Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography

by Wayne G. Hammond

Ransome was a prolific author, editor, critic, reviewer, and foreign correspondent. This first comprehensive bibliography describes in detail the various editions of the books he wrote and to which he contributed, with extensive notes on their publication history. It cites some 1,500 contributions by Ransome to newspapers and magazines, including his sometimes controversial reports from Russia during WWI and the rise of the Bolsheviks. Lists of miscellaneous writings and translations of Ransome into other languages are included as well, together with a chronology of his life and works and a list of writings about him. Hammond is librarian at the Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

371 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Wayne G. Hammond was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in the suburb of Brooklyn. In 1975 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, where he majored in English. In 1976 he received his Master of Arts in Library Science degree from the School of Library Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and from that year has been Assistant Librarian in the Chapin Library (rare books and manuscripts) at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He married Christina Scull in December 1994. His publications include The Graphic Art of C.B. Falls (1982), J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993), and Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography (2000). He is also the co-author or co-editor with his wife of numerous works by and about J.R.R. Tolkien, and has designed a wide variety of books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and other printed materials. He has won a Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant from the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, and is a five-time winner of scholarship awards from the Mythopoeic Society.