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Sketches from Marlborough (Chas Perkins, The Times Office 1888) blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board, book shown is the second issue published in 1905.

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English Figure Skating, (Bell 1908) Red boards, gilt decoration & lettering, Book includes instruction cards in pocket at rear. There was a second book in the series - Skating Calls (Bell 1909)

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Winter Sports in Switzerland, (George Allen 1913) with 12 colour plates by C Fleming Williams and 47 photos by Mrs Aubrey Le Blond.

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Crescent and Iron Cross (Hodder & Stoughton 1918) FOLD-OUT MAP at end rear paper

Deutschland Uber Allah (Hodder & Stoughton 1917), light blue stiff paper printed wrappers. This was issued as a separate publication although it was also published as chapter 5 of "Crescent and Iron Cross".

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The White Eagle of Poland (Hodder & Stoughton undated c1918), 2 folding maps; pt. I. The reconstruction of Poland. --pt. II. The German occupation of Poland. Red boards, with black lettering and a Polish eagle motif to front cover. Also in this series is Poland and Mittel-Eurpoe (Hodder & Stoughton 1918).

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The Social Value of Temperance True Temperance Association 1919, reprinted by Hermitage Books in 1993 in a limited edition of 50 copies.

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Our Family Affairs 1867-1896 (Cassell 1920) blue binding, gold lettering and blind stamped to front, with 8 black & white plates

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Mother (Hodder & Stoughton1925), Dark blue binding with gold lettering to spine, as well as the picture shown, the book includes photographs of Mary Benson at ages 19 and 30.

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Sir Francis Drake (John Lane 1927). The Golden Hind Series. Edited by Milton Waldman. Maps of the Voyage Around The World 1578-80 to front & rear endpapers (see above) and 8 other illustrations. Dust Jacket shown is from the American edition.

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Life of Alcibiades (Benn 1928), Brown cloth, gold lettering to spine.

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From Abraham to Christ - Warburton Lecture 1928

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Ferdinand Magellan (John Lane 1929) Binding is the same as Sir Francis Drake above in the Golden Hind Series with blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine & front board. fold-out maps

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Henry James: letters to A C Benson and Auguste Monod; now first published and edited. Introduction by Benson (Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1930), limited to 1050 numbered copies.

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As We Were; A Victorian Peep Show. (Longmans 1930), red boards gold lettering to spine.

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As We Are; A Modern Revue. (Longmans1932), blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, a series of chapters which contrast post-war (Great war) life and society with life as the author formerly knew it.

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Charlotte Bronte (Longmans 1930), brown cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, 8 black and white photographs including frontispiece drawing of Charlotte Bronte with tissue guard.This book challenges the "ideal" biographies of the Victoria era with a "real" biography based on Charlotte's letters.

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King Edward VII, an appreciation (Longmans 1933), red cloth binding, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard.

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The Outbreak of War (Peter Davies 1933) tan binding with gold lettering to panel on spine, 8 black & white photographs.

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Queen Victoria (Longmans 1935) Plain Green boards, the book shown is the US edition with 8 Black and white illustrations, the dust jacket is from the British edition.

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The Kaiser and English Relations (Longmans 1936) Full maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 8 illustrations.

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Daughters of Queen Victoria (Cassell 1939), 2nd edition dust jacket shown above. First published as 'Queen Victoria's Daughters' by Appleton , New York in 1938, as shown.

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Final Edition: Informal Autobiography (Longmans, 1940) Blue cloth, photo portrait frontis. Reprinted again in 1940 and 1941.

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There are also five books written in collaboration with Eustace Miles on various aspects of sport for the Hurst & Blackett's Imperial Athletic Library, published between 1902 and 1905. They stressed that 'air, light and work are the three primary remedies in the pharmacy of God; and they feel sure that sensuality is bad for everybody'. Shown below are two of these (images found on the internet).The book, 'Daily Training' (1902) is illustrated with photographs of a naked man (as shown), more likely to be Miles than Benson, the head of the man was bleached out by the censors. (Dalby 1985)

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Demonical Possession and Two Types of Modern Fiction, (shown above) & Note on Excavations in Alexandrian Cemeteries, published by Hermitage Books in 1992/3. Three of a series of limited edition booklets published by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd of Hermitage Books. The first contains a talk on communication with the dead, demoniacal possession, haunted houses, etc. that was first published in the St. Martin's Review for 1932 and the second first appeared in The London Mercury in 1928. They where limited to 50 numbered copies each.

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The Social Value of Temperance & A MIDSUMMER DREAM and other essays. published by Heritage Books in 1993 &1995 limited to 50 copies. A MIDSUMMER DREAM and other essays reproduces the following essays, originally published in various periodicals: A Midsummer Dream (1911); Climbers and Godmothers (1920); Magic, White and Black (1933-34); A Souvenir of the Air Raids (c. 1919); On Undesirable Information (1895).

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There are other items published by Heritage Books more difficult to find including, 'The Man who went too far' and 'The Myth of Robert Louis Stevenson'.

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In 2014 Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States, reprinted 'The man who went too far' in a 'classic Ghost stories' series.

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