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Number: 1,400
Main Series No.: 1,400
Title: THE LONG GOOD-BYE
Author: Raymond Chandler
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,401
Main Series No.: 1,401
Title: THE BODY
Author: William Sansom
Cover illustration: by Ruth Sheradski
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,402
Main Series No.: 1,402
Title: THE WATERSPLASH
Author: Patricia Wentworth
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,403
Main Series No.: 1,403
Title: THE WIFE OF RONALD SHELDON
Author: Patrick Quentin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,404
Main Series No.: 1,404
Title: THE VATICAN CELLARS
Author: André Gide
Translated: by Dorothy Bussy
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Re-issued later in No. 2315
Number: 1,405
Main Series No.: 1,405
Title: OCTOBER ISLAND
Author: William March
Cover illustration: by Philip Gough
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,406
Main Series No.: 1,406
Title: LA GRANDE MADEMOISELLE
Author: Francis Steegmuller
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 288pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,407
Main Series No.: 1,407
Title: THE EVIL OF THE DAY
Author: Thomas Sterling
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 158pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,408
Main Series No.: 1,408
Title: THE SOLE SURVIVOR and THE KYNSARD AFFAIR
Author: Roy Vickers
Cover illustration: by Jozef Gross
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 June 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: NV Drukkerij Bosch
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,409
Main Series No.: 1,409
Title: MY MEMORIES OF SIX REIGNS
Author: Her Highness Princess Marie Louise
Illustration: 24 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 256pp. + 24pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/-
Number: 1,410
Main Series No.: 1,410
Title: NIJINSKY
Author: Romola Nijinsky (his wife)
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: drawing of Nijinsky from a poster by Jean Cocteau painted in 1909
Type: Biography
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 352pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,411
Main Series No.: 1,411
Title: THE DIAGHILEV BALLET 1909 - 1929
Author: S. L. Grigoriev
Translated: and edited by Vera Bowen
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: from a drawing by Jean Cocteau
Type: Biography
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 304pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,412
Main Series No.: 1,412
Title: THE DAY OF THE FOX
Author: Norman Lewis
Cover illustration: by Charles Raymond
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,413
Main Series No.: 1,413
Title: DARLING CLEMENTINE
Author: Dorothy Eden
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,414
Main Series No.: 1,414
Title: HOW CAN YOU BEAR TO BE HUMAN?
Author: Nicolas Bentley
Introduction: by Malcolm Muggeridge
Illustrated: by the author
Cover design: by Nicolas Bentley
Type: (Humour)
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,415
Main Series No.: 1,415
Title: THE DIEHARD
Author: Jean Potts
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,416
Main Series No.: 1,416
Title: NO LOVE LOST - Two Stories of Suspense
Author: Margery Allingham
Type: Crime
Date Published: September 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,417
Main Series No.: 1,417
Title: THE BECKONING LADY
Author: Margery Allingham
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,418
Main Series No.: 1,418
Title: THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH' SEVENTH CROSSWORD BOOK
Type: Miscellaneous
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,419
Main Series No.: 1,419
Title: MY FRIEND MAIGRET
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: by Nigel Ryan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,420
Main Series No.: 1,420
Title: FIVE ROUNDABOUTS TO HEAVEN
Author: John Bingham
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,421
Main Series No.: 1,421
Title: THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT - A play for television in six parts
Author: Nigel Kneale
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates from BBC TV series;
Type: Science Fiction
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 192pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,422
Main Series No.: 1,422
Title: IS SEX NECESSARY? or Why You Feel the Way you do.
Authors: James Thurber and E. B. White
Type: Humour
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,423
Main Series No.: 1,423
Title: THE GOOD EARTH
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Cover illustration: by Charles Raymond
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,424
Main Series No.: 1,424
Title: 1066 AND ALL THAT
Authors: Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman
Illustrated: by John Reynolds
Cover illustration: by John Reynolds
Type: Humour
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,425
Main Series No.: 1,425
Title: THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH
Author: Honor Tracy
Cover illustration: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,426
Main Series No.: 1,426
Title: THE WATER GIPSIES
Author: A. P. Herbert
Cover illustration: by David Knight
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,427
Main Series No.: 1,427
Title: THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE
Author: Hesketh Pearson
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 400pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,428
