protests from
Afrikaans-speaking people, who demanded the withdrawal of the book from circulation and the dismissal of
the author from his appointment. Professor Lamont
stated in defence that it was absurd to attribute to him
sentiments which he had put in the mouths of some of
his characters, but that as certain references in the book
had given offence, he would unreservedly withdraw
them and delete them from any future editions. The
Times, May 24, 1932, p. 13.
– FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT PRETORIA,
June 20. Four men were to-day sentenced to a fine of£50 or six months' imprisonment for tarring and feathering Mr. H. P. Lamont, author of a book called War,Wine, and Women, which was considered a reflection
on Afrikaans-speaking people. The Chief Magistrate,
Mr. A. B. Herold, severely censured the accused. A“more contemptuous disregard of the law of the land,”he said, “and a more deliberate taking into private

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hands of the right to punish it is difficult to conceive.
The assault is of a gross and aggravated nature and justifies imprisonment without the option of a fine. The assault was a deliberate revenge and conduct of a reprehensible nature.” In the courtyard the son of General
Hertzog, the Union Prime Minister, shook hands withthe four sentenced men. The Times, June 21, 1932, p.
13.
– FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT PRETORIA,
October 20. The Transvaal Division of the Supreme
Court gave judgment to-day in favour of Professor H.
P. Lamont for £750 and costs against three of the four
men who tarred and feathered him in May as a protest
against his book, War, Wine and Women. The fourth
man was not included in the action as he had become
insolvent. “The action of the defendants,” said theJudge President, “was gross and wanton in the extreme,deliberate in its conception and diabolical in its execution. They showed the plaintiff no mercy.” The Court
felt, however, that Professor Lamont should have anticipated that the offending passages in the book would
cause strong feeling, and could not see the necessity for
publication of the book at all since All Quiet on theWestern Front had revealed the horrors of the War.
The Times, October 21, 1932, p. 13.

386. LAMOS, COLLEEN. – Deviant modernism : sexualand textual errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, andMarcel Proust. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998. 24cm. pp. x. 269.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL which are shelved at YC.2000.a.3178
and 99/14873.
– Letters to Professor Lamos requesting clarification of the reasons for the suppression of her work wereignored. However, David Boothroyd examined the copy
at Cambridge and speculates: “Although it [i.e. Deviant
Modernism] doesn't mention her, I wonder if it may
have drawn the ire of Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S.
Eliot who was known to be fiercely protective of his
reputation. As his literary executor she also refused
most requests to quote from his work; Lamos does
quote occasionally but not excessively, in keeping withthe fair comment exception to copyright. Valerie Eliot
died on 9 November 2012.”

143387. LANDIS, LAURIE, pseud. – Legal Bondage and Other Stories. Ilfracombe: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd.,
1945. In-8°. pp. 48. SS.a.113.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue (012641.n.95), dated‘[1944]’. The copy in the Bodleian, Oxford, is similarly
dated. An earlier edition, dated 1941, is in Trinity College, Dublin, at pressmark: ZN 29.7. Two copies arepreserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmarks Phi.147 and Phi.148.

388. LANE, JAN-ERIK. – Constitutions and political theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
In-8°. pp. 294. SS.Cup.20/90.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Twocopies are in the SS, both with the same pressmark.
There is a copy in the General catalogue at the following pressmark: 96/28489.

389. LANE, LOTTIE RHONA ARBUTHNOT (1885-1953),
Headmistress of Wycombe Abbey. – An Anthology of
the Seasons. Collected by R. A. Lane, &c. London:
Frederick Muller, 1936. In-8°. pp. 294. SS.a.420.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:11655.bbb.51. A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark
Phi.62 and one in the Bodleian Library at pressmark
Res. e.37, the entry for which is marked ‘Not available
for consultation’; a ‘revised copy’ is shelved at 2805
e.998.
– Withdrawn by the publisher for unspecified reasons. The presence of unrestricted copies in some libraries suggests the book was re-issued with the problems corrected.
– “Miss Rhona Arbuthnot Lane, formerly theheadmistress of Wycombe Abbey School, died on
Thursday after a long illness. She was the daughter of
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, and was educated at Francis Holland Church of England High School in Baker
Street and at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. During her 16
years as an English specialist at Clifton High School for
Girls at Bristol she was also head of the senior boarding
house. There followed six years as second mistress of
Wycombe Abbey School and in 1925 she was appointed headmistress, a post she held for two years. She
earned herself a name, not only–or even primarily–for

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her teaching (of which many pupils can report the benefit they had), but as a woman who understood the otherfactors which make a girl’s education successful. She
published two anthologies–An Anthology of the Seasonsand Poems of Praise–whose usefulness in schools has
been widely acknowledged.” The Times, Sept. 5th,1953.

390. LANGER, MARSHALL J. – The Tax Exile Report.
[?London:] n.d. SS.Cup.20/37.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Tax Exile Report is an annually updated publication,
written by Marshall Langer, an American Lawyer living
in England.
– David Boothroyd adds: An advertisement for thisbook stated “This report is intended for the small minority of well-to-do individuals who are no longer willing to tolerate increasingly unfair tax systems and areprepared to vote with their feet.” During a televised
hearing in the United States Senate on 11 July 1995,
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan held up a copy anddescribed it as “a pretty good book. It tells you how to
avoid all this [taxation]”. The first edition was subtitled“how to escape confiscatory taxes in the US and otherhigh tax countries”; later editions have the subtitle “citizenship, second passports and escaping confiscatory
taxes”. As no date is given it is impossible to say withcertainty which edition is suppressed. There are copiesof the third (237p), fourth (279p), and fifth (233p) in
the general reference collection. I consulted the Cambridge University Library's copy of the First Edition(S222.b.99.27) and found that there is a rubber stamp
mark on the title page stating that each edition of thebook is a “CONFIDENTIAL REGISTERED COPY
No. ____”; below it is stated that the book “MAY NOTBE REPRODUCED OR COPIED IN ANY WAY” andis “FOR USE OF ORIGINAL BUYER ONLY”.

391. LARKMAN, SIMON. – Bedfordshire. Luton: The
Leagrave Press Ltd., 1950. In-8°. pp. 79.
SS.Cup.6.b.14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: 010368.w.66. The title of this work appears
as Guide to Bedfordshire on the cover.

392. LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT RICHARDS (18851930). – Phoenix. The posthumous papers of D. H.
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Lawrence. Edited and with an introduction by Edward
D. McDonald. London: William Heinemann, 1936. In8°. pp. xxvii. 852.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is a copyin the BL at pressmark 012272.dd.11.
– The third edition of Poplawski and Roberts’ A
Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2001) states that thebook contains a “number of previously unpublishedMS, but also many rather obscurely published items.”
Something included in the book may have led to problems of copyright infringement, but why it didn’t arrivein the SS before 2011 is unclear.

393. LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT RICHARDS. – The
Rainbow. London: Methuen & Co., 1915. In-8°. pp.
vii.436. SS.a.57.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Obscene; all copies seized.” Copies of thisand a “Methuen's Colonial Library” edition were in the
Private Case, but later removed to the General Library,at C. 124. dd. 16 and C. 124. dd. 17.

LAWRENCE, THOMAS EDWARD (1888-1935), LieutenantColonel. – See: ROSS A/C.
394. LEAGUE SENTINEL. Newsletter from the Leagueof St George. Friends of the league of St George, Nov.
1994. SS.Cup.18/22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The League Sentinel is the quarterly organ of the
League of St. George, a Fascist organization whose
headquarters are at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London,
WC1N 3XX. “Every issue carries news of the struggle
from home and abroad. Articles on Mosley, National
Socialism, History and the Holocaust have been featured in the past along with dozens of other subjects ofinterest to the European Racial Nationalist.”– 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3XX
is also the headquarters of British Monomarks who
have a business supplying suitably impressive central
London addresses to companies and organisations who
have no headquarters or do not wish to disclose where
they are. A lot of fringe political organisations use theirservices.

146395. LEATHERHEAD FOOD R.A. Annual Report. Research Section. (6 parts.) Leatherhead Food. 1976-78& 1980-82. SS.Cup.18/5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Leatherhead Food RA (Randalls Road, Leatheread, Surrey KT22 7RY, UK) is an independent foodresearch facility. “Founded in 1919, the Leatherhead
Food RA was based on partnerships among food companies interested in R&D. The initiative attracted government support. The partnership lives on today, withsome of the original partners still being in membership,
but government no longer plays a leading role in its operation.’396. LEBRECHT, NORMAN. – Maestros, Masterpieces &Madness : the Secret Life and Shameful Death of theClassical Record Industry. London: Allen Lane, 2007.
25cm. pp. xii. 324, [8] pp. of plates and illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. A copy is restricted
in Cambridge University Library at pressmark
Arc.c.200.419.
– The publishers of this book were sued by Klaus
Heymann, founder of Naxos Records, who claimed that
Lebrecht had accused him in Maestros, Masterpieces &Madness of “serious business malpractices.” The casewas settled out of court, as a result of which the publisher was obliged to issue a statement apologizing to
Heymann and pay his legal fees, make a donation to acharity and withdraw all unsold copies of the offending
book. A copy of the Allen Lane edition is in the BL at
HUS 780.26609. Copies of a [revised?] 2008 reprint by
Penguin Books are in the Bodleian and Trinity College,
Dublin.
LE CARON. HENRI, pseud. See: BEACH,
THOMAS MILLER.

397. LEE, WITNESS and John C. Ingalls. – Hymns. Los
Angeles: Stream Publishers, [1966]. In-8°. SS.Cup
16/19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “1close score (1080 hymns)” The British Library copy iswanting the titlepage. There is a copy–ex-libris A. Ross
Wards–in the Dunedin Public Library, New Zealand, atpressmark RH. There is another copy at Ambrose University College, Calgary, Canada (pressmark: M2131

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.H95 1966). We are indebted to Mr. Richard Price at
the British Library for his assistance with this entry.
– Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu)(1905–June 9, 1997) was a Chinese Christian preacher
and church leader associated with the Local churches
movement and Living Stream Ministry. He was born in
Chefoo, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a
Southern Baptist family. He was born again in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Wang, and almost
immediately came under the influence of Watchman
Nee. He became a full-time co-worker of Nee in 1933,and moved to Shanghai to be with Nee in 1934. In thelate 1940s as the Communists were advancing in China,
Witness Lee was sent by Watchman Nee to Taiwan inorder to continue their ministry there. During the 1950s,
Lee worked with T. Austin-Sparks who held conferences with him in Taiwan in 1955 and 1957. However,
although they were united in their views on Christ as
life to the believers, they differed sharply on their viewsof the church, with Witness Lee teaching and emphasizing the “ground of the Church” (i.e. one-city, onechurch), and Austin-Sparks emphasizing the “independence of individual congregations.”– Witness Lee’s ministry emphasized the experience of “Christ as life” and the practical oneness of thebelievers as the Body of Christ. Stressing the importance of attending to both these matters, he led
churches to be founded and grow under this guidance.
He was unbending in his teachings that God's goal is
not narrow sectarianism but the Body of Christ. In time,
believers began to respond to this conviction, establishing Christian churches that were inclusive in nature andassociated with local communities. These “local
churches” were soon established throughout all theWestern hemisphere and South-East Asia. In recent
years a number of new churches have been founded in
Russia and in many eastern European countries. The
movement is now slowly spreading in the Arabic speaking world, Africa, India, and South Asia.

398. LEFEBURE, MOLLY. – Evidence for the Crown.
Experiences of a Pathologist's Secretary. [With plates,
including a portrait.] London: William Heinemann,
1955. In-8°. pp. 235. SS.Cup. 10.a.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies at the Bodleian Law Library (Crim 570
L488a1 (sec coll)), Cambridge (236.c.95.97) and The
London Library (S. Crime).

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– Molly Lefebure was born in London and was
educated at the North London Collegiate School. She
went on to study at King's College London at the University of London where she met her husband. During
World War II she worked as a newspaper reporter for a
London newspaper. During the war she met Dr Keith
Simpson, the celebrated pathologist, and became hissecretary, gaining information for Evidence for the
Crown, her first book.
– David Boothroyd writes: “I examined the copy in
Cambridge, and while it's not clear what led to suppression, I suspect it may be inclusion of copyrighted photographs.”399. LEFEBURE, MOLLY. – Evidence for the Crown.
Experiences of a Pathologist's Secretary. [With plates,
including a portrait.] London: William Heinemann,
1955. In-8°. pp. 235. SS.Cup.10.a.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

400. LESLIE, JOHN RANDOLPH SHANE, Bart.– The Cantab. London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. In-8°. pp. 285.
SS.a.363.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:YA.1987.a.14875. A copy of the revised second edition, also published in 1926 by Chatto and Windus, is atpressmark: NN.12088. A restricted copy is in the Bodleian Library at pressmark: Res. e.12, and the catalogue
entry marked ‘Not available for consultation.’– “The Cantab, a book written by Mr. Shane
Leslie, was the subject of an application to Sir Chartres
Biron at Bow-street Police Court yesterday. Mr. Percival Clarke, who was accompanied by Sir Archibald
Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions, said that theapplication arose out of a book recently published entitled The Cantab, which had been attracting a certain
amount of public attention, and into the propriety ofwhich the Home Secretary had been inquiring. On
March 4 the Home Secretary sent his instructions to the
Director of Public Prosecutions to make the necessaryinquiries to justify proceedings being taken to put a stopto the publication. On the following day DetectiveInspector Cooper, of Scotland Yard; was requested tomake the inquiries, and steps were taken for the purposeof justifying the present application for a search warrant
under the Obscene Publications Act, 1857. As soon asthese inquiries had been completed and the necessary

149material obtained the result was communicated to the
Director of Public Prosecutions, and on the same day,March 8, an ‘information’ was prepared. This was sent
to that Court, together with a copy of the book, on thefollowing day. The Magistrate then said that he would
consider the book and give his decision yesterday.
Since then statements had appeared in the public Pressto the effect that Mr. Shane Leslie the author, intended
to withdraw the book altogether from circulation. If that
was a genuine intention on his part It might render unnecessary the proceedings which had been contemplated. Counsel therefore suggested that the Magistrateshould reserve his decision in order that the Director of
Public Prosecutions might satisfy himself that the book
had been withdrawn. If the book had in fact been withdrawn, a great deal more advantage would have been
gained than by proceeding with this application. If thestatement of Mr. Shane Leslie in the Press was correct,
he admitted that the publication was improper andought not to have been published, and the Magistrate
would see how well-founded that admission was if he
had read the passages indicated to him… Sir Chartres
Biron said that since the ‘information’ was presented tohim last Tuesday he had had an opportunity of reading
the book in order to assist him in coming to a decision
as to whether or not proceedings could be taken in respect of it. He was careful to read the book, because
these were not easy questions to decide. In fact, suchcases were some of the most difficult that a magistrate
might have before him, and it would be unfair to give adecision until he had carefully considered the bookfrom every aspect. Undoubtedly the view taken nowadays was that the less the law interfered with letters thebetter. Authors nowadays were given a latitude in subject and in treatment which w as denied to them notmany years ago. We thought the general view was thatthat liberty, had certainly been in the better interests ofliterature. But authors at the same time must realize that
there were certain canons of public decency which they
could reasonably be expected to adhere to. He wasclearly of opinion that the book in question contravened
those canons. It purported to be a study of undergraduate life at Cambridge, and he thought it right to say thatwith regard to a great deal of the book although one
might possibly detect in it errors of taste, and a certain
undergraduate aggressiveness which was not altogether
unsuitable to the subject there was no cause of offence
which could bring it within the terms of this statute. But
there were two or three passages of so gross a kind thathe should have had no hesitation-had it been necessaryin issuing process. He had no knowledge as to whether
the reported statement of the author’s was authoritative
or not. If it was authoritative and the book was with-150

drawn from circulation, it would obviously be superfluous to proceed by a Court of law to achieve a result
which had already been arrived at by a possibly moredesirable process, because he could not help feeling that
it was much more desirable, from every point of view,that the book should be withdrawn under the pressureof public opinion rather than by the coercion of legal
proceedings. He adjourned the proceedings for a week,
in order to see whether the book had been suppressed ornot. The Times, March 16th, 1926.

401. LETTERS FROM HENRY JAMES AND
WILLIAM JAMES TO HENDRIK CHRISTIAN
ANDERSEN. From July 19th 1899 to 1915. [Typescripts, c.1955.] SS.Cup.12.c.42.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The bracketed date ‘1955’ is the library’s own.
These are copies of typewritten letters; whether they are
copies of original letters, as typed by James himself, or
typed transcriptions of handwritten letters has been impossible to discover. A collection of letters written byJames to Andersen was auctioned at Sotheby about
1954 or 1955 by Lucia Lice, Andersen’s adopted sisterand heir, and it may be that some arrangement wasmade for these to be copied for the British Library on
the condition that they be restricted for some period oftime.
– The full text of the James/Andersen correspondence was first published in Italian as Amato Ragazzo :Lettere a Hendrik C. Andersen, 1891-1915 (Venezia:
Marsilio, 2000) under the editorship of Rosella Mamoli
Zorzi. An English edition was published in 2004 by the
University of Virginia Press.

402. LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND CORRESPONDENCE TO INDIA. (19 vols.) 1880-1905.
403. LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND CORRESPONDENCE TO INDIA. (31 vols.) 1880-1905
404. LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND CORRESPONDENCE TO INDIA. (5 vols.) 1883-1904– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Although catalogued separately, the preceding three items
share the common pressmark: SS.7 a 1. These volumes
are almost certainly those referred to by Peter Fryer, op.
cit. p. 155, but the pressmark he gives is SS.Cup.7.a.1.

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405. LEVY, AMY (1861-1889). – A Ballad of Religion
and Marriage. [London, c.1915.] In-4°. “…12 copies
only have been printed for private circulation.”SS.b.15(3).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are two copies in the General Catalogue at pressmarks: Cup. 503. n. 9 and Ashley 3583.
– Although Levy designated Clementina Black to
be her executor, many of her papers were destroyed byher family. However Black managed to save two pieces
which she published posthumously: The unhappy Princess, a play for children, and the poem under noticehere. Its radical anticipation of the day when both God
and the institution of marriage are dead was doubtless
instrumental in its suppression when first published. It’sa brief piece of just four stanzas, and the text is now
available freely on the internet.
– Levy, who was born in Clapham, South London,
was educated at Brighton High School, Brighton, andNewnham College, Cambridge. She wrote stories, essays and poems, some of the latter appearing in Oscar
Wilde’s periodical Women’s World. Her novels included Reuben Sachs (1888) which was controversial due to
its treatment of Jewish identity and mores in England.
There is some speculation that Levy had an emotional
relationship with Vernon Lee [Violet Paget], who she
met at Florence. Levy suffered from serious depression,and committed suicide on September 10, 1889, at theage of twenty-seven, by inhaling carbon monoxide. Oscar Wilde wrote an obituary for her in Women's World.

LHOMBREAUD, ROGER. – See: SYMONS, ARTHUR.
406. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, The. Report of Meetingof The Library Association. Typewritten. 1910.
SS.b.49.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

407. LITTLE RED SCHOOL BOOK, The. By Søren
Hansen, Jesper Jensen and Bo Dan Andersen. Translated from Danish by Berit Thornberry. [London]
Stage 1 [1971]. In-8°. pp. 208. SS.Cup.14a.37.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
of what seems to be the uncut first English edition are
in the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland, theLondon School of Economics, Durham University and152the Institute of Education Library at the University of
London.
– A British translation of Den lille røde bog forskoleelever. Not exactly a school book in the accepted
sense of the thing, but more a Maoist-inspired polemic
directed at schoolchildren and urging them to rebel
against the ‘paper tigers’ of the adult world. Some unorthodox sex education was also provided. The book wasbanned outright in some countries, and subjected to cuts
in others.

408. LIND-AF-HAGEBY, EMILIE AUGUSTA LOUISE “LIZZY” &Leisa Katherina Schartau. – The shambles of science : extracts from the diary of two students of physiology. London:
E. Bell, 1903. In-8°. pp. xvi+206.
– An anti-vivisection work, alleging that William
Bayliss had performed illegal dissection before an audience of 60 medical students on a brown terrier dog atUniversity College, London. Bayliss, stung particularly
by a chapter in the work titled ‘Fun’ in which students
were described as finding the unanaesthetized dissection amusing, sued for libel and won, but the controversy of what became known as the ‘Brown Dog Affair’led to the setting up of a Royal Commission to investigate the use of animals in experiments. So great was thecontroversy that there were riots between Bayliss supporters, known as ‘anti-doggers,’ and suffragettes, tradeunionists and the police. The first edition was published in July 1903 and reprinted the following month.
That the book was suppressed is confirmed by P.R.
Harris in A History of the British Museum Library
1753-1973 (London: British Library, 1998), p. 386. A
reprint, published at London in 1913 by the Animal Defence & Anti-Vivisection Society, is in the General
Catalogue. In the 1913 edition, the chapter ‘Fun’, which
had caused such offence, was replaced with one called“The Vivisections of the Brown Dog”, describing theexperiment and the trial. A copy of the original edition
is in the restricted collection of Cambridge University
Library at pressmark Arc.c.90.402. Apparently unrestricted copies of the same edition are available in the
National Library of Scotland and the London School of
Economics.

409. LINDGREN, TORGNY (1938 - ). – [Bat Seba] Bathsheba. A Novel. Translated from the Swedish by Tom
Geddes. London: Collins Harvill, 1988. In-8°. pp.
249. SS.Cup.18/7.
153

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– We are greatly indebted to Mr. Geddes, the translator of this work, for taking the time to email us withan account of why Bethsheba was placed in the SS. He
writes:– “This novel was in fact first issued by mistakefrom unrevised proofs, and Harvill withdrew it andprinted a new edition from the corrected proofs. But
some copies had already been distributed, including obviously the one to the BL.
– “I have one copy myself of the faulty edition(and no doubt there will be a copy in Harvill’s archive).
I see I had marked up my copy with all the errors. For
instance, on the tp verso the diacritics are missing fromthe Swedish publisher name; on p. 1 the word ‘and’ appears twice in succession (after ‘fragrance’); on p. 3
‘Shaphan stopped’ should have been ‘Shaphan stayed’;
on p. 7 capitals are lower-cased in the ‘song’; on p. 9
‘not loose control’ should have been ‘lose’; there arecommas missing and intrusive commas all over theplace; and I see another indented ‘song’ on p. 22 where‘Thou hast’ came out as ‘Thou has’. And so it goes on.
The edition was riddled with errors – these were thedays when a whole book would be retyped for printing,so all sorts of oddities crept in, not just translator’s errors!
“The mistake was due in part to the handover offiles from Faber & Faber, who had originally commissioned the translation but sold it on to Harvill before
publication.”

410. LINDSAY, Cressida. – No Wonderland. London:
Anthony Blond, 1962. In-8°. pp. 171. SS.Cup.12.c.16– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Members of Cressida Lindsay’s family were contacted on our behalf by Mr. John Bennett in regard to
the presence of No Wonderland in the SS, but none ofthem were aware of any circumstances which might account for it. It is however interesting to note that Lindsay had a son, Aaron, by her publisher, Anthony Blondin 1963.

411. LISTER, ROMA, folklorist. – Further Reminiscences:
occult and social. With 16 illustrations. London:154

Hutchinson & Co., [1927]. 8vo. pp. 314. “Withdrawn
by the publisher.” SS.a.365.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. A copy is in
the General Catalogue at pressmark: 010856.cc.19.
Roma Lister was an Italian folklorist, a contemporary
and friend of the American folklorist and author
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903).
– “(Before Mr. Justice Horridge.) A settlement
was announced of an action in which Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, of 23, The Boltons, S.W.,
claimed from Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers), Limited, of 31, Paternoster-row, E.C.; the Camelot Press,
Limited, of 34, Strand, W.C., printers; and Miss Roma
Lister damages for a libel which appeared in a book
written by Miss Lister and entitled Further Reminiscences: Occult and Social.
– “Mr. Roland Burrows appeared for the plaintiff;
Mr. F. Appleby Holt for Messrs. Hutchinson and Co.
and Miss Lister; and Mr. J. V. Morris for the Camelot
Press, Limited.
– “Mr. Burrows said that early in 1927 Messrs.
Hutchinson and Co. published the book Further Reminiscences: Occult and Social, in which Miss Lister saw
fit to collect a number of wild anecdotes about German
spies in England during the war. She included among
them a story that Lord Kitchener's private secretary wasa German, and she told how an officer's invention
which Lord Kitchener had improved and which he hadordered to be adopted by the Forces had been held upby the negligence or worse of that private secretary,
whom Kitchener said ought to be have been interned,
only he was so useful. As a wide circle of the publicknew, Sir George Arthur was the personal private secretary of Lord Kitchener up to the date of his death.
Immediately Miss Lister’s hook was published an avalanche of inquiries descended on Sir George Arthur,and he was subjected to a great deal of annoyance bothin this country and on the Continent, where he was wellknown.
– “Sir George Arthur was a British subject by birthand descent in every sense of the term. Proceedings
were taken and, of course, it turned out that the story
had no truth in it. Sir George Arthur had suffered not
only because of the reflection made on himself but also
because of that made on Lord Kitchener who was madethe subject of a number of anecdotes which reflected
the insignificance of those who told them rather than
the greatness of that great man. Stories about dead peo-155

ple were so rife nowadays and there was no remedy unless some living person was also attacked.
– “In these circumstances the defendants had approached Sir George Arthur and had agreed to settle theaction on the terms endorsed on counsel's briefs, terms
which included a public and complete apology to Sir
George Arthur for the attack which had been made on
him and Lord Kitchener.
– “Mr. Holt said that he took the opportunity ofsaying in the frankest and most open manner that thestatements complained of were entirely without foundation. Messrs Hutchinson and Co. wished to express
their deepest regret that those statements should havebeen made and they appreciated that Sir George Arthurmust have suffered pain and annoyance. As soon as Sir
George Arthur brought the matter to their notice they
published in the Press a statement that there was nofoundation for the story and an expression of regret, andthey immediately withdrew all copies of the book.
When the book first came in manuscript to Messrs.
Hutchinson and Co. it was perfectly innocent, but theproofs were returned to them with that canard attached
to it. They should of course, have read every amendment. Miss Lister associated herself with Messrs.
Hutchinson and Co.'s apology and expression of regret.
– “Mr. Morris, for the printers of the book, associated himself to the full with the words and sentiments
which had fallen from Mr. Holt. his clients hoped thatby the publicity which had been given to the matter theentirely unfounded statements which had been madeabout Sir George Arthur would be prevented from passing into the currency of historical gossip.” The Times,
July 27, 1927, p. 5.

412. LLOYD, ROGER BRADSHAIGH. – The Church of
England in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1946. In-8°. SS.a.115.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.93 and one
in the Bodleian Library at pressmark Res. e.68, the entry for which is marked ‘Not available for consultation.’A third restricted copy is at Cambridge with the pressmark Arc.c.94.401. There are copies at Cambridge(121:1.c.90.4) and at Bristol (BX5101 LLO). The second volume was published in 1950.

