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- Adventure Stories for Boys ed. Anon. (Hamlyn 0-601-07070-4, 1967, 360pp, hc)
- Adventure Stories for Boys ed. Anon. (Octopus Books 0-7064-3272-X, 1988, 269pp, hc, cover by Tom Stimpson); Revised from the 1978 edition.
- 9 • Mowgli and the Bandar-Log • Rudyard Kipling • ss
- 19 • The Railway Raid in Georgia • John Buchan • nf
- 28 • Capping Day [from The White Mountains] • John Christopher • ex London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967
- 39 • The Ruum [Ruum] • Arthur Porges • ss F&SF Oct ’53
- 53 • The Smashing of the Dam • Wing Commander Guy Gibson • nf
- 64 • Mr and Mrs Juicy • Judy Blume • ss
- 75 • One of the Missing • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 1888
- 88 • Picking Up Terrible Company • Amelia B. Edwards • ss
- 103 • The Haunted Tuckshop • Frank Richards • ss
- 116 • Accessory Before the Fact • Algernon Blackwood • ss The Westminster Gazette Sep 2 ’11
- 123 • Hammerman’s After Me! • Betsy Byars • ss
- 132 • I Escape the Boers [from My Early Life] • Sir Winston Churchill • ex
- 142 • The Hunting of Tarka [from Tarka the Otter] • Henry Williamson • ex
- 150 • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- 167 • The Boy Who Talked with Animals • Roald Dahl • ss The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Six More, Knopf, 1977
- 185 • Assignment with an Octopus • Sir Arthur Grimble • nf A Pattern of Islands, Sir Arthur Grimble, London: John Murray, 1952
- 191 • The Talking Head [from Birds, Beasts and Relatives] • Gerald Durrell • ex
- 201 • The Voyage to South Georgia • Sir Ernest Shackleton • nf
- 218 • Pick-Pocket Smith [from Smith] • Leon Garfield • ex
- 228 • The Pit and the Pendulum • Edgar Allan Poe • ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, 1842, 1842
- 242 • A Dream of Death • James Hogg • ss
- 253 • The Boy Spy • Alphonse Daudet • ss The Strand Jan, 1891
- 261 • The Toughest Race in the World • Stirling Moss • ar
- After Midnight ed. Anon. (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-6041-6, Nov ’98, $5.99, 320pp, pb); [BG]
- All About Girls ed. Anon. (Avon #229, 1950, 25¢, pb)
- Angel Christmas ed. Anon. (Topaz 0-451-40628-1, Nov ’95, $5.50, 384pp, pb); [BG]
- Aviation Stories: Retold from St. Nicholas ed. Anon. (The Century Co., 19??, 197pp, hc); Collection of stories reprinted from St. Nicholas.
- The Best Sea Stories ed. Anon. (Hamlyn 0-600-50215-5, 1986, £5.95, 720pp, hc); Massive anthology of 36 stories and 9 non-fiction narratives about the sea.
- 9 • The First Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea • Anon. • ss; adapted from Edward William Lane’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights, 1839-1841
- 16 • The Sailor and the Pearl Merchant • Anon. • ss; adapted from the translation by Reuben Levy
- 23 • A Whaling Voyage into Spitzbergen • Friedrich Martens of Hamburg • nf; adapted from an anonymous translation (1694) of A Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland
- 31 • Perilous Seas • George Mackay Brown • ss
- 44 • The Pirate’s Ghost • George Mackay Brown • ss The Eleventh Ghost Book, ed. Aidan Chambers, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975
- 56 • Vanderdecken’s Message Home • John Howison • ss
- 63 • Benito Cereno • Herman Melville • na
- 130 • The Encantadas: The First, Second, Seventh and Eighth Sketches • Herman Melville • ex
- 152 • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- 172 • Sargasso • A. E. Dingle • na The Saturday Evening Post May 5 ’23
- 202 • Bound for Rio Grande • A. E. Dingle • ss
- 217 • The Rival Beauties • W. W. Jacobs • ss Million Mar 30, 1895
- 224 • The Cruise of the Wild Duck • Holger Drachmann • nv
- 249 • Make Westing • Jack London • ss The Pall Mall Magazine Apr ’08
