An Alphabetical Bibliography

of Ernest Bramah's Max Carrados & Kai Lung First Editions

prepared by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

PART I: MAX CARRADOS MYSTERIES:

  1. Best Max Carrados Stories. Edited & introduced by E. F. Bleiler. NY: Dover, 1972.

  2. The Bravo Of London. Ln: Cassell, 1934. The only Max Carrados novel, much inferior to the short stories.

  3. The Eyes Of Max Carrados. Ln: Richards, 1923; NY: Doran, 1924.

  4. Max Carrados. Ln: Methuen, 1914; Ln: Richard, 1923; Westport, Ct: Hyperion, 1975.

  5. Max Carrados Mysteries. Ln: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927; Baltimore: Penguin, 1964.

  6. Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday. Ln: Harrap, 1929. Reprints three Max Carrados stories, & four Kai Lung, plus four stories from The Specimen Case.

  7. The Specimen Case. Ln: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924; NY: Doran, 1925. Includes the only Max Carrados tale missing from the three main collections, entitled "A Bunch Of Violets."

   

PART II: THE KAI LUNG FANTASIES:

  1. The Celestial Omnibus. Ln: Baker/Richards, 1963. A selection of Kai Lung stories from earlier volumes.

  2. Kai Lung & the Mulberry Tree. Ln: Richards, 1949; NY: Arno, 1978.

  3. The Kai Lung Omnibus. Ln: Allen, 1936. Omnibus of The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, and Kai Lung's Golden Hours.

  4. Kai Lung Six. Tacoma, WA: : Non-Profit Press, 1974. Only 250 copies wre issued of these last tales uncollected in Bramah's lifetime.

  5. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat. Ln: Richards, 1928; NY: Doubleday, 1928.

  6. Kai Lung's Golden Hours. Ln: Richards, 1922; NY: Doran, 1923.

  7. Kin Weng and the Miraculous Tusk. Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing, College of Arts & Crafts, 1941. Illustrated. A selection from Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat.

  8. The Mirror of Kong Ho. Ln: Chapman & Hall, 1905; NY: Doubleday, 1930. Not Kai Lung, but of related orientalist interest.

  9. The Moon of Much Gladness. Ln: Cassell, 1932. Same as The Return of Kai Lung. NY: Sheridan, 1938.

  10. The Story of Wan & the Remarkable Shrub & The Story of Ching-Kwei & the Destinies. NY: Doubleday, 1927, wraps. This was incorporated into Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat the following year.

  11. The Transmutation of Ling. Ln: Grant Richards, 1911; NY: Brentano's, 1912. Illustrated. This is the first story from The Wallet of Kai Lung.

  12. The Wallet Of Kai Lung. Ln: Richards, 1900; Boston: Page, 1900.

See also the essay on Max Carrados:
A Delicate Bouquet of Crime.

You will find Ernest Bramah dustwrappers
included in the Orientalia Dustwrapper & Binding Galleries
accessible from the:
Art Gallery Index.





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