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Penguin MAIN SERIES (1 - 1,000)

Main Series 1-99 (page 1)
Main Series 100-199 (page 2)
Main Series 200-299 (page 3)
Main Series 300-399 (page 4)
Main Series 400-499 (page 5)
Main Series 500-599 (page 6)
Main Series 600-699 (page 7)
Main Series 700-799 (page 8)
Main Series 800-899 (page 9)
Main Series 900-1000 (page 10)

Main Series 1,000-1,099 (page 11)
Main Series 1,100-1,199 (page 12)
Main Series 1,200-1,299 (page 13)
Main Series 1,300-1,399 (page 14)
Main Series 1,400-1,499 (page 15)
Main Series 1,500-1,599 (page 16)
Main Series 1,600-1,699 (page 17)
Main Series 1,700-1,799 (page 18)
Main Series 1,800-1,899 (page 19)
Main Series 1,900-2,000 (page 20)

Main Series 2,000-2,099 (page 21)
Main Series 2,100-2,199 (page 22)
Main Series 2,200-2,299 (page 23)
Main Series 2,300-2,399 (page 24)
Main Series 2,400-2,499 (page 25)
Main Series 2,500-2,599 (page 26)
Main Series 2,600-2,699 (page 27)
Main Series 2,700-2,799 (page 28)
Main Series 2,800-2,899 (page 29)
Main Series 2,900-3,000 (page 30)



PAGE 6 Main Series (500 - 599)






Cover Colours are as follows:
Orange = General Fiction (F)
Green = Mystery and Crime (C)
Cerise = Travel and Adventure (T)
Dark Blue = Biography (B)
Grey = World Affairs (W)
Violet = Essays and Belles Lettres (E)
Red = Plays (P)
Yellow = Miscellaneous Penguins (M)

