FarnolAlphabetical Checklist of the
Works of Jeffery Farnol [1878-1952]

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

   

Preface:

Jeffery Farnol (please note the spelling of Jeffery -- it's surprising how many references get that wrong) was one of the best selling authors of the early part of the 20th Century. His impact continues: He was an admitted influence on such riotous grand adventure writers as George MacDonald Fraser & Jack Vance, as well as romantic Regency writers from Georgette Heyer to Marjorie Farnell. There follows below, as preface to the Farnol bibliography, the biographical sketch that was used on the rear flap in the Sampson Low Standard Edition of his works as issued a year before his death:

Jeffery Farnol was born in Birmingham on February 10th, 1878. When he was ten years old, the Farnol family moved to London; it was during this period that Jeffery Farnol spent a few years at Lee, where he was able to explore Kent, the county which supplied the background for many of his novels. His first novel, The Broad Highway, is subtitled A Story of Kent.

For a time, Jeffery Farnol was sent to work in a firm of engineers and brass-founders in Birmingham. While there, a foreman in the works called young Farnol a liar, and Farnol knocked him down. He was dismissed his post, and returned to his parents in London. He then attended the Westminster Art School, and comparing his work with that of a more gifted pupil, decided than an art career would be unprofitable.

Black BartelmyAt the age of twenty, Feffery Farnol married and went to America. To earn money for his immediate needs, he found employment as a scene painter at the Astor Theatre, New York. In his spare time he began writing The Broad Highway. The manuscript was submitted to several American publishers, but was not accepted. It was thought to be "too English." Eventually, it was sent to Farnol's mother in England, and subsequently published by Sampson Low in 1910. It was a great success, and the beginning of a relationship with Sampson Low who have published all his novels. Then followed The Money Moon, The Amateur Gentleman, Chronicles of the Imp, and the many romances that have made Jeffery Farnol a best-seller for nearly fifty years.

In an age of austerity, Jeffery Farnol, with great skill, humour, and understanding, revives for us the great days of the past. There is nobody writing to-day who can match this novelist's power of plot and counter-plot; his adroit dramatic effects; and above all, the enduring charm of the characters. It is the real and ultimate test of a true novelist's art that readers turn again and again to the stories of Jeffery Farnol; and it is a tribute to him that he is more popular with readers to-day than he has ever been.

Paperback reprints are for the most part excluded, athough I would include any that added new interior illustrations or introductions. Sampson Low produced prewar sixpenny paperbacks (including some colonial editions) of many of the titles, & editions from the 1960s & 1970s were in England by Mayflower, Tandem, & Pan, & in the USA by Bantam.

   

Alphabetical & Annotated Checklist

Notes: I've identified all 1st edition publishers for th UK, US & Canada, & am dating other (reprint) publishers' editions as this information is confirmed. Some reprints drop the subtitles. Later Sampson Low impressions do not retain illustration plates. With many authors the American reprint house Burt issued books as early as the year (within a few months) of the actual first edition, or the following year; dates are sometimes hard to establish. They are printed from US 1st edition plates & usually the only date given is that of the first edition copyright. Where I have not yet established actual release dates for Burts, the symbol © precedes the date. I would also like to be able to cite more South African firsts though I have only two noted so far; & Australian firsts, if such information can be uncovered. Anyone's additions & corrections to the bibliography would be eagerly received.


Black BartelmyADAM PENFEATHER, BUCCANEER, A Pirate Story. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1940. New York: Doubleday, 1941.

Farnol's former popularity was on the wane at the beginning of the 1940s so that this & other of his later titles are comparatively rare. It regards the piratical adventures of Adam on the Spanish Main, together with his companion Antonia who has gone adventuring in the guise of a boy. Even critics who'd been hard on Farnol were won over by this one. The best book from his last period, it is something of a sequel to, & making a trilogy of Black Bartlemy's Treasure and Martin Conisby's Vengeance despite having a different central hero.


THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN, A romance of the Regency. London: Sampson Low, 1913, not illustrated. Sampson Low, 1916 adds 13 color plates by Charles E. Brock. Boston: Little Brown, 1913, with 9 plates, three of them double pagers, by Herman Pfeiffer. Toronto: Musson, 1913. London: Nelson Continental Library, 1915. New York: Burt, 1928. New York: Burt, 1936 Photoplay edition. New York: Triangle, 1939.

This was filmed in the UK in 1936 starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr as Barnabus, scripted by fantasist Clemence Dane; her scenario is deposited in the British Museum. Apart from a couple silent films for which Farnol probably wrote the scenarios himself, but which aren't likely to survive, this is the only one of his novels that was filmed, arguing for his status well below Sabatini in filmmakers' esteem. Yet this one was in all thrice filmed: In 1920 directed by Maurice Elvey; in 1926 directed by Sidney Olcott; besides in 1936 directed by Thornton Freeland.

Swashbuckling thrills set in the same era as his bestselling classic The Broad Highway, within the same Kent landscapes, about a fashionable young man who has come to wealth, & featuring that redoubtable period detective Jasper Shrig.


ANOTHER DAY, A modern mystery. London: Sampson Low, 1929; Boston: Little Brown, 1929; Toronto: Ryerson, 1929; New York: Burt, © 1929.

Some of Farnol's swashbuckling sentimentality is here moved to a contemporary setting. A wealthy young New Yorker, believing himself guilty of murder, flees to England.


BELTANE THE SMITH, A mediaeval romance. London: Sampson Low, 1915; Boston: Little Brown, 1915; & Toronto: Musson, 1915. New York: Burt, 1918. The first editions have four illustration plates by Arthur E. Becher; only a frontis is retained in the Burt reprint.

A tale of knightly valor & chivalry set in medieval England, vaguely but approximately the 13th Century. The son of a duke was raised in a forest sanctuary never being told of his heritage.


BLACK BARTLEMY'S TREASURE. London: Sampson Low, 1920; Boston: Little Brown, 1920; Toronto: Ryerson, 1920; New York: Burt, © 1920. Ln: Tandem, 1965

Buccaneers on the Spanish Main in the middle of the 17th Century. Project Gutenberg has made this novel available as an E-text. The sequel is Martin Conisby's Vengeance.


A BOOK FOR JANE & Every Other Jane with all Children, Large & Small, written & illustrated by Jeffery Farnol. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1937.

His rarest book, most copies having been still in the warehouse when struck by the Blitz.


THE BROAD HIGHWAY, A romance of Kent. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1910; Boston: Little Brown, 1911. New York: Burt, 1920. New York: Triangle, 1938. Not originally illustrated, but the US & UK 1st illustrated editions of 1912 include 24 full color plates by C. E. Brock (reprints in the UK retaining 20 of the 24). In the Little Brown "regular" edition there is only a color frontis, though some later editions include a few interior color plates though never again all 24 of the original (for example the US 1st trade edition includes only a color frontis, & the Burt retains four Brock color plates).

This swashbuckling novel of the highroads of Kent in the Regency era catapulted Farnol to fame, & is worthily regarded a Classic to this day. It was written in a style intended to invoke the tone of the literature & the conversations of the Regency period, very playful with language.


CHARMIAN, LADY VIBART, A romance of Paris. London: Sampson Low, 1932; Boston: Little Brown, 1932.

A shorter version was serialized in four parts a year earlier in Colliers Magazine under the title Silent Weapon. A regency swashbuckler featuring some of the same characters from The Broad Highway, set twenty years later, with Charmian plotting to protect her husband & their son from a notorious duelist. These characters also recur in The Way Beyond.


CHRONICLES OF THE IMP: A Romance. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1915; oddly, the UK first has a black & white frontisplate & this was reprinted in color. Seven illustration plates by Edmund Blampied. Originally issued as My Lady Caprice (1907), which see..

