Below is a complete list of Ford’s books. See the first editions gallery for a selection of jacket images.

For further information about each book, see David Dow Harvey, Ford Madox Ford: 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962).

For ‘Ford Madox Ford’s Dedications’, see Ford Madox Ford Society Newsletter, 17 (2011), 22-28.

Square brackets containing a date indicate that no year of publication was printed in the edition; for example: ‘Rossetti [1902]’. According to Harvey, a few editions were probably published in the year preceding the printed date; for example: ‘The Brown Owl (dated 1892, pub. 1891)’. If ‘UK’ and ‘US’ are given, the first UK edition and first US edition were published by different publishers; for example: ‘The Feather (UK 1892; US 1892)’. If only ‘US’ is given, according to Harvey the book was not published in the UK; for example: ‘New York Essays (US 1927)’.

  • The Brown Owl (dated 1892, pub. 1891)
  • The Feather (UK 1892; US 1892)
  • The Shifting of the Fire (UK 1892; US 1892)
  • The Questions at the Well (1893)
  • The Queen Who Flew (1894)
  • Ford Madox Brown (1896)
  • Poems for Pictures (1900)
  • The Cinque Ports (1900)
  • The Inheritors, with Joseph Conrad (US 1901, first issue; UK 1901, first issue)
  • Rossetti [1902]
  • Romance, with Joseph Conrad (UK 1903; US 1904)
  • The Face of the Night (1904)
  • The Soul of London (1905)
  • The Benefactor (1905)
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (UK [1905]; US [1905])
  • The Fifth Queen (1906)
  • The Heart of the Country (1906)
  • Christina’s Fairy Book [1906]
  • Privy Seal (1907)
  • England and the English (1907)
  • From Inland and Other Poems (1907)
  • An English Girl [1907]
  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood [1907]
  • The Spirit of the People (1907)
  • The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908)
  • Mr. Apollo (1908)
  • The ‘Half Moon’ (UK 1909; US 1909)
  • A Call (1910)
  • Songs from London (1910)
  • The Portrait (1910)
  • The Simple Life Limited (1911)
  • Ancient Lights (UK 1911); Memories and Impressions (US 1911)
  • Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (UK 1911)
  • Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (US 1935, revised edition)
  • The Critical Attitude (1911)
  • High Germany (dated 1911, pub. 1912)
  • The Panel (UK 1912); Ring for Nancy (US 1913)
  • The New Humpty-Dumpty (1912)
  • This Monstrous Regiment of Women (1913)
  • Mr. Fleight (1913)
  • The Desirable Alien, with Violet Hunt (1913)
  • The Young Lovell (1913)
  • Collected Poems (dated 1914, pub. 1913)
  • Henry James (UK dated 1913, pub. 1914; US 1915)
  • Antwerp [1915]
  • The Good Soldier (1915)
  • When Blood is Their Argument (1915)
  • Between St. Dennis and St. George (1915)
  • Zeppelin Nights, with Violet Hunt (dated 1916, pub. 1915)
  • On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service (1918)
  • A House (1921)
  • Thus to Revisit (1921)
  • The Marsden Case (1923)
  • Women and Men (1923)
  • Mister Bosphorus and the Muses (1923)
  • Some Do Not  . . . (UK 1924; US 1924)
  • The Nature of a Crime, with Joseph Conrad (UK 1924; US 1924)
  • Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (UK 1924; US 1924)
  • No More Parades (UK 1925; US 1925)
  • A Mirror to France (UK 1926; US 1926)
  • A Man Could Stand Up — (UK 1926; US 1926)
  • New Poems (1927)
  • New York is Not America (UK 1927; US 1927)
  • New York Essays (US 1927)
  • Last Post (UK 1928); The Last Post (US 1928)
  • A Little Less Than Gods (UK 1928; US 1928)
  • The English Novel (US 1929; UK 1930)
  • No Enemy (US 1929)
  • Return to Yesterday (UK 1931; US 1932)
  • When the Wicked Man (US dated 1932, pub. 1931; UK 1932)
  • The Rash Act (US 1933; UK 1933)
  • It Was the Nightingale (US 1933; UK 1934)
  • Henry for Hugh (US 1934)
  • Provence (US 1935; UK 1938)
  • Vive Le Roy (US 1936; UK 1937)
  • Collected Poems (US 1936)
  • Great Trade Route (US 1937; UK 1937)
  • Portraits from Life (US 1937); Mightier Than the Sword (UK 1938)
  • The March of Literature (US 1938; UK 1939)

Ashley Chantler
University of Chester