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413. LLOYD’S AVIATION RECORD – AIRCRAFT. (5parts.) Lloyd’s, 1923-28. SS.a.343.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

414. LLOYD’S AVIATION RECORD – PILOTS. (2parts.) Lloyd’s, 1921-24. SS.a.344.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

415. LLOYD’S UNDERWRITING SYNDICATES. Corporation of Lloyd’s, 2002. SS.Cup.20/36.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: This annual publication is
known within Lloyd's as the ‘Blue Book’ or the ‘Syndicates Book’ and appears each year in late March. According to a notice issued with the order form, “thispublication is restricted to Members of Lloyd's, Recognised Auditors, Lloyd’s brokers and Underwriting
Agents, Subscribers and Associates”. No other copies
appear in libraries. A news story in The Independent(20 October 2003) under the headline “Lloyd's of London investigates names leak” said:– “Lloyd’s of London launched an investigation
yesterday to determine how a confidential list of the“names” that finance the insurance market was madepublic. … Yesterday, Lloyd’s of London said that thedisclosure of the list of names, which features in an annual Blue Book available to all members, would prompt
an immediate investigation. ‘Any breach of trust will be
investigated by Lloyd’s,’ said a spokesman. ‘The Blue
Book is made available to names on an annual basis fortheir own use. It does not contain personal or financial
details on names.’ ”

416. LOCKRIDGE, NORMAN. – Lese Majesty. The Private Lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. New
York: Boars Head Books [Sam Roth], 1952. In-8°. pp.
190. Portraits and illustrations by Mahlon Blaine.
SS.Cup.9.a.12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. No
copies of this book appear to be catalogued by libraries
in the UK, but many libraries in the United States havecopies, and it’s widely offered for sale on the internet.
– We are obliged to Mr. Jay Gertzman for the information that this volume has illustrations by Mahlon
Blaine. “In London, in 1920, the most bizarre rumors

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were being whispered about the then Prince of Wales,both in and out of the famous Strand Palace Hotelnightly rendezvous of English prizefighters, Spanish
Ladies of the evening and American newspapermen. As
London representatives of one of the great New York
dailies, the author of this book heard all the rumors. As
a trained journalist, he discounted most of them. Then
one morning he walked slap-bang into a little adventure
which brought the rumors to life. And Mr. Lockridge,
almost against his will, began to investigate them. His
researches carried him to the home of a psychiatrist
who firmly believed that the unhappy prince was a sexual ‘case’, and to the library of Edmund Gosse, official
educational advisor to the Royal Family, who firmly
stated that he was not. In those days it was not seemly
to discuss such matters in print, though they were widely enough talked about in drawing rooms and pubs. And
Mr. Lockridge kept the fruits of his inquiry to himself.
However, times have changed. The Prince of Wales became, first, His Majesty, King Edward VIII and thenHis Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. Even Mr.
Lockridge has changed, in some minor and more inscrutable ways. With the passage of time, the Windsors
were permitted to sink into obscurity until recently,
when rumors about them both were revived with an intensity of brashness and vulgarity. Remembering Mr.
Lockridge's experiences, we persuaded him to set them
down. And he now regales us with some very astonishing commentaries, not only about the Windsors, but on
English royalty in general.” – From the dustjacket ofLese Majesty.

417. LONDON MARRIAGE LICENCES, 1521-1869.
Edited by Joseph Foster from excerpts by … Colonel
Chester. [With a portrait.] London: Bernard Quaritch,
1887. In-4°. pp. xxii p., 1528, printed in columns.
SS.b.69.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: q929.3 *416*. “Memoir of Col. Joseph
Lemuel Chester, D.C.L., LL. D., by John Ward Dean”
occupies pp. [vii]-xxii.
– This remarkable work gives details of marriages
from the following sources: Bishop of London's Office1521 to 1828, Dean and Chapter of Westminster's Office 1599 to 1699, Faculty Office of the Archbishop of
Canterbury 1543 to 1869, Vicar-General's Office of theArchbishop of Canterbury 1660 to 1679. It is based on
the transcriptions of Colonel Chester who saved these
entries from obscurity when he discovered a huge num-158

ber of unindexed marriage records in Latin. The work is
now freely available from online sources.

418. LONDON WEIGHTING SURVEY. Stone, Staffordshire: Reward Regional Surveys 1988-1991.
SS.CUP.18/13.
–Sharing the pressmark, and from the same publisher, is Employee benefits report (1993/19941995/1996.). Neither are listed in any of the four SS
catalogues, but are included in the Library’s on-line Integrated catalogue.

419. LONGBOTTOM, FREDERICK WILLIAM. – Heraldryin the Windows of the Great Winchester Cathedral.
Typewritten manuscript, 1986. SS.Cup.15/40.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

420. LOOMIS, WILLIAM ANDREW (1892–1959). – Figure
Drawing for all it’s Worth. [Drawings, with explanatory text.]. London: Chapman & Hall, 1947. 12 x 9inches. Illustrations. SS.Cup.6.b. 17.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at pressmark
17016 c.17, and one at the Victoria and Albert Museumat 38.HH.15.

421. LORD, WALTER FREWEN (1861-1927). – The Countsof St. Paul. Kingston-on-Thames: Phillipson & Sons,
1904. In-8°. pp. 600. ‘Privately Printed.’ SS.b.24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark
9904.r.4 [previously 9902.e.1] which has MS notes by
George Grey Butler, the author of Colonel St. Paul of
Ewart, soldier and diplomat (London: St. Catherine
Press, 1911) and A Journal of the first two Campaignsof the Seven Years' War. Written in French by H. St.
Paul … Edited by George Grey Butler (Cambridge:
University Press, 1914). There is a copy of The Countsof St. Paul at Cambridge (S540.c.90.31) which would
appear to be the only other copy in captivity. A prefatory note has “the present volume … taken up with the
diplomatic career of the first count.”– We are most obliged to Mr. Christian Algar, aReference Specialist on the BL’s Rare Books & Music

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Reference Team, for checking the non-SS copy for us.
He writes:– “There is a handwritten note on the prelim pagefacing the title page: ‘Note: The manuscript correctionsin this book have been made by me in the course of acareful comparison of the print with the manuscript letters and despatches. George Grey Butler’.
– “The leaf following the title page contains a Prefatory Note by the author, signed off as ‘W.F.L.’, hestates, ‘The short notice of the family history after thetermination of the diplomatic career of Count Horace
the First has been compiled under the careful supervision of Mr. George Grey Butler.’ …, ‘I take no credit
for the Index to this book, which is the work of Miss
Teresa Merz…’…, ‘I must decline, at the same time, toassume any responsibility for the eccentric spelling andconstruction of both French and English words and sentences which have been reproduced with scrupulous fidelity except in the cases where their uncorrected eccentricity would have left them unintelligible to modern
readers.’– “The contents of the book is largely comprised ofletters, correspondence and despatches.”– Horace St. Paul (1729-1812), the subject of thiswork, was an Englishman who fled his native Northumberland for self-imposed exile after fighting a duel inwhich he killed his opponent. He later served as a volunteer with the Austrian General Staff during the operations in Bohemia in the Seven Years War, and after returning to England with an Austrian title and a Royal
Pardon distinguished himself with a career in diplomacy. Several volumes of his journals of the period havebeen edited by Mr. Neil Cogswell and published at
Guisborough, North Yorkshire, by Gralene Books. Mr.
Cogswell, an authority on Horace St. Paul, was kindenough to review the information collected for this entry and wrote to say that was quite unaware of the existence of the publication under notice. Without actually
examining it of course he was unable to offer a firm
opinion of it or why it may have been restricted. He did,
however, offer an interesting suggestion: “The most
likely thing that I can imagine is that the book contained some exasperated note from St. Paul about David
Murray, Lord Stormont, who was the British Ambassador (nominally) in Paris at that time. Although they
seemed outwardly to get on well there is some evidence
that St Paul considered Murray to be ‘soft’ on the
French at the time when they were interfering in American affairs.”160

– To illustrate this Mr. Cogswell drew attention toa passage from the work of Leopold George Wickham
Legg. Concerning David Murray’s shortcomings and
St. Paul’s opinion of them, Legg notes: “It was not until
April 1773 that he [Murray] was able to take over, andhe was absent from Paris from the end of June of thesame year till December, and in the summer of 1775
and again in 1776. Before his arrival and during is absences he had as chargé d’affairs Colonel Horace St
Paul … who generally took a more pessimistic view ofthe designs of the French than did his chief. … St Paulleft Paris early in 1777 on being nominated to Stockholm, a post which for financial reasons he was unable
to take up. His place in Paris was taken by William
Fullarton.” See: L.G.W. Legg, British Diplomatic Instructions 1689-1789 (Volume VII: France, Part iv,
1745-1789) [London:] Royal Historical Society, 1934,
p. 34.

422. LOWE, ROBERT, LL.B. – Tort. [Leicester, Printed by
Wilsons Printers] 1973. In-8°. pp. 31. SS.Cup.14.a.22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Covertitle: “1973 refresher lecture.”– Wilsons Printers at Leicester started life in the1860s and grew, by the 1950s, to become the main UK
printers of cinema posters and billboards. The company
went out of business in March 1995. Their publication(or printing) of a thirty-one page pamphlet on tort law
seems out of character.

423. LOWINSKY, RUTH. – Russian Food for Pleasure,
Modern Recipes. [Translations by Lance Thirkell.]London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. In-8°. pp. 100.
SS.Cup.9.a.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: 7948.aa.75 and X26/6449.

424. LYONS, ARTHUR. – The Devil Wants You. The Cultof Devil Worship. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972.
In-8°. pp. [7], 211, 16 plates : ill. SS.Cup.15/4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
from the same publisher, but dated 1971 and called Satan wants you. The cult of devil worship, are in many
libraries. Originally published as The Second Coming;
Satanism in America (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.)

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425. LYONS, EDWARD THOMAS. – An Historical Surveyof Great Western Engine Sheds, 1947. Oxford: Oxford
Publishing Co., [1972]. 8vo. 284 pp. illus., maps.
“Deposit copy 1972. Replaced 07/91.” SS.Cup.18/2.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. A copy is in
the General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.26.j.40.

426. LYSAGHT, CHARLES EDWARD (1941 - ). – Brendan
Bracken. [With plates.] Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books, 1979. In-8°. pp. 372. SS.b.111.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. All located copies of this book published in 1979 had the imprint of Allen Lane. The Penguin editions first appear
with the date 1980.
The Irish-born Brendan Bracken, 1st ViscountBracken (1901-1958), was a director of the publishing
firm Eyre & Spottiswoode, later being elected memberof Parliament for North Paddington and during WWII
serving as Minister of Information.

427. LYTTON, ROSINA BULWER LYTTON, Baroness,(1802-1882). – A blighted life : a True Story, by the
Right Hon. Lady Lytton. London: London Publishing
Office, 1880. 20cm. pp. iii. 111. Illustrations & portraits.
–David Boothroyd writes: “The original [British
Library copy] cannot be found. There is a facsimile edition published in 1994 at YK.1996.a.13398.” A copy ofthe original edition is in The London Library, and aphotostatic copy is held at Cambridge.
– The story of Rosina Doyle Wheeler’s 1827 marriage to the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton is sadly the
stuff of soap opera. There is evidence of Rosina’s derangement, but it is balanced with Edward’s womanizing and violent mistreatment of her. A Blighted Life details Rosina’s incarceration in a lunatic asylum following her attempts, largely successful it would seem, todisrupt her husband’s appearances at the hustings during his 1857 bid for the parliamentary seat of Hertfordshire. She was released after three weeks following apublic outcry, but continued to pursue her vendetta
against her husband until his death in 1873. The text of
A Blighted Life is freely available on the internet.
An interesting account of the marriage will befound in Virginia Blain’s essay Rosina Bulwer Lytton

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and the Rage of the Unheard (Huntington Library
Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3 Summer 1990, pp. 210-236).

428. MACINTYRE, DONALD, (1947- ). – Mandelson andthe making of New Labour. London: HarperCollins,
1999. In-8°. pp. xxxi.638. 16 pages of plates, illustrations and portraits. SS.Cup.20/94.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Copies
are preserved in the restricted sections of the National
Library of Scotland (Phi.73) and at Cambridge(Arc.c.99.412).
– Treats of Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21
October 1953), a British Labour politician who in October 2008 was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Mandelson isregarded as one of the main players, along with Tony
Blair and Gordon Brown, of the modern Labour Party
and its rebranding as “New Labour” or, as some mightsay, the selling out of the Labour Party’s socialist traditions.
– David Boothroyd adds: This book was suppressed for libel over two paragraphs about John Booth,a former Labour Party press officer. Booth was recruited by Mandelson in 1986 but dismissed after ten
months. A press report by Amelia Gentleman under theheadline ‘Mandelson biographies pulped in libel award’(The Guardian, 21 July 1999) said:– “Copies of a recent biography of Peter Mandelson were sent to be pulped last night after a former Labour party press officer won his libel action against the
book’s author, Donald Macintyre, and its publishers,
HarperCollins. John Booth was yesterday awarded what
he and HarperCollins described as ‘substantial’ damages – understood to be about £10,000. His lawyers were
presented with a pulping certificate from the publishers,
guaranteeing that the 2,500 unsold hardback copies ofMandelson: the Biography would be destroyed…
– “Mr Booth, a freelance journalist who has
worked for the Guardian, said he felt he had no option
but to take legal action after being alerted to the offending section of the book. ‘These were highly damaging
lies. This was a rewriting of history and made damaging
allegations about my work which had seriously defamatory consequences for me – particularly because I work
partly as a political consultant. This was compoundedby the fact the author did not consult me at any point.’ ”

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429. MACKAY, CHARLES ROBERT. – Life of Charles
Bradlaugh, M.P. By Charles R. Mackay [or rather, by
William Harral Johnson, and William Stewart Ross,
with interpolations by C. R. Mackay]. London: D. J.
Gunn & Co., 1888. In-8°. pp. xv. 468. SS.A.9*. [Nowshelved at Cup.504.a.5.]– Included in neither the 1945 nor the 2008 catalogues. Suppressed for being libellous (op. cit. Peter
Fryer, pp. 140,41) and sealed by order of the Standing
Committee on April 9th 1892. The ex-SS copy has
manuscript additions by William Harral Johnson and an
Accession stamp 26 July 1932.The BL has a second
copy listed in the General Catalogue at 10826.f.18
which is in much poorer condition and having an accession stamp of 18 February 1888.

430. MACKENZIE, COLIN. – The Most Wanted Man :the Story of Ronald Biggs. London: Hart-Davis,
MacGibbon, 1975. In-8°. pp. [8], 295, [16] pp. ofplates : ill., facsims., 1 map (on lining papers), ports.
SS.Cup.14.a.44.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.200/20031. –X.200/20109. – X27/5502.
– 75/35238.

431. MACKEOGH, Gretta. – The Magnetism of Health.
London: C.W. Daniel, 1936. SS.a.419.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is nothing in the General Catalogue of this description. However, Cambridge University, the Bodleian (which spells the author’s name as ‘McKeogh’) andthe National Library of Scotland all have restricted copies.
– We are grateful to Mr. Ed Potten, the Head ofRare Books at Cambridge University Library, for examining their copy of The Magnetism of Health(Arc.d.93.411) on our behalf. He writes: “C.W. Daniel
Co, Ltd, asked for this work to be returned, as ‘it has
been withdrawn and never published.’ It was agreed
that the copyright libraries should retain the work on
condition that it is not made available to the public. cf.
letter from the Copyright Agent, 18 June 1936.”– Ms. Mackeogh [or McKeogh] seems to havebeen a devout member of the Catholic church, and was164

a frequent contributor to the letter columns of the Catholic Herald in the 1950s.

432. MAGEE, BRYAN. – Confessions of a Philosopher.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. In-8°. pp. 503.
SS.Cup.20/53.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There is a copy of what seems to be this editionin the London Library at pressmark: Biog. Magee. It
contains the bookplate of Pauline Holden. Two copies
are preserved in the restricted section of the Scottish national Library at pressmarks Phi.45 and Phi.46, and one
at Cambridge at pressmark Arc.c.99.411.
– Confessions of a Philosopher was the subject ofsuit for libel as a result of Mr. Magee repeating the rumour that Ralph Schoenman, a controversial associateof Bertrand Russell during the philosopher's last years,
had been planted by the CIA in an effort to discredit
Russell. Schoenman successfully sued Magee for libelin the UK, with the result that the first printing of the
British edition of the book was pulped.

433. MAGEE, BRYAN. – Confessions of a Philosopher.
London: Phoenix, [2000]. In-8°. pp. 603.
SS.Cup.20/54.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

434. MAID OF HONOUR. A Peep at our Cousins, by a
Maid of Honour. New York: Minerva Publishing
Company, 1888. 8vo. pp. 75. SS.A.97.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– This work seems to be a piece of rare ephemera.
The National Union Catalogue (Pre-1956 Imprints, vol.
447, p. 301) lists a solitary copy of an edition of thiswork, preserved at Columbia University, New York. A
request for a Xerox copy was rejected, politely, on the
grounds of its fragile condition. It was published at
New York by the Minerva Publishing Company, withthe date tentatively given as 1888, and has seventy-fivepages. There appears to be no copy in the British Library's General Catalogue. There is also a copy at UC
Davis: Shields Special Collections DA688 .M24 1888an another at the New York Historical Society Archives. The work is now freely available from online
sources.

165435. MAID OF HONOUR. A Peep at our Cousins…
Second ed. Stamped 1900. SS.a.98.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.

436. MAINPRICE, FREDERICK PAUL. – Tour Diary of Mr
F. P. Mainprice, i.c.s. [Indian Civil Service.](Nov.1943-May.1945; Jul. 1945-Jan. 1946. ) 1946.
SS.Cup.6.b.19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Frederick Paul Mainprice joined the Indian Civil
Service in 1937 and was posted to the Central Provinces as an Assistant Commissioner. Appointed to I.P.S.
[Imperial Police Service?] in April 1942 and serving in
the Eastern States Agency. He was British trade agent
at Gyantse (Tibet) in October 1942 and later appointed
Assistant Political Agent at Gilgit (Pakistan) until August 1947. After Indian independence, he worked for
the Government of Pakistan in Karachi, 1948-49, specialising on the Kashmir problem. There are two collections of material by Mainspring in the British Library Manuscript Collection at pressmarks Mss Eur
D1191/3 (Nov 1943-May 1945) and Mss Eur D1191/4(Jul 1945-Jan 1946), and in view of the similarity indates these may be SS material, desegregated and relocated. Eight boxes of Mainprice documents are archived at Cambridge.

437. MAIR, JOHN (1914 - 1942). – Never Came Back.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1940. SS.b.106.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
The General Catalogue has an edition of this publishedat London in 1941 by Victor Gollancz at pressmark:NN.32191. Copies of the original 1940 edition are preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the National
Library of Scotland and Trinity College, Dublin. The
pressmark of the copy at the latter–BAN 1404–suggests
it might be suppressed there, but emails to them requesting clarification were ignored.
– Never Came Back, a thriller in the tradition ofJohn Buchan, was made into a television mini-series by
the BBC in 1990. The author was killed in April 1942
whilst on an RAF training mission.

438. MAIR, LUCY PHILIP (1901-1986). – The NyasalandElections of 1961. [London:] University of London,
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Athlone Press, published for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1962. In-8°. pp. 86. SS.Cup.12.c.19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: Ac.2666.da/2 and W57/0938.

439. MAIS, STUART PETRE BRODIE, (1885 – 1975). – Wewander in the West … With … illustrations, &c. London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., 1950. In-8°. pp.
192. “With sixty illustrations in photogravure.”
SS.Cup.6.b.12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
copies of what appears to be this edition in the National
Library of Scotland at pressmarks: R.46.b and, in theirrestricted section, at Phi.118. Another restricted copy is
at Cambridge at pressmark Arc.c.95.402.
– “An armchair wanderer’s handbook on the counties of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.”440. MALLETT, JOSIAH REDDIE MARTIN (1864 – ?) . –Book of Health. London: Watts & Co., 1926. 8vo. xii.
240. SS.a.382.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2005 catalogues,
but not the 2008 catalogue. “Withdrawn by publisher.”
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:7383.b.5. A copy is preserved in the restricted sectionof the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.55
and one in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at pressmark
Res. e.20 which is marked “Not for consultation.”– We are grateful to Ms. Sarah Wheale of the Rare
Books Section of the Department of Special Collections
at the Bodleian Library, for writing to tell us that their
copy of Book of Health contains a letter, dated 26 October 1931, which says that certain statements on page
194 of the book contravene the Venereal Diseases Act(1917) and are to be replaced with “innocuous matter”.
The British Social Hygiene Council and the Ministryfor Health were concerned about erroneous and harmfulstatements relating to the self-treatment of syphilis
prevalent among young people which had been traced
back to this book.
– The General Catalogue of the British Libray has
another book by this author, Food the Physician (London: Watts & Co., 1931) at pressmark: 7384.pp.36. A
volume of verses by Mallett called A life's history told
in homely verse and miscellaneous poems (London:167

Bentley, 1895) is preserved in the Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru [National Library of Wales].

441. MALOT, HECTOR. – [Vices français] Josey. The
Story of a Great Divorce Case. Translated from the
French, &c. London: Henning & Co., 1887. In-8°. pp.
200. Frontispiece, showing Virginia Crawford in riding attire and holding a crop. SS.a.63(2).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at
Cup.403.tt.7. which may be the SS copy, desegregated.
– A pirated translation of Hector Malot’s pro-Dilke
Vices Français, an ironically titled roman-à-clef whichsought to expose English debauchery. See also entries
above for CRAWFORD, DONALD.

442. MANTEGAZZA, PAOLO (1831–1910). – [L’Arte diprender moglie.] The Art of Taking a Wife. London:
Gay and Bird, 1894. In-8°. pp. xx+310. SS.a.76.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: 8416.de.52 and a copy of the second edition, also published in 1894, is shelved at X.527/112.
– Paolo Mantegazza was a prominent Italian neurologist, physiologist and anthropologist, noted for theisolation of cocaine from coca leaves and his experimental investigation into its effects on the human psyche. He was also a writer of fiction.

443. MANTELL, C. L. – Industrial Electrochemistry.
London and New York: McGraw Hill Book Company,
1931. In-8°. pp. viii. 528. Illustrations. One of the
Chemical Engineering series. SS.a.389.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W69/3418.

444. MARS, ALASTAIR CAMPBELL GILLESPIE (1915–
1985). – Tycoon. London: Michael Joseph, 1958. In8°. pp. 253. Wrapper Design By Trevor Denning.
SS.Cup.11.b.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This novel is something of a mystery; we’ve been
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and its sole online presence appears to be on the internet where it occasionally offered for sale. One copy, offered by Savery Books of Brighton, Sussex, for £250
has an inscription on the front past-down endpaper
reading “To Baylis and Pearce & Co, Please retain forauthor's further use,” followed by the author’s signature. From advertisements in The Publisher, it was published in November 1958 by Michael Joseph and retailed at 15 shillings. If it weren’t for its presence in theSS, and a few fleeting online references, the very existence of the book would be in doubt.
– Alastair Mars was a Lt.-Commander in the Royal
Navy and submarine commander during WWII, receiving the DSO, DSC and Bar. In 1952 he was court martialled for what the present authors feel to be fully justified insubordination given the circumstances and dismissed the service.

445. MARSHALL, ALFRED, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. – Principes d’économie politique… Traduit par F. Sauvaire-Jourdan. Paris, &c.: Gordon & Breach, [1971]. In-8°. Two volumes.
SS.Cup.14.a.10.
– Included in the 2008 catalogue only

446. MARTIN, A. J. – Control of Natural Ventilation.
(Two items.) [Bracknell, Berkshire:] The Building
Services Research and Information Association, 1995.
SS.Cup.11.b.14.
– Included in the 2008 catalogue only

447. MASTERS, Colin R. – Understanding and Controlling Web Tension. [London: the author] May 1st.
1993. SS.Cup.16/22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy of what appears to be the same work is in the BL
at pressmark YK.2010.a.696.

448. MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF CRICKENDALE. T. R. Thomson, general editor. 1950.
SS.Cup.6.b.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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449. MATTINGLY, CHRISTOBEL. – The Battle of the Galah Trees. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd. Leicester:
Brockhampton Press, 1973. 8vo. 119 pp. Illustrations.
Suppressed for being a “defective copy.” A replacement copy was sent, and the suppressed vol. includes
a note. SS.Cup.14.a.26.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. What must
presumably be the replacement copy is in the General
Catalogue at pressmark: X.990/4139.

450. MAXWELL, GAVIN (1914 – 1969). – God protect
me from my Friends. [With plates.] London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1965 [1956?]. In-8°. pp. 216.
SS.12.c.61.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– A biography of Salvatore Giuliano, a post-WWII
Sicilian ‘bandit’ who campaigned against the Mafia andactively pursued efforts into gaining independence forthe island from the Italian government. He was assassinated on July 5th 1950 at Castelvetrano.

451. MAY, ANNE & Ralph Leighton. – Epidurals forChildbirth : a guide for all delivery-suite staff. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press,2007. 24cm. pp. viii, 194. Illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark.
– A reprint, with revisions, of a work formerly published by Oxford University Press in 1994. The revisions were apparently not proofed with sufficient diligence since serious errors on page 38 concerning thecorrect dosage of the drug phenylephrine obliged the
publishers to withdraw the book from circulation.

452. MAYNARD, John. – The Life of John Maynard. Edited by Alexander Norman Jeffares. London: Oliver &Boyd, 1969. SS.Cup.13.a.15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. We’ve
been unable to locate any book of this description, despite the celebrity of its editor, a leading scholar of Irish
literature, and of Yeats in particular. The possibility that‘John Maynard’ may have been a misprint for John
Maynard Keynes in the SS catalogue was explored also,
but without success.

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453. MCGUINNESS, CHARLES JOHN (1893-1947). –Nomad. Memoirs of an Irish sailor, soldier, pearlfisher, pirate, gun-runner, rum-runner, rebel and Antarctic
explorer. With 11 illustrations [including a portrait.]
London: Methuen and Co., 1934. In-8°. pp. xi+289.
SS.a.412.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:010825.de.31. Whether this is the same one suppressedin 1934 We are unable to say. The Bodleian Library at
Oxford has the pressmark Res. e.27 and the catalogue
entry is annotated “Not available for consultation”; anunrestricted copy is shelved at 2033 e.242. Cambridge
has two copies, pressmarked 459.d.93.22 andArc.d.93.404; the latter is restricted. A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Libraryof Scotland at pressmark Phi.57.
– David Boothroyd looked closely into the historyof Nomad, and found that it was suppressed for a libelon J. W. Nixon, an MP in the Stormont Parliament inNorthern Ireland and former District Inspector in theRoyal Ulster Constabulary. Nixon objected to his namebeing linked to the massacre of the McMahon family in
Belfast in 1922. See “Libel Damages for Ulster M.P.:
Passages in a Book”, Manchester Guardian, 20 February 1935, p. 10: “Counsel emphasised that there was
not a shadow of malice on the part of the defendants[Methuen and Co.] in publishing the book, and immediately their attention was called to the passage it waswithdrawn from circulation.” It must be said that almost
everyone who has looked into this case believes that
Nixon was indeed responsible for the murders.
– The copy in Cambridge University Library has apencil note on the front endpaper, which reads : “Edition with certain alterations to text” and below says“(Note by Copyright Agent)”. There is a pencil inscription on the title page which has been erased and cannot
be read. The accession stamp is 24 January 1935, indicating the replacement must have been very quick.

454. MERKUR. The Journal of the German Railway Society. [?Paignton, Devon:] Issue no. 104, August
2007. ZK.9.a.9696.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark.

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455. MÉGROZ, RODOLPHE LOUIS (1891-1968). – ThirtyOne Bedside Essays. Oxford: Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co.
[1949] In-8°. pp. 149. SS.b.110.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies of a 1951 reprint done at Hadleigh by Tower
Bridge Publications in the General Catalogue at
12361.a.9 and X7/9837.