This 1915 retitled edition adds an appreciation "The Author & His Work" by Clement K. Shorter.


THE CROOKED FURROW. London: Sampson Low, 1937; New York: Doubleday Doran, 1938. New York: Sun Dial, 1939. Scarce.

The loves & adventures of two Regency period heroes, a farmer & an aristocrat, in London & Sussex. Detective Jasper Shrig also puts in an appearance. There's a sequel, The Happy Harvest.


THE CUPBOARD. New York: Paget Agency, 1922, small wraps.

An extremely rare 23 page booklet issued specifically for copyright protection in the USA. The tale was later collected in The Shadow which see.


THE DEFINITE OBJECT, A romance of New York. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1917; Boston: Little Brown, 1917; Toronto: Musson, 1917; South Africa: South Africa Central News Agency Ltd., 1917. US 1st has a frontispiece by F. Vaux Wilson. The South African first edition states on the title page"Issued for circulation in United South Africa only" & was printed by Sampson Low, the cover retaining the characteristic first-edition cartouche with four dots on either side (information thanks to Farnol collector Stuart Malin).

Not a swashbuckler but quite a vigorous tale of New York's "Hell's Kitchen," drawing on Jeffery's personal experiences while in America. A rich young man poses as impoverished, leading to a happy romance. It was twice filmed, in 1920 directed by Edgar J. Camiller, & remade in 1924 as Manhattan directed by R. H. Burnside.


ConisbyEPICS OF THE FANCY, A vision of Old Fighters. London: Sampson Low, 1928. Issued in America as FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTS; or, Epics of "The Fancy." Boston: Little Brown, 1928. Scarce in either edition. Illustration plates.

A collection of essays romanticising pugilism from days of the Roman gladiators to Jack Dempsy, & many in between.


THE FOOL BELOVED. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1949; Toronto: Ryerson, 1949. London: Book Club, 1950, illustrated by Jeudwine.

Not issued in the US where, alas, Jeffery's star had set. A tale of romance & swordplay in old Italy, much in the manner of Sabatini.


FORTUNE'S FOOL. New York: Paget Agency, 1912.

An exceedingly rare booklet containing the one short story (later collected in The Shadow), issued for US copyright protection.


THE GESTE OF DUKE JOCELYN, A romance in Verse & Prose. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1919. Boston: Little Brown, 1920, illustrated in color by Eric Pape.

A gorgeous book of medieval romance & chivalry told in prose, blank verse, & rhyme.


THE GLAD SUMMER, Being a truly Sentimental Idyll. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1951.

A tale of early Victorian England.


GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR.

Same as Some War Impressions. which see.


GYFFORD OF WEARE, A romance of Sussex. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1928; Boston: Little Brown, 1928; Toronto: Ryerson, 1928; New York: Burt, © 1928. The Little Brown has a variant spelling for "Guyfford."

Set in early 18th Century Sussex. The swashbuckling & romantic adventures of Sir Richard Guyyford & Lady D'Arcy, the reigning beauty of her era. Sir Richard first meats Lady D'Arcy when she is attempting to burgle his residence. Their mutual misdeads & clashing spots rather complicating a rollicking affair. Not as often encountered as some of Farnol's best sellers, but one of the best of the less seen titles.


THE HAPPY HARVEST, A Romance. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1939; New York: Doubleday Doran, 1940; New York: Book League of America, 1940; New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1941.

Swashbuckling "cloak-&-sword" Regency era murder mystery, featuring series character Jasper Shrig. It is a sequel to The Crooked Farrow.


HERITAGE PERILOUS. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1946; Toronto: Ryerson, 1946; New York: McBride, 1946.

Swashbuckling adventures of a young mariner set shortly after the death of Admiral Nelson. There is a sequel, My Lord of Wybourne.