Main Series No.: 1,428
Title: THE BISHOP'S JAEGERS
Author: Thorne Smith
Cover illustration: by John Griffiths
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,429
Main Series No.: 1,429
Title: CAGE ME A PEACOCK
Author: Noel Langley
Cover design: by the author
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,430
Main Series No.: 1,430
Title: THE STARS GROW PALE
Author: Karl Bjarnhof
Translated: by Naomi Walford
Cover design: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,431
Main Series No.: 1,431
Title: IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND
Author: H. V. Morton
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by Sylvia Stokeld
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 7 January 1960
Pages: 288pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,432
Main Series No.: 1,432
Title: INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Author: William Faulkner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 October 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,433
Main Series No.: 1,433
Title: LIGHT IN AUGUST
Author: William Faulkner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 October 1960
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,434
Main Series No.: 1,434
Title: GO DOWN, MOSES and other stories
Author: William Faulkner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,435
Main Series No.: 1,435
Title: REQUIEM FOR A NUN
Author: William Faulkner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,436
Main Series No.: 1,436
Title: THE FEAST OF JULY
Author: H. E. Bates
Illustrated: drawings by Adrian Bailey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 July 1962
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,437
Main Series No.: 1,437
Title: THE DUD AVOCADO
Author: Elaine Dundy
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,438
Main Series No.: 1,438
Title: VOSS
Author: Patrick White
Cover illustration: by Sidney Nolan
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 448pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,439
Main Series No.: 1,439
Title: BHOWANI JUNCTION
Author: John Masters
Cover illustration: by Denis Piper
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,440
Main Series No.: 1,440
Title: THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
Author: John Wyndham
Cover illustration: by Paul Hogarth
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,441
Main Series No.: 1,441
Title: THE FACE OF SPAIN
Author: Gerald Brenan
Cover illustration: photo by Stefan Busasz
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 27 May 1965
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,442
Main Series No.: 1,442
Title: HURRY ON DOWN
Author: John Wain
Cover illustration: by Len Deighton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,443
Main Series No.: 1,443
Title: GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
Author: Robert Graves
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 288pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,444
Main Series No.: 1,444
Title: A CERTAIN SMILE
Author: Françoise Sagan
Translated: by Irene Ash
Cover illustration: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,445
Main Series No.: 1,445
Title: UNDER THE NET - A novel
Author: Iris Murdoch
Cover illustration: by Len Deighton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,446
Main Series No.: 1,446
Title: FIVE (Five Short Novels)
Author: Doris Lessing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,447
Main Series No.: 1,447
Title: THE ANGEL IN THE CORNER
Author: Monica Dickens
Cover illustration: by Janina Ede
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,448
Main Series No.: 1,448
Title: QUATERMASS II - A play for television in six parts
Author: Nigel Kneale
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates from BBC TV series;
Cover illustration: by Brian Kneale
Date Published: 25 February 1960
Pages: 176pp. + 8pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,449
Main Series No.: 1,449
Title: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT - A play for television in six parts
Author: Nigel Kneale
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates from BBC TV series;
Cover illustration: by Brian Kneale
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 192pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,450
Main Series No.: 1,450
Title: A KISS BEFORE DYING
Author: Ira Levin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,451
Main Series No.: 1,451
Title: THE THREE TAPS - A detective story without a moral
Author: Ronald Knox
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: NV Drukkerij vh L. E. Bosch
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,452
Main Series No.: 1,452
Title: THE BATTLING PROPHET
Author: Arthur Upfield
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,453
Main Series No.: 1,453
Title: JOY STREET
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Cover illustration: by Adrian Bailey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,454
Main Series No.: 1,454
Title: AKU-AKU - The Secret of Easter Island
Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Illustration: 32 pages of colour photographic plates; maps and drawings
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 24 November 1960
Pages: 352pp. + 32pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd; colour plates by Egmont H. Petersen, Copenhagen
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,455
Main Series No.: 1,455
Title: THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS BRIDE
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 April 1960