456. MELLAN, IBERT & ELEANOR. – Poisons and Antidotes. London: Staples Press, 1957. In-8°. pp. 161.
SS.Cup.11.a.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies at the Wellcombe Medical Library (XQV)
and the University of Birmingham Library (RA 1211)
with no apparent restrictions having been placed onthem.

457. MEN ONLY. Vol. 37 No.7. London: Paul Raymond,
1972. SS.Cup.14.a.43.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

458. [MENZIES, AMY CHARLOTTE BEWICKE.] – As Others See Us, by a Woman of No Importance. London:
Herbert Jenkins, 1923. In-8°. pp. 320 p., [16] leavesof plates. SS.a.352.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy dated 1924 is in the General Catalogue at pressmark YC.2009.a.5296.
– Amy Charlotte Bewicke married Stuart Alexander Menzies in 1876, but the pair divorced in 1887. A
son of this union, Hugh Stuart Menzies (1886-1959),
became an Intelligence Officer based in Dublin Castlein Ireland during ‘The Troubles’ and it seems likely that
information he provided to his mother coloured remarks
she made in her book concerning Brigadier-GeneralFrank Percy Crozier, the commander of the Auxiliary
Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who successfully sued Amy Menzies and her publisher for libel.

459. MERRICK, GILBERT ‘GIL’ HAROLD (1922 - 2010). –I see it all. [An autobiography, with a section on theart of goalkeeping. With plates, including portraits.]
London: Museum Press, 1954. In-8°. pp. 144.
SS.Cup.11.b.11.
172

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General Catalogue at pressmarks
7943.fff.11 and W51/4673, one of which may be the SS
copy desegregated.
– A book about goalkeeping in soccer. Mr. Merrick
is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the UK during the mid-1950s, and was one in a long line of great
Birmingham City keepers which included Johnny
Schofield and Harry Hibbs. Merrick played more than
700 times for the Blues, making 170 appearances during the Second World War and 485 in the Football
League.

460. MEYRICK, KATE EVELYN. – Secrets of the 43.
Reminiscences by Mrs. Meyrick [With plates, including portaits.] London: John Long, 1933. 8vo. pp. 281.
SS.a 415.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark
010825.k.12. We are deeply indebted to Mr. Clive
Vaisey of London for drawing our attention to a serious
blunder in the original entry for this book. Formerly, I
had the work credited to Florence Elizabeth Chandler
Maybrick, as Gershon Legman had given it in his typewritten copy of the SS catalogue. Mr. Vasiey points outthat “Florence E. MAYBRICK was an American woman married to a British man; in the late 19th century;
she was accused of murdering him by poison. She wastried and acquitted, but the verdict was very controversial. There are at least 12 books in the British Library
OPAC on the internet dealing with Mrs Maybrick.”
Kate Meyrick, who was born Kate Nason at Dun
Laoghaire [Kingstown] in 1875, on the other hand,“was Irish and came to London just after the FirstWorld War to run nightclubs. She was frequently finedfor breaches of the alcohol licensing laws and in 1929
was successfully prosecuted for bribing policemen toignore these breaches. This didn't damage her career;
she went back to running nightclubs and died in 1933.
Her most famous venue was called ‘The 43’, after its
address, 43 Gerrard Street. ‘The 43’ was popular withthe more raffish end of the smart set at the time. It is
this Mrs Meyrick who wrote the book called Secrets of
the 43. Although it was probably quite innocuous bytoday's standards, no doubt it could have shown someprominent people in a poor light, which may accountfor its suppression. She appears in a lightly disguisedform in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited." A “revised edition” called Secrets of the 43 Club was pub-173

lished in England in November 1994 by Parkgate Publications Ltd.

461. MICHAEL, KEN. – Terror Within (2 copies). London: Janus, 1996. In-8°. pp. 408. SS.Cup.20/79.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark
H.96/2431.
– A novel which tells the story of a terrorist group
hired by Saddam Hussein in the hope of implicating
Iran. It appears to be Mr. Michael’s sole literary endeavour, at least under that name.

462. MIDLETON PAPERS [Add. MSS. 50072-7].
– The Midleton Papers contain the correspondence
between Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, and William
St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for India, 19031905. In 1907 he succeeded his father as Viscount Midleton, and in 1920 he was created Earl of Midleton.
Suppressed under the Library’s 50-year rule, but which
are now, presumably, freely available to readers. See
P.R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library
1735-1973, (London: British Library, 1998), pp.629,30,
for further information on this subject.

463. MILL, JOHN STUART, FRSE (1806–1873). – John
Stuart Mill: A Selection of his Works, edited by John
Mercel Robson (1927-1995). London: Macmillan,
1966. In-8°. pp. xxxiii. 471. SS.Cup. 13.a.17.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy of this work published in the same year andwith the same editor and pagination, but with the imprint ‘Toronto, London: Macmillan; New York; St.
Martin's Press’, in the General catalogue at X.529/6871.

464. MILLAR, GEORGE GRANDISON (C. 1860-1913). –Business Success. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Company, 1904. In-8°. pp. 104. SS.a.373– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. One ofthe ‘Useful Red’ series. There is a copy in the British
Library with the imprint “London & Newcastle-onTyne: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904” shelved at
08228.de.9. This may be the SS copy, desegregated.
– George G. Millar is thought to have been thename behind the pseudonymous Nathaniel P. McCoy

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who wrote The Gold Makers (London: F. V. White &Co, 1911), a fictionalized account of an early 20th century scandal in which a company named Kosmoid Limited, based in Glasgow, bilked investors with claims
that it had developed a technology permitting thetransmutation of base metals to gold. Millar was himself a director of Kosmoid. Efforts by ‘McCoy’ to conceal the truth behind his fiction by changing the namesof characters and relocating the action of The Gold
Makers to Boston, Massachusetts, were evidently insufficient for it’s believed that Millar’s fellow directors
bought up all the copies they could find and destroyed
them, making the book uncommon. It is, however,freely available for download, online.
– George G. Millar also ran a company in Glasgow with Alexander Campbell Lang–operating as Millar & Lang–which was largely engaged in the manufacture and sale of Christmas cards. Around 1906, Millar
was obliged to sue a man named Polak for infringementof copyright over Christmas card designs by Millar
which had been pirated by Hubner, the German company for which Polak was acting.

465. MILLER, JANE. – Farm Machinery. London: Dent,
1987. 8vo. pp. 28. A book “for juveniles”, comprising“chiefly coloured illustrations.” SS.Cup.15.27.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. Suppressed
for “not [being] up to publishers standards.” There is acopy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:YK.1988.a.1.

466. MILNE, EDWARD JAMES “EDDIE” (1915–1983). –No Shining Armour. London: John Calder, 1976. In8°. pp. 263. SS.Cup.14.a.46.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.809/61137 and 77/21830.
– Eddie Milne was a British Labour politician, who
was elected as independent candidate after deselection
by his party. During his Parliamentary career, Milne
became increasingly concerned about problems of theendemic corruption within local government in thenorth east of England. This was eventually revealed in
the Poulson Affair involving corruption by leading Labour movement figures Andrew Cunningham and T.
Dan Smith. No Shining Armour detailed Milne’s problems with the Labour Party, and was the subject of no175

less than 36 writs, the costs and damages of which almost bankrupted his publisher.

467. MINTY, LEONARD LE MARCHANT. – Constitutional
Laws of the British Empire. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1928. In-8°. pp. xvii. 258. SS.a.392.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the British Library at 342.42 *1055*.
– According to the book’s Preface, this is “Compiled largely from the rough notes made for a series oflectures for students taking ‘Constitutional laws of the
British Empire’ at the University of London.” According to entry no. 231 in Jerry DuPont’s The common law
abroad : constitutional and legal legacy of the British
empire (Littleton, Colorado: F.B. Rothman Publications, 2001) – “an annotated bibliography of titles relating to the colonial dependencies of Great Britain heldby twelve great law libraries” – Minty’s book is described as “a theoretical treatise, not focused on any
specific jurisdiction. It does, however, provide someparticularly good material on constitutional developments in British Indian, Malta, and both Northern &Southern Rhodesia.”

468. MISC. DOCUMENTS. (Listing German namechanges by deed poll.) Three packages. Around 1961.
SS.Cup.15/14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

469. MITCHELL, TONY (1949 - ). – Dario Fo : People’s
Court Jester. London: Methuen, 1984. In-8°. pp. 116.
SS.Cup.15/20.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at pressmark
85/08475, which is presumably a copy of the revised
version.
– A short biography of Dario Fo, the Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer, andthe closest the Nobel Committee came to awarding the
prize for literature (in 1997) to an Anarchist. The authorof this little study generously provided the following
account of why the original edition of his book waswithdrawn and replaced by a corrected version:– “ If I remember rightly, Gavin Richards, director
and lead actor of the Belt & Braces London West End
production of Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist

176threatened to sue for libel because I quoted him–from aleft-wing publication at the time [The Leveller, now defunct]–saying to his cast and crew “this is capitalism,
get in an make your own deal” about the West End production which had moved from the Half Moon Theatre,
in… Tower Hamlets. I also implied, apparently, that hehad muscled in on the role of The Maniac and wrested
it from Alfred Molina, which was not the case–Molina
had a prior engagement (pp.102-3). I had to add thesentence on p. 103 ‘Massive concessions on ticket prices … West End Theatre.’ ”

470. MODERN READING LIBRARY No.3. Selected byReginald Moore and Ralph Stokes. London: Staples &Staples, 1943. In-8°. SS.Cup.10/23.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
General Catalogue includes nos. 1-3, 5 & 7 all atpressmark: 012208.dd.2.

471. MONSARRAT, NICOLAS JOHN TURNEY (1910 –1979). – Life is a four letter word. Vol II: Breaking
out. London: Cassell, 1970. In-8°. pp. [11], 570, 24
plates : ill., 1 facsim., ports. SS.Cup.13.b.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X.0909/196 and 77/5989. A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Libraryof Scotland at pressmark Phi.157.

472. MONTBELL, JACK. – Tertiary man silicified. [Withplates.] Hove: The Author, 1953. In-8°. pp. 67.
SS.Cup.9.c.20– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy with a manuscript correction on page 65 is in the
British Library general population at pressmark
07705.n.5.
– Not much is known of Mr. Montbell, who appears to have been of French origins. In 1953 he wasliving at 98 Lansdowne Place, in Hove. His book,which is extremely rare, is dedicated to the ‘memory ofJane,’ perhaps his wife.

473. MOORE, GEORGE. – Unauthorized publication stated to have been printed from the stolen manuscript ofa passage in George Moore´s Memoirs of My DeadLife which had been rejected by the author. SS.b.98.
177

– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.

474. MORGAN, JOHN DE. – Royalty and Aristocracy.
The Secret History and Mysteries of the Court of England from Elizabeth to Victoria. With Quotations fromsuppressed books, extracts from unpublished documents in the State Paper Office and Public Records
Office. New York: Metropolitan Publishing Company,
1882-1883.
– A title unearthed by David Boothroyd, who discovered it included in an early list of books suppressedat the British Library. No trace of it exists in the BL today, or anywhere else in the UK that we’ve been able todiscover. However, copies are preserved at Harvard atpressmark: Widener Br 364.29, and at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison at pressmark: FE45 DE no.1.
David adds: …this is the only entry on the list of
suppressed books in National Archives file TS 18/602
which cannot be found in the British Library in 2012. I
allowed myself briefly to think John De Morgan, a rabble-rousing orator, may actually have stumbled on a real Royal scandal. However it seems he was taken in by
the impostor Olivia Serres, ‘Princess Olive of Cumberland’, who wrote a scandalous memoir in the name of
Lady Anne Hamilton called The Secret History of the
Court of England in about 1834.

475. MOSDELL, JACK and ARTHUR PICKLES. – Whenthe Lion Lays Down with the Lamb. [A musical composition.] [?London:] Panning Publications [c. 1970].
SS.Cup.13.b.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: VOC/1970/ PICKLES.

476. MOSLEY, LEONARD (1913-1992). – Curzon: theEnd of an Epoch. London: Longmans, 1960. In-8°. pp.
xv. 301. With plates, including portraits. SS.b.98.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: 10866.g.9 and T 18122. There are also
copies in the BL and other libraries where the date isgiven as ‘[1960]’.

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477. MOORE, THOMAS STURGE. – [Albrecht] Altdorfer.
[With twenty-five plates.] London: At the Sign of theUnicorn, 1900. In-8°. pp. 48. The Artist's library, no.
3. SS.a.353.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: W1/6792 .

478. MOTHER AND BABY. London: Illustrated Publications Company Limited, December 1962.
SS.Cup.13.a.22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

479. MUDDIMAN, BERNARD. – The Men of the Nineties. London: Henry Danielson, 1920. 19cm. pp. 145.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is a copyin the BL at pressmark 011853.t.42.

480. MUIR, KATE (1964 -). – Arms and the Woman.
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. In-8°. pp. xiii. 209,[8] pp. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. SS.Cup.20/82.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: YK.1993.a.4088.

481. MULLER, ROBERT (1925-1998). – Cinderella
Nightingale. London: Arthur Barker, 1958. In-8°. pp.
254. SS.Cup.11.b.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are unrestricted copies at Trinity College, Dublin (SHB46-860), the National Library of Scotland(NF.1674.j.11) and the Bodleian, Oxford (25615
e.10941). An edition “revised by the author” was published in 1962.
– Cinderella Nightingale was withdrawn by its
publisher following legal action taken by ‘Sabrina’[Norma Ann Sykes], a famously endowed 1950s English glamour model, who felt the novel followed her
own life a little too closely. Carole Lesley and Diana
Dors, two similarly Junoesque English models or actresses, were also thought to have been the inspiration
for the character of Cinderella, but didn’t seem inclined
to complain of it; in fact Lesley was earmarked to play179the role in a film based on the book scheduled to havebeen directed by Jack Lee Thompson (who made theoriginal version of Cape Fear) but which was nevermade.

482. MURDOCH, William Garden Blaikie. – The Renaissance of the Nineties. London: Alexander Moring
Ltd. & De La More Press, 1911. 17cm. pp. xiii, 83.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. The BL’s one
catalogued copy of this edition is shelved at
011852.f.27.

483. MURRAY, HAROLD. – Christ at the Marble Arch.
[An analysis of the speakers and crowds.] London:
The Epworth Press (Edgar C. Barton), 1937. In-8°.
pp. 110. SS.b.80.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are apparently unrestricted copies at Trinity College,
Dublin, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the National
Library of Scotland.

484. MUTUA CONFIDENTIA. Wys Muller & Co. No. 4,
Apr. 1889; No. 8, Aug. No. 12, Dec, 1890; and Nos.
2-5, Feb.-May 1891. (Strictly Private and Confidential.) SS.c.1.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– “Discontinued. Printed for private circulation. A
list of debtors.” Apparently issues of a subscriptiononly credit rating periodical founded in Holland in the
1850s by W.J.J. Gompertz. The company is today
called Wys Muller Commercial Information.

485. MVS Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/66.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

486. NAIR, PREETHI (1971 – ). The Colour of Love.
Rearsby: W.F. Howes/Clipper, 2006. In-8°. pp. 405. A
Large Print book. SS.Cup.20/72.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: LT.2006.x.292.

180487. NARRACOTT, ARTHUR HENSON (1905-1967). –War News had Wings. A Record of the R.A.F. in
France. London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1941. In-8°.
pp. xviii, 19-224, front., plates. SS.b.105.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereare copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: X12/2415 and 9101.bb.5.
– According to the London Gazette (12 September
1939, p. 6195), Arthur Henson Narracott (service number 73778) was granted a commission as Pilot Officer
on 2 September 1939.

488. NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON, The. Report ofa Committee of Confidential Enquiry into the Cleaning and Care of Pictures in the National Gallery. Twoparts. Typed Manuscripts, 1947. SS.Cup. 11.b.27.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

489. NATIONAL MALAYA & BORNEO VETERAN’SASSOCIATION. – Plymouth Branch Membership
List, no. 1. February 1998.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. Nothing of thisdescription found in the BL or any other catalogue. One
might reasonably assume that the reason for this publication being in the SS is that includes the names andcontact information of NMBVA members.

490. NAVAL REVIEW, The. (Proofs.) Contains lettersand notes dated 1919. SS.b.55.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Naval Review is the Royal Navy's independent professional journal, published quarterly since 1913, and it is,
primarily, written for Naval Officers, by Naval Officers. It has no connection with the Ministry of Defence.
Also listed under the same pressmark in the 2008 catalogue, but catalogued under ‘The Naval Review,’ is an
edition of the periodical dated January 1984. The Bodleian Library Oxford has an extensive run of this periodical from 1995-2011 at pressmark Res. d.21.

491. NEVIN, VERA ELIZABETH. – Pour parler français.
Belfast: Ulster Educational Press, 1964. In-8°. Twovolumes. SS.12.c.58.
181

– Included in the 2008 catalogue only

492. NEW ENGLISH BIBLE, The. (The Gospel According to John). Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd, Her Majesty's Printers, n.d. SS.12.c.68.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

493. NEWENGLISH
BIBLE
WITH
THE
APOCRYPHA, The. Oxford University Press, 1970.
SS.Cup.14.a.42.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

494. NEWSWEEK (2 issues) In envelope. New York:
Weekly Publications Inc., April 1 & 8 1957.
SS.Cup.11.a.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Without seeing the issues it is impossible toknow the reason for their suppression. The April 1st issue, however, has an article called ‘Songs of Sixpence,’
which included some testimony from the Senate hearings into payola. It may be there were references therein
to some English connection.

495. NEWSWEEK’S HISTORY OF OUR TIMES. Covering the events of 1949 [&c.] [With plates.] New
York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1950. In-8°. pp. 488.
SS.Cup.6.b.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a ‘restricted’ copy of this in the Bodleian Library atpressmark Res. d.67, and one at Cambridge(Arc.c.95.401).

496. NEW YORKER, The. New York: The New Yorker,
January 6th 1975 & Feb. 3rd 1975. SS.Cup.14.a.11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

497. NKRUMAH, Kwame, President of the Republic of
Ghana (1909 – 1972). – The Teachings of Kwame
Nkrumah. Accra: The Spark Publications – London:
Lawrence & Wishart, 1964. SS.Cup.12.c.59.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– There is in the British Library (at pressmark
X.709/943) a work called Some Essential Features of
Nkrumaism. A compilation of articles from “TheSpark” published jointly in 1964 by The Spark Publications in Accra and Lawrence & Wishart, in London
which may have some relevance to the work in the SS.
Kwame Nkrumah was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its
predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966.
He was removed from power during a state visit hemade to Vietnam by a military coup engineered, it isthought, by the CIA. He lived in exile for the rest of hislife.

498. NORMAN, JOHN HENRY. – Misc. Tracts, &c. on
Currency & Exchange. London: 1887. SS.b.18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Mr. Henry was a late Victorian writer who interested himself in matters of gold, currency and exchange
and wrote a number of works on the subject. The present accumulation of tracts and other ephemera were
probably gathered for research purposes.

499. NOTEBOOK. List of Books. No author, title, placeor date. SS.a.338.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

500. NOVELLO EARLY CHURCH MUSIC. Harold
Watkins Shaw, general editor. Novello & Company
Ltd., 1972. SS.14.a.21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Part ofa series begun, apparently, in 1968.

501. NT Update, Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/65.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

502. “ODDY PROCESSES [sic].” The British Dye &Coal Products Company Ltd. June, 1917. SS.c.51.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

503. OGGI. In Italian. SS.Cup.11.b.26.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– Oggi (“Today”) is an Italian weekly news andgossip magazine with a circulation of around three million, making it the best-selling weekly magazine in Italy. It was established in 1945. Without a date of issue, it
is difficult to know what the problem with this entry
might be, although the July 30th 1949 issue of The Canberra Times makes reference to an undated issue ofOggi that was suppressed for including a photograph of
Winston Churchill in a bathing suit.

504. OGLANBY, ELVA. – Black ice : the life and deathof John Curry. London: Gollancz, 1995. In-8°. pp. xi,
306, [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. SS.Cup.20.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. John
Curry (1949–1994) was a British figure skater and the1976 Olympic and World Champion. He was famousfor combining ballet and modern dance influences into
his skating. In 1987 he was diagnosed with HIV, and in1991 with AIDS. Prior to his death, he spoke openly tothe press about both his disease and his sexual orientation.. A recent biography of actor Alan Bates by Donald
Spoto claimed that Curry and Bates had a two-year affair, and that Curry died in Bates’ arms.
– David Boothroyd adds: “Elva Oglanby’s biography of John Curry was written without the cooperation of its subject’s family, who disputed the description of the John Curry's early life and the characterisation of John Curry’s father. The contentious material is in chapters 3 – 6, especially pages 16-20; it ismostly recounted in John Curry’s voice in the context
of quoted interview replies. The Curry family warnedof legal action prior to its planned publication date of
30 March 1995 (The Times, 21 March 1995). Gollancz
withdrew all review copies on 22 March and announced
on 27 March that they had delayed publication. No other copy is in the British Library. There is a nonrestricted copy in the Cambridge University Library at
9003.c.4003 and in the Bodleian Library at call number
M95.E12881.” A copy is also preserved in the restrictedsection of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark
Phi.48.

505. ORACLE Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/70.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

506. Ó RAGHALLAIGH, TOMÁS. (1883–1953). – [Poems and Poetry of Connaught] Filí agus filidheacht
184

Chonnacht. Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Oifig an
tSoláthair [Stationary Office], [1938]. In-8°. pp.
liv.613. SS.b. 99.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy at Trinity College, Dublin, at pressmark:
STACK 891.62108 G81;1. We are indebted to Mr.
Richard Price at the British Library for his assistancewith this entry.
– A Middle Irish story relating Niall Frosach’s true
judgement concerning a young woman and her fatherless child is told as an apologue in a late-sixteenth- or
early-seventeenth-century Bardic poem attributed toTuileagna (mac Torna) Ó Maoil Chonaire, and addressed to Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of theCommon Pleas and Speaker of the third parliament
convened in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Perrott’s parliament of 1585–6. The poem, Labhram ar iongnaibh
Éireann, was included in the volume here under notice,
but the apologue was censored from it. Whether thiswas the cause for the book’s suppression we are unable
to say.

507. OSBORNE, afterwards TEMPLE, DOROTHY, Lady.
– Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William
Temple. Newly edited from the original MSS. by Israel Gollancz. [With a facsimile extract of letter no. 36.]
London: Alexander Moring, The De La More Press,
1903. 8°. pp. xxxvii, 364. Part of The King's Classics.
SS.a.100.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are three copies in the General Catalogue (012209.h.1/61 and W26/6360 and 826.4 *868*)
one of which is probably the SS copy, desegregated.
One of the three copies in the Bodleian (Cary C 513) ismarked ‘Restricted – use another copy.’– “Injunction obtained by Judge Parry.” The injunction was probably sought because Judge Edward
Abbott Parry (1863-1943) was himself the first editor of
the letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple,
which were published at London by Griffith, Farran &Company in 1888; the 1903 edition by Israel Gollancz
may have been seen as a piracy or plagiarism.
– Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627–1695) is
chiefly remembered for her letters, which were firstpublished in 1888, but also for her decision to marryWilliam Temple over her family’s objections. The two
met when they were about nineteen.

185508. OVERSEASMECHANICAL
TRANSPORTDIRECTING COMMITTEE. (Confidential Reports)
1931-33. SS.c.62.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

509. OVERSEAS REGISTRATION SERVICE. Various
dates, 1950-1960. SS.Cup.7.a.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

510. OVERSEAS REGISTRATION SERVICE. Undated.
SS.Cup.7.b.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

511. OVERSEAS REGISTRATION SEVICE. Jan-Dec.
1961-62. SS.Cup [?].
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

512. OXFORDGUIDETOCONTEMPORARYWRITING, The. Edited John Sturrock. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. In-8°. pp. x, 492.
SS.Cup.20.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. It’s
not clear from the SS catalogue whether this is the correct title. The catalogue gives the title as merely “Oxford Guide to Contemporary…” but there are in fact
two books edited by Sturrock, one titled‘…Contemporary Writing,’ as above, and the other‘…Contemporary World Literature.’ Both are publishedby Oxford University Press, and dated 1996 and 1997
respectively. Unfortunately, the SS catalogue doesn’t
provide a date either and so which of the books was
suppressed is uncertain.
– David Boothroyd adds: It seems that Sturrock's
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature
was a revised, paperback, edition of The Oxford Guide
to Contemporary Writing published a year later in
1997. The SS. pressmark fits better with a date of 1996.
The obvious suspicion is accidental inclusion of copyrighted material, but the hardback under the original title is still in the publisher's catalogue.

513. OZAKI, MILTON K. (1913 –1989). – The Case of the
Deadly Kiss. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1959. In-8°.
pp. 144. SS.Cup.12.c.43.
186

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Milton
K. Ozaki, born in Wisconsin from a Japanese father(Jingaro Ozaki, who later changed his name to Frank)
and an American mother, was a journalist, a reporterand a beauty parlor operator (the Monsieur Meltoine
beauty salon, in the Gold Coast section of Chicago). He
is the author of approximately two dozen popular mid20th Century detective novels under both his given
name and the pseudonym Robert O. Saber, and is considered one of the first American mystery writers ofJapanese descent.

514. PAN. Spartacus, 1979-82.
1,8,10,11,12,13. SS.Cup.15/31.

Six

issues,nos.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Presumably issues of the gay magazine published at Amsterdam.

515. PAPADAKIS, JUAN (1903-1997). – Soils of theWorld. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company,
1969. In-4°. pp. xiv, 208. Illustrations, maps (partfolding). SS.Cup.13.a.14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are restricted copies of this work in the Bodleian Library at pressmarks: Res. c.15 and Res. c.17; one at
Cambridge (Arc.a.96.402); the copies in the library ofLeeds University and University College London are
missing, which fact may or may not be significant.
– Our request to Cambridge for information on
their copy prompted an challenging reply from Mr. Ed
Potten, which I slightly paraphrase: “your request[about Soils of the World] raises an interesting question,a questions which as the curator of the collection I havefelt the need to pass on to our legal team. The problem
is that the book contains information relating to its suppression, but by dint of its nature that information isdeemed by us to be confidential – its disclosure may
constitute a breach of a duty of confidence… Under thecircumstances (and I am sure this isn't what you arehoping to hear…) the advice I have been given is that inthis case we cannot release the information without
consent from either the author or publisher.” Mr. Potten’s words suggest a more serious reason for suppression than typographical errors, and the following notes
indicate legal complications.