- 256 • Youth: A Narrative • Joseph Conrad • nv Blackwood’s Sep, 1898
- 281 • Typhoon • Joseph Conrad • na, 1902
- 342 • The Black Mate • Joseph Conrad • nv The London Magazine Apr ’08
- 365 • The Ocean Christ • Anatole France • ss
- 368 • A White Night • John Masefield • ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 3 ’05
- 372 • Being Ashore • John Masefield • ss The Manchester Guardian Feb 20 ’06
- 375 • A Deal of Cards • John Masefield • ss
- 384 • The Paradise Coal-Boat • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne • ss
- 393 • The Voyage of the James Caird [from South] • Sir Ernest Shackleton • nf
- 409 • The Yellow Cat • Wilbur Daniel Steele • nv Harper’s Mar ’15
- 425 • The Fruits of Toil • Norman Duncan • ss McClure’s Jul ’02
- 435 • Sea • Antrea Karkavitsas • ss
- 450 • Dead Reckoning • Ralph Stock • ss
- 460 • The Monkey • Eden Phillpotts • ss
- 466 • Exactly • A. R. Wetjen • ss Adventure Jun 20 ’24
- 475 • Bare Poles • Arthur Mason • ss
- 484 • The Derelict • H. M. Tomlinson • nf
- 489 • Gilolo • H. M. Tomlinson • nf
- 495 • By the Shore • Neil M. Gunn • ss
- 502 • The Chain Locker • John C. Edgar • nf
- 509 • Weight on My Mind • John Atkinson • nf
- 514 • Small Boat to Paradise • Evan Morris • nf
- 519 • Alone in a Rock Lighthouse • William J. Lewis • nf
- 531 • The Timber Drogher [by Captain F. Hendry] • Shalimar • ss
- 545 • SS San Pedro • James Gould Cozzens • nv
- 589 • Ordeal • Angus MacDonald • nf
- 604 • The Man in the Yellow Raft • C. S. Forester • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 7 ’61
- 616 • Dr. Blanke’s First Command • C. S. Forester • nv The Saturday Evening Post Jul 29 ’61
- 641 • Rendezvous • C. S. Forester • ss
- 651 • The Ship that Died of Shame • Nicholas Monsarrat • nv
- 683 • The White Wind • H. E. Bates • nv
- The Best of True Story from 1945. Vol. 1. ed. Anon. (Manor, 1977, pb); The cover says: “3 uncut, book length true stories from the pages of one of American’s most popular magazines”. Copyright Macfadden Publications. [JN]
- 3 • No Comparison • Anon. • na
- 69 • Priceless Gift • Anon. • na
- 131 • Swing Your Partner • Anon. • na
- The Best War Stories ed. Anon. (Hamlyn 0-600-38553-1, 1985, £5.95, 699pp, hc); Massive anthology of 49 stories, articles and extracts about war.
- 9 • Black Sparta • Naomi Mitchison • nv
- 34 • The Hostages • Naomi Mitchison • ss Argosy (UK) Sep ’38
- 43 • Got to Put Up with It Now [from Vercingetorix and the Others] • Naomi Mitchison • ex
- 49 • The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 [from The History of Philip II, King of Spain] • W. H. Prescott • ex
- 60 • The Last Fight of the Revenge • Sir Walter Raleigh • ar
- 66 • Trafalgar [from Lord Nelson] • Robert Southey • ex
- 75 • Pierre a Prisoner [from War and Peace] • Leo Tolstoy; trans. by Louis & Aylmer Maude • ex New York: The Oxford University Press, 1933
- 91 • The Warrior’s Soul • Joseph Conrad • ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec ’17
- 108 • How the Brigadier Was Tempted by the Devil [Brigadier Gerard] • Arthur Conan Doyle • ss The Strand Sep, 1895
- 127 • One of the Missing • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Mar 11, 1888
- 137 • One Kind of Officer • Ambrose Bierce • ss
- 145 • Mary Postgate • Rudyard Kipling • ss The Century Sep ’15
- 157 • A Friend of the Family • Rudyard Kipling • ss A Diversity of Creatures, Macmillan and Co., 1917
- 169 • The Traitor [Ashenden] • W. Somerset Maugham • nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’27
- 193 • The Tale • Joseph Conrad • ss
- 207 • The Night Patrol • Taffrail • ss
- 223 • The Day’s Work • Sea-Wrack • ss
- 243 • The Survivor • Bartimeus • ss
- 251 • Paul Baümer Meets the Enemy [from All Quiet on the Western Front] • Erich Maria Remarque; trans. by A. K. Wheen • ex London: The Bodley Head