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,456
Main Series No.: 1,456
Title: THE HATTERS GHOSTS
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Nigel Ryan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,457
Main Series No.: 1,457
Title: CAME A CAVALIER
Author: Frances Parkinson Keyes
Cover illustration: by Adrian Bailey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,458
Main Series No.: 1,458
Title: THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,459
Main Series No.: 1,459
Title: ONE
Author: David Karp
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,460
Main Series No.: 1,460
Title: TWO ADOLESCENTS - Agostino and Disobedience
Author: Alberto Moravia
Translated: by Beryl de Zoete
Cover illustration: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 228pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,461
Main Series No.: 1,461
Title: THE PORTUGUESE ESCAPE
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Author: Ann Bridge
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,462
Main Series No.: 1,462
Title: VILLAGE SCHOOL
Author: 'Miss Read'
Illustrated: drawings by J. S. Goodall
Cover illustration: by J. S. Goodall
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,463
Main Series No.: 1,463
Title: LITTLE BOY LOST
Author: Marghanita Laski
Cover illustration: by Vicky
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,464
Main Series No.: 1,464
Title: BY LOVE POSSESSED
Author: James Gould Cozzens
Cover design: by Philip Gough
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 512pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,465
Main Series No.: 1,465
Title: MAJOR THOMPSON AND I
Author: Pierre Daninos
Translated: from the French by W. Marmaduke Thompson
Illustrated: drawings by Walter Goetz
Cover illustration: by Walter Goetz
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,466
Main Series No.: 1,466
Title: THE BLACK CLOUD
Author: Fred Hoyle
Cover illustration: by John Griffiths
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,467
Main Series No.: 1,467
Title: UNCOMMON DANGER
Author: Eric Ambler
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,468
Main Series No.: 1,468
Title: CARDS OF IDENTITY
Author: Nigel Dennis
Cover illustration: by André François
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,469
Main Series No.: 1,469
Title: BUTTERFIELD 8
Author: John O'Hara
Cover: drawing by Michael Loew
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,470
Main Series No.: 1,470
Title: THE LONGEST JOURNEY
Author: E. M. Forster
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,471
Main Series No.: 1,471
Title: LORD OF THE FLIES
Author: William Golding
Cover illustration: by Anthony Gross
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,472
Main Series No.: 1,472
Title: THE PLAGUE
Author: Albert Camus
Translated: from the French by Stuart Gilbert
Cover illustration: by Michael Ayrton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,473
Main Series No.: 1,473
Title: THE HABIT OF LOVING
Author: Doris Lessing
Cover illustration: by Heather Standing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,474
Main Series No.: 1,474
Title: THE SANDCASTLE
Author: Iris Murdoch
Cover illustration: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,475
Main Series No.: 1,475
Title: THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Author: Thomas Mann
Translated: by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 724pp
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: 1,476
Main Series No.: 1,476
Title: HIDE MY EYES
Author: Margery Allingham
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,477
Main Series No.: 1,477
Title: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Author: James Joyce
Cover illustration: by Robin Jacques
Type: Modern Classic
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,478
Main Series No.: 1,478
Title: THE GATHERING STORM - The Second World War, Volume I
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Cover design: by John Brinkley
Type: Biography
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 736pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: 1,479
Main Series No.: 1,479
Title: ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Author: Robert Traver
Cover design: by Saul Bass
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,480
Main Series No.: 1,480
Title: THE TRESPASSER
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of six books simultaneously printed to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of D. H. Lawrence (1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485 and D11R)
Number: 1,481
Main Series No.: 1,481
Title: TWILIGHT IN ITALY
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Travel
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of six books simultaneously printed to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of D. H. Lawrence (1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485 and D11R)
Number: 1,482
Main Series No.: 1,482
Title: ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of six books simultaneously printed to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of D. H. Lawrence (1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485 and D11R)
Number: 1,483
Main Series No.: 1,483
Title: THE LADYBIRD
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
One of six books simultaneously printed to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of D. H. Lawrence (1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485 and D11R)
Number: 1,484
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Number: 1,484


