Annuals by Nat Gould

As well as his novels and press articles, Nat Gould also wrote and had published books which were described as "Annuals" .

The earliest of them is "The Sporting Annual" which was published in November 1900 by Everett and priced at one shilling. It was advertised as "The Sporting Annual for Sportsmen and Sportswomen at Home and Abroad No.1".

The volume was evidently intended to be the first of a regular series, but no later issues are known.

Other Nat Gould books described as being Annuals were published in 1903 and 1904 by Everett and from 1905 to 1915 by John Long. These however took a different form, each bearing the title of its main or only story, which was afterwards published as a novel in the usual way. They are as follows:

1903	The Runaways	Everett
1904	The Outcast	Everett
1905	A Bit of a Rogue	Long
1906	The Pet of the Public	Long
1907	A Stroke of Luck	Long
1908	A Bird in Hand	Long
1909	The Pick of the Stable	Long
1910	Queen of the Turf	Long
1911	The Phantom Horse	Long
1912	Left in the Lurch	Long
1913	The Best of the Season	Long
1914	The Flyer	Long
1915	The White Arab	Long

The 1903 Annual also contained illustrations: "Nat Gould's Annual is to hand, containing 160 pages medium 8 vo., and illustrated by Harington Bird. It contains a new and original story, specially written by Mr. Gould for this annual, entitled 'The Runaways,' also a double frontispiece in colours depicting 'The Lawn at Flemington' (Australia), 'The Water Jump, Grand National' (Liverpool, England), and about 30 illustrations in text" (1).

These Annuals appear to have been ephemeral. The 1914 issue was already out-of-print in the year of publication, not being included with those for 1911-1913 and 1915 among "John Long's New and Forthcoming Books" in 1914 (2).

Further details of these Annuals, and reviews of the Nat Gould stories in them, are provided in Nat Gould: the Biography by Tom Askey (2017) pages 127-130. See the Biography page.

(1) The Week (Brisbane, Australia) 11 December 1903.
(2) Advertisement pages (page 13) in Bush Songs & Oversea Voices by A. Safroni-Middleton published by Long in 1914.