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– Ms. Sarah Wheale at the Bodleian kindlychecked their two copies of Soils of the World for us
and reported that they were merely “withdrawn frompublication for legal reasons” with no further explanation present in the books.
– Ms. Jane Rose of the National Library of Scotland, when contacted on the reasons behind the suppression of Soils of the World, generously took thetrouble to search out the relevant correspondence of thesubject. While the precise reason for the suppression is
not revealed, these letters do throw a fitful light on theway these matters are conducted. There are two lettersand both are addressed from the publishers who, in1969 and despite having ‘Amsterdam’ in the imprint,
were at 22 Rippleside Commercial Estate, Barking, Essex, to a Mr. G. W. Copp, a ‘Copyright Agent’ of 7 & 9
Rathbone Street, London, WC1. The functions of a
copyright agent seem many and varied, but one of them
involves acting as an intermediary between publishers
and the copyright libraries. The first letter is dated 14
July 1969:“Dear Sir: … We regret to inform you that the title
referred to above [viz. Soils of the World] has now been
WITHDRAWN FROM PUBLICATION.
“It would therefore be most appreciated if you
would return to us immediately the four copies of thistitle which were sent to you on 9th. May 1969.”– The second letter is dated 28 July 1969 and likeits predecessor signed by Robert Young:– “Dear Sir: … Further to my letter of 14th July
1969 and our telephone conversation of todays [sic]date this book has been withdrawn for legal reasons andI would therefore be grateful if you would communicate
with the libraries which you supply in accordance of the
Copyright Act requesting them to either to return their
copy to us or if this is not possible to withdraw the bookfrom public view.
– “It would be appreciated if you would confirm tome in writing that this has been done.”– Ms Rose also sent us a copy of the second pageof a covering letter from Copp to the National Libraryof Scotland sent to accompany some enclosures, which
are described and numerically listed. No. 19 relates tothe work under notice:188

– “Copy of 14th. And 28th. July letters from Elsevier Pub. Co. asking and dealing with the return of Papadakis, Soils of the World. I have informed publisher
by telephone that as the work had in fact been publishedit was not likely Libraries would return. I said I would
ask if you could put on reserved shelves. Would you
please le me know your decision on this?”– A handwritten note is appended which says “Thishas been withdrawn.”– On an unrelated matter, the 21st. note takes asomewhat censorious tone:– “In Box P.22 Set dated 6th August, you will alsofind a small package labelled for your attention. This
contains your copy of Hendrickson, Variations on a
Sexual Theme (Julian Press) which I think you will
wish to keep off your shelves.”– This presumably refers to Terence Hendrickson’sbook published at London in 1969, a copy of which is
shelved without restriction in the National Library of
Scotland at XH1.201.19.

516. PATTERSON, HENRY. – Ireland Since 1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. In-8°. pp. [x].
406. Maps. SS.Cup.20/60.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is in the restricted section of Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc.c.200.405.
– David Boothroyd adds: This very well-received
work of modern history was suppressed because of a libel action. The Newsletter (Belfast), 27 April 2004, explained:– "Former Northern Ireland MP Gerry Fitt, now
Lord Fitt of Bellshill, won substantial damages in theHigh Court in Belfast yesterday over allegations madeagainst him in a book published by Oxford University
Press.
– “Ireland since 1939, by University of Ulster lecturer Henry Patterson, was removed from bookshops after Lord Fitt complained about references to a meetinghe allegedly had with Dublin politicians in 1969.
– “In a statement read out in court yesterday, lawyers for OUP and Mr Patterson spoke of their regret
about these references.

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– “ ‘The defendants unreservedly recognise that theplaintiff was a foremost advocate of civil rights demands which were aimed at reforming the Northern Ireland state and that the plaintiff had played a central rolein the establishment of the SDLP in the 1970s as a nonviolent alternative to the growing activities of the Provisional IRA,’ they said.”

517. PARTINGTON, WILFRED. – Forging Ahead. The
True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas J.
Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary & Otherwise. [With plates, including portraits.] New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1939. In-8°.
pp. xiv+315. SS.b.103.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue(10861.ff.18), which is probably the SS copy, desegregated.

518. PATXOT I JUBERT, RAFAEL, (1872-1964). – Guaitant enrera : fulls de la vida d’un octogenari… Català
empordanès, expatriat voluntari per amor de la consciència, del sentiment i de la personalitat humana.
Genève: Edició privada, 1952 [i.e. 1953]. In-8°. pp.
949. S.S.Cup.10.a.3.
– Not included in any of the catalogues. The work
has been desegregated and is currently shelved at
YA.1990.b.8322. Treats of the Spanish Civil War. We
are greatly obliged to Ms. Katya Rogat-chevskaia of the
British Library for drawing our attention to this item.

519. [PEARSON, EDWARD HESKETH GIBBONS (18871964).] – The Whispering Gallery. London: John
Lane The Bodley Head, 1926. In-8°. pp. 258. Includes
Newspaper clippings: “Whispering Gallery Prosecution,” 1926. SS.a.364.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
The 2008 catalogue indicates two volumes, but the second volume may comprise the newspaper clippings.
There is a restricted copy at Cambridge at pressmark
Arc.c.92.404 which, like the British Library copy, has
newspaper clippings, inserted. Books at Cambridgewith pressmarks similar to this, with the last three digits
above 400, are “among the highest level of restricted
books which are not allowed to be produced for readers
at all.” We are grateful to Mr. Liam Sims of the Rare

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Books Dept. of Cambridge University Library for his
information on this.
– The Whispering Gallery was written by Hesketh
Pearson, an English actor, theatre director and writer.
He was known chiefly as the author of popular biographies, and is rumoured to have had an affair with Kitty Muggeridge, the wife of Malcolm Muggeridge(1903–1990), a British journalist, author, satirist, media
personality, soldier-spy and Christian scholar. The
Whispering Gallery, one of the biggest literary hoaxesof the day, was published anonymously in 1926 andpurported to be extracts from the diaries of a British
diplomat. Alleged conversations between the diplomat
and famous political and literary figures of the day wererecorded, some of which revealed unflattering personal
details of the subjects, which may or may not have beentrue. Brisk sales ensued. The publishers grew alarmed
when The Daily Mail began to bring pressure on them–one of the conversations was with Lord Northcliffe, thepaper’s founder–and they sued Pearson for fraud. However, sensing trouble he returned his advance before thecharges were laid, and so could only be charged withattempted fraud. In the event, his honesty and charm in
the dock won over the jury and he was acquitted. The
book was reprinted–apparently in facsimile of the original edition–by The Phoenix Press, London, in 2000,
with a useful Introduction by Michael Holroyd.

520. PENDER, SÉAMUS. – Déssi genealogies : with anappendix of historical references. [At head of title:
Irish Manuscripts Commission.] Dublin: Stationary
Office, 1937. In-4°. pp. v. 179. SS.a.104.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A restricted copy is held by Cambridge University Libraryat pressmark Arc.b.93.401.

521. PENSION SCHEMES MANUAL. Robson Rhodes,
1987. SS.Cup.20/34.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– RSM Robson Rhodes LLP was a partnership ofchartered accountants in the United Kingdom and theRepublic of Ireland. It was the UK member firm of
RSM International, the 6th largest network of professional service firms in the world. With offices throughout the UK and Ireland, the firm offered auditing, consultancy and tax services to a wide variety of organisations in the private and public sectors. On April 29,
2007, the partners of RSM Robson Rhodes announced

191they were to merge with Grant Thornton UK LLP, theUK firm of Grant Thornton International and 6th largest
accountancy firm in the UK. The merged entity will use
the Grant Thornton brand and Robson Rhodes will nolonger exist as a separate name. The deal was completed on July 1, 2007

522. PENTAGRAM SHIPPING CASUALTY CODE.
1906. SS.b.41.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Pentagram Shipping seems no longer to exist,
and has no Internet presence.

523. PENZOLDT, ERNST (1892-1955). – [Der arme
Chatterton.] The Marvellous Boy… Translated byJohn J. Trounstine and Eleanor Woolf, etc. [A novel.].
London: G. G. Harrap, 1932. In-8°. pp. 272. SS.a.69.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: 12557.t.13 and X.989/5596. This
would appear to be a reprint of a work originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace & Co. in
1931. We are obliged to the late Karl-Ludwig Leonhardt for writing to tell us that the original German text
was published by Insel Verlag in 1928.

524. PERLÈS, ALFRED (1897–1990). – My friend Lawrence Durrell; an intimate memoir on the author of
The Alexandrian Quartet. With a Bibliography the
Bernard Stone. [Northwood, Middlesex] Scorpion
Press [1961]. In-8°. pp. 62. SS.Cup.12.c.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Alfred Perlès was an Austrian writer (in later life
a British citizen), who was most famous for his associations with Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anaïs
Nin. Later in life, Perlès lived in a modest house on a
redbrick housing estate in the town of Wells, andchanged his name to Alfred Barret.

525. PERSONALITIES. Abyssinia. [?Admiralty War
Staff, Intelligence Division], Jan 1918. SS. c.32.
526. PERSONALITIES. Albania. [?Admiralty, War Staff
Intelligence Division], July, 1916. SS.c.33
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527. PERSONALITIES Bulgaria. Admiralty, War Staff
Intelligence Division, January, 1916. SS.c.37.
528. PERSONALITIES. Greece. Admiralty, War Staff Intelligence Division, November, 1916. SS.c.38.
529. PERSONALITIES. Libya. Naval Staff, Intelligence
Division, August 1917. SS.c.39.
530. ERSONALITIES. Montenegro. Admiralty, War Staff
Intelligence Division, September, 1917. SS.c.40
531. PERSONALITIES. Persia. Naval Staff, Intelligence
Division, September 1917. SS.c.41
532. PERSONALITIES. Serbia. Naval Staff, Intelligence
Division, September, 1917. SS.c.42
533. PERSONALITIES. Syria. Naval Staff, Intelligence
Division, August, 1917. SS.c.44
534. PERSONALITIES. Turkey (second edition). Admiralty, War Staff Intelligence Division. January, 1916.
[51 pages.] SS.c.46.
– All the preceding ‘Personalities’ entries appear in
the 2008 catalogue only. One might reasonably assume
that these publications list the political and military figures of their respective countries, together with someestimation of their usefulness or otherwise to the British
War effort.

PETERSON, WILLIAM. – See: BARKER, TERRY.
535. PFIZERAMA.
SS.Cup.12.c.64.

Pfizerama,

May

1964.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Pfizerama is one of several in-house organs of
the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, this issue presumably from the British subsidiary based on Ramsgate
Road, Sandwich, Kent, although the Canadian subsidiary (at least) publishes a magazine with the same title.
The company was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in1849 by Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart to manufacture chemicals such as camphor, borax and acids.

536. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTORS CLUB OFGREAT BRITAIN, The. 1996 Members Handbook.
193

The Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain,
1996. SS.Cup.20/2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “The Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain is the world's leading organization for collectors andenthusiasts interested in the collection and study of photographic equipment and images. Formed in 1977, theClub has over 1000 members worldwide with diverse
interests ranging from sub-miniature cameras to daguerreotypes, through to photographic books and using
vintage equipment and processes.” We are obliged to
Ms. Diana Balfour, the Membership Secretary of The
Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, for clarifying the reasons for the suppression of this item: “OurMembers Handbook, which we circulate every one or
two years to our members, contains nothing more exciting that a list of members' names, collecting interestsand contact details, and is designed to enable them toidentify other members with similar interests to theirown and contact them. Bearing in mind that many ofour members have extensive and valuable collections,this information (and the 1996 issue included addresses,a practice we have now discontinued) is, for obvious
security reasons, strictly confidential. In order to safeguard our members we do not allow its use for any
commercial purpose, even by a member, so no-one outside the Club has any legitimate reason to have accessto it.”

537. PHOTOGRAPHY YEAR BOOK 1950. Edited by
Harold Lewis. [?London:] The Press Centre, Ltd., forPhotography, [1949?] In-8°. pp. 288. SS.Cup.9.c.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

PICKLES, ARTHUR. – See: MOSDELL, JACK.
538. PIE(PÆDOPHILE
INFORMATIONEXCHANGE). (Three parts.) March & September,1983. SS.Cup.15/32.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Pædophile Information Exchange (PIE) wasa UK pro-pædophile activist group, founded in the UK
October 1974. It officially disbanded in 1984 though it
was not until many years later that the Pædophile Unit,
part of the Metropolitan Police Service's Child Abuse
Investigation Command, based at Scotland Yard, finallyarrested the last of its members on child pornography194charges, with activist David Joy warned by his sentencing judge that his beliefs may preclude his release everfrom jail.

539. [PIGGOTT, WILLIAM.] – The Yoke. By Hubert
Wales [pseud.]. London: John Long, 1907. In-8°. pp.
315. SS.a.60.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– Found to be “libelous and obscene” and suppressed. A novel in which a mother seduces her own
son in order to protect him from the attentions of an undesirable female. Transferred to the Private Case, P.C.
14. d. 2, and later to the General Library at Cup. 701. h.
25. Another copy is shelved at: NOV.1993/593.

540. [Another edition of the preceding.] – The Yoke. By
Hubert Wales [pseud.]. Popular Edition. London: John
Long, 1908. In-8°. pp. 315. SS.a.60.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. Transferred to the Private Case at pressmark
P.C.14. d.1, and later to the General Library at Cup.
701. h. 26. Another copy is shelved at: NOV. 1993/594.

541. PIGOU, ARTHUR CECIL (1877–1959). – Principles
and Methods of Industrial Peace. [With illustrations.]
London [&c.]: Macmillan, 1905. In-8°. pp. xx. 240.
SS.a.88.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at 2238.b.12 which
may be the SS copy, desegregated.

PINE, JULIAN, pseud. – See: ANDERSON, Oliver.
542. PLAN YOUR GREATER BRITAIN. Royal Instituteof British Architects, 1948. SS.b.34.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom. Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several
prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick,Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton
Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papworth. It wasawarded a Royal Charter in 1837, becoming the Royal

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Institute of British Architects in London, eventually
dropping the reference to London in 1892.

PLEDGER, PHILIP J. – See: EVANS, LLOYD.
543. POCOCK, TOM ALLCOT GUY (1925-2007). – Young
Nelson in the Americas. London: Collins, 1980. In-8°.
pp. 241 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. SS.b.112.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Neither Tom Pocock’s widow, nor his agent,
were aware of any problems with this book when they
were approached on the matter, which strongly suggeststhat a print error was detected by the publisher in theadvance copies that were sent out to critics and copyright registration, and silently corrected.

544. POLICE GAZETTE, or Hue and Cry. London: Published by Authority. June 2–July 26, 1858; Jan. 1,
1877, etc. (Released 17.5.24) (Withdrawn O.T. Mar.
8, 1913.) ‘O.T.’ is yet another of the British Library's
cabalistic acronyms, this one probably meaning something like “By Order of the Trustees.”– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. The original SS pressmark is unknown. Now
housed at Colindale, the British Library’s newspaper
and periodical repository. Published from January 18
1828 until 29 October 2003, at which point it was discontinued as a hard copy publication. “Closed for 75
years: readers wishing to see issues published during
the last 75 years should obtain written permission from
the Metropolitan Police, New Scotland Yard. Ask at theenquiry desk for details.”

545. POLITICAL QUARTERLY IN THE THIRTIES,
The. Edited by William Alexander Robson. London:
Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1971. In-8°. pp. 249.
SS.Cup.13.c.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

546. PONTIFICIA HIBERNICA. Medieval papal chancery documents concerning Ireland, 640-1261 … Critically edited and annotated by Maurice. P. Sheehy.
Dublin: M H Gill & Son Ltd., 1962. In-8°. Two volumes. SS.Cup.12.c.63.
196

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis another copy, or issue, in the British Library atpressmark: 4572.dd.12.

547. POTOCKI, GEOFFREY WLADISLAS VAILE, Count deMontalk. – Here Lies John Penis. Paris: 73 BoulevardRabelais, 1934. SS.a.409.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. The General Catalogue lists an edition of thisslim volume of verses in the Private Case at P.C. 24. a.
34. It is stated to have been published in 1932 at London, but falsely imprinted Paris, and to have ms. notesby the author. Peter Fryer, in Private Case, Public
Scandal, writes that the copy of Here Lies John Penisin the SS is of a pirated edition.

548. PRÉCIS OF INFORMATION concerning the Straits
Settlements and the Native States of the Malay Peninsula, with maps, &c. London: War Office, Intelligence
Division, 1883. In-8°. pp. 186. SS.a.73. [Now shelved
at B.S. 45(242).]– A title discovered by David Boothroyd, whowrites: “it is said in the paper catalogue ‘requires permission’ but it was produced for me without any interrogation. On the title page ‘SS.a. 73’ is crossed through.
Accession stamp 10 November 1883. This is a printed
report from the War Office but several sections are noted in the printing as ‘Confidential’; presumably there isan original manuscript in the Department.”

549. PREDDY, STEVE. – Wildlife Sites Report. The Wild
Life Trust, 1994. SS.Cup.18/10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. This
work appears to have no existence outside the SS.
– In response to an email to the Wild Life Trust,
Ms. Caroline Robinson wrote: “We do not have a copyof the report in our library so I have asked colleagues
whether they can remember it at all. Unfortunately, it is
not a publication they can recall due to the date of publication. We do not know why the publication would
have been suppressed by the British Library and aresorry we are unable to help you further with your enquiry.”197

550. PREVIEW. Sotherby & Co. and Sotherby ParkeBernet. A summary of forthcoming sales, May-June
1975. SS.Cup.14.a.14.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

551. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE of pediatric infectious diseases, edited by Sarah S. Long, Larry K.
Pickering, Charles G. Prober. New York & Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, c. 1997. 26cm. pp. xxx+1821.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. It is uncertain which
edition of this work is earmarked for the SS. Three editions were published between 1997 and 2008, all ofwhich have BL pressmarks: 98/04494. – m02/41624. –Vm08/.50131.
– Letters to the publisher requesting clarification of
the reasons for the suppression of this work were ignored.

552. PRIOR, MOODY ERASMUS (1901 – ). – The Language of Tragedy. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1947. In-8°. pp. viii, 411. SS.Cup.14.a.24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

553. PRIVATEDETECTIVE
SS.Cup.11.b.12.

SCANDAL,The.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “This has not been traced in the suppressed cupboard nor on the Integrated Catalogue or COPAC. As
the suppressed cupboard is gradually overhauled it may
be located later.” We are indebted to Mr. Richard Priceat the British Library for looking into this entry on ourbehalf.

554. PRIVATE EYE. London: Pressdram Limited. (3 issues:), no. 13 (15th June 1962), 319 (8th March, 1974)
and 606 (8th March, 1985). SS.Cup.15/5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Issue no. 13 carried an attack on Lord Russell ofLiverpool –‘Lord Liver of Cess Pool’ – who sued. Issue
no.606 carried a story about Cecil Parkinson, a ministerin the Thatcher regime. The Issue was injuncted and reprinted as 606A with almost a column of text of the198‘Grovel’ feature left blank. The reasons for the suppression of issue no. 319 are unclear. We are greatly indebted to Private Eye’s Mr. Tony Rushton for taking thetime to find this information for us.

555. PRIVATE TELEGRAPHIC CODE. The Marconi
International Code Company Limited, 1923. SS.b.64.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

556. PRIVATE TELEGRAPHIC CODE. [No further information.] SS.c.54.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

557. PRODUCTION AND CASTING REPORT AND
WHO'S WHERE WEEKLY. PCR Issue 1974 2007.
SS.Cup.18/19.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– PCR (Production and Casting Report) is a subscription-based weekly publication and website which
reports on film, television and theatre productions.
Who’s Where is an A-Z listing of all contacts, updated
weekly in PCR. PCR’s editorial offices are currently
located in the cramped confines of a Post Office Box inNorth London. ‘PCR Issue 1974 2007’ appears in the‘publisher/date’ column of the SS catalogue.

558. PROFILE (ITTSS.Cup.14.a.12.

inEurope).

Spring1975.

– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This entry is too vaguely described to identify
with certainty. However, there is in the Serials/Periodicals catalogue a publication called Profile,issued at Bruxelles by the International Telephone andTelegraph Corporation, and in the entry is a ‘General
Note’ reading: ‘Holdings: no. 3, etc. Spring 1975, etc.’
The pressmark is P.623/604. This is a fairly close match
to the entry in the SS catalogue.

559. PROFIT RELATED PAY. Robson Rhodes, 1988.
SS.Cup.20/32.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. See
the entry for PENSION SCHEMES MANUAL, above,for details of Robson Rhodes.

199560. PROGRAM OF THE VISIT OF THEIREXCELLENCIES THE VICEROY. (Numerous
parts.) 1938-43. SS.a.119.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. This
entry is too vaguely described to further identify.

561. PROPERTY MARKET QUARTERLY REVIEW.
June 1996. SS.Cup.20/3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: The main contents of thisresearch journal were commercial reports provided by
Hillier Parker, a commercial property consultancy. June
1996 seems to have been its first publication. It wasprobably suppressed for commercial confidentiality;
some of the commentary articles are available for academic users through the University of Westminster's
Project Support Centre. The Bodleian Library holds
December 1997 to June 2003 at call number P.C12775.

562. THE PTS [Philatelic Traders' Society] JOURNAL.
London: Philatelic Traders' Society, 1947-1986. (23issues.) SS.Cup.11.b.22.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Issues marked “Confidential.” “The PhilatelicTraders' Society was formed in 1929 by a group of established stamp dealers who wished to found a society
which would act for, and on behalf of its members, forthe greater good of philately.”563. PUBLISHERS’ASSOCIATION&THE
ASSOCIATED BOOKSELLERS… Interim Report,
1929. SS.a.369(1).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

564. PUBLISHERS’ASSOCIATION&THE
ASSOCIATED BOOKSELLERS… Further Report,
1929. SS.a.369(2).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– These two documents may be related to the 1929
decision of a joint committee of the Publisher’s Association and Associated Booksellers to sign the Library
Agreement, which governed the discounts given by200

publishers and bookshops when selling to Public Libraries.

565. PUCCINI, GIACOMO ANTONIO DOMENICO MICHELESECONDO MARIA (1858 – 1924). – [La Bohème.Quando me’ n vo’ ] La Bohème … Musetta’s WaltzSong. London: G. Ricordi & Company. SS.b.83.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

566. PUCCINI, GIACOMO ANTONIO DOMENICO MICHELESECONDO MARIA (1858 – 1924). – [La Bohème.Quando me’ n vo’ ] La Bohème … Musetta’s WaltzSong. London: G. Ricordi & Company. SS.b.84.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Neither of the two preceding entries are dated in the SS
catalogue.

567. P’U-I, Emperor of China. – The last Manchu: the autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China;
edited with an introduction by Paul Kramer, translated
by Kuo Ying Paul Tsai. London: Barker, [1967]. In8°. pp. 318. Eight plates. SS.12.c.77.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.129.

568. PULMOZYME. DH Department of Toxicology,
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, 1994.
SS.Cup.20/41.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Pulmozyme is medication used in the treatment of cystic
fibrosis. St Bartholomew's Hospital, popularly known
as St. Barts or simply Barts, is a hospital in Smithfieldin the City of London, England. It is one of the oldest
hospitals in Europe, having been founded in 1123 byRaherus or Rahere, a favourite courtier of King HenryI.
– David Boothroyd adds: The author is from
Genentech, Inc., who developed a genetically engineered version of a human enzyme to stop lung infections and improve lung function of people with cystic
fibrosis. The main body of this report was published as
supplement 1 to volume 13 of Human and Experimental Toxicology. It is included in a full set of Humanand Experimental Toxicology, in the Science Technol-201

ogy and Industry collection at shelfmark (P) HD 92 E(26), and also in the Lending Collection at
4335.973000. I requested it and noted that the forewordof the supplement, written by the then editor of Humanand Experimental Toxicology, notes that the compilation of a detailed toxicological report by the manufacturers of a new pharmaceutical is “an example of thecare and thoughtfulness required to make the case for anovel substance, particularly one produced by recombinant DNA technology” but then goes on to describe thesupplement as “the bulk of the Expert Report”. On the
final page (S42), the author writes that “the length ofthe complete Expert Report and its attached tables andreferences make it too large a document to be publishedhere. It has been deposited for reference at: The British
Library, Science Reference and Information Service, 25Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AX”. (Thiswas before the BL had moved to St Pancras.) It seems
that it is the complete Expert Report which has foundits way into the Suppressed Safe.

569. PUTSCH. SS.Cup.20/86.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– A British fascist publication edited by John Catoand published under the aegis of Combat 18, a shadowy
and armed terrorist group, founded in late 1991 fromelements of the British National Socialist Movement,
Blood and Honour, skinhead groups and rascist riff-rafffrom the supporters of professional soccer teams suchas Millwall, West Ham and Leeds. Sixteen issues were
published by September 1994. The publisher’s address
is given as: BM Box 1933, London WC1N 3XX. Other
publications by these gentry include Redwatch, The Order, Thorwould, and a more recent magazine named
Combat 18. See also: C18.

570. QUALITY AND EQUALITY. Local Government
Management Board, 1991. SS.Cup.20/30.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Local Government Management Board are situated at
Layden House, London, London, EC1N 5QU, but there
are also regional Boards elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in Wales, West Yorkshire, &c., &c.
– David Boothroyd adds: The original printing contained a ‘compilation error’ and was replaced; the second printing was issued with a cover letter dated 10
January 1992 requesting that the original incorrect version be destroyed. The BL helpfully kept the cover letter with the replacement copy (CUP.937/510).

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571. QUEEN, The. [A periodical] [Includes an annotatedlist of Debutantes and Escorts, 1948-1965.]
SS.Cup.12.c.76.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– In November 1970 the Hearst Corporation’s
Harper's Bazaar UK (founded in 1929) and Queenmagazine (which dated from 1862) amalgamated toform Harpers & Queen. The magazine focused on British “high society” and the lives of socialites and theBritish aristocracy.

572. QUESTION OF SLESVIG-HOLSTEIN, The.
[?London:] Admiralty War Staff. Intelligence Division.
Dec. 1916. SS.c.43.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

573. RACF Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/67.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

574. RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS. Warndon, Worcestershire: British National Party, [November?] 2008.
In-8°. 6 pages, inclusive of wrappers.
– There is no evidence that this pamphlet is in theSS, but copies were seized and twelve members of the
British National Party arrested for distributing copies of
it in Liverpool in November 2008. According to an
emailed press release from Wikileaks, an online ‘whistleblower’ site, the pamphlet “is a relatively sober account of immigrant violence towards UK residents.
While clearly being designed to support the BNP's antiimmigration policy platform and occasionally rhetorically overstating its case, it is typical of campaign material and cannot be said to be any sort of incitement.”– The pagination of this pamphlet seems to be anissue. The British National Party have a version of it on
the internet which has just 6 pages; Searchlight, an antifascist watchdog organization, has a page on its own
webpage making reference to a “12-page glossy magazine” of the same title which, from the description it
provides, sounds very much as though the content of
the both versions overlap.

575. RAMAGE, Roderick WILLIAM. – Kelly’s Draftsman. 16th ed. London: Butterworths, 1993. 8vo.
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xc.1290 pp. “Edition reprinted. Request od destrution[sic]. Feb. 1993”… Note attached. SS.18/12.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There is acopy in the General Catalogue (pressmark: V95/29849
DSC) together with two copies of a “rev. and reprinted”
edition at pressmarks: Cup 938/111 & YC.1994.b.4261.
– We are obliged to Mr. Ramage for informing usthat the reason for the withdrawal of the 1993 16th edition of Kelly’s Draftsman was a number of errors,
which were corrected in the 1994 edition.

576. RAPRA [Rubber and Plastics Research Association]
Members Journal. (45 parts.) RAPRA, 1973-77.
SS.Cup.14.a.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Rubber and Plastics Research Association
was founded in 1919. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Smithers Group, and Europe’s leading independent plastics and rubber consultancy. RAPRA
provides comprehensive consultancy, technology andinformation services for the polymer industry and industries using plastics and rubber in any component,
product or production process. The Association is
headquartered in Shrewsbury.

577. RECORD COLLECTOR No.101. London: Diamond
Publishing Group, January 1988. 116 pages.
SS.Cup.18/18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Includes UK discography of Buddy Holly, plus
pieces on The Rolling Stones, Cream, King Crimson,
Bananarama, Anthrax, Brian Eno and The Monkees.

578. RECUEIL DES ACTES DE LA CONFERENCE…
EXECUTION DES TRAITES. (6 parts.) Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1932. SS.c.50.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

579. RED MACHINERY GUIDE. TRACTORS. Red
Machinery Guide, 31st Jan. 1992. SS.Cup.12.c.50.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– There is a company called Red Machinery Guide
Ltd. located at Addlestone, Kent, but with a registeredoffice at Weybridge, Surrey.