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Number: 500
Main Series No.: 500
Title: MAJOR BARBARA A Screen Version
Author: (George) Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 501
Main Series No.: 501
Title: CARTOONS
Cartoonist: Osbert lancaster
Type: Miscellaneous
Date Published: February 1945
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 6d
Number: 502
Main Series No.: 502
Title: TOGETHER
Author: Norman Douglas
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: March 1945
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 503
Main Series No.: 503
Title: DR JOHNSON AND COMPANY
Author: Robert Lynd
Type: Biography
Date Published: June 1946
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 504
Main Series No.: 504
Title: GOODBYE TO BERLIN
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1945
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 505
Main Series No.: 505
Title: LADY HESTER STANHOPE A Biography
Author: Joan Haslip
Type: Biography
Date Published: June 1945
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 506
Main Series No.: 506
Title: WITHIN THE TIDES
Author: Joseph Conrad
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1945
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 507
Main Series No.: 507
Title: THE ISLAND OF CAPTAIN SPARROW
Author: S. Fowler Wright
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1945
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 508
Main Series No.: 508
Title: THE MYSTERY OF ORCIVAL (LE CRIME D'ORCIVAL) Translated from the French
Author: Émile Gaboriau
Type: Crime
Date Published: October 1945
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 509
Main Series No.: 509
Title: THE WIDOW LEROUGE (L'AFFAIRE LEROUGE) Translated from the French
Author: Émile Gaboriau
Type: Crime
Date Published: August 1945
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 510
Main Series No.: 510
Title: THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
Authors: George and Weedon Grossmith
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1945
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 511
Main Series No.: 511
Title: THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
Author: Samuel Butler
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 April 1947
Pages: 384pp. 'Double Volume'
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/-
Number: 512
Main Series No.: 512
Title: THE PIT-PROP SYNDICATE
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: October 1945
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 513
Main Series No.: 513
Title: THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1945
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 514
Main Series No.: 514
Title: INSPECTOR FRENCH AND THE STARVEL TRAGEDY
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: February 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
Number: 515
Main Series No.: 515
Title: TRIALS IN BURMA
Author: Maurice Collis
Type: Biography
Date Published: January 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 516
Main Series No.: 516
Title: DOCUMENTS MARKED 'SECRET'
Author: John Gloag
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 517
Main Series No.: 517
Title: CAUSE FOR ALARM
Author: Eric Ambler
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 518
Main Series No.: 518
Title: THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1944-45
Authors: W. E. D. Allan and Paul Muratoff
Illustrations: with 26 maps
Type: World Affairs
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 519
Main Series No.: 519
Title: THE GRIM SMILE OF THE FIVE TOWNS
Author: Arnold Bennett
Type: Fiction
Date Published: May 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 520
Main Series No.: 520
Title: A CURTAIN OF GREEN (A Volume of Stories)
Author: Eudora Welty
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1947
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 521
Main Series No.: 521
Title: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: ANTI-SEMITISM
Author: James Parkes
Type: World Affairs
Date Published: August 1945
Pages: 152pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 9d.
Number: 522
Main Series No.: 522
Title: A CURE OF FLESH
Author: James Gould Cozzens
Type: Fiction
Date Published: February 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 523
Main Series No.: 523
Title: THE CASES OF SUSAN DARE
Author: Mignon G. Eberhart
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1949 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 524
Main Series No.: 524
Title: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Author: Emily Brontë
Type: Fiction
Date Published: March 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 525
Main Series No.: 525
Title: HAWK AMONG THE SPAROWS
Author: Desmond Hawkins
Type: Fiction
Date Published: March 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 526
Main Series No.: 526
Title: HOLY TERRORS Short Stories
Author: Arthur Machen
Type: Fiction
Date Published: February 1946
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 527
Main Series No.: 527
Title: HASHISH (LA CROISIERE DU HACHICH)
Author: Henry De Monfreid
Translated: by Helen Buchanan Bell
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: April 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 528
Main Series No.: 528
Title: THE SHADOW SYNDICATE
Author: Richard Keverne
Type: Crime
Date Published: April 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 529
Main Series No.: 529
Title: LORD JIM A Tale
Author: Joseph Conrad
Type: Fiction
Date Published: May 1949
Pages: 352pp. 'Double Volume'
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 530
Main Series No.: 530
Title: TRAVELLER FROM TOKYO
Author: John Morris
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: June 1946
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 531
Main Series No.: 531
Title: THE GROOTE PARK MURDER
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: May 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 532
Main Series No.: 532
Title: BARLASCH OF THE GUARD
Author: Henry Seton Merriman
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 533
Main Series No.: 533
Title: SEA ADVENTURES (AVENTURES DE MER)
Author: Henry De Monfreid
Translated: by Helen Buchanan Bell
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 534
Main Series No.: 534
Title: TO THE NORTH
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 535
Main Series No.: 535
Title: THE HOUSE IN PARIS
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 232pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 536
Main Series No.: 536
Title: THE GOOD SOLDIER A Tale of Passion
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 537
Main Series No.: 537
Title: A ROPE OF SAND
Author: Francis Bonnamy
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 538
Main Series No.: 538
Title: MEMOIRS OF A BRITISH AGENT Being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918
Author: R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Type: Biography
Date Published: January 1950
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/6.
Number: 539
Main Series No.: 539
Title: DARKNESS AT NOON
Author: Arthur Koestler
Type: Fiction
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 540
Main Series No.: 540
Title: THE THIRD PENGUIN PROBLEMS BOOK
Authors: W. T. Williams and G. H. Savage
Type: Miscellaneous
Date Published: April 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 152pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 541
Main Series No.: 541
Title: PEARLS AND MEN
Author: Louis Kornitzer
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: April 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Alabaster, Passmore and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 542
Main Series No.: 542
Title: THE BRASS BOTTLE
Author: F. Anstey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: April 1946
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 543
Main Series No.: 543
Title: TRENT'S OWN CASE
Authors: E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen
Type: Crime
Date Published: April 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 544
Main Series No.: 544
Title: THE NEW HOUSE
Author: Lettice Cooper
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 545
Main Series No.: 545
Title: THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON
Author: 'Saki' (H. H. Munro)
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1947
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 546
Main Series No.: 546
Title: BEASTS AND SUPERBEASTS
Author: 'Saki' (H. H. Munro)
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1950
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 547
Main Series No.: 547
Title: THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS
Author: 'Saki' (H. H. Munro)
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1948
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 548
Main Series No.: 548
Title: VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE and other papers
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Type: Essays
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 549
Main Series No.: 549
Title: HIGH WAGES A Novel
Author: Dorothy Whipple
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 550
Main Series No.: 550
Title: THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1946
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 551
Main Series No.: 551
Title: PETER WARING
Author: Forrest Reid
Type: Fiction
Date Published: November 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 552
Main Series No.: 552
Title: THE POWER OF THE DOG
Author: Donn Byrne
Type: Fiction
Date Published: April 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 336pp. 'Double Volume'
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 2/-
Number: 553
Main Series No.: 553
Title: FUGITIVE FROM MURDER
Author: M. V. Heberden
Type: Crime
Date Published: October 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 554
Main Series No.: 554
Title: THE PROFESSOR
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1948
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 555
Main Series No.: 555
Title: NOSTRADAMUS, or The Future Foretold
Author: James Laver
Type: Biography
Date Published: March 1952
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 556
Main Series No.: 556
Title: BEAU SABREUR
Author: P. C. Wren
Type: Fiction
Date Published: March 1948 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 320pp. 'Double Volume'
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/-
Number: 557
Main Series No.: 557
Title: GRYLL GRANGE
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
Type: Fiction
Date Published: January 1950 [printed date: 1949]
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 558
Main Series No.: 558
Title: A CHILD OF THE JAGO
Author: Arthur Morrison
Type: Fiction
Date Published: May 1947 [printed date: 1946
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 559
Main Series No.: 559
Title: THE LAWLESS ROADS
Author: Graham Greene
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: June 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 560
Main Series No.: 560
Title: PLAYS PLEASANT Arms and the Man; Candida; The Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell.
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 561


Main Series No.: 561
Title: PLAYS UNPLEASANT Widower's Houses; The Philanderer; Mrs Warren's Profession.
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.