THE HIGH ADVENTURE, Another intriguing mystery story. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1926 & Boston: Little Brown, 1926. New York: Burt, © 1926.

A swashbuckling & pugelistic adventure in the same Georgian era & locations as The Broad Highway, with the series detective figure Jasper Shrig putting in an appearance.


THE HONOURABLE MR. TAWNISH, A Romance. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1913. Boston: Little Brown, 1913. The UK 1st has eight full color plates by Charles E. Brock; the US 1st has an ornate embossed binding & four full color plates by Brock.

Set in "the rollicking days of the eighteenth century," & based on events in the life of Jeffery's brother Ewart who died in the Boer War. Adapted as a play in 1924.


HOVE. Hove, Sussex: privately published, 1937.

Attractively designed 100 page British tourist book with 24-page essay by Jeffery who lived nearby, & the rest pictorial.


HOW I BEGAN. Ln: Sampson Low, Marston, 1913. A rare autobiographical booklet reprinting the article from T. P.'s Weekly 14 February 1913


THE JADE OF DESTINY, An Elizabethan Romance. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1931; Boston: Little Brown, 1931; Toronto: Ryerson, 1931; New York: Burt, © 1931; New York: Triangle, 1939. The Little Brown slightly varies the title as "AJade of Destiny" instead of "The Jade..."

Tudor England; plots against Queen Bess.


Winds of ChanceJOHN O' THE GREEN, A Romance. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1935; Boston: Little Brown, 1935; Toronto: Ryerson, 1935.

A Ruritanian fantasy laid in the fictional kingdom of Gerance in a feudal age, with a Robin Hood type hero who undertakes a dangerous mission for his king. Farnol was good friends with Anthony Hope, whose Prisoner of Zenda is set in the original Ruritania.


JUSTICE BY MIDNIGHT. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1956.

Left unfinished at the time of Jeffery's death, this was completed by his wife Phyllis Farnol. Set in the days of James II, it takes the fair Lady Clarissa Fane to see through the villainous pose of a masked outlaw who has targetted only tyranical aristocrats. Scarce.


THE KING LIVETH, A romance of Alfred the Great based on the old Chronicles. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1943; New York: Doubleday Doran, 1944; South Africa: Central News Agency [1945].

Medieval romance.


THE LONELY ROAD: A Romance also subtitled A Romantic Comedy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1938; New York: Doubleday Doran, 1938; Toronto: Ryerson, 1938.

A brave young Jacobite in days of the rebellion is pitted against a vicous baronet.


THE LORING MYSTERY. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1925; Boston: Little Brown, 1925; New York: Burt, © 1925.

A swashbuckling "cloak-&-sword" murder mystery featuring Regency era detective Jasper Shrig, investigating a Sussex murder.


MARTIN CONISBY'S VENGEANCE. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1921; Boston: Little Brown, 1921; New York: Burt, 1923.

Sequel to Black Bartlemy's Treasure. A truly classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main, featuring even a female pirate, Captain Jo.


A MATTER OF BUSINESS & Other Stories. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1940; New York: Doubleday, 1940. A big but unfortunately rare collection of Elizabethan to modern short stories, including a Jasper Shrig story & other Elizabethan mysteries. These few are supernatural:

the others are: There's a long appendix of "Six New Indian Articles" which are story-essays of Jeffery in India, some with mystical content:


THE MONEY MOON, A romance of today. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1911; New York: Dodd Mead, 1911; Toronto: Briggs, 1911. New York: Burt, © 1911. New York: Triangle, 1938. The US first edition has twenty-two color plates by Arthur I. Keller, of which the first Burt reprint retains but three (though in black & white) & later Burts have none of the plates. I've not yet seen the UK 1st which I think has only a Keller frontis, perhaps the same as the Canadian 1st with sepia frontis; but the 1914 Sampson Low edition was illustrated by Edmund Blampied.