580. REFLECTION ON THE REVOLUTION in France
1968. Edited by Charles Posner. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1970. In-8°. 318 pp. Suppressed for having a “print error.” SS.Cup.13.b.2.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There is acopy in the General Catalogue at pressmark
X.709/10682.

581. REGISTER OF RESEARCH IN THE SOCIALSERVICES. The National Institute of Economics Research. 3 volumes, 1943, 1944, 1945 SS.a.106.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The National Institute of Economic and Social
Research, abbreviated to NIESR, is an independent research organisation located in the City of Westminster,London, England. It was established in 1938 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pilgrim Trust,the Leverhulme Trust and the Halley Stewart Trust. The
most important output of NIESR has been a macroeconomic model of the UK economy which is used to produce forecasts of the UK economy, published quarterly
in the National Institute Economic Review.

582. REID, CHARLES, of Wishaw (1837-1929) – AnimalStudies. (Photographs from Life.) London: Charles
Letts & Co., [1902]. Oblong In-8°. SS.a.397.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General catalogue at the followingpressmark: D-7858.n. Copies of another edition, published about the same time at Edinburgh & London by
George Stewart & Co., are in the National Library of
Scotland, the Bodelian at Oxford and Cambridge. Theselatter three have ‘No. 1’ printed on the front wrapper.
– Charles Reid was a well-known Scottish animal
photographer, a native of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, wholater, in 1875, settled in Wishaw. He was for many
years the official photographer of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
– David Boothroyd examined the George Stewart& Co. edition at Cambridge and reports that it has anaccession stamp of 28 August 1901. The introduction
states: “THE THIRTY PICTURES herein reproduced

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are a fairly representative selection from the wellknown and unique collection of COPYRIGHTPHOTOGRAPHS OF ANIMALS taken from life by
CHARLES REID, OF WISHAW.” However, a note in
The Times at the time of publication (30 July 1901, p.
12) links the Edinburgh publishers Geo. Stewart & Co.
with the London publishers Letts.

583. REINHARD, WILHELM. – [Lenchen im Zuchthause]
Nell in Bridwell. London: Fortune Press, 1934. In-8°.
pp. 288.
– Suppressed shortly after publication, but desuppressed about 1953 by Frank Francis, then a Keeper
in the Dept. of Printed Books. Stolen in 1959. The British Library now has another copy at pressmark
Cup.364.c.30. Op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 147.

584. REMEY,CHARLESMASON.
–
BAHA’IREMINISCENCES. Diary Letters and Other Documents Vols. 1-51. [Washington, 1938.] Typewritten,
some MS. corrections. - Photographs and other items
tipped in. - Each part signed by the Author on the titlepage. No reason for suppression provided.
SS.Cup.6.a (vols. 1-18) & SS.6.a for the balance.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. The documents have been relocated to pressmark RF.2004.b.47.
A further 12 volumes or parts, catalogued "Washington,
1946-48," are shelved at: 4506.k.4. There is no evidence that these were ever in the SS.

585. REMINGTON, STEWART J. – ZnO: a monographon zinc oxide, leaded zinc oxides and zinc dust paints,
their properties and uses in industry. London: Leonard
Hill, 1943. In-8°. pp. 68. SS.a.110.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.14.

586. REPORT ON THE MARKET FOR DUSTARRESTMENTS&GAS
CLEANING
EQUIPMENT, A. Techonomics. November, 1973.
SS.Cup.15/12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

206587. REWARD GROUP. Miscellaneous reports. 198497. SS.Cup.18/13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

588. RICHARDS, JOHN RANDOLPH. – That Man Markham. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938.
SS.b.91.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is nothing in the General Catalogue matchingthese details, although a later version of the novel, retitled The Day Will Come (London: Longmans, 1938),
is at pressmark NN.29258. Copies of That Man Markham are restricted in the Bodleian (Res. e.49) and the
National Library of Scotland in their ‘Phi’ collection.
The copy at Cambridge is in the Rare Book Room and“not borrowable.” The copy in Trinity College, Dublin,
appears to have no restrictions placed on it.
– A thumbnail review of this novel in Sherbrooke
Telegram for April 20, 1939, reveals a work of sensational content for the day: “Markham, a bookseller’s assistant, comes to Manchester to make a fresh start, having got a girl into trouble in his home town. Here hemeets Mrs. Burrows, whose husband’s bookshop
Markham has taken over. Falling madly in love with
Mrs. Burrows, he determines to marry here, but Burrows refuses to give them a divorce. Markham murders
Burrows, cleverly contriving to make his death appear
an accident, and the way is clear for his marriage to
Mrs. Burrows. Sometime later his former sweetheart in
Bournemouth begs him to help her, and in order to ensure his own safety, Markham commits a second murder. A gripping version of the crime passionnel and apowerful character study of a natural crook.”– We are obliged to Mr. Andrew Parry for the following information on this title: “The publication ofThat Man Markham the novel by John Randolph Richards … was postponed after concern was raised thatthat there was “a possibility that one of the characters inthe book might be recognizable, by coincidences, as an
actual person, and precautions had to be taken evenwhen fears were really groundless”. This was briefly
reported in The Times [Monday, February 7 1938 p.16]
when the publishers had requested the return of review
copies. The book is erroneously mis-titled ‘That Man
Markman’ in the Times’ article. ‘The Day Will Come’,is essentially a revised version of the book that appeared later that year with presumably all troubling
content removed or altered.”207

RIQUELME, JOHN PAUL. – See: ELIOT, THOMASSTEANS.
589. RIVERS, PATRICK. – Politics by Pressure. London:
Harrap, 1974. In-8°. pp. 239. SS.Cup. 14.a.33.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

590. ROBBINS, SIMON. – God’s General : Cromwell the
Soldier. [With plates and maps.] Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2003. In-8°. pp. xii. 244. SS.Cup.20/75.
– Included in the 2008 catalogue only, and oddly is
included in the British Library’s online catalogue.
– We are grateful to Mr. Simon Robbins for writing to tell us of his book that issues of “copyright and… plagiarism … caused it to be withdrawn.”

591. ROBERTON, HUGH STEVENSON, Sir. (1874-1952),
composer and conductor. – Songs of the Isles. A Collection of Island and Highland Tunes from various
sources, set to English, or to Anglo-Scottish, words
and arranged by H. S. Roberton, etc. no. 8. London: J.
Curwen & Sons, 1938. SS.c.64.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
“Copyright USA, 1938.” Issued in twenty-five numbered parts between 1937-1950. Issue number 8, published in 1938, was withdrawn after publication. Issues
no. 1-7, 9-25 are shelved at G.981.u.

592. ROBERTSON, Alexander, of Doundounadine, near
Dunkeld, Scotland. – John Brown. A Correspondencewith the Lord Chancellor, Regarding a Charge ofFraud Against His Grace the Duke of Athole K T. 37a
Clerkenwell Gardens, London: 1873. In-8°. pp. 8.
– I can find no evidence that a copy of this pamphlet was ever in the SS, or anywhere else in the British
Library, and even though its author was never apparently charged with libel, it is certainly libelous in every
sense of the word. The only repository copy We areaware of is in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania at pressmark PV 879 no.23.
– According to Tom Cullen, Alexander Robertson,a militant Republican, became greatly agitated about atoll bridge operated by the Dukes of Atholl across theRiver Tay, and campaigned vigorously to have the toll

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repealed. Queen Victoria’s name was dragged into thedispute because the Duchess of Atholl (1814–1897)
was one of her ladies-in-waiting. If one is to believe
Robertson, Victoria entered into a secret, morganaticmarriage with John Brown, an event allegedly witnessed by Anne Emily Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (1854–1923). Robertson compounded this preposterous story by claiming that following the marriage,
Victoria travelled secretly to Lausanne, Switzerland, togive birth to a child conceived as a result of this union.
She actually travelled to Lucerne, but certainly not insecret. See: Tom Cullen, The Empress Brown (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969, p. 220.) An expanded account of this story will be found in an essay by Raymond Lamont-Brown in the Contemporary Review for
December 2003.

593. ROBERTSON, JAMIE & Douglas WILSON. – Respiratory Diseases in pigs – Housing Interactions.
MAFF [Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food?],n.d. SS.Cup.20/36.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
was a United Kingdom government department createdby the Board of Agriculture Act 1889 and at that timecalled the Board of Agriculture. It was merged with thepart of the Department for Environment, Transport andthe Regions that dealt with the environment (and with asmall part of the Home Office) to create a new government department, the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 2001. However,
MAFF was not formally dissolved until 27 March 2002,
when the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food(Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794) came into
force.

594. ROBERTSON, TERENCE. – Channel Dash; the drama of twenty-four hours of war. [With illustrations.]
London: Evans Bros., [1958]. In-8°. pp. 208.
SS.Cup.14.a.41.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The “Channel Dash” was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German
Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of Scharnhorst,
Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, supported by a number ofsmaller ships, ran a British blockade and successfully
sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases inGermany via the English Channel.

209595. ROBINSON, A.T.C. – Rayon Fabric Construction.
Foreword by Ernest W. Goodale. Manchester, New
York: T. Skinner [1950]. In-8°. pp. vi. 180. Illustrations. SS.Cup.6.b.13.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A revised edition of articles published in Skinner's Silk &rayon record.

596. ROBY, HENRY JOHN. – Latin Grammar. London:
Macmillan, 1892. SS.a.89.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Roby was the author of many Latin text books
and related volumes, but a volume with anything resembling this title and date does not seem to exists outside the confines of the SS collection.

597. ROEDELBERGER, FRANZ ADAM, and VERA ILONAGROSCHOFF. – [Tierwelt Europas.] The Wonders ofWildlife in Europe. Nature observed in 280 pictures.
English version by Mary Phillips and Peter Whitehead, &c. London: Constable, 1963. In-4°. pp. 232.
SS.Cup.12.c.49.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

598. ROSE AND THE LAUREL, (The) : the Journal of
the Intelligence Corps and the Intelligence Corps Association. Rushden: Forces & Corporate Publishing.
30cm. pp. v. Illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. According to
the BL’s catalogue entry, this description is based on‘Vol. 15, no. 1 (Dec. 2000)’. The BL copy is pressmarked P.P.7617.cz.

599. ROSEBERY, ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, Earl of.
– Appreciations and Addresses delivered by Lord
Rosebery. Edited by C. Geake. London: John Lane,
1899. In-8°. pp. xi. 343. 012301.ee.2.
– There is no evidence that this work was ever in
the SS collection – it’s not included in either the 1945or the 2008 catalogues – but it was suppressed in London as a consequence of a copyright suit brought by the210London Times; cf. New York Times, September 2,
1899.

600. ROSENBERG’S LITTLE JOURNAL, independentand plain-spoken. London: J. Grose, 1886- Folio. Nos.
1-17, 18 Sept.1886 - 8 Jan.1887. SS. -?-.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Discontinued. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg. British Library NPL Pressmarks held at Newspaper Library issue desk Request.” Another run is at
Leeds University, Brotherton Library Special Collections. Pressmark: 1886-1887 LON MISC18 NPL.

601. [ROSENBERG, Adolphus. Editor & Publisher]
TITTLE TATTLE. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg.
No. 1. London: J. Grose, May 19, 1888. Folio. SS. -?-.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue only, but the SSpressmark was not given. Now kept in the British Library’s newpaper collection at Colindale, at the newpressmark: 1888 LON MISC18 NPL.

602. [ROSENBERG, Adolphus. Editor & Publisher]
TOWN TALK. A journal for society at large. Issue
no. 1 edited by Paul Pry [Adolphus Rosenberg]. London: 1878–888. Folio. Nos. 1 [edited by ‘Paul Pry,’i.e. A. Rosenberg] –71 (16 Nov.1878 – 10 April
1880). New series, nos. 1–309 (14 May 1881 – 28
Nov.1885). New series, nos. 1–41 (1 Oct.1887 – 21
July 1888). [Not published between 10 April 1880 and
14 May 1881 or between 29 Nov.1885 and 1
Oct.1887.]– Adolphus Rosenberg was successfully prosecutedin October 1879 in London at the Old Bailey for a libel
against Lilly Langtry and Patsy Cornwallis-West in the
periodical Town Talk, which does not seem to be in the
SS. In the case of Langtry, Rosenberg alleged that her
husband was suing for divorce and citing the Prince ofWales and Lords Lonsdale and Londesborough as corespondents. He was found guilty and sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment. See also the entry for Town
Topics, below. Rosenberg moved to New York, andchanged his name to Adolphus R. Ross; cf. New YorkTimes, July 27th 1917.
–At the time of the 1879 prosecution, Rosenberg
was twenty-seven years old, with two addresses: 4,
Ludgate Circus Buildings and 107, Brixton Road, the211latter presumably being his residence. The pressmark of
Town talk, which is house at the Colindale Newspaper
Library, is: 1878-1888 LON LD2A NPL.
–Articles on the libel case in The Times for Oct. 13,
18, 21, 22, 27 & 28, 1879. The offending issue of Town
Talk were for August 30th, and Sept. 6, 13, 20 & 27.
The printers were William Wilfred Head and Henry
Robert Mark of Fleet Street.

603. [ROSENBERG, Adolphus. Editor & Publisher]
TOWN TOPICS. Edited by Adolphus Rosenberg.
London: 1894 - Folio. Nos. 1-6, 12 May to 16 June,
1894. SS. -?– Included in the 1945 catalogue only but the SSpressmark was not given. Now kept in the British Library’s newspaper collection at Colindale, at the newpressmark: 1894 LON MISC18 NPL.

604. ROSKILL’S LETTER FROM JAPAN. Roskill Information Services Ltd., 1994. SS.Cup.20/89.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Roskill Information Services is one of the world's
leading providers of information on international metals
and minerals markets. They are located on Leopold
Road, London.

605. ROSS A/C [T. E. Lawrence]. – The Mint. Notes
made in the R.A.F. depot between August and December 1922, and at cadet college in 1925. By 352087
A/c Ross. Regrouped and copied in 1927 and 1928 ataircraft depot, Karachi. New York: Doubleday, Doran& Co., 1936. In-8°. pp. vii+199. SS.b.85.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– An edition published in fifty copies for copyright
purposes. “Not to be opened for twenty-five years from
October 9th [19]36.” Another copy of this edition is in
the Library of Congress, Delta Collection. Reprinted in
1955 by Doubleday, at London and New York, in bothtrade and limited editions, the limited edition only giving the complete text and including all the ‘coarse’ language. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: C.133.ee.1. The text of the expurgated andunexpurgated editions are both freely available on theInternet.

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606. ROTH, ANDREW. (1919 – 2010) – The BusinessBackground of Members of Parliament. London: Parliamentary Profile Services Ltd., 1963. In-8°. pp.
xxviii. 240. SS.Cup.12.c.45.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Mr. Roth is the author of a number of publications with this title which appear annually or semiannually. All are included in the General Catalogue,
save this one. Copies are available without any apparent
restriction in a number of other UK libraries, in the National Library of Scotland, for example, where it isshelved at: NF.1360.b.2. At Roth’s death, his publication developed into Parliamentary Profiles.

607. ROTHENSTEIN, WILLIAM, Sir (1872 – 1945). –Goya. London: At the sign of the Unicorn, 1900. In8°. pp. 38, with 20 plates, including portraits.
SS.a.353.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Artist's library, no. 4. The online catalogue
entry for this in the library of the Victoria & AlbertMuseum spells the imprint “Minicorn” rather that“Unicorn” as in all others that We’ve checked.

608. ROYALACADEMYAND
OTHER
EXHIBITIONS. The Graphic Office, 1912-1913. Two
items. SS.b.80.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

609. ROYAL/GLOBE SERVICE DEPARTMENT. Service Pointers. Royal Insurance Company Ltd. 1958.
SS.Cup.11.b.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

610. ROYAL TOXOPHILITE SOCIETY, The. An account… to resist the unwarrantable eviction…, 1922.
SS.a.345.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Royal Toxophilite Society was founded in
1781 by Sir Ashton Lever, and represents the two ancient bodies, “The Finsbury Archers” and “The Archers’ Company of the honourable Artillery Company.”
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Hall, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, premises it
had occupied since 1832.

611. RUSDEN, GEORGE WILLIAM. – History of New
Zealand. London: Chapman & Hall, 1883. In-8°.
Three volumes. 2398.f.12.
– Prosecuted for allegedly libelling John Bryce,
Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand. That thework was suppressed is confirmed by P. R. Harris in A
History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973(London: British Library, 1998), p. 386. The original
SS pressmark is not known to us, and it may be that the
copy presently shelved at 2398.f.12 is the SS copy desegregated.

612. RUSHDIE, SALMAN. – The Satanic Verses. Penguin
Books, 1988. In-8°. pp. 547. SS.Cup. 18/15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The imprint in the SS catalogue gives only ‘Penguin Books’ but We’ve been unable to locate a reference to any edition with solely this name as publisher.
In all editions the publication appears to be sharedjointly with Penguin and Viking.

613. RUSKIN, JOHN. – An Ill-Assorted Marriage. An unpublished letter by John Ruskin. (To F. J. Furnivall,
18 August 1854.) [On his marriage to Euphemia Gray,
afterwards Lady Millais. With a facsimile of the letterand an Introduction by Clement Shorter.] Clement
Shorter, [London, 1915]. In-4°. SS.b.15(4).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. Limited to 25 copies, privately printed.
There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at Cup.
503. n. 11 and at Ashley 3922.

614. RUSKIN, JOHN. – Ruskin’s Romance. [An accountof his marriage and divorce.] Reprinted from a New
England newspaper. 1889. In-8°. pp. 10. SS.b.81(6)[Now shelved at 1608/1609.]– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: C.131. de. 22. The divorce of John Ruskin
and Euphemia Gray was the cause of much speculation,
especially after she was discovered to be a virgin by her
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Millais. The most common theories concerning the divorce was that Ruskin either had an aversion to pubic
hair or else Euphemia was having her period at the timeof the marriage, a condition that was perhaps new to
him and may have been distasteful. A third suggestion,
and a more probable one, is that Ruskin was impotent.
– David Boothroyd was able to locate the current
location of this work, and adds the following precisions: “The frontpaper notes ‘30 Copies printed. British
Museum Copy.’ Accession stamp 13 December 1890; apencil pressmark on the front cover has been erased andis unreadable.”615. RUSSELL, DUNCAN KENNETH CAMPBELL (1853 - ).
– Go up and Possess the Land: or The Edinburgh
Murder Trade. Typewritten. 8th Jan. 1984 [i.e. 1894?].
SS.c.3(1).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– In both the 2008 and 2011 SS catalogues, the author of this and the following three works is given as‘RUSSEL [sic], D.K.C.’ This name is expanded in acopy of The Navy and Army: Letters to the First Lordof the Admiralty (see entry below) in the National Library of Scotland, where it is apparently unrestricted.
– Duncan K. C. Russell was born January 8th 1853
in Kilmodan, Argyllshire, and features in the Scottish
census returns for 1871, 1891 and 1901. In 1871 he wasa lodger at 12 Salisbury Street, Edinburgh, and a ‘Student Art Edinr Univ.’ In 1891, he was living with hisfather Alexander F. Russell and mother Madeleine
Munro at 67 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, and employed as a ‘Kate Tea Agent Calcutta.’ In 1901, he wasan engineer and living with ‘Eskine N Scrcombe,’ a‘Nurse (domestic),’ at 22 Bruntsfield Gardens, Edinburgh.
– Mr. Russell was also the author of a six-page
typewritten essay on the ecclesiastically controversial
Alexander Burnet (1615–1684), Archbishop of Glasgow, a copy of which is in the British Library at pressmark 1765.a.28. It does not seem to be restricted in any
way. There is also, in the National Library of Scotland
at pressmark 6.213, a presumably typewritten document
dated 1936 titled: Petitions from D.K.C. Russell forrecognition of his supposed public services.
– An individual with the identical name took out a
Canadian patent (CA 209048) for a chambre d’air decycle or cycle inner tube in 1921. The inventor’s country of origin is ‘unknown’ although the drawings at-

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tached to the patent, which are dated 14 September
1915, have the address 21 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh.

616. RUSSELL, DUNCAN KENNETH CAMPBELL (1853 - ).
– The Military Assistance Bill. (19 items) 1 folder.
1899-1902. SS.c.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

617. RUSSELL, DUNCAN KENNETH CAMPBELL (1853 - ).
– The Navy and Army: Letters to the First Lord of theAdmiralty. Typewritten. 1912. SS.c.3(2).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

618. RUSSELL, DUNCAN KENNETH CAMPBELL (1853 - ).
– The Rotation of the Earth and the Relief of Ladysmith. Typewritten. 1911. SS.c.4(3).
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– What the Relief of Ladysmith, an event which
took place on 1st March 1900 during the Second Boer
War in South Africa, has to do with the Rotation of the
Earth, is difficult to imagine.

619. SABBAGH, KARL. – 21st Century Jet : the makingof the Boeing 777. London: Macmillan, 1995. In-8°.
pp. viii. 397. Illustrations, some coloured.
SS.Cup.20.4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of Cambridge
University Library at pressmark Arc.c.99.404.
– David Boothroyd adds: Published as a tie-in witha five-part Channel 4 Television series (29 October - 26
November 1995), the book tells the story of the development of the latest airliner by the Boeing Corporation.
A news story in the Independent newspaper (17 November 1995) said:– “Airbus Industrie has hit back in decisive fashion
over the loss of the £8bn Singapore Airline order toBoeing. The European consortium has finally succeeded in suppressing further publication of Karl Sabbagh’s
21st Century Jet, which chronicles the development of
the Boeing 777. You will recall that Singaporeans ordered 77 of the offending planes this week.

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– “ ‘We are required to recall all copies of thebook,' says Macmillan, co-publishers of the book with
Channel Four. 'Airbus Industrie has complained.’ ”– According to the Sunday Times (19 November
1995), Airbus Industrie had instituted libel proceedings,
and their success resulted in an undertaking to delete
the inaccurate pages. A new edition (406p) was published in 1996 by Pan Books and is in the Integrated
Catalogue at YK.1997.a.2365. The Macmillan edition is
also restricted at Cambridge (Arc.c.99.404).

620. SABINE, WILLIAM HENRY WALDO (1903-1994). –Guido and the Girls. Private Edition. Harrogate:
Quess Press, 1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS.a.399.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.1. Copies of 1933 editions ofGuido and the Girls are in the Bodleian Library at Res.
e.29 and Res. f.3, and the entries marked “Not available
for consultation.”

621. SABINE, WILLIAM HENRY WALDO. – Guido and theGirls… Second edition. Harrogate: Quess Press,
1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS.a.400.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.2. It may previously havebeen shelved at pressmark: P.C. 15. de. 29.

622. SABINE, WILLIAM HENRY WALDO. – Guido and theGirls. Third (revised) edition. Harrogate: Quess
Press, 1933. In-8°. pp. 141. SS.a.401.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: Cup.1000.aaa.3.

623. SABINE, WILLIAM HENRY WALDO. – Guido and theGirls. Fourth edition. Illustrated by Ellen Borcherding.
Harrogate: Quess Press, 1934. In-8°. pp. 141.
SS.a.401.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There are two copies in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: P.C.15.df.5. and Cup.1000.c.5. A
1934 edition of Guido and the Girls is in the Bodleian
Library at Res. e.30.

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– “During the year following Montalk’s [see entry
above for “Potocki”] case a young man who had written
a long poem in Spenserian stanzas, entitled Guido and
the Girls, had it privately printed and advertised bypostal circulars. Besides recounting his love struggles,
the poem aimed a good deal of Chaucerian abuse atpriests and lawyers. It received kindly treatment fromthe Press though The Times Literary Supplement administered a gentle rebuke for coarseness. A third andextended edition issued in 1934 satirized the late Lord
Halifax (in very thin disguise) as a religious maniac.
The authorities then decided to suppress the book. The
author was charged with publishing an obscene libel
and fined £500 at Leeds Assizes.” – Alec Craig, The
Banned Books of England (London: George Allen &Unwin Ltd., 1962), p. [92].
– William Henry Waldo Sabine was born in England, educated at private schools and with tutors, andtaught at the Middlesex County Council Institute before
coming to the United States in 1947. His publications
had begun with poetry in England in 1929. In America
he developed an interest in early American history,
publishing titles about the Revolutionary era, of which
the most popular, The Historical Memoirs of William
Smith, 1763-1783, was first published in 1956. He later
became interested in the American flag and its history,
followed by a rededication to a long-term interest inparapsychology. The bulk of his papers are preserved in
fifteen boxes in the Rare Book and Manuscript Libraryof Columbia University, New York, from whose website this biographical note was taken.
– A further box of Sabine’s papers containing“Leaflets, posters, form letters, pamphlets, and memorabilia, relating to British war aims and propaganda efforts during World War I, civilian defense, the British
Union of Fascists, and Oswald Mosley” is preserved at
the Hoover Institute, Stanford University, California.

SAINT-MANDÉ, (Wilfred) pseud. – See: LAMONT, H. P
624. SAMPSON, ANTHONY TERRELL SEWARD (19262004). – Anatomy of Britain. London: Hodder &Stoughton, 1962. In-8°. pp. xiv. 662. SS.Cup.12.c.25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Anthony Sampson was a British writer and journalist, and a founding member of the Social Democratic
Party, now defunct. During the 1950s he edited themagazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa. On returning to the United Kingdom he joined the editorial218

staff of The Observer, where he worked from 1955–66.
Anatomy of Britain was Sampson’s first book. The reason for the suppression of the first edition was a libel
action by Lord Strabolgi over passages on page 16.
Strabolgi objected to remarks which suggested he used
his title in his professional life in the publishing industry. Sampson and his publishers accepted his assurance
and undertook to correct the reference in future editions, and so the libel action was settled. The Times of 1
August 1962 has a brief report on page 4, but the incident is not mentioned in Sampson's autobiography, The
Anatomist (Methuen, 2008).

625. SANDERS, SHARON (1957 – ). – The Hamisha’s
Adventures : a children’s fairy story. Illustrations by
Maria Louise Kesselman and Gill Wessex. [S.l.]: Sharon Sanders, 2004. In-8°. pp. 30. SS.Cup.20/84.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
copies in both the Bodleian (Res. d.157 ‘Not available
for consultation’) and Cambridge (Arc.d.200.406) arerestricted, and in both the subject classification is divided, perhaps ominously, between ‘Juvenile Fiction’ and‘Cucumbers.’ A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark
Phi.18.
– We are grateful to Ms. Sarah Wheale of the Rare
Books Section of the Department of Special Collections
at the Bodleian Library, for writing to tell us that The
Hamisha’s Adventures was withdraw because of legal
issues regarding the artwork and “not to be used without author’s permission.”

626. SANDFORD, CHARLES. – India: Land of Regrets.
[With illustrations.] Foreword by Robert Bernays
M.P. [London:] Fenland Press, 12 Henrietta Street,
1934. In-8°. pp. 301. SS.a.414.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
two copies in the General Catalogue at pressmarks:
W57/3743 and 2354.b.12.
A journalist’s reflections on his experiences withall strata of Indian life. Copies of the book are freely
available in facsimile online. ‘Robert Bernays M.P.’ ispresumably Robert Hamilton Bernays (1902-1945) a
Liberal Party, and later Liberal National, politician in
the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1945.

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627. SAY, MAURICE GEORGE (1902-1992) and ERICOPENSHAW TAYLOR (1902-1987). – Direct Current
Machines. London: Pitman, 1986. In-8°. pp. x. 396.
SS.Cup.15.36– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

628. SCHAPIRO, LEONARD BERTRAM (1908 - ). – Rationalism and nationalism in Russian nineteenthcentury political thought. New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 1967. In-8°. pp. viii. 173.
SS.Cup.13.a.18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “Revised and expanded text of six lectures … delivered at
Yale University … 1965.”

