Thursday, August 1, 2013

Checklist of Anglo-Eastern Publications

Checklist of Anglo-Eastern Publishing Company
This checklist is based on a catalogue of the Anglo-Eastern Publishing Co in the National Archives of Australia, CRS A425, Prohibited Publications - General, 1943/2649.  Correspondence with the catalogue is dated February 1927, but I suspect the catalogue itself dates from mid-1926.




Novels of Bree Narran
1. One Night
2. Three Nights
3. Seven Nights
4. A Night and a Day
5. Six Nights Near the Moon
6. The Hour of Temptation
7. Cora Pearl: The Lady of the Pink Eyes 
8. The Dangerous Mrs Raymond
9. The Kinema Girl 
10. A Woman of Forty
11. A Woman of Temperament
12. The Love Child 
13. The Dancing Girl
14. The Right to Motherhood
15. Eve and the Man 
16. Eve out of Eden
82. EVE OUT OF EDEN
83. THE KINEMA GIRL
84. THE LOVE CHILD







A marketing postcard of a Bree Narran novel:




  Guy de Maupassant's Short Stories [probably translated by Bree Narran]
29. Short Stories, No 1 Series
30. Short Stories, No 2 Series
31. Short Stories, No 3 Series
32. Short Stories, No 4 Series
33. Short Stories, No 5 Series
34. Short Stories, No 6 Series
35. Short Stories, No 7 Series
36. Short Stories, No 8 Series
37. Short Stories, No 9 Series
38. Short Stories, No 10 Series
39. Short Stories, No 11 Series
40. Short Stories, No 12 Series
41. Short Stories, No 12a Series
80. Short Stories, No 14 Series
42. A Ladies' Man
43. A Woman's Life [was the subject of an obscenity trial in 1920 – noted in The Times]

Various French Authors.  Translated from the French by Bree Narran
27. Crisp Stories vol 1
28. Crisp Stories vol 2
81.Crisp Stories vol 3
26. Rare Stories, vol. 1
79. Rare Short Stories, vol 2 







The Novels of Paul de Kock. Translated from the French by Bree Narran (unabridged)
44. My Neighbour Raymond
45. That Rascal Gustave
46. The Bride of the First Night
47. The Wife, the Husband and Lover
48. Cards, Women and Wine
49. Mistress or Wife
50. The Girl With Three Petticoats
51. Georgette
52. Madeleine










 W.N. Willis
53. White Slaves of London
54. White Slave Market
55. Western Men with Eastern Morals
56. Should Girls Be Told?
57. A Girl of London Town
58. White Slaves in a Piccadilly Flat
59. The Taint in the Blood
60. Betrayal
61. Why Girls Go Wrong
62. Anti-Christ in Egypt
63. THE GRIP OF THE VENEREAL MICROBE











Sporting Novels, W.N. Willis
64. Bluey Grey [‘A Romance of the Turf’]
65. The Lady Jockey

Novels
17. Valentine, Cuddl'ums
18. Valentine,The Adjusters
19. John Bernard, [Annie O'Meara de Vic Beamish], A Woman of Fire
20. John Bernard [Annie O'Meara de Vic Beamish], The New Race of Devils
21. Herbert Parker, The Midnight Lady
22. Herbert Parker, The Cuckoo Woman
23. Louise Heilgers, Further Tabloid Tales
24. M Lehane-Willis, THE PAINTED WOMAN
25. M Lehane-Willis, Dean’s Rosemary
66. Boccaccio, Decameron
67. Marguerite Queen of Navarre,  Heptameron
68. Aristotle, Works
70. T. Faukner, M.D., Book of Nature
69. Balzac, DROLL STORIES
85. Rex Ryan, MIDNIGHT LOVE
86. [No author given], THE GIRL WHO CHARMS MEN
87. Noel Despard, THE TYRANY OF VIRTUE













Another marketing post card


Sexual Science Series.
71. J P Gair, CONTROL OF MOTHERHOOD
72. Brenda Barwon, MARRIAGE AND BIRTH CONTROL
73. W N Willis, Wedded Love
74. J P Gair, Sexual Knowledge for the Young Man
75. J.P. Gair, Sexual Knowledge for the Young Woman
76. John Hurstcot, Love Ethics: Sex and the Divine
77. Thomas Herne, Love, Courtship and Marriage
78. Thomas Herne, ILLUSIONS AND REALITIES OF LOVE.


The following books are known to have been published by the Anglo-Eastern Publishing Co:
Arthur Wolseley D'Ombrain, Boomerang Verses [the foreword is dated February 1924]
C.J. O'Donnell, Outraged Ulster: why Ulster is rebellious with an introductory letter to the Right Hon Viscount Craigavon [1932]
D.C. Daking, Feed My Sheep [1933]
D.C. Daking, Jungian Psychology and Modern Spiritual Thought [1933]
W.N. Willis, Luvvy Muvver: letters from her dorter Miss Jane [first published in 1916]
Rex Ryan, Crooked Love [advertised in a 1932 catalogue of Anglo-Eastern Publishing Co titles]


Thanks to Andrew Parry who provided many of the cover scans.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks, James. I can add one small detail. The second "John Bernard" book, A WOMAN OF FIRE, was published in March 1923.

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