- 266 • At All Costs • Richard Aldington • nv Roads to Glory
- 281 • The Taking of Montfaucon • James M. Cain • ss The American Mercury Jun ’29
- 292 • The Life and Adventures of Matthew Pavlichenko • Isaac Babel • ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, S.G. Phillips, 1955
- 297 • Berestechko • Isaac Babel • ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, S.G. Phillips, 1955
- 300 • The Coward of the Legion • P. C. Wren • ss Stepsons of France, Murray, 1917
- 308 • The Mule • P. C. Wren • ss Stepsons of France, Murray, 1917
- 321 • The Gardener • Rudyard Kipling • ss McCall’s Apr ’26
- 330 • Tell These Men to Go Away • Geoffrey Household • ss Argosy (UK) Oct ’65
- 336 • Out of the Depths • Sid Gorell • ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 341 • Why? • Howard Spring • ss Eleven Stories and a Beginning, London: Collins, 1972
- 353 • How Sleep the Brave • H. E. Bates • nv The Stories of Flying Officer X
- 385 • The Disinherited • H. E. Bates • ss The Stories of Flying Officer X
- 389 • The Offensive • Henri Thomas; trans. by Ken Thomson • ss French Short Stories I, ed. Pamela Lyon, Penguin, 1966
- 397 • Survivor’s Leave • William Venables • ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 403 • Wee Wullie • George MacDonald Fraser • ss The General Danced at Dawn, Barrie & Jenkins
- 413 • Fear of Death • F. J. Salfeld • ss Short Stories of the Second World War, ed. D. M. Davin, Oxford University Press; listed as by F.J. Salfield in table of contents
- 418 • The Prisoner’s Bike • Fred Urquhart • ss Modern Reading, 1944
- 427 • Indecision • C. S. Forester • ss The Nightmare, Michael Joseph, 1954
- 447 • The Unbelievable • C. S. Forester • nv The Nightmare, Michael Joseph, 1954
- 471 • Daylight • Thomas Gilchrist • ss Twenty Singing Seamen, ed. Ronald Hope, Stanford Maritime
- 477 • A Richer Dust • Noël Coward • nv Collected Short Stories, Heinemann
- 508 • A Bar of Shadow • Laurens van der Post • nv
- 530 • The Cave • James A. Michener • nv Tales from the South Pacific, Macmillan, 1947
- 555 • Fo’ Dolla’ • James A. Michener • na Tales from the South Pacific, Macmillan, 1947
- 608 • Preach on the Dusty Roads • Irwin Shaw • ss New Yorker Aug 22 ’42
- 616 • Retreat • Irwin Shaw • ss Short Stories: Five Decades, Jonthan Cape, 1978
- 624 • Hal [from The Gallery] • John Horne Burns • ex
- 657 • Naples [from The Gallery] • John Horne Burns • ex
- 686 • Oral History • Nadine Gordimer • ss A Soldier’s Embrace, Viking Penguin, 1975
- 695 • Weapon • John Christopher • ss The Twenty-Second Century, Grayson, 1954
- The Best Western Stories ed. Anon. (Hamlyn 0-600-50216-3, 1986, £5.95, 755pp, hc); Western anthology.
- Bewitched ed. Anon. (Jove 0-515-12157-6, Oct ’97, $5.99, 341pp, pb); [BG]
- Bewitched by Love ed. Anon. (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-5430-0, Oct ’96, $4.50, 380pp, pb); [BG]
- Bewitching Kittens ed. Anon. (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-6010-6, Oct ’98, $4.99, 253pp, pb); [BG]
- Bewitching Season ed. Anon. (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-7487-5, Sep 2003, $4.99, 254pp, pb); [BG]
- Castle Magic ed. Anon. (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-6293-1, Aug ’99, $5.99, 381pp, pb); [BG]
- Cat’s Meow ed. Anon. (Love Spell 0-505-52279-9, Oct ’98, $5.99, 391pp, pb); [BG]
- Celebrated Stories Made into Movies ed. Anon. (Chicago, IL: Royce #127, 1944, pb); [RB]
- Charmed ed. Anon. (Berkley 0-425-17129-9, Oct ’99, $5.99, 356pp, pb); [BG]
- Christmas Angels ed. Anon. (Love Spell 0-505-52062-1, Nov ’95, $5.99, 440pp, pb); [BG]
- The Christmas Cat ed. Anon. (Berkley 0-425-15542-0, Nov ’96, $5.99, 310pp, pb); [BG]
- A Christmas Collection ed. Anon. (Avon 0-380-76833-X, 1992, $4.99, 384pp, pb); [BG]
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