629. SCHOOLCURRICULUMDEVELOPMENTCOMMITTEE ‘GRIDS’ Project. Revised Version.
SCDC, 1986. Four parts. SS.Cup.18/4.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Boothroyd adds: The Guidelines for Review and Internal Development in Schools project was
an attempt to set down standards for training teachers
during their careers. It was named after the original
GRIDS handbook published in 1984, and was part of
the School Curriculum Development Committee, which
was set up by the Department of Education and Scienceto write the National Curriculum. When the GRIDS
Project completed in 1988, it published the second edition of the handbooks for primary and secondary school
teachers. The revised version published in 1986 must be
an internal publication, albeit one given wide circulation.

630. SCHWEITZER, GEORG. – Emin Pascha. Eine
Darstellung seines Lebens und Wirkens, mit
BenutzungseinerTagebücher,
Briefeundwissenschaftlichen
Aufzeichnungen,vonG.
Schweitzer. Mit einer Karte, &c. Berlin: 1898. In-8°.
pp. pp. xiv. 808. 10707.k.14.
– A leaf containing a libel on a New York Herald
journalist named Vizetelly was removed and not replaced. Whether the book was ever in the SS We areunable to say. Cf. Peter Fryer, p. 152.

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631. SCHWEITZER, GEORG. – Emin Pasha: his life andwork. Compiled from his journals, letters, scientificnotes, and from official documents…With an introduction by R. W. Felkin. London: Constable & Company, 1898. In-8°. Two volumes. 010707.f.48.
– A leaf in volume one, containing a libel on a New
York Herald journalist named Vizetelly, was removed
and replaced by one with the libel expunged. Whether
the book was ever in the SS We are unable to say. Cf.
Peter Fryer, p. 152. The libel case was Vizetelly v
Mudie's Select Library [1900] 2 QB 170, in which thecourt was asked about the liability in defamation of acirculating library who provided books to subscribers,in this case about a book on Stanley's search for Emir
Pasha in Africa in which appears a passage purportingto have come from Emir Pasha’s diary (for Nov. 30
1889) claiming that Vizetelly was a drunkard, among
other things. The offending passage is as follows:– “Vizetelly sent off three messengers to-day to thecoast, each with a bulky letter. However, as he is not
yet sober he cannot surely have written them himself,
and the solution of the problem is, as Dr Parke tells us,
simply that Stanley had the correspondence ready, andknocked it down to the highest bidder, Vizetelly, i.e.,
Gordon Bennett [Vizetelly’s employer on the New York
Herald], and quite right too.”

632. [SCOTT, CYRIL MEIR (1879-1970)] The Autobiography of a Child, Written from the Psycho-sexualanalytical Standpoint; for Doctors, Parents, Teachers,
and Psychologists. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Co., [1921]. In-8°. pp, xv.389. SS.a.78.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “Subject to prosecution; Copies destroyed.”Two copies are in the General Catalogue, at pressmarks: Cup. 1001. c. 6. and Cup. 1001. c. 7. One isprobably the SS copy, desegregated. The reason for the
book’s suppression appears to have been the revelationthat its author, Cyril Scott, the English composer, writer, and poet, had in his youth an irregular relationshipwith an older man, rumoured to have been Frank Podmore (1856-1910), a founding member of the FabianSociety, the author of a study of the Socialist pioneer
Robert Owen and a number of works on psychical research and spiritualism. Podmore was drowned in August 1910 at Malvern. Cyril Scott was married to Rose
Laure Allatini, herself the author of suppressed book221

called Despised and Rejected (1918) published under
the pseudonym A. T. Fitzroy, q.v.
– “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD." Owing to objections having been raised to the form inwhich the psychoanalytical information contained in"The Autobiography of a Child" is conveyed, the publishers (Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co., Limited) have, in
the absence of the author in America, withdrawn thebook from circulation.” The Times, March 14, 1921, p.
10.
– “At the Mansion House on Thursday, before theLord Mayor, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner,&
Co. Ltd., publishers, Broadway House, Carter Lane,
were summoned to show cause why copies of a bookentitled The Autobiography of a Child, alleged to be obscene, should not be destroyed.
– “Mr. [Arthur Strettell] Comyns Carr said that thecomplainant, Lord Alfred Douglas, as editor of Plain
English, received the book for review, and wrote to the
publishers describing it as ‘a disgusting and diabolicalwork’ and stating that unless he had their assurance that
it would be withdrawn from circulation he should apply
for process against them and the author.
– “The defendants replied that they did not consider a layman a competent judge of a book on medical
psychology. They said that the book was intended forthe use of doctors, teachers, and students of psychoanalysis, and was not to be sold to any other person. It
was written by a well-known professional man, whowished to remain anonymous, for the purpose of adding
a quota to the science of psycho-analysis.
– “Sir Alfred [Downing] Fripp, surgeon, giving evidence, said that, having read extracts from the book, heconsidered that its scientific value was absolutely nil.
The only people who would read it to the end would be
dirty-minded boys. The Lord Mayor said he was ofopinion that the book was obscene, but the real question
was whether it was a genuine scientific work or a bookgot up for sale to filthy-minded people. The hearing
was adjourned until April 11.” The Times, March 26,
1921, p. 5.

633. SCOTTISH NATIONAL HERITAGE. – Commissioned Reports nos. 344 and 359. Edinburgh: Scottish
Natural Heritage, no date.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is no
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OPAC catalogues, although in the former is an entry for
an unnumbered ‘Commissioned Report’ dated ‘200?’.
The pressmark for this is: Document Supply
3337.820250.
– Requests to the Scottish National Heritage forclarification as to why these two reports are restrictedwere ignored.

SCOVILLE, SAMUEL. – See: BEECHER, WILLIAM
CONSTANTINE.
634. SECONDUS, JOHANNES. – Kisses, being the Basia
of Iohannes Secundus rendered into English verse byThomas Stanley, 1647. London: Fortune Press, 1927.
Fol. pp. [24]. SS.b.71.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
– Withdrawn by the publisher. “700 copies on
handmade paper; 100 were to have been bound in vellum. Most copies of this edition were surrendered to theNonesuch Press at its request, owing to its being a typographical piracy, and were destroyed.” Timothyd’Arch Smith, R. A. Caton and the Fortune Press (London: Bertram Rota, 1983), p. 81. There is a copy in the
General Catalogue at pressmark: Cup.510.as.19.

635. SEGELL, GLEN. – Striggio-Monteverdi's L’Orfeo An Excursion into its Neoplatonic Layers. The Author,
1996. SS.Cup.20/56.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.7.
– A piracy, with an identical title, of a Universityof London, King's College M.Mus. thesis in HistoricalMusicology submitted in 1995 by Ilias Chrissochoidis.
We are greatly indebted to Mr. Chrissochoidis for thefollowing account of the events.
– “Striggio-Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo - An Excursion
into its Neoplatonic Layers is my MMus study at King's
College London, Department of Music. It was submitted, accepted, and stored at the University of London
library in 1995. In 1997, and by means unknown to me,
Glen Segell, a King’s College graduate student at the
War Studies department … got access to its electronic
version and published it under his own name (that is, heproduced bound photocopies, added a new title page,
sent it to various libraries in the UK and the USA, andsold it on amazon.com and other online bookstores). I

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was informed of this astonishing theft in 2000 from Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) in
New York. My own research revealed that Segell has‘published’ probably a few dozen works by similarmeans. I forwarded my findings to King’s College authorities and also informed some libraries in the UK
about the incident.”

636. SELBY, HUBERT, Jnr. – Last Exit to Brooklyn. London: [John] Calder & [Marion] Boyars, 1966. In-8°.
pp. 234. SS.Cup.20/29.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Suppressed due to legal action following a private prosecution brought against the publishers by Sir Cyril Black, aConservative Member of Parliament. In a piece of poetic justice, Sir Cyril later found himself the title character of a pornographic novel by ‘Benjamin Grimm’[Spencer Lambert] published in the United States by the
Olympia Press.
– David Boothroyd adds: The story of the attempted suppression of this book in Britain is well known.
But why is the SS. pressmark in SS. Cup. 20? This
would indicate it was suppressed in the late 1990s.

637. SELTZER, CHARLES ALDEN. – The Boss of the Lazy
Y. London: Four Square Books, 1963. SS.12.c.34.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
Boss of the Lazy Y was first published in 1915 at New
York by Grosset & Dunlap, and shortly afterwards
turned into a film by Clifford Smith. An English editionof the novel was published in 1920 by Hodder andStoughton. An edition published by Four Square paperbacks of this novel seems not to exist outside the SS
collection, suggesting that the reason for its suppression
may be connected to some irregularity with copyrightclearances.
– With backing from Godfrey Phillips, the tobaccocompany, Four Square paperbacks were started in 1957,
by Gordon Holmes Landsborough, (1913–1983), an entrepreneurial and highly successful post-war English
publisher and novelist.

638. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) [Selections
and Extracts]. – Modern Characters from Shakespear.
London: Printed for E. Johnson, 1778. in-12°. pp. 88.
SS.a.96.
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– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. “With Ms. additions supposed to be byGeorge III, but according to a memo by Sir Edward
Thompson, not by George III.) Sealed. Only to beopened by permission of the Trustees. Minutes 10 July
1847 and 14 October 1899.” This would seem to be thefirst book that the British Library locked up. It was purchased at the direction of the Trustees in 1847 for £70
from Mr. [afterwards Sir Thomas] Baylis, after which it
was placed in the care of Anthony Panizzi, the Keeperof Printed Books, who was directed “not to allow any
extract to be made from it without the special permission of the Trustees.” Op. cit. Peter Fryer, pp. 156,7).
The book is no longer in the S.S. and has been transferred to C.109.bb.17. The catalogue entry indicatesthat the MS. additions were erroneously ascribed toGeorge III.

639. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616). – This
Scepter’d Isle : Shakespeare in praise of Britain. Photographs by Fay Godwin (1931-2005). London: Souvenir Press, 1989. In-8°. Unpaginated. SS.Cup. 15/37.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at pressmark
M91.F06480 and another at Trinity College, Dublin, isshelved at HL-134-794.
– We are obliged to Mr. Ernest Hecht, managing
director of Souvenir Press, for kindly providing the reason for the suppression of This Scepter’d Isle : “Thebook was withdrawn for legal reasons at the request of
the photographer. The reasons are bound by a confidentiality agreement at the time.”

640. SHENG, GANG. – Friction-induced Vibrations andSound : principles and applications. Boca Raton, Fla.
: CRC Press, 2008. 26cm. pp. xv. 408 with illustrations.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. There is a copy in
the Science, Technology and Business, St Pancras
Reading Rooms at (B) 620.31.
– Emails to the author requesting clarification of
the reason for his book being restricted were ignored.

641. SHONE, ARTHUR BRIAN (1912-1996). – The Finchamstead Heritage / The Devil In Finchamstead (5225Parts). Finchampstead: Bear Wood Press, 1984-7.
SS.Cup.16/21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.222. The
Bodleian Library at Oxford also have restricted copies,
separately catalogued: The Finchamstead Heritage(Res. d.112). – The Devil In Finchamstead, comprising
five parts with two supplements (Res. d.135, Res.
d.136, Res. d.136*, Res. d.136**, Res. d.137, Res.
d.138, Res. d.139.)– In part, apparently, successively expanded versions of the same book. Mr. Shone is also the author of
A century and a half of amateur driving (London, 1955)
and several versions of a work called Christianity, justice & democracy in a changing world (Finchamstead:
Bear Wood Press, 1993, &c.), dealing with Freemasonry in relation to politics.
– David Boothroyd adds: I got out of Cambridge
University Library one of the editions of The Devil in
Finchampstead – the ‘Spring 1987 edition’ with an
added chapter 7. It seems that each successive edition
amounted to the contents of the previous one with another part added, and was privately printed. Major
Shone (born 7 April 1912) was a retired BBC Engineer
who lived in Finchampstead, Berkshire, from 1953 andbelieved that the closure of a public footpath called theDevils’ Highway in the parish was a political conspiracy involving Freemasonry. His accusations developed
into accusing senior local officials of criminal conspiracies. The County Secretary of Berkshire County Council had it removed from County Libraries, and also
started trying to suppress his book by writing to “allbooksellers in Berkshire”. A copy of his letter found its
way to Major Shone who included it as the Fourth Appendix to the 1987 edition:– “The work contains, as an appendix, a copy ofthe enclosed letter which Major Shone circulated to alarge number of Finchampstead parishioners last August. The final paragraph of that letter contains a number of statements which are not true and which arehighly defamatory of myself in my official capacity. At
my request a firm of city solicitors, Coward Chance andCo, wrote to Major Shone and a copy of their letter is
enclosed, but in spite of their advice, which is couchedin the clearest terms, Major Shone has persisted in publishing these libels with a view to giving them as wide acirculation in the County as possible.”226

– He went on to threaten libel proceedings against
both Major Shone and the bookseller if the book went
on general sale. Major Shone was well aware of the importance of the legal deposit system (page 121 of theSpring 1987 edition refers to it). His last books were
published in 1994.

642. SHUTTLEWORTH, CHARLES. – Malayan Safari.
[With plates.] London: Phoenix House, 1965. In-8°.
pp. 156. SS.Cup.12.c.66.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at X21/3759 which
may be the SS copy, desegregated. A copy is preservedin the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.97 and another at Cambridge atpressmark Arc.c.96.405. A copy at Trinity College,
Dublin, may, with a pressmark BAN 3171, also be restricted, but emails to them requesting clarification on
the matter were ignored.

643. SIEVIER´S MONTHLY. No. 5, May 1909 and No.
9, November 1909. London. SS.a.20.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue (in which thepressmark is given as SS. a. 24 and the issue nos. as 5
and 11) and the 2008 catalogue. Published and editedby Robert Standish Sievier. Copies are also pressmarked P.P.6018.tae.
– Robert Sievier, apparently quite an important
figure in horse racing circles, published a volume of autobiography in 1906 under the Winning Post imprint
from an address on Essex Street off the Strand. Sievier
is perhaps best known for a libel suit he brought in1904 against Sir James Duke, claiming that Duke hadcalled him a “card sharper, thief and murderer” andclaiming that he arranged to have his nag Sceptre pulledin the Derby.
– Sir James pleaded privilege, as the statements
were made within the Raleigh Club, but he endeavoured to show that Sievier’s character was such that hecould not be libelled. The jury seemed inclined to believe Sir James, for Sievier lost the case and burst intotears upon hearing the decision. The judge in the case,
Justice Grantham, waxed curiously indignant in his
summing up, saying that “the late Queen Victoria
would almost rather have given up her throne than have
had such a man [as Sievier] presented to her.”227644. SIGRUN. Northern Area British Movement. Sigrun,n.d. Three parts. SS.Cup.18/23.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
Sigrun, or Sigrún, is one of the valkyries of Norse mythology. A publication put out by a dissident off-shootof The British National Socialist Movement, a fascist
organisation founded in the UK by Colin Jordon in1968.

645. SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835–1912). – English
Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911. In-8°.
pp. ix. 139. Folding facsimiles. SS.a.356.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at W18/0808 which
may be the SS copy, desegregated.

646. SKIRA, ALBERT. – Painting; Colour; History.
[?London:] A. Zwemmer, 1950. Fol. SS.Cup. 9.c.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Painting; Colour; History appears to be a workin several parts, each dealing with a different artist or
school, under the editorial direction of Skira. The only
one We’ve found to have been published by Zwemmer
is the fourth part or volume, treating of Italian painting
and comprising critical studies by Lionello Venturi, historical surveys by Rosabianca Skira-Venturi. The translations are by Stuart Gilbert.

647. SMITH-DORRIEN, HORACE LOCKWOOD, Sir. –[Printed memorandum, with manuscript corrections,concerning his command in France in 1914-1915.]
General Sir Horace Smith-Domien’s statement withregard to the first edition of Lord French’s book 1914.
[England] : [s.n.], [1920?] pp. 60, xlvi. Map. Coverheaded: Private and Secret. YA.1989.a.174.
– Presented to the Library in 1923 on the understanding that it was not to be made public until the Earl
Ypres (Sir John French) was dead. The existence of thiswork and its suppression is mentioned by P. R. Harris,
A History of The Brtish Museum Library 1753-1973(London: British Library, 1998), p. 482. It’s original SS
pressmark, assuming it ever had one, is unknown but it
was certainly suppressed.

228648. SMITH, ELEANOR FURNEAUX, Lady. (1902-1945) –Christmas Tree. London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. In-8°.
pp. 288. SS.a.411.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:NN.21409.
– Eleanor Furneaux Smith was an English author,
journalist and film critic.

649. SMITH, JAMES, of Hamilton Crescent School, Glasgow. – Examination Papers in Applied Mechanics.
Compiled by J. Smith. Glasgow: House of Grant,
1963. 8vo. Suppressed as “imperfect” for lacking “exam paper 63H-3-6.” SS.Cup.13.b.3.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There is acopy in the General Catalogue of a presumably corrected copy at pressmark X.629/20.

650. SMITH, WALLACE. – Bessie Cotter. Toronto andLondon: William Heinemann, 1935. In-8°. pp. pp. viii.
272. SS.a.404.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: P.C.14.d.3. There is a copy in the Bodleian
Library at pressmark Res. e.31, the catalogue entry forwhich states that it is “Not available for consultation”.
– A novel dealing in realistic terms with prostitution in Chicago. The publishers pleaded guilty to publishing an obscene work, and were fined £100.

651. SMITH, WILLIAM, Doctor. – Dr. W. Smith’s Italian
Course. London: John Murray, 1880, 91. In-8°.
SS.a.355.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This entry is problematic. The SS catalogue gives
the title as A First Italian Course and the sole date
1880; the publisher and author are the same as for anunrestricted copy listed in the General Catalogue atpressmark 12924.n.38. The book appears to be a workin four parts, under the editorship of Sir William Smith,
LL.D. One of the four parts is called The Italian Principia. Part I. A First Italian Course, &c. and appears tohave been written by Luigi Ricci “of the Dante Socie-229

ty.” Whether the work as a whole, or one or more of its
parts, were suppressed We are unable to say.

652. SMYTHE, REGINALD ‘REG’ (1917 – 1998). – Laugh
Again with Andy Capp. No. 7 (2 items). London: Daily Mirror Books, 1972. SS.Cup.[?]– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– We are greatly indebted to Mr. Paul Slade, who
has investigated this particular entry, for providing uswith the information he received from Ms. Alison Bailey, Curator of Printed Historical Sources at the British
Library. Laugh Again with Andy Capp is described as
being ‘damaged’ on the SS finding list, and appears tohave been withdrawn from use in 1984. Although there
was an intention to acquire a replacement copy, thisseems not to have been done.

653. SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS AND
TRADERS. Society of Motor Manufacturers andTraders, 1949. SS.Cup.7.b.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

654. SOCIETY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, The.
(7 items.) 1929-95. SS.Cup.12.c.29 & 12.e.29.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There are numerous online references to a Law
Society of the Cape of Good Hope, and also to a Life
Assurance company incorporating those words, but
nothing so far as I can find relating simply to a Society.

655. SORENSEN, CHARLES EMIL, (1881 -1968). – Forty
Years with Ford by Charles E. Sorensen with SamuelT. Williamson. [With plates, including portraits andfacsimiles.] New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 1956.
In-8°. pp. vi, 345. SS.Cup.11.b.17.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Charles Emil Sorensen was a Danish-American
principal of the Ford Motor Company during its first
four decades.

656. SORENSEN, CHARLES EMIL, (1881 -1968). – Forty
Years with Ford by Charles E. Sorensen with SamuelT. Williamson. [With plates, including portraits and230

facsimiles.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. In-8°. pp.
vi, 345. SS.Cup.11.b.16.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at W22/7920 which
may be the SS copy, desegregated. A copy of this edition in the National Library of Scotland, at pressmark
HB1.210.6.67, has the instruction “Please consult NLS
staff concerning access to this material” in the online
catalogue entry.

657. SOVIET PROPAGANDA.
– “Sir Basil Thomson, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, offered a collection of Soviet propaganda in May 1921. He said that he expected the Communists to be ‘down and out’ by Christmas, and that if
this was the case, there would be no objections to making this material available to the public. The material
was locked away, but in July 1922 [Alfred William]
Pollard [Keeper] recommended that it should be derestricted because it represented no real danger, and theTrustees had always tried to keep censorship at a minimum. The Trustees decided to consult the police, andScotland Yard replied that some of the material shouldstill be reserved from use for a year or so. The Director
was told to write to the Home Office saying that theTrustees were unwilling to withhold books from thepublic except at the request of a responsible minister,and the Home Office replied that the Russian material
need no longer be kept from the public.” – P. R. Harris,
A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973(London: British Library, 1998), pp. 481,2.
– The titles of these items, and their SS pressmarks
if they ever had them, are unknown to us. Books sympathetic to the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and received by the British Museum Library were divided into three general categories: 1. Education (apart frompolitics) and 2. Novels, children's books, the domestic
economy, agriculture and statistics for different industries. These two categories were not considered dangerous. The third category, “Works directly advocating
revolution,” were “set aside as undesirable for immediate use.” This information was found in a letter preserved in “DH4/92 Department of Printed Books: In
Letters, 1921-1923 at folio 349". One title that may
have been suppressed was Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Bukharin’s, ABC of Communism but the only copy in the British Library published in 1921 or earlier seems to be theone translated by Patrick Lavin and Evgeny Alekseevich Preobrazhensky and published in 1921 by theSocialist Labour Press, Glasgow. We are greatly in-231

debted to Ms Katya Rogatchevskaia of the British Library for her generous assistance with this entry.

658. [SPIRO, EDWARD Henry (1908-1979).] – Soviet Spy
Net. By E. H. Cookridge [pseud.] London: Frederick
Muller, 1955. In-8°. pp. 261. Illustrations.
SS.Cup.12.c.31.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the General Catalogue at X.808/8436 which
may be the SS copy, desegregated.
– A general review of Soviet intelligence activities.
From information gleaned on the internet, Edward Spiro–or ‘Spire’ as it’s sometimes spelled–wrote under avariety of pseudonyms, including Peter Leighton, Peter
Morland, Ronald Reckitt, Edward H Spire and, best
known of all, E. H. Cookridge. He wrote extensively,
and somewhat unreliably by all accounts, on espionage
and related matters. In one of his earliest books, Secretsof the British Secret Service (1948), he includes reprinted extracts from the infamous Sonderfahndungsliste
G.B., which listed all those in the UK who were earmarked for ‘special treatment’ in the event that Germany managed a successful invasion of Great Britain. Mr.
Spriro’s name was supposedly included in the extracts,
but didn’t appear in the actual document.
– In addition to his service to espionage, Mr. Spirofound time to establish The Helvetia Philatelic Societyof Great Britain in 1946 and publish a number of books
Swiss postage stamps.

659. SPORTING TIMES. No. 3125. London: August
11th 1923. Withdrawn May 14th [19]24. SS.b. 65.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
Presumably the periodical otherwise known as The Pink
’un – ‘A chronicle of racing, literature, art and the drama.’

660. STANFORD’S WHITEHALL ATLAS. London:
Edward Stanford Ltd. Rev. 1962, SS.Cup.12.c.28.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “Stanfords is the UK's leading specialist retailerof maps, travel books and other travel accessories, having been established in 1853 by Edward Stanford. Our
flagship store in Covent Garden, London, first opened
its doors in January 1901 and can justly claim to offer

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the world's largest stock of maps and travel books under
one roof.”

661. STAPLETON, THOMAS (1535-1598), Professor of
Theology at Louvain. – [Tres Thomæ, seu de S.
Thomæ Apostoli rebus gestis. De S. Thoma Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi & Martyre. D. T. Mori Angliæ
quondam Cancellarii vita. His adjecta est oratio funebris in laudem … A. de Ganthois Abbatis Marchennensis, etc.] The Life and Illustrious Martyrdom of Sir
Thomas More. Translated of Philip E. Hallett, edited
and annotated by Ernest Edwin Reynolds. London:
Burns & Oates, 1996. SS.12.c74.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only.
– Suppressed for having a “print error.” There is an
edition of this work published by Burns and Oats in
1966 in the General Catalogue at pressmark
X.108/7011. Attempts to contact the publishers for details of the error were ignored.

662. STARKIE, Enid Mary. – From Gautier to Eliot: theinfluence of France on English literature, 1851-1939.
London: Hutchinson, 1960. In-8°. pp. 236.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL: 11876.ee.37 and W51/3905.

663. STATEMENT RESPECTING the prevalence of certain immoral practices in His Majesty's Navy, &c.
London: Ellerton & Henderson, 1821; [reprinted,
1914?] In-8°. pp. 42. 8805.dd.16.
– Included in neither the 1945 nor the 2008 catalogues. The presence of this reprint in the SS at any
time is purely speculative; op. cit. Peter Fryer, p. 154.
Limited to just “150 copies for private circulation” andprinted in facsimile of the original edition. The ‘immoral practices’ relate to prostitutes brought on board ships
or visited on shore leave with some reference also tovenereal disease.
A copy of this work is in the New York Public Library (Pforz (Political tracts) 003), which is bound in“Original gray printed paper wrappers” and also limited
to 150 copies.

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A second edition, published in 1822 at London by
J. Hatchard & Sons, is listed in A Selected List of Worksin the Library relating to Naval History, Naval Administration, &c. (New York: New York Public Library,
1904, p. 31.) If it was there in 1904, it does not seem tobe so today, but the edition was for some reason reviewed in The Christian Guardian and Church of England Magazine, issue of Sept. 1st 1822), the opening
sentence of which sums up the tenor of review as awhole: “We know not when we have been so completely shocked and disgusted by any circumstance whatever, as by the perusal of this pamphlet.”

664. STATE TRIALS. Charles I, 1631. Six leaves removed from Vol. 3 (Trial of Earl of Castlehaven for
rape and sodomy). SS.b.10.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue.
– Mervyn Tuchet (or Audley), 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631) was beheaded on Tower
Hill for a number of sexual crimes, specifically, sodomy committed with his page, Laurence FitzPatrick, who
confessed to the crime and was executed, and for assisting Giles Browning, who was also executed, in the rapeof the Countess of Castlehaven (née Anne Stanley), in
which Lord Castlehaven participated by restraining his
wife. There is reason to believe, however, that theCountess was the equal of her husband in debauchery,
and may have concocted the whole scheme in order todispose of him. The leaves were doubtless removed
from the bound volume of State Trials on account of thefrankness of the language given in evidence.

665. STEERS, JAMES ALFRED (1899-1987). – The English Coast and the Coast of Wales. [With illustrations.]
London:Collins,1966.
In-8°.
pp.
192.
SS.Cup.13.a.11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Part of
the Fontana Library.

666. STEINBECK, JOHN. – The Grapes of Wrath. Retoldby Margaret Tarner. Illustrated by Jenny Thorne. London: Heinemann Educational, 1978. In-8°. pp. x. 131.
“Heinemann guided readers. upper level ; 11.”
SS.Cup.15/16.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– One of a series of educational retellings of famous novels by Ms. Tarner designed for the assistancenon-English speaking students. The reason for the suppression of this one is unknown, but there is a superficially identical copy in the British Library shelved at:
X.908/41837.