Farnol's usual method of constructing a swashbuckling "road" adventure is modernized in this, the best of that small group of his books that is not a historical. An American crushed by love deals with his heartbreak by setting out on a walking tour of England. The people he meets on his simultaneously amusing & suspenseful journey invariably parallels the Elizabethan characters of his his better known books. The tale was adapted as a silent film in 1920, directed by Fred Paul & starring Stella Meryvn Campbell & Gordon Craig.


MOST SACRED OF ALL. New York: McBride, 1948.

A swashbuckler issued in England as My Lord of Wybourne. The American edition is substantially harder to find than the UK.


MURDER BY NAIL, being an episode in the career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street, with particulars of his highly orginal mrthods in the Wrybrook case, set down by Ed. Brondenleigh, gent, & edited by Jeffery Farnol. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1942.

"Cloak & sword" swashbuckler & mystery novel, issued in the US as Valley of Night. Set in pre-Victorian Cornwall, when Elizabethan detective Shrig was quite elderly & still obsessing over a 70 year old case. Vastly more macabre than most of Farnol.


MY LADY CAPRICE. New York: Dodd Mead, 1907; London: Stevens & Brown, 1907; Toronto: William Briggs, 1907; London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1907; New York: Burt, 1912. The UK edition is rare & I've not as yet viewed a copy. The US & Canadian firsts are illustrated in color by Charlotte Weber Ditzler (Dodd Mead reprints retain only a color frontispiece), plus decorations by Theodore P. Hapbood. The first Burt reissue retains the Ditzler illustrations but they are lacking in later Burts.

Project Gutenberg has made this novel available as an E-text. In essence a "manly" love story, a Burt dustwrapper text says, "But it is through an "Imp" of a boy that Mr. Farnol fascinates his reader with memories of Robin Hood & other knights of old, bringing his story in a quaint manner to a most happy ending." Reprinted with a new preface & different illustrator as Chronicles of an Imp which see.


MY LORD OF WRYBOURNE, being an account of his further perils, grief and joy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1948; Toronto: Ryerson, 1948; South Africa: Central News Agency , 1948.

Issued in the US as Most Sacred of All. Sequel to Heritage Perilous. A former seafaring man attempts to settle down to a gentrified country life but finds his family threatened by a sworn enemy. Duels & vengeance ensue, in old England.


NEW BOOK FOR JANE & Every Other Little Girl & Boy Who is Now Turned Half-Past-Seven, Wherein They May Read Bits of Histree, Jogafree, Old England Giants, with Something of other Things Too, Set Down for them by Jeffery Farnol London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1939.

A rare children's book also illustrated by Jeffery & written like The Book of Jane for his adopted daughter.


THE NINTH EARL. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1950; Toronto: Ryerson, 1950.

A "cloak-&-sword" swashbuckling murder mystery featuring detective Jasper Shrig. Scarce.


OUR ADMIRABLE BETTY, A Romance. London: Sampson Low, 1918. Boston: Little Brown, 1918 with frontispiece by F. Vaux Wilson. Chicago: Donahue, 1918.

Georgian (Regency) adventure, the same period as his best known novel The Broad Highway, with plenty of flashing blades & feminine coquetry.


OVER THE HILLS, A romance of the Fifteen, Being the Narrative of Adam (Called Thursday) with Particulars of His Adventures, His Joys & Sorrows, His Friends & Right-Beloved Enemy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1930; Boston: Little Brown, 1930; Toronto: Ryerson, 1930.

The foundling Adam Thursday & the beautiful Barbara MacGregory in Jacobite Scotland.


A PAGEANT OF VICTORY, A Tale of the birth of America. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1936; Boston: Little Brown, 1936; Toronto: Ryerson, 1936.

Unusual setting for Farnol, including scenes of the first European encounters with Native Americans in the 1770s. It's a multi-generational epic of the Falconbridge family, fighting for American ideals during the Revolution, the 1860s, & the early 20th Century. Though reprinted often enough to not be entirely difficult to find, fine first editions in dustwrapper are startlingly difficult.