The second image shows a 1957 reprint of no. 561 using the newer 'curtain' design cover. This cover design was used for the first few years of the 'Penguin Plays' series which commenced in 1959. No. 561 Plays Unpleasant became no. PL12 in the 'Penguin Plays' series.
Number: 562
Main Series No.: 562
Title: THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 563
Main Series No.: 563
Title: MAN AND SUPERMAN A Comedy and a Philosophy
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 564
Main Series No.: 564
Title: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA A Tragedy
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 565
Main Series No.: 565
Title: SAINT JOAN A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 566
Main Series No.: 566
Title: ANDROCLES AND THE LION An Old Fable Renovated by Bernard Shaw
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Plays
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 567
Main Series No.: 567
Title: THE BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD, And Some Lesser Tales
Author: Bernard Shaw
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 July 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Bernard Shaw's works specially published to commemorate his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Books published nos. 500, 560-567 and Reprinted no. 300.
Number: 568
Main Series No.: 568
Title: THE LADIES' ROAD
Author: Pamela Hinkson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: April 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 569
Main Series No.: 569
Title: THE LEAVENWORTH CASE
Author: Anna K. Green
Type: Crime
Date Published: April 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 570
Main Series No.: 570
Title: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 571
Main Series No.: 571
Title: THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 572
Main Series No.: 572
Title: LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 573
Main Series No.: 573
Title: THE TIME MACHINE An Invention, and Other Stories
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 574
Main Series No.: 574
Title: THE HISTORY OF MR POLLY
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 575
Main Series No.: 575
Title: THE NEW MACHIAVELLI
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 576
Main Series No.: 576
Title: TONO-BUNGAY
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 September 1946
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of H. G. Well's works specially published to commemorate his eightieth birthday, September 21st, 1946. Books published nos. 570-576 and Reprinted nos. 31 (later re-issued as A5), 151 and 335.
Number: 577
Main Series No.: 577
Title: THE TRAGIC COMEDIANS A Study in a Well-known Story
Author: George Meredith
Type: Fiction
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 578
Main Series No.: 578
Title: TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: April 1947
Pages: 392pp. 'Double Volume'
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/-
Number: 579
Main Series No.: 579
Title: THE GREEN OVERCOAT
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Illustrations: by G. K. Chesterton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1947
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co Ltd
Price: 2/-
Number: 580
Main Series No.: 580
Title: THE CARDINAL'S SNUFF BOX
Author: Henry Harland
Type: Fiction
Date Published: April 1948 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 188pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
Number: 581
Main Series No.: 581
Title: THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES
Author: (Gilbert) G. K. Chesterton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1946
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 582
Main Series No.: 582
Title: NORDENHOLT'S MILLION
Author: J. J. Connington
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 583
Main Series No.: 583
Title: HERE COMES THE COPPER
Author: Henry Wade
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Alabaster, Passmore and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 584
Main Series No.: 584
Title: NOT TO BE TAKEN
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Type: Crime
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Alabaster, Passmore and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 585
Main Series No.: 585
Title: REX V. ANNE BICKERTON
Author: Sydney Fowler
Type: Crime
Date Published: November 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Alabaster, Passmore and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 586
Main Series No.: 586
Title: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS and other tales
Author: Richard Garnett
Type: Fiction
Date Published: October 1947
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 587
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Title: MANALIVE
Author: (Gilbert) G. K. Chesterton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1947
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
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Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1947
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Number: 589
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Type: Crime
Date Published: March 1948
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
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Number: 590
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Title: TRIAL AND ERROR
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Type: Crime
Date Published: July 1947
Pages: 320pp. 'Double Volume'
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Number: 591
Main Series No.: 591
Title: MURDER IN THE BASEMENT
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Type: Crime
Date Published: August 1947
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Northumberland Press Ltd
Price: 1/-
Number: 592
Main Series No.: 592
Title: THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Author: Henry James
Type: Fiction
Date Published: May 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
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Number: 593
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Title: KIMONO
Author: John Paris
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1947
Pages: 304pp.
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Number: 594
Main Series No.: 594
Title: LOBSTER SALAD
Author: Lynn Doyle
Type: Fiction
Date Published: August 1947
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Northumberland Press Ltd
Price: 1/-
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Main Series No.: 595
Title: ADAM AND EVE PINCH ME Tales by A. E. Coppard
Author: A. E. Coppard
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
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Number: 596
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Title: MY FRIEND PROSPERO
Author: Henry Harland
Type: Fiction
Date Published: June 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/6.
Number: 597
Main Series No.: 597
Title: POLICEMAN'S LOT Stories of Detection
Author: Henry Wade
Type: Crime
Date Published: June 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
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Number: 598
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Title: THE NUREMBERG TRIAL
Author: R. W. Cooper
Type: World Affairs
Date Published: May 1947
Pages: 304pp.
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Number: 599
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Title: THE ANATOMY OF PEACE
Author: Emery Reves
Type: World Affairs
Date Published: February 1947
Pages: 256pp.
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