Captain Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci/Ritchie (1883-? ), who wrote under the pseudonym Bartimeus, was the author of: Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man (1914), A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions (1915), The Long Trick (1917), The Navy Eternal (1918), An Awfully Big Adventure (1919), Unreality (1920), Seaways (1923), Great Security (1925), Overlooked (1933), A Make-and-Mend (1934), The 'Bartimeus' Omnibus (1935), Naval Occasions (1936), An Off-Shore Wind (1936), Under Sealed Orders: A Tale of Yesterday (1938), The Elephant's Head: A Tale of the Carribean Sea (1939), A Ditty-Box (1940), Malta Invicta (1942), Steady as You Go (1942), The Turn of the Road (1946) and Hammy and the Beanstalk (1951). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.