667. STODDARD, JOHN LAWSON (1850-1931). – What
Shall We Do With Wilson? Meran, Tyrol: F. Pleticha
1916. In-8°. pp. 12. SS.B.34(7).
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: 8176.ff.9, and one in the Imperial War
Musem. There is no pressmark given for the latter, but
the catalogue entry ominously includes “This item may
be available to view by appointment.”– What Shall we do with Wilson? is an antiAmerican publication directed specifically against President Wilson and issued under the auspices of the socalled League of Truth. Permanently connected with the
League was an American dentist who had been in jail in
America and who had been expelled from Dresden by
the police authorities there. The secretary was a German woman who posed as an American, and had beenon the stage as a snake dancer. The principal organizer
was a German named Marten who had won the favourof the German authorities by writing a book on Belgium denying that any atrocities had taken place there.
Marten secured subscriptions from many Germans andAmericans resident in Germany, opened headquarters
in rooms on the Potsdamerstraße and engaged in thebusiness of sending out pamphlets and leaflets attacking
America. One of his principal supporters was a man
named Stoddard who had made a fortune by giving
travel lectures in America and who had retired to his
handsome villa, in Meran, in Austria. Stoddard issued apamphlet entitled, “What shall we do with Wilson?”and some atrocious attempts at verse, all of which weresent broadcast by the League of Truth. - Adapted fromJames W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), chapter XVI.

668. STOCKDALE, EDMUND VILLIERS MINSHULL, Sir,
Bart. (1903 – 1989). – The Bank of England [in1934]. Basingstoke: Sir Edmund Stockdale, 1967. In8°. pp. xii. 316. SS.13.a.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
SS catalogue gives the title of this book as The Bank ofEngland only, with no mention of ‘1934.’ However, a235

copy of The Bank of England in 1934 is in the National
Library of Scotland, and is noted to have been “Withdrawn from publication” and it’s availability to readers‘Restricted.’ It’s pressmark is Phi.128.
– The volume contains a letter from the author,
written in 1972. A work by the same author, called The
Bank of England in 1974 is in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin. It has the same date and pagination as the volume
under notice, but since no other copy appears to exist
with the date ‘1974’ in the title it is probably a misprint.
– Sir Edmund Stockdale wrote the book, with thefull knowledge of the bank of England, whilst working
at the bank in the 1930s. Both parties agreed that thebook contained such sensitive material concerning theworkings of the bank that publication should be withheld. Thirty years was then considered a reasonable
time to suppress publication. To quote from the author’s letter of 1972 inserted in the copy held by the
National Library of Scotland: “… I decided to print thebook privately in 1966 exactly as it was written years
ago; and to with-hold it from distribution until now”. It
appears from this that at the author’s request, any suppression of his work was lifted in the early 1970’s
which implies that one of the two copies openly catalogued by the British Library may well be the old SS
copy. We are deeply indebted to Mr. Keith Skakle of
the Rare Book Collections, National Library of Scotland, for examining their copy of the book at our request and providing us the information contained in thisparagraph.

669. STRACHAN, JOHN, Fellow of Pembroke College,
Cambridge. – An Introduction to Early Welsh by thelate John Strachan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1908. In-8°. pp. xvi. 294. SS.Cup.9.a.11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Publications of the University of Manchester ;no. 1. “This book is the outcome of the courses of lectures on Welsh grammar and literature given by the lateProfessor Strachan at the University of Manchester during the sessions 1905-6 and 1906-7.” – p. [v]. After
Professor Strachan's death, Professor Kuno Meyer, assisted by Mr. Timothy Lewis, undertook the task ofreading final proofs of the grammar and reader and ofadding a glossary, and index, and a list of contents. cf.
p. vi.

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670. STRANGE, EDWARD FAIRBROTHER (1862 – 1929).
– Japanese Colour Prints. [At head of title: Victoria
and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design.] [With 84 plates.] London: Printed
for H.M. Stationery Office, 1913. In-8°. pp. x. 169.
SS.a.367.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Edward Fairbrother Strange was Assistant Keeper, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.

671. STRAUSS, RICHARD GEORG (1864 – 1949). – Concerto for Oboe and small Orchestra, &c. [Score]. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1947. 8vo. pp. 61. SS.b.108.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

672. STÜRMER, DER : Sonderblatt [Deutsches
Wochenblatt] zum Kampfe um die Wahrheit.
Herausgeber: Julius Streicher. Nuremberg: Microfilm
only: May 1923-Jan.1940. (Except May 1934, July,
Aug. 1936 which are also held in hard copy). Held atColindale Newspaper Library. Microfilm 1923-45
MMISC923: NPL. – Hard-copy: May 1934, July,
Aug. 1936, Feb. 1940-Feb. 1945 NT353 NPL.
– Wanting Jahr 18. nr. 23-37,41,49-52; Jahr 19.
nr.1, 3-6,45; Jahr 20. nr. 22,23; Jahr 21, nr. 11; Jahr 22.
nr. 30-39,41,50; Jahr 23, nr. 5-7.
– A virulently anti-Semitic Nazi periodical so extreme that it ran into legal problems in its country oforigin. Its suppression in the British Library was the result of a complaint by a reader in 1949. See: P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973(London: British Library, 1998), p. 570.

673. SULLIVAN, JOHN. – G. K. Chesterton : A Bibliography. [With an essay, On books, by G.K. Chesterton;and an epitaph by Walter de la Mare.] [With portraits
and facsimiles.] London: University of London Press,
1958. In-8°. pp. 208. SS.Cup.18/9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in General Catalogue: 2785.ct.21.

674. SURIYA, SENAKA K. – Music Browser : a databaseapplication for a music collection. [With illustrations.]
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 1991. In-4°. pp. v. 104.
SS.Cup.18/25.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
SS catalogue entry gives ‘Draft’ in the publisher/datecolumn. WorldCat notes copies in only two locations,
one in the New York Public Library, where it is duly
catalogued, and the other in the British Library, where
it isn’t.

675. SUSMAN, BERNARD. – Questions and Answers on
Contracts. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1930. 8vo. pp.
iii. 134. Part of the Q. and A. Series. “Withdrawn by
publisher.” SS.a.380.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There is acopy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:W.P.3450/6.

676. SVENSSON, Robert, Doctor. – Un Manual de Control del Paludismo. Brown & Rowley Ltd., 1943. In-8°.
pp. SS.a.114.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy of this edition in the National Library of Scotland (5.1079). An edition, described as the third anddated 1941, was published by El Grupo Shell de Compañias Petroliferas. A copy is preserved in the Wellcome Medical Library. It is an octavo of viii.77 pages
and sixteen pages of plates, illustrations and maps. A
treatise on the control of Malaria.

677. SWORD, JOHN. – Window on mankind : evolution
and human behaviour. Chester: Anderson Books,
1992. In-8°. pp. 242. SS.Cup.18/24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
second edition, published in 1993, is in the General
Catalogue at: YC.1995.a.1856.

678. SYMONS, ARTHUR. – Dramatis Personæ. [Essays.]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1923]. In-8°. pp.
358.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is one
copy of this edition in the BL at 011851.cc.59.

238679. SYMONS, ARTHUR. – Dramatis Personæ. [Essays.]
London: Faver & Gwyer, 1925. 22cm. pp. ix. 358.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is one
copy of this edition in the BL at 011850.cc.32.

680. SYMONS, ARTHUR. – Jezebel Mort and Other Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1931. In-8°. pp.
253.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There is a copyof this edition in the BL at pressmark 11640.ee.32 andanother with the date of publication given is square
brackets at X23/9880.

681. SYMONS, ARTHUR. – Studies in Seven Arts. London: Archibald Constable, 1906. 23cm. pp. vii. 394.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There two copies in the BL at pressmarks 012355.ff.30 and Eccles
1055.

682. [SYMONS, ARTHUR.] Arthur Symons. A Critical
Biography by Roger Lhombreaud. London: Unicorn
Press, 1963. 22cm. pp. 333. Illustrations, portraits &facsimiles.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL: W20/9630 and 011881.e.61.

683. SYSTEMS AND DATA SECURITY. Solon Consultants, 1978. SS.Cup.15/2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a business consultancy firm called Solon Consultantscurrently situated in Covent Garden, London, who may
or may not be connected with this entry.

684. TACITUS, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS. – Cofiant Agricola,
Llywodraethwr Prydain. Cyfieithiad gan A. O. Morris.
Rhagymadrodd a nodiadau gan J. Ellis Jones.
Golygwyd ar run Pwyllgor Adran Glasurol Urdd
Graddedigion Prifysgol Cymru gan D. Ellis Evans.
Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1974. 8vo. xv,
250 pp. pl. VIII; illus., maps. SS.14.a.25.
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– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. Suppressed
for having a “print error,” and noted as having a “Replacement copy sent 27 March 1975.” What must presumably be the replacement copy (dated 1975) is in the
General Catalogue at pressmark: X.809/21066.

685. TALAY-ONGAN, AYSHE. – Typical and Atypical
Development in Early Childhood. Leicester: British
Psychological Society,1998. 8vo. pp. xvi, 352. Illustrations. SS.Cup.20/28.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
book of this title and by the same author was publishedin 1998 at London by Allen & Unwin. As an imprint,‘BPS’ is used on book published by the British Psychological Society and also by a publish-on-demand subsidiary of Bastian Publishing Services, which distributes books in Canada, the United States, and the United
Kingdom.
– I’m obliged to Mr. Peter Dillon-Hooper, assistant
editor of The Psychologist, for pointing out the odd factthat while Worldcat claims that Dr. Talay-Ongan's book
was published by the British Pschological Society, it directs one to an edition published by somebody else entirely, specifically Teachers College Press in New
York. However, restricted copies with a BPS imprint
exist in the Bodleian, Oxford (pressmarked severely“JR's Cupboard”), Cambridge (Arc.c.98.414), and in
the National Library of Wales where it’s kept in “Ystafell y Ceidwad” (the Keeper’s Room). Emails to Ms.
Talay-Ongan for clarification were ignored.

686. TARGET [then] NEW TARGET. Searchlight Victim's Support Group, 1994. SS.Cup.18/24.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Target
and New Target are British fascist publications. Copies
were offered for sale (in September 2008) on the website of the British People’s Party.

TAYLOR, Eric Openshore. – See: SAY, Maurice George.
687. TCP/SNA Update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup.20/69.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

688. TEBBIT, NORMAN BERESFORD, Baron Beresford. –Upwardly Mobile. [With plates.] London: Weidenfeld& Nicolson, 1988. In-8°. pp. vii. 280. SS.Cup.15/21.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
copy at Cambridge (Arc.c.98.405) is marked ‘Restricted.’ A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the
National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.69.
– We are greatly obliged to Lord Tebbit for taking
the time to write to us with information on this book:“The problem which arose with the first edition of mybook Upwardly Mobile was that the publishers and I
were sued for libel. In the circumstances we judged it
best to settle out of court and withdraw the prepublication copies rather than go through the risks anddisruptions of defending our case.”– Norman Tebbit is a British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament for Chingford,
who was born in Southgate in Enfield. His wife waspermanently disabled and wheelchair-bound for life after the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of
the 1984 Conservative Party conference in Brighton.

689. TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, Baron, (1809 –1892). – Demeter and other Poems. London and New
York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. In-8°. pp. vi. 175.
SS.a.90.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– I have assumed that the SS copy of Demeter is a
faulty specimen of the First Edition. However, in 1889
Macmillan printed a trial issue of the work, a small
quarto printed on 121 pages in buff wraps and without atitle, and it may be that this is the version preserved in
the SS. The contents of the trial issue are as follows:
Carmen sæculare; the title as printed in Demeter is “On
the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.” – Demeter. – Owd Roa.
– Vastness. – The Ring. – Forlorn. – Happy. – Ode on
the Progress to Spring, afterwards changed to The Progress of Spring. – Politics. – Fame. – The Snowdrop. –The Oak. – Far-Far-Away. – The Play. – To Ulysses. –The Throstle.

690. TEXT BOOK ON TELEGRAPH CABLE
ENGINEERING … Edited by J. H. Stephens. London: Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies, 1925.
In-8°. SS.a.350.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

691. TEXT BOOK ON TELEGRAPH CABLE
ENGINEERING … Edited by J. H. Stephens. Lon241

don: Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies, 19251928. In-8°. 3 volumes. SS.a.351.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Contents: v.1, pt. 1st - Electricity and magnetism by A.L.
Storey – pt. 2nd - Testing by F. Freathy, Diagrams andillustrations by W. James and R.W.A. Smith – v. 2, pt.
3rd - Construction and maintenance of submarine cables and land lines by Willoughby S. Smith, F.L. Fisher, V.F. Sparks, W.H. Marchant, G.N. Perkins, C.C.
Frazer – pt. 4th - Transmission of signals by G.N. Perkins, Diagrams and illustrations by W. James – v. 3, pt.
5th - Reception of signals by G.N. Perkins, Diagrams
and illustrations by W. James and others. Copies of all
three volumes are preserved in the National Library of
New Zealand.

692. THOMAS, HUGH SWYNNERTON, Baron Thomas of
Swynnerton (1931 – ). – The Spanish Civil War. [Withplates and maps.] London: Eyre & Spottiswoode,1961. In-8°. pp. xxix. 720. SS.Cup.12.c.15.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– One of the main works on the subject in English,
and the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for
1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition
was published in 1977. Withdrawn following receipt ofa letter dated May 19th 1961 from Gustavo Durán(1906–1969), a musician and composer, and the commanding officer of the 69th Division of the Republican
forces in the Battle of Brunete (6 July – 25 July 1937),
which sought to break the fascist stranglehold around
Madrid. The letter complained of references to the socalled ‘crimenes del túnel de la muerte’ that are supposed to occurred in 1937 in Usera, a suburb of Madrid.
After the Civil War, Durán escaped to England andfrom there to the United States, where he married an
American woman. Durán was much admired by Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Robert Capa, but ran
afoul of Senator Joseph McCarthy and others during theanti-Communist hysteria in the United States during the1950s. We are much obliged to Lord Thomas forproviding us with the information to more fully research this entry.

693. THOMAS, TREVOR. – Sylvia Plath : Last Encounters. Bedford, England: T. Thomas, 1989. In-4°. [36]leaves in various foliations. SS.Cup.15/35.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

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– Privately published by the author. Includes “Asequence of poems for Sylvia Plath.” The author was
sued for libel by Ted Hughes, Plath’s husband, for theassertion that he–Hughes–attended a “high-spirited andboisterous party” after his wife's funeral. The suit waswithdrawn after Thomas apologized and, presumably,
the work was withdrawn.

694. THOMPSON, Barrie Victor John. – Out Tiger Rag.
[“The newsletter of the Six Oh Seventys Club”, an organization closely allied with The Royal Hampshire
Regiment.] [Plymouth: B.V.J. Thompson, 2000?]
31cm. Two volumes, chiefly illustrated, some in colour.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. Contents: v. 1.
Editions no. 1 (July 1992) to no. 20 (March 1997) – v.
2. Editions no. 21 (June 1997) to no. 32 (March 2000).
There is one copy of this work in the BL catalogue,
which are shelved at: YK.2011.b.15403 vol. 1 andYK.2011.b.15404 vol. 2.
– Whether the work described here is the one referred to in the 2011 spreadsheet is uncertain. The two
entries in the spreadsheet, one for each volume, aremarked ‘Editor’s Desk Copy’ and may perhaps be theoriginal issues of the periodical used by Mr. Thompson
in the preparation of his two-volume reprint of the periodical.
– We are indebted to Lt Col Colin Bulleid, the secretary of The Royal Hampshire Regiment Trust, forclarification of this entry. He writes: “Tiger Rag was an
informal, irregular and often irreverent publication produced mainly in the 1960s and 70s by one of the Regimental Clerks in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Hampshire Regiment.
– “When in 1992 the Regiment was amalgamated,
an unofficial group of former soldiers who had servedin that period formed their own comrades branch (notaffiliated to the Regimental Comrades Association)
called the 60/70 Club. The Out Tiger Rag was a revivalof the original, sent to members of the Club who wanted to reminisce about their times in the Army and theRegiment.
– “The author and editor (same person) of bothpublications died this year, I am not certain why itshould be restricted in distribution, I certainly have copies in the Archive here.”243

THOMPSON, Peter. See: HUTCHINS, CHRIS.
695. TIME. The Weekly News Magazine [New York],
10th and 24th August, 1931; 7th December 1931; 18th
April, 4th and 18th July 1932; 9th January 1933.
SS.b.77.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
The precise reasons for these issue of Time being suppressed seem no longer to be known, and a letter tothem, although answered, threw no light on the matter.
Browsing the issues online, however, provided somepossible reasons, which are listed below.
– Issue of August 10th 1931. Includes a story headlined ‘Unmitigated Gloom’ about a run on the the Bankof England, and repeats rumours that it might “close its
doors.”– Issue of August 24th 1931. Includes a piece on aconference in London on the subject of India, in which
Gandhi is described variously as ‘St. Gandhi’ and“strange [and] quibblesome.”– Issue of December 7th 1931. Contains a piece on
Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald which includes the information that he was illegitimate.
– Issue of April 18th 1932. Includes a piece on theRev. Harold F. Davidson, referred to in the article as"The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey,” a clergyman “accusedof lusting for ten years after London daughters of joy
whose souls it was his mission to save.” Davidson was
found guilty of the charges and defrocked at Norwich
Cathedral. He died in July 1937 from complications
arising from being mauled by a lion at Thompsons'
Amusement Park in Skegness. A further and shorter
piece on the same subject is one of the three scandals
covered in the July 18th issue of Time, see below.
– Issue of July 4th 1932. Includes a short piece
dealing with a secret report issued by a committee
formed by the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury to discuss the attitudes of the Church of England to contraception.
– Issue of July 18th 1932. Contains an article ofperhaps unseemly levity treating of three society scandals of the day. The first, and most likely to havecaused the issue’s suppression, concerned an allegationby the weekly tabloid People that Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, the wife of Lord Louis Mountbatten, hadbeen “consorting with a Negro.” The identity of her
lover is not disclosed in the Time article, but is general-244

ly thought to have been either Paul Robeson or Leslie‘Hutch’ Hutchinson.
– Issue of January 9th 1933. Contains an article on a
feud between Viscount Rothermere and William Ewert
Berry, Lord Camrose of Long Cross, two British ‘press
barons.’696. TIMES, The. – London: January 23rd 1882, p. 7, col.
4.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue only. What cameto be known as the ‘Harcourt Interpolation’ was a minor scandal of Victorian London. The issue of The
Times for 23 January 1882 included a report of a speech
made at Burton upon Trent by Sir William Harcourt,
then Attorney General. Into this speech (on p. 7, column 4) an unknown prankster, somewhere in the printing office, inserted the parenthetical observation that
“The speaker then said that he felt inclined for a bit offucking.” The interpolation was not noticed until after
the newspaper had been circulated. A revised copy was
printed for subscribers, and an apology appeared in theissue for 27 January 1882.
– The incident was reported by the Portuguese
writer, journalist and diplomat Eça de Queiroz in an article which now forms part of his book Cartas de Inglaterra. The culprit was perhaps not immediately identified, because a similar addition was made to an advertisement for the book Everyday Life in Our Public
Schools in the issue of The Times for 12 June 1882.
This book was said to include “a glossary of somewords used by Henry Irving in his disquisitions uponfucking, which is in common use in these schools.”– The issue of "The Times" for Jan 23, 1882, if itever was in the SS, was at some point moved to the Private Case and pressmarked P.C. 24.a.16; it is now with
the Colindale set of The Times. This issue is bound in a
separate volume. The front page of the issue is annotated with the "P.C. 24. a. 16 " at the top right hand cornerin pencil. There is no evidence of an earlier pressmark.
The Colindale set of "The Times" now has the pressmark LD1.
– The issue of The Times for June 12, 1882 isbound in with the rest of the June 1882 issues of "TheTimes" in one bound volume in its correct chronological sequence within the volume. There is no indicationthat this issue was previously excluded from the volume. Unlike the issue for Jan 23, it carries no annotations.

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697. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, The. London:
November 12th 1964. SS.12.c.57.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. An
email to the TLS for information on this issue and why
it should have been suppressed was ignored.

698. THOMAS, afterwards BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR
(1905–1993). – Our Lord Birkenhead. An Oxford appreciation. Putnam: London & New York, 1930. 8vo.
pp. xiv. 207. “Withdrawn by publisher.” SS.a.379.
– 1945 catalogue only. There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark 010825.de.68.

TITTLE TATTLE. See: ROSENBERG, Adolphus.
699. TO EACH THEIR OWN. An anthology of the unrecorded poetry of the ordinary people of the Gravesend
and Dartford areas of North Kent, compiled by Len
Pittendrigh with illustrations by Molly Sharp. Dartford: RPR, [c. 1986.] 8vo. iv. 147 pp. ill. Suppressed
for a “print error.” “Stamped.” SS.Cup.15.28.
– Included in the 2005 catalogue only. There is acopy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:YC.1987.a.10223

700. TOLSTOY-MILOSLAVSKY,NICOLAIDMITRIEVICH, Count (1935 - ). – The Minister and theMassacres. London: Century Hutchinson, 1986. In-8°.
pp. xxii. 442. [8] pp. of plates : ill. SS.Cup.20/92.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, at pressmark
Res. d.153 the entry for which is marked “Not available
to be read.” There is also a restricted copy at Cambridge, at pressmark Arc.c.98.406.
– A book highly critical of the Post-War British
Government who sent many thousands of antiCommunist Cossacks and others to certain death at thehands of Soviet and Yugoslav authorities. Harold
Macmillan (1894-1986), later Prime Minister, was singled out for particular opprobrium.
– David Boothroyd adds: This book is intimately
connected with a very high-profile libel trial. Essentially, after completing this work, Nikolai Tolstoy wrote ashort and very targeted essay identifying criticisms of
Brigadier Toby Low (who had an important role in or-246dering the repatriation of the Cossacks and Yugoslavs,
which led to the massacres). His text was published as apamphlet by Nigel Watts, who had a dispute with the
Sun Alliance insurance company of which Lord Aldington (as Toby Low had since become) was chairman. The pamphlet was titled War Crimes and theWardenship of Winchester College and led Aldington to
begin a libel action against Watts; Tolstoy then applied
to become a second defendant.
– Aldington also sued Century Hutchinson as publishers of The Minister and the Massacres (he was reasonably obliged to, since the pamphlet said no morethan was in the book); Century Hutchinson settled confidentially before the trial over the pamphlet, agreeing
to withdraw the book. Aldington went on to win thecase over the pamphlet in December 1989, and got anaward of £1.5m in damages, but did not see a penny of
it before his death in 2000.

TOWN TOPICS. See: ROSENBERG, Adolphus.
701. TRADE UNIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION AND
EASTERN EUROPE. May, 1974. In-4°. pp. 40.
SS.CUP 14.a.30.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy of this at Cornell University at pressmark:HD6732 .T73 1974.

702. TRAPP, MARIA AUGUSTA. – The Sound of Music.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966. SS.Cup.14.a.47.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

703. TREW, HENRY FREAME, Lt.-Col. – African Man
Hunts. [Reminiscences of a member of the South African constabulary. With plates, including portraits.]
London: Blackie and Son, 1938. In-8°. pp. xi. 269.
SS.b.95.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– “All the criminal cases described in this bookhave formed the subject of entries in the registers of oneof the three different police forces I have served in during the years 1901 to 1929. Those forces were: The
South African constabulary, 1901 to 1908; the Transvaal police, 1908 to 1912; and the South African police,
1912 to 1929.” - Pref. One of the two copies in the Bodleian is marked “Restricted: ask Duke Humfrey staff.”247

704. TROPICAL AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION UK.
1993 Membership List. [?London:] Tropical agricultural Association, 1993. SS.Cup.18/20.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis no obvious address available on the Association’s
website, but the Membership Secretary resides in Peebles, Scotland.

705. TRIDON, ANDRÉ (1877–1922). – Psychoanalysis
and Love. [?New York:] Brentano’s, 1922. In-8°. pp.
333. SS.a.359.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

706. TRUTH
ABOUT
CIVILIZATIONINCONGOLAND, (The). By ‘A Belgian.’ – London:
Sampson Low, Marston & Co , 1903. In-8°. pp. 180.
X.700/4582.
– The original SS pressmark of this work is unknown to us, but the book’s suppression (in 1904) is
confirmed by P.R. Harris in A History of the British
Museum Library 1753-1973 (London: British Library,1998), p. 386. The book was supposedly written to refute the criticism of Belgian colonial rule in the Congo
appearing in Civilization in Congoland. A story of international wrong-doing (London : P. S. King, 1903)
by Henry Richard Fox Bourne. Whether the copy of
The Truth about Civilization in Congoland shelved at
X.700/4582 is the original SS copy desegregated, or
new copy acquired later We are unable to say.

707. TULLEY, WALTER JACK and Alan Compton Campbell. – A Manual of Practical Orthodontics, &c. Bristol: John Wright & Sons, 1960. In-8°. pp. xii. 220.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. This volume isa bit of a mystery since it’s not clear from the 2011
spreadsheet which edition is being suppressed. The edition of 1960 described above is marked as ‘missing’ inthe BL online catalogue as accessed via COPAC. Thereare copies in a number of other libraries, including thethe National Library of Scotland, the Wellcome Library, the universities of Birmingham and Manchester
and the National Library of Wales.
– The BL has two copies of the second edition,
published in 1965 at pressmarks X.329/925 and248

W47/9504, and two of the third edition of 1970,
shelved at RES (B) GX 62 and W43/1329.

708. TUNISIA [Tunisian?] TRIBES. [?London:] Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, August, 1916.
SS.a.45.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

709. TUNSTALL, JULIAN. – I Fought in Korea. London:
Lawrence & Wishart, 1953. In-8°. pp. 127.
SS.Cup.9.a.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.27.
“A former public schoolboy who served in the
Middlesex Regiment during the first year of the [Korean] war, Tunstall emphasises ROK atrocities and thecasual destruction British and American troops alikevisited on the population. Tunstall’s heroes are ordinary
peasants, and although sometimes polemical, it is oneof the few soldiers’ accounts that shows any real attempt to understand the experience of ordinary Koreans.” – Lester H. Brune, The Korean War : handbook of
the Literature and Research (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 109.
“Private Julian Tunstall of the British Middlesex
Regiment was shocked to see the Americans take overthe few remaining buildings and houses [of Pyongyang], ejecting civilians and seizing their property. GI
troops were smashing things they didn’t want. They
blasted open safes, grabbed pictures, chairs, clocks andembroidery, loading up trucks and trailers with assorted
booty. Americans in jeeps stopped to round up male civilians on the excuse they were soldiers, communists or
thieves. The victims were stripped of watches and othervaluables. Most officers, Tunstall noticed, managed toclose their eyes to the looting by their men.” John Toland, In Mortal Combat : Korea 1950-1953 (New York:
William Morrow & Co., 1991), p. 248.

710. UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENTEMPLOYED AT THE NATIONAL PHYSICALLABORATORY, The. [?London:] The National Physical Laboratory, 1930. SS.c. 61.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. “TheNational Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's Na-

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tional Measurement Institute and is a world-leading
centre of excellence in developing and applying themost accurate measurement standards, science andtechnology available to man. For more than a century
NPL has developed and maintained the nation’s primary measurement standards. These standards underpin an
infrastructure of traceability throughout the UK and theworld that ensures accuracy and consistency of measurement.” The Laboratory is located at Teddington,
Middlesex, while the Business Office is at Hook,
Hampshire.