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Main Series No.: 1,484
Title: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 16 August 1960*
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.

*In November 1959 Allen Lane decided to publish an unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover as part of a number of Lawrence's books to mark the 75th Anniversary of the author's birth and 30th anniversary of his death (1885 - 1930).

The initial order was placed with the printers Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd but they wrote back to Penguin on 1st April 1960 that they could not proceed with printing the unexpurgated version. Allen Lane eventually found Western Printing Services Ltd [image 4] willing to produce the book and an order was given for 200,000 copies. However the change of printers caused delays and Penguin had to announce to the trade press that the publishing of Lady Chatterley's Lover would be delayed. This was brought to the attention of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who, having been supplied with a copy of the unexpurgated version printed abroad, decided to instruct the police to investigate.

The police obtained proof copies and on 4th August Allen Lane was visited by Detective Inspector Monahan of New Scotland Yard who had with him a marked-up proof copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd [images 1 and 2] . It was agreed that Penguin would hand over 12 proof copies on 16th August 1960, and thus Penguin Books voluntarily handed over 12 copies to the Police from their offices in Holborn.

A Summons was issued on the 19th of August charging Penguin of publishing an Obscene Book. The Trial at the Old Bailey began on 20 October, and on Wednesday 2nd November a verdict of 'Not Guilty' was brought in.

Printers Cox and Wyman contacted Penguin Books to offer their services, and by the following afternoon, the original order of 100,000 had risen to 300,000. They received a copy of the book on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd November, and by 9th November had produced 10,000 copies, which were despatched and available from 10th November. Over the next two days they produced a further 126,500. By 23 November the total had reached 600,000. With the copies produced by Western Printing Services Ltd and Cox and Wyman Ltd, Penguin Books sold 2 million copies by Christmas 1960, and a further 1.3 million in 1961.
Number: 1,485
Main Series No.: 1,485
Title: WOMEN IN LOVE
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Cover design: cover device by Stephen Russ adapted from D. H. Lawrence's own drawing
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 June 1960
Pages: 544pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
One of six books simultaneously printed to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of D. H. Lawrence (1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485 and D11R)
Number: 1,486
Main Series No.: 1,486
Title: HE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER
Author: Cyril Hare
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: NV Drukkerij vh L. E. Bosch
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,487
Main Series No.: 1,487
Title: THE HOUSE OF THE ARROW
Author: A. E. W. Mason
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,488
Main Series No.: 1,488
Title: CAPTAIN CUT-THROAT
Author: John Dickson Carr
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,489
Main Series No.: 1,489
Title: THE CROSSING OF ANTARCTICA
Author: Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary
Illustration: 32 pages of black-and-white and 8 pages of coloured photographic plates; and maps
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 320pp. + 40pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,490
Main Series No.: 1,490
Title: SINISTER STREET
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by Lynton Lamb
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 September 1960
Pages: 832pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: 1,491
Main Series No.: 1,491
Title: PNIN
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Cover illustration: by J. Faczynski
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,492
Main Series No.: 1,492
Title: THE FIFTH PENGUIN CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK
Compiled: by Alan Cash
Type:
Date Published: 21 July 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,493
Main Series No.: 1,493
Title: NABOKOV'S DOZEN - Thirteen Stories
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Cover illustration: by J. Faczynski
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 August 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,494
Main Series No.: 1,494
Title: THE VAGABOND
Author: Colette
Translated: by Enid McLeod
Cover illustration: by Janina Ede
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 November 1960
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,495
Main Series No.: 1,495
Title: THE LAST TYCOON
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover illustration: by Denis Piper
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 October 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,496
Main Series No.: 1,496
Title: THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN
Author: Romain Gary
Translated: by Jonathan Griffin
Cover illustration: by Milein Cosman
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 November 1960
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,497
Main Series No.: 1,497
Title: THE IMMORALIST
Author: André Gide
Translated: by Dorothy Bussy
Cover illustration: portrait of André Gide from a Lithograph by Marie Laurencin
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 November 1960
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,498
Main Series No.: 1,498
Title: THE DISENCHANTED
Author: Budd Schulberg
Cover illustration: by Len Deighton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 November 1960
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,499
Main Series No.: 1,499
Title: LOVE ME LITTLE
Author: Amanda Vail
Cover illustration: by Sheila M. Smith
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 October 1960
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.

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