PEREGRINE'S PROGRESS, or, Diana of the Dawn. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1922; Boston: Little Brown, 1922.

Adventures in the early 18th Century, about a man who puts aside luxury & sets off on the road with nothing, soon falling in love with a gypsy maid who becomes to him like a goddess, with the series detective character Jasper Shrig putting in a notable appearance. Really made up of three connected tales, a novel, a novellette, & a short story:

An anonymous artice "The Works of Jeffery Farnol" is included in the Sampson Low edition, available online Here thanks to the Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society.


THE "PIPING TIMES" A Sentimental Romance of Those days when there was less Heroism but more of everything else than in these death-filled, deathless years of Grace, Grief, & Glory. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1945; Toronto: Ryerson, 1946.

Tale of rural England & the stations along the 'Pilgrim's Way' through Sussex, Devonshire & Cornwall. Scarce.


PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN IN COLORS: The romance of Mr. Lewis Berger. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1935; Freeport, NJ: Books fir Libraries Press, 1970. 85 pages plus 35 pages of illustrations.

Epilogue "The House of Berger" by P. C. V. Grigsby. This is a short history of a paint manufacturing family, a promotional book and low-watermark for Farnol, who presumedly just needed the money. It is not uncommon because the Berger Company distributed it freely far and wide.


THE QUEST OF YOUTH, A Story of the Open Road. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1927; Boston: Little Brown, 1927; Toronto: Ryerson, 1927; New York: Burt, 1928.

Adventures on the woods & highroads of old Sussex, of a world-weary man successfully recapturing some of the wonder & glory he experienced when young, & falling for a Quaker maiden. The Sussex woods & roads convey all the charm of his best work. Regency era detective Jasper Shrig puts in an appearance, too.


THE SHADOW, and Other Stories. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1929; Boston: Little Brown, 1929; Toronto: Ryerson, 1929.

Scarce collection of ten historical tales & five modern. These have supernatural themes:

the others are: plus a poem:


SIR JOHN DERING, A Romantic Comedy. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1923; Boston: Little Brown, 1923; Toronto: Ryerson, 1923; New York: Burt, © 1923.

A thrilling adventure of old Sussex, one of Farnol's best.


THE SKULL OF THE INCA.

Unpublished lost manuscript of a pirate novel which Jeffery's brother Edward remembered as perhaps his best, written 1895-6. However, it is the theory of Farnophile Pat Bryan that "Skull of the Inca" was the working title of Winds of Chance in which the phrase "Skull of the Inca" occurs twice -- though how Edward evaded knowing that is uncertain, & unless the original manuscript turns up someday, we may never know if this is or is not a lost work.


SOME WAR IMPRESSIONS. London: Samson Low, Marston, 1918. Issued in America as GREAT BRITAIN AT WAR. Boston: Little Brown, 1918. Rare in either edition. Forword & these essays:


VALLEY OF NIGHT, being an episode in the career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street, &c. New York: Doubleday, Dora, 1942. Issued in the UK as Murder by Nail, which see. Rare in either edition but the more so in the US edition.

In Georgian Cornwall, detective Jasper Shrig must solve a murder committed 70 years earlier. There are many grisly touches that will delight even a horror fan.


VOICES FROM THE DUST: being romances of old London & of that which never dies, the good lives on eternally, only the baser thing can die. London & Canada: Macmillan, 1932, illustrated by H. R. Millar. Boston: Little Brown, 1932, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz.

Thirteen historical & mystic stories covering a period of time from Roman occupation to the early 20th Century.

A theme of reincarnation holds the various tales together as a whole & lends an atmosphere of the supernatural. In this book he is most like Marjorie Bowen.


WAIF OF THE RIVER. London: Sampson Low, 1952.

