001:  THE BOOK OF MONSTERS ( with Fairchild, Marian ).  Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1914.

    002a:  EXPLORING FOR PLANTS.   New York: Macmillan, 1930.
    002b:  ---.   New York: Macmillan, 1931. Second printing.
    002c:  ---.   Sakonnet, Rhode Island: Theophrastus Publishers, 1978. Second edition.

    003a:  THE WORLD WAS MY GARDEN; TRAVELS OF A PLANT EXPLORER.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. Assisted by Elizabeth and Alfred Kay.
    003b:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. Later printing.
    003c:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. Later printing.
    003d:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941. Later printing.
    003e:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943. Later printing.
    003f:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945. Later printing.
    003g:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947. Later printing.
    003h:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. Later printing.
Cited by the American Horticultural Society in 1999 as one of the "75 Great American Garden Books".

    004a:  GARDEN ISLANDS OF THE GREAT EAST.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943.
    004b:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943. Later printing.
    004c:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944. Later printing.
    004d:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945. Later printing.
    004e:  ---.   New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. Later printing.

    005:  THE WORLD GROWS ROUND MY DOOR; THE STORY OF THE KAMPONG, A HOME ON THE EDGE OF THE TROPICS.    New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947.
 

        B ITEMS      Magazines (a sampling)

    001:  National Geographic Magazine. October 1898. Along Sumatra’s West Coast.

    002:  National Geographic Magazine. April 1904. Travels in Arabia and Along the Persian Gulf.

    003:  National Geographic Magazine. April 1906. Our Plant Immigrants.

    004:  Country Life in America. February 1907. A Coming Fruit - the Mango. With photographs.

    005:  National Geographic Magazine. December 1907. Madeira on the way to Italy.    With 20 illustrations.

    006:  The Youth’s Companion. May 1909. The Farm: a Home and a Business. With H. Burgess.

    007:  The Youth’s Companion. New England Edition. April 27, 1911. The Real Pioneers.

    008:  National Geographic Magazine. October 1911. New Plant Immigrants.

    009:  National Geographic Magazine. May 1913. Monsters of Our Back Yards.    With 30 illustrations.

    010:  National Geographic Magazine. July 1914. A Book of Monsters.    With 7 illustrations. With Marian Fairchild

    011:  National Geographic Magazine. April 1918. Forming New Fashions in Food.    With 11 illustrations.

    012:  National Geographic Magazine. July 1919. A Hunter of Plants.    With 18 illustrations. A tribute to the late Frank N. Meyer.

    013:  National Geographic Magazine. February 1922. The Jungles of Panama.    With 14 illustrations.

    014:  Journal of Heredity. 1928; Volume 19, Number 4; pp. 145-158. A JUNGLE BOTANIC GARDEN: The Sibolangit Garden in the Highlands of Sumatra

    015:  National Geographic Magazine. May 1930. Hunting For Plants in the Canary Islands.

    016:  Asia (magazine). June 1930. Development of the American Tropics.

    017:  National Geographic Magazine. December 1934. Hunting Useful Plants in the Caribbean.
 

                            Forewards  (a sampling)

    001:  Kay, Alfred and Kay, Elizabeth, editors.  The Plant World in Florida; from the published manuscripts of Dr. Henry Nehrling.   New York: Macmillan, 1933.

    002:  Horsfall, James G. Fungicides and Their Action.   Waltham, MA: Chronica Botanica, 1945.

    003:  Sturrock, David and Menninger, Edwin A. Shade And Ornamental Trees For South Florida and Cuba.   (no place): (no publisher), 1946.

    004:  Morton, Kendal and Morton, Julia. Fifty Tropical Fruits of Nassau.   Coral Gables, FL: Text House, 1946.

    005:  Wait, Lucita H. Fairchild Tropical Garden; the First Ten Years.   New York: Ronald Press, 1948.

    006:  Andrews, Allen H.. A Yank Pioneer in Florida.   (no place): (no publisher), 1950.

    007:  Dorn, Mable. Tropical Gardening for South Florida.   South Miami: South Florida Publishing, 1952.  Spiral bound.

                           Misc  (a sampling)
 

    001: Barbour, Thomas. A Naturalist in Cuba. Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. Contains photographs by David Fairchild and others.

                           Biographies  (a sampling)
 

    001: Milne, Lorus, etc. Famous Naturalists. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1952. Juvenile. Contains a chapter on David Fairchild.

    002: Jewett, Frances L. and McCausland, Clare L. Plant Hunters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

    003: Williams, Beryl and Epstein, Samuel. Plant Explorer. New York: Julian Messner, 1961.

    004: Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Adventures in a Green World - the Story of David Fairchild and Barbour Lathrop. Coconut Grove, FL: Field Research Projects, 1973.

    005: Zuckerman, Bertram. The Kampong; The Fairchilds’ Tropical Paradise. ( No place ): The National Tropical Botanical Garden and Fairchild Tropical Garden, 1993.