The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories by writer Lord Dunsany. It was first published in London by G. P. Putnam's Sons in April, 1931, with the American edition following in September of the same year from the same publisher. It was the first collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the second book, Jorkens Remembers Africa, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume One, published by Night Shade Books in 2004. The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished. The initial Jorkens collection includes thirteen short pieces by Dunsany.

Lord Dunsany. The Fourth Book of Jorkens. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 194 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.

Contents "Preface" "The Two-Way War" "A Nice Lot of Diamonds" "Letting Bygones be Bygones" "The Lost Invention" "On Other Paths" "The Partner" "Poulet a la Richelieu" "A Walk in the Night" "One Summer's Evening" "A Friend of the Family" "An Eccentricity of Genius" "Influenza" "The Unrecorded Test Match" "Idle Tears" "Among the Neutrals" "An Idyll of the Sahara" "The Devil among the Willows" "A Spanish Castle" "The New Moon" "The Gods of Clay" "A Rash Remark" "The Story of Jorkens' Watch" "The Track Through the Wood" "Snow Water" "The Greatest Invention" "The Verdict" "A Conversation in Bond Street" "The Reward" "Which Way?" "A Desperado in Surrey" "Misadventure" "A Long Memory" "An Absentminded Professor" "Greek Meets Greek"