Farnol fell ill, & never recovered, during the writing of this book. The ending was dictated to his wife Phyllis who probably wrote some little parts of it, whereas his last posthumous novel Justice by Midnightwas unfinished at the time of her husband's death & she wrote a goodly portion of that one. Series character Jasper Shrig, detective of the Regency era, puts in an appearance as well. Scarce.


THE WAY BEYOND. London: Sampson Low, 1933 & Boston: Little Brown, 1933, with six color plates by Charles E. Brock. New York: Triangle, 1939.

"Cloak-&-sword" murder mystery featuring Regency era detective Jasper Shrig, with sundry characters reappearing from The Broad Highway.and Charmian, Lady Vibart. Sir Peter & Charmian Vibart's son Richard has fallen for the lowborn Rosemary. As events conspire against them, Richard must set out on a road journey akin to that of his noble sire in The Broad Highway.


WINDS OF FORTUNE: Peruvian Adventures. London: Sampson Low, 1934. Also issued as WINDS OF CHANCE. Toronto: Ryerson, 1934; New York: Burt, © 1934; New York: Triangle, 1939.

Thrilling 18th Century pirate swashbuckler of the Spanish Main & South American jungle, a key work for the genre "crowded with perils & horrors too numerous to mention" as a contemporary critic noted.



Biography & Criticism

Anon. THE NOVELS OF JEFFERY FARNOL, MASTER OF ROMANTIC FICTION. Boston: Little Brown, 1923? 15 page booklet. The Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society has posted the text Here.

Armitage, Harold. JEFFERY FARNOL, A Biographical Sketch. London: Sampson Low, 1929. With portraits & facsimiles. 24 page booklet.

Collins, J. P. "The Romance of Jeffery Farnol" in (New York) The Bookman, July 1920.

Farnol, Ernest Edward. JEFFERY FARNOL. Beaminster, Dorset: Cox, 1964. 19 page booklet privately issued, probably in an edition of only about 100 copies. The Jeffery Farnol Appreciatin Society has posted the text Here.

Farnol, Ernest Edward. MORE MEMORIES OF MY BROTHER JACK (JEFFERY FARNOL. Beaminster, Dorset: Toucan, 1966. 38 pages. Portrait, notes, bibliography. Privately issued, probably only about 65 copies. The Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society has posted Edward's text Here.

Farnol, Jeffery. "How I Began" in T. P. 's Weekly October 1931.

Jenkins, Herbert F. "Jeffery Farnol's Life & Career" in Book News Monthly, September 1911.

Keats, Henry. "Jeffery Farnol at Home" in The Book News Monthly, September 1911.

Langeveld, Colin. "A Gentleman with a Sword: A Glimpse into the Swashbuckling World of Jeffery Farnol" a "The Lost Club on-line" essay posted Here.

Overton, Grant. CARGOES FOR CRUSOES. Boston: Little Brown, 1924. The chapter "Jeffery Farnol's Gestes" has been posted Here by the Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society.

Riding, Julia. A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF JEFFERY FARNOL has been posted Here by the Jeffery Farnol Appreciation Society.

Shelley, Henry C. "The Country of The Broad Highway" in The Book News Monthly, October 1912.

St. John Adcock, A., & E. O. Hoppe. GODS OF MODERN GRUB STREET: Impressions of Contemporary Authors. Ln: Sampson Low, 1923; NY: Stokes, 1923; Toronto: Musson, 1923. Adcock's commentaries on 32 authors, including Farnol, together with 32 tipped-in photographic portraits by Hoppe. The essay is available Here at Violet Books.

Turner, E. S. "The world of Jeffery Farnol" in THE SATURDAY BOOK. NY: Potter, 1975.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. "The Life & Times of Jeffery Farnol, gent," a Violet Books essay available Here.

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. "Films Based on the Works of Jeffery Farnol," a Violet Books filmography available Here.

   

You will find a lovely array of Jeffery Farnol dustwrappers depicted in The Jeffery Farnol Gallery.

   




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