711. UNIVERSITYCOLLEGEHOSPITALMAGAZINE, The. [London:] University College
Hospital, Summer 1950. SS.Cup.6.b.3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Began publication in October 1910 and is currently published bi-monthly. The first issues at least
were published at London by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson,712. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. General Certificate of
Education Examination. University of London, n.d.
SS.Cup.16/8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

713. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics. (12 parts.) Universityof Southampton, n.d. SS.Cup.14.a.9.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

714. UNSCRUPULOUS? Devised and produced by
Hatch ; written and edited by Albie Fiore (c. 19462009) ; other contributors, Bruce Alexander … [et al.]Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986. In-8°. pp.
265. SS.Cup.15/29.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Restricted copies are preserved in the National Library of
Scotland (Phi.78) and at Cambridge (Arc.d.98.401).
Withdrawn and reissued with the title ‘On the spot’.

715. VALK, JAAP. – MRI of the brain, head, neck andspine : a teaching atlas of clinical applications. Dor250

drecht ; Boston ; Lancaster : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,1987. In-8°. pp. xi. 576. SS.Cup.15/33.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

716. VAN HUNNIK, J.C. – Agt Stories Deur Tant
Sannie. Nasionale boekhandel Berperk, 1961.
SS.Cup.11.b.28.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. We’ve
been unable to trace a copy of this book anywhere.
– In the 2008 catalogue of the SS, the title isspelled Agt Stories Deur Tant Sanne and the authorshipcredited to J. C. Van Hunnik, but there seems no bookof that spelling. There is, however, an Afrikaans bookcalled Agt stories deur Tant Sannie (Kaapstad, &c.: Nasionale Boekhandel, [1961]), a solitary copy of which
the BL has at pressmark X.990/5604, which fits the billclosely, although it is an anonymous work and Van
Hunnik’s name is not associated with it.

717. VANITY FAIR. [Periodical]. New York: Condé Nast
Publications, c. 2005.
Not included in any of the catalogues, but an issueof Vanity Fair containing an alleged libel against thefilm director Roman Polanski may be present in the SS.
On 22 July 2005, Polanski was awarded £50,000 libel
damages from the magazine, which had claimed in apiece on him that on the way to the funeral of his wife
Sharon Tate, Polanski had tried to seduce Beate Telle,
described as a ‘Swedish beauty,’ in a New York restaurant.

718. VINTNER'S COMPANY. Calendar of Documents
belonging to the Vintner’s Company. (4 parts.) Typed
Documents, 1970-71. SS.Cup.13.b.8.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

719. VIRGIL. – Appendix Vergiliana. Recognovit R. Ellis. Vitae Vergilianae antiquae. Edidit C. Hardie. Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, [1954]. In-8°.
SS.Cup.9.c.10.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Part ofthe series Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. “Appendix Vergiliana” is a reissue of the editionof 1907.

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720. VSAM update. Xephon, n.d. SS.Cup20/64.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. For
details, see: AIX Update.

721. WADE, ROSALIND HERSCHEL. – “Children, be Happy!” London: Victor Gollancz (printed by Camelot
Press), 1931. In-8°. pp. 286. SS.a 383.
– Included in both the 1945 and 2008 catalogues.
There is a restricted copy in the Bodleian Library atpressmark Res. e.21, and another Cambridge at pressmark Arc.d.93.401.
– “Children, be Happy!” is a roman à clef concerning a girl’s boarding school. A woman named
Joyce Butterworth saw herself portrayed therein as a“thinly disguised” character of “grave immorality” andsuccessfully sued the author and publishers for libel.
Gollancz agreed to withdraw the book from circulationand to take steps to recover existing copies. They believed that no more than 1300 copies had been sold, of
which 400 had been sent overseas. They had also requested that the 500 copies sent to circulating libraries
should be withdrawn. An account of the case will befound in The Times for Wednesday, December 2nd1931, page 4. Copies of “Children, be Happy!” are alsoavailable at Trinity College, Dublin, the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge Universities and The National Library of Scotland (Vts.149.g.19). In the catalogue entry
for the Oxford copy is the admonition “Not available
for consultation.” Rosalind Herschel Wade is the true
name of the pseudonymous author ‘Catherine Carr.’ We
are indebted to Dr. Graham Hogg, Senior Curator, RareBook Collections, National Library of Scotland, for information concerning this work.
– We are greatly obliged to Ms. Sophia Lambert
for writing to us concerning “Children, be Happy” andquoting from a letter written by her grandmother on
December 28 1931:– “Which reminds me, a perfectly dreadful bookhas just been written about Glendower called Children
be Happy by a child called Wade who is now only 21
and I am told was expelled from Glendower and on
leaving threatened the headmistress that she would ruin
the School. Anyhow, she won’t do that because directly
it was published eight libel actions were started against
the publishers, though only one so far was fought by aschoolfellow who is grossly libelled under the thinnest
disguise. In fact the authoress was so anxious that everyone should recognize the school that she put in a252

preface to say it was all founded on fact, and called everyone by almost their correct names. The publishers
have withdrawn all the copies they can get hold of, andsay there are only about 100 copies left at large. Of
course, it is bound to do almost as much harm to theschool as everyone seems to know what school it isabout; and even if people haven’t read it, they knowthat a book was written that had to be withdrawn at
once. Personally, I expect the book is greatly exaggerated, because you wouldn’t expect the unbiased truth
from an expelled girl thirsting for vengeance.”

722. WAKEFIELD, WILLIAM Medical Electrician and
Botanist. – The Wife's Doctor. A book for every
woman. Leeds: N. G. Morrison, 1894. In-8°. pp. 161.
SS.a.77.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue atpressmark: Cup.365.b.16.

723. WAGNER, GEOFFREY ATHELING. – Rage on theBar. London: Alvin Redman, 1958. In-8°. pp. 285.
SS.Cup.11.b.2.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General Catalogue, shelved at
YD.2010.a.1202 and NNN.11936, but no other UK research library seems to carry copies of this edition.

724. WALTER, MARTIN. – British Institute of FictionWriting Science. (22 Parts.) British Institute of Fiction-Writing Science Ltd., no date. SS.Cup.9.c.11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Walter Martin, the ‘Controller’ of the British Institute of Fiction-Writing Science, claimed to have distilled the art of writing fiction down to a more-or-lessscientific discipline.

WARLOCK, PETER. – See: HESELTINE, PHILIP ARNOLD.
725. WEALE, FRANCES. C. – Hubert and John van Eyck.
[With 21 plates.] London: At the Sign of the Unicorn,
1903. In-4°. pp. viii. 32. SS.a.353.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– This work would seem to be the eighth of theArtist's Library Series edited by Laurence Binyon and253

published at the Sign of the Unicorn, Cecil Court, St.
Martin's Lane London. An advertisement for the Series,
at the end of T. Sturge Moore’s Absalom: a chronicle
play in three acts (London: At the Sign of the Unicorn,
1903), states that the work was based on research done
by W. H. James Weale.

726. WEC INTERNATIONAL. Communications Directory, 1997 to 1998. SS.Cup.20/11.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– WEC International is an evangelical Christianorganization dedicated to bringing enlightenment to theheathen. It was founded in 1913 by Charles Studd, thecricketer. The organization began as the Heart of Africa
mission, changing its name to Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade. Studd's son-in-law Norman Grubb took
over the leadership in 1930, expanding the organisationand establishing recruitment bases in Toronto, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Charlotte, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Uruguay and France. Grubb continued to lead the
movement until retiring from the position of International Secretary at the end of 1965. Later, recognizing
the unfortunate connotations of the word “crusade”, especially in countries with predominantly Muslim populations, the mission was re-named as Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ (WEC International).

727. WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT : (W.I.R.) /issued by the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff,
Admiralty. [London:] Admiralty. (147 parts) 1939-45;(177 parts) 1939-43. SS.Cup.5.a.1.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– A journal or newspaper. According to the catalogue entry for the run held by the National Library ofAustralia (pressmark S 359.0942 WIR), the first issue
appeared in March 1940 and the last (no. 302) was published in December 1945. Issued were classified ‘Secret’ and/or ‘Confidential.’

728. WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
General Certificate of Education… Welsh Joint Committee, 1980. SS.Cup.16/7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

729. WENBAN, CLEMENT JAMES, compiler. – Furness
Associated Code. Thomas Marsh, 1921. SS.c.59.
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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Clement James Wenban was an employee of theFurness Withy Steamship Company.

730. WESTHEIMER, DAVID (1917 – 2005). – Watching
Out for Dulie. London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. In-8°.
pp. 253. SS.12.c.6.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– David Westheimer was an American novelist
best known for Von Ryan’s Express, based in part on
his own experiences as a prisoner of war in WWII, andwhich was turned into a successful film by director
Mark Robson.

731. WHITE, ANTONIA (1899–1980). – The Sugar House.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952. In-8°. pp. 255.
SS.Cup.11.a.5.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– The Sugar House is one of trilogy of novels, anddeals in a fictionalized way with the author’s first andsupposedly unconsummated marriage to Reginald H.
Green-Wilkinson in 1921.

732. WHITE, DON. – Get Up and Go : Round the Worldon Twenty-Five Pounds. [With illustrations.] London:
Allen Wingate, 1959. In-8°. pp. 303. SS.12.c.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are no copies of this work included in the General Catalogue, but Cambridge, the Bodleian, the National Library of Scotland and Trinity College Dublin all havecopies with no apparent restrictions.
– The acknowledgements mention that Don White
wrote chapters 13-20 “in collaboration with Danny
Haviland.”

733. WHITE, FRANK JAMES. – The Hargreaves Story. By
F. J. White, alias Eustace Hamilton Ian StewartHargreaves. Including a full history of the Cotswold
Cider Company. [With plates, including a portrait.]
London: The Bodley Head, 1953. In-8°. pp. 191.
SS.Cup.9.a.4.

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– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two copies in the General catalogue at the followingpressmarks: 10863.de.32. and W21/8821.
– The Hargreaves Story is the autobiography of an
extraordinary confidence trickster whose most celebrated project was the development of Cotswold Cider,which never actually existed before he invented it in
Wandsworth Prison.
– Beneath a headline reading “Former Barrow
Boy’s Frauds”, an interesting story concerning FrankWhite appeared in the Glasgow Herald for March 19
1953:– “After a career which brought him from selling
flowers from a barrow in London to launching a cider
company in which , he said, £500,000 passed throughhis hands in eight years, Frank James White (47), alias
Eustace Hamilton Ian Stewart Hargreaves, was at
Gloucester Assizes yesterday sentenced to eight years
preventive detention.
– “Scotland Yard became interested in the activities of Hargreaves and a warrant was issued for his arrest. He fled to France, and there he was sentenced to amonth’s imprisonment and fined 8000 francs. On being
freed he went to Tangier where he was arrested andgiven a three months’ sentence. When he had served his
sentence the British Consul applied for his expulsion.
He was brought back to Britain and 17 charges weremade against him of fraudulently inducing people to enter into agreements with a view to acquiring shares in acompany called the Cotswold Products and Industries,
Ltd.
– “Yesterday the jury found him guilty on 16 of thecharges and acquitted him on the seventeenth.
– “Chief Inspector Vanstone, of Scotland Yard’s
company frauds department, said that Hargreaves had
12 previous convictions and, since the age of 21, hadserved prison sentences under various names for suchoffences as theft, obtaining cheques by false pretences
and fraudulent conversion. He was married, with three
young children.”

WHITFIELD, RICHARD CHARLES. See: GERRISH, JohnR.
734. WILSON, JOSEPH HAVELOCK (1859-1929), M.P. –J. “Havelock” Wilson, M.P. Daylight on his career.
Exposure and challenge. Astounding revelations. London: W. Collison, on behalf of the National Free La256

bour Association, [1894]. 25cm. pp. 15, with illustrations. X.700/4495.
–The original SS pressmark, if it ever had one, is
unknown. That this anonymous work was suppressed isconfirmed by P. R. Harris in his History of the British
Library 1753-1973 (London: British Library, 1998), p.
386. Mr. Harris does not identify the pamphlet by
name, but writes: “Garnett wrote to the Principal Librarian in 1895 about three more works in the librarywhich he feared might result in libel actions against theTrustees. These were… a pamphlet dealing with theconduct of J. H. Wilson, M.P. …” It seems very likelythat the pamphlet described above is the one referred to.
The fact that the catalogue entry describes the size ofthe book by its vertical height (25cm) rather than the
more traditional ‘In-8°’ or ‘8vo’ suggests that it was entered into the GK fairly recently, which in turns suggests that it is either the original SS copy, desegregated,or else a newly acquired copy.
– Joseph Havelock Wilson was M.P. for Middlesbrough 1892-1900 and from 1906-1910. He was also
very active in the trade union movement and was General Secretary of the National Amalgamated Sailor’sand Fireman’s Union. Appearances to the contrary,
however, he was politically moderate and reportedly
one of the fiercest champions of Britain’s entry into theFirst World War.

735. WHO RULES AMERICA. National Vanguard
Books, 1993. SS.Cup.18/27.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Written by “the Research Staff of National Vanguard Magazine,” this repellent little number is an illwritten exposé of the “Alien [i.e. Jewish] Grip on Our
News and Entertainment Media.” The text is available
freely online. National Vanguard Books currently operate from the cramped quarters of a post office box in
Hillsboro, West Virginia.

736. WHO’S WHO IN THE WAR TRADE (7 packages
in all). SS.11.b.7.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– There are two entries for Who’s Who in the War
Trade, one comprising ‘3 packages’ and the other ‘4
packages.’ This material was compiled by the War
Trade Intelligence Department and published at London
between 1915-1918. The War Trade Intelligence De-257

partment grew out of Trade Clearing House, a bodysponsored by the Admiralty and Board of Trade to pool
intelligence on commercial trade gathered from thepostal censorship. We are indebted to Mr. Richard Priceat the British Library for his assistance with this entry.

737. WILDMAN, ERIC ARTHUR. – Modern Miss Delinquent. London, 1950. SS. Cup.6.b.5.
738. WILDMAN, ERIC ARTHUR. – Punishment Posturefor Girls. London, 1950. SS. Cup.6.b.11.
– Both the preceding are included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008 catalogue. Both are mimeographed pamphlets put out by Wildman who ran at least
two organisations dedicated to the retention of corporalpunishment in schools, especially for girls. They havebeen subsequently removed from the SS and put in the
Private Case together with a many of Wildman publications under the pressmark P.C. 15.i.3-119.

739. WILDMAN, ERIC ARTHUR. – The Queen against Eric Arthur Wildman. List of publications found on theexecution of the search warrant on 17th March, 1953.
Negative Photostats, 1953. SS.Cup.11.b.21.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.

740. WILKINS, HENRY JOHN (1865 - ). – False PsychicalClaims in “The Gate Of Remembrance.” Bristol: J.W.
Arrowsmith ; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co., 1922. In-8°. pp. 66. SS.b.59.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Apparently a refutation of the alleged clairvoyant
methods employed by Frederick Bligh Bond to discover
Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.

741. WILLIAMS, BERNARD ARTHUR OWEN (1929-2003).
– On Opera. New Haven [Conn.] & London: Yale
University Press, c. 2006. 24cm. pp. xix.149.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies in the BL shelved at YC.2006.a.20756 andm06/.34734.

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742. WILLIAMS, G. Lieut.-Commander, Royal Navy. –Diving For Treasure. London: Sweet & Maxwell,1928. SS.a.366.
– Included in both the 1945 (with publication credited to Faber & Gwyer, and the date 1926) and 2008
catalogues (with imprint and date as above).
– There is nothing in the General Catalogue of thisdescription, but a number of copies, all with the Faber& Gwyer impress and date 1926, are listed in American
library catalogues.

743. WILLIAMS, JOHN (1961 – ). – Bloody Valentine. A
Killing in Cardiff. London: HarperCollins, 1994. In8°. pp. 192. SS.Cup.18/16.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– An account of the particularly brutal murder of
Lynette White by Jeffrey Gafoor in Cardiff on February
14th 1988. The book was apparently suppressed following a libel case brought by the police against the author,
although the success of the case is somewhat surprisingin view of the amount of police misconduct reportedly
involved.

744. WILLIAMSON, GEOFFREY. – Inside Buchmanism :an impartial inquiry into the Oxford Group Movement
and Moral Re-armament. [With illustrations.] London:
W. H. Allen, 1950. In-8°. pp. 248. SS.Cup.6.b.18.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.13, but so
far as can be determined, no other edition of this work
published by W.H. Allen in 1950 seem to be preservedin any English research libraries. Copies that are all carry the imprint of a publisher named Watts & Co., andthe date 1954.

WILSON, DOUGLAS. – See: ROBERTSON, JAMIE.
745. WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
1937. [Typewritten?] SS.c.65.

MEMORIALS,– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
1952 typewritten revision of the 1937 document is kept
in Winchester Cathedral Library.

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746. WINCHESTER, HENRY WILLIAM MONTAGUEPAULET, 16th marquis of (1862–1962) – Statesmen,
Financiers and Felons. [With plates, portraits and facsimiles.] With an introduction by Shane Leslie. [Abbeville: Imprimerie F. Paillart, 1935.] In-8°. pp. 295.
SS.b.81.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. The
copy at Cambridge is restricted at pressmark
Arc.c.93.411, similarly with the copy in the Guildhall
Library at Closed Access S 941.
– Not published; proofs of a volume of memoirs
written by the 16th Marquis of Winchester, preparedand ed. by Shane Leslie. Includes an account of the
Clarence Hatry crash of 1929 (p. [249]-275).

747. WINCHESTER, Simon. – Their Noble Lordships.
[With illustrations.] London: Faber & Faber, 1978.
In-8°. pp. 301. SS.Cup.16/3.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.71.
–The following information about this book was
kindly supplied by the author, via an intermediary:“The suppressed version is presumably the one that had
to be withdrawn following a successful libel action by a
Scottish Earl who objected to my description of his father and which, because I omitted to describe his father
as “The Sixth Earl of –” could (he argued) be construed
as applying to him as Seventh Earl once his father diedand he succeeded to the title. I thought it all most unfair, and it proved very expensive for me; but once thebook was rid of references to the Earl it was recast andrepublished, and gained some brief notoriety. First editions, with the libel, were much sought-after, eventhough it was illegal to sell them.” The copy at Cambridge must be one of the original issue since the catalogue entry is marked ‘Restricted.’–A somewhat hostile review of the book appearing
in the Times, for January 28th 1982, by Hugh Mongomery-Massingberd, of Burke’s Peerage, includes thefollowing passage: “Apart from the cuts imposed by thelawyers, one wonders how much real revision has been
undertaken by the author; the book is frequently out ofdate. The learned Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk has
clearly had a hand in the overhaul; many of the pithy
footnotes can be confidently attributed to this colourfulscholar… To be fair to Mr Winchester this second at-

260tempt is an improvement on his first – as far as I can recall the “suppressed” version contained about one mistake a page, this time the average is nearer one to every
two-and-a-half pages. As he has regaled us with somany meaningless statistics I offer these by way of exchange: from a total of some 259 pages of actual text
(as opposed to absurd maps, corny or pointless epigraphs etc) I counted very nearly 100 errors ranging
from really whopping howlers to mere misspellings ofnames. This is surely unacceptable for any book witheven half a claim to be taken seriously.”748. [WINGATE, ORDE CHARLES, Major-General,
DSO.] – Major General O.C. Wingate, D.S.O., an appreciation of the planner and leader of the two Chindit
campaigns in 1943 and 1944 behind the Japanese lines
in Burma during World War II compiled by membersof the Chindits Old Comrades’ Association, United
Kingdom, 1982. [England?] Chindits Old Comrades’
Association, 1982. In-4°. 84, iv, ii leaves.
SS.Cup.16/12.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. We
are much obliged to Mr. Frank Young of the Chindits
Information website for assistance with this entry.
– David Boothroyd adds: The front cover states“For Private Circulation Only”. The introduction by
Brig. W.P. Scott DSO MC (National President of theChindits Old Comrades’ Association) refers to “a number of incorrect, adverse, and contemptuous statements
made in the Official History” and also “a number of letters, which appeared in the National Press, expressing
unsubstantiated opinions”. A foreword by Brig. P.W.
Mead CBE refers to “the smearing of Wingate in an Official History”. The bulk of the book consists of thepersonal reminiscences of soldiers. There is a list of the
major libraries it was sent to, which significantly does
not include the British Library. (It does include theCambridge University Library, which is where I readit.)749. WITCHER, SALLY. – Report of the Disability Working Group ; with contributions from the Disability
Working Group members. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2006. pp. iv, 69.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated a pressmark. This is, apparently,261

an ‘electronic resource’ and available for both a download in PDF format, or a paper copy. In the BL it is located in Document Supply Services at pressmark: m06/.
37133.
– In an email dated Feb. 27 2013, Dr. Witcher indicated that she had no ideas why her Report may havebeen suppressed. She writes: “I can't imagine why ifwould be suppressed for any of the reasons given. It
was all in the public domain and, having just done a
Google search, everything to do with it is still available…”

WOERMANN, KARL. See: WOLTMANN, ALFRED.
750. WOLTMANN, ALFRED FRIEDRICH GOTTFRIEDALBERT, Doctor. (1841-80) & Karl Woermann. – History of painting / from the German of ... Alfred Woltmann … and … Karl Woermann … Edited by Sir
Sidney Colvin [Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British
Museum.] London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1887.
In-4°. Two volumes. SS.b.68.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy of this book in the British Library General
Catalogue at pressmark 7860.b.6. It is dated 1880, but
the second volume, which was translated by Clara Bell,wasn’t published until 1887, which is the date cited in
the SS catalogue.

751. WOOD, JOSEPH, operatic singer. – Authentic memoirs of Mr. and Mrs. Wood: containing Miss Paton's
marriage with Lord W. Lennox. Her continuation on
the stage, for the support of his extravagance. Her amorous epistles, and intrigues with Wood, … : themeans used by Lord Lennox, to obtain a divorce …
also, her ladyship’s marriage with her paramour [i.e. J.
Wood], &c. Printed and published by H. Smith [?William Dugdale], 37, Holywell St., Strand, London,
1843. In-8°. pp. 105. SS.a.99.
– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. There is a copy in the General Catalogue(Cup.403.tt.5) which may be the SS copy, desegregated.
– Lord William Pitt Lennox (1799-1881) married
Mary Anne Paton (1802-1864), the Scottish soprano
opera singer, in 1824. The marriage was dissolved by
the Scottish Court of Session in 1831. He subsequently
married Ellen Smith in 1854 and Maria Jane Molyneux262

in 1863. Paton married Joseph Wood shortly after her
divorce and the pair was extremely successful on the
London stage, and from 1834 to 1840 undertook three
tours to America which further increased their celebrity.
They retired early from professional life and spentmuch time at Woolley Moor, Crigglestone, West Yorkshire, where Joseph had bought a farm of 120 acres.

752. WOODS, STUART. – A romantic's guide to the country inns of Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by Jennifer
Miller Broadus. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979. In8°. pp. xxii. 268. SS.b.113.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. A
copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland at pressmark Phi.20, and another at Cambridge at pressmark Arc.d.97.402.
– We are greatly obliged to Mr. Woods for writing
to tell us that the print run of A romantic's guide to thecountry inns of Britain and Ireland was pulped byThames & Hudson because of the threat of a libel suitby one of the inns.

753. WOOLF, JAMES. – Song Without Sermon. London:
Alvin Redman Limited, 1950. In-8°. pp. 313.
SS.Cup.6.b.20.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues.
– Described on the dustjacket as “A modern rake’s
progress,” the plot concerns a woman who married aman she doesn’t love in order to give her illegitimate
son a name, and then marries another man to give him agentleman's education, and manages to produce a parasite who is ready to accept all favours from men andwomen alike. It is the author’s first book, and there isevidence that it ran into censorship problems in Ireland.
The following notice of the book appeared in the Kirkus
Reviews shortly after its 1950 publication in the UnitedStates by Creative Age Press:– “A collection of dear little horrors who in theirunspeakable actions compose a picture of complete unpleasantness. Henry Malling, whose mother Rose, married for her baby's legitimacy, is pushed, urged, pledwith and unreasonably persuaded to become a little
gentleman, and soon learned how far deceit, slyness,
hypocrisy and lies would go. Through his invidious hatred he caused the death of the unborn child of Rose’
second marriage, wrecked and ended the life of his
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against their son's homosexuality, and was the means ofkilling Rose too. The dissolution of these ties delivered
Henry into the hands of sadistic, Jewish, vengeful Ada
so that even his hope–in his love for Derek's sister, Penelope, weakens when Ada turns the screws on his
freedom after his vile behaviour in World War II. A detailed portrayal of despicable monstrosities–each transcending the worst of the others–that makes an issue of
decency for decency's sake. When the British do it–even a heel–they sometimes do it more so.”754. WRIGHT, GEORGE THADDEUS. – The Poet in the
Poem. The personae of Eliot, Yeats and Pound. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1960. In-8°. pp. xii. 167. [Perspectives in Criticism.
no. 4.]– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are twocopies of this in the BL at pressmarks W.P.B.306/4 andW10/8600. The BL also has a reduced photographic
facsimile published in 1962 at 11880.k.33.

755. WRONG, HUME. – Government of the West Indies.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923. In-8°. pp. 190.
SS.a.348.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. There
are two other copies in the General Catalogue, at:
B.344.e.23 and B.32.d.19. A restricted copy is in Cambridge University Library at pressmark Arc. c.92.402.

756. YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. (1865–1939). – Autobiographies. London: Macmillan, 1955. 23cm. pp.
v.591.
– Included in the 2011 catalogue only, and it has
not yet been allocated an SS pressmark. There are apparently three copies in the BL shelve at X.950/33769
and W63/9532 and 10864.d.6.

757. ZINCKE, FOSTER BARHAM, Reverend. (1817–1893).
– The Days of my Years. A sequel to Some Materials
for the History of Wherstead. [With a portrait, and an
appendix containing Zincke's “Letters to the Electorsof the Eye Division”.]. Ipswich: Reed and Barrett,[1891]. In-8°. pp. xvi. 510. SS.b.25.
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– Included in the 1945 catalogue, but not the 2008
catalogue. (“For Private Circulation” – note in book.)
There is a copy in the General Catalogue at pressmark:X.100/1296, presumably the SS copy, desegregated. An
1893 reprint is shelved at Cup.403.t.8.(1.)– The Rev. F. Barham Zincke was vicar and historian of Wherstead, Suffolk. His ministry at Wherstead
covered fifty-two years, 1841-93, six years as curate,
and forty-six as vicar. He was also chaplain to Queen
Victoria.

758. ZUROFF, EFRAIM, Doctor (1948 – ) . – Occupation :Nazi-Hunter. Southampton: Ashford, 1988. In-8°. pp.
xi. 244. SS.Cup.15/30.
– Included in the 2008 and 2011 catalogues. Thereis a copy at Cambridge University Library(Arc.c.98.409) which is described as being ‘restricted’in its catalogue entry. A copy is preserved in the restricted section of the National Library of Scotland atpressmark Phi.70. Copies at Oxford (D803.ZUR), theNational Library of Wales (YST Y CEIDWADLLYFRAU) and Trinity College, Dublin (B 680) seemnot to be restricted. What appears to be an expanded
reprint was published in 1994 at Hoboken, New Jersey,
by KTAV in association with the Simon Wiesenthal
Center. A copy is in the British Library at pressmark
95/01259.
– Occupation : Nazi-Hunter was suppressed forthe alleged defamation of a Lithuanian Nazi war criminal named Anton Gecas who was living in Edinburgh
until his death in September, 2001. Gecas–whose wartime name was Antanas Gecevicius–was the commander of the 3rd platoon of the 2nd company of the notorious
12th Lithuanian Police Auxiliary Battalion, responsible
for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, partisans
and Communist Party members in Lithuania and Belarus in the last three months of 1941.
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