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Number: 900	Main Series No.: 900 Title: SEVEN FAMOUS ONE-ACT PLAYS (Second Series) John Ferguson 'On Reading Plays'; Sacha Guitry 'Villa For Sale'; Noel Coward 'We Were Dancing'; Philip Johnson 'Master Dudley'; Paul Vincent Carroll 'Interlude'; Ronald Elwy Mitchell 'A Husband For Breakfast'; Margaret Luce 'The Rose in the Cloister'; J. M. Barrie 'The Will' Editor: John Ferguson Type: Plays Date Published: 20 November 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 901	Main Series No.: 901 Title: A VOYAGE TO PURILIA Author: Elmer Rice Type: Fiction Date Published: 26 February 1954 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 902	Main Series No.: 902 Title: SERENADE Author: James M. Cain Type: Fiction Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 903	Main Series No.: 903 Title: THE SURE THING Author: Merle Miller Type: Fiction Date Published: 11 December 1953 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 904	Main Series No.: 904 Title: THE LAST FRONTIER Author: Howard Fast Type: Fiction Date Published: 11 December 1953 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 905	Main Series No.: 905 Title: THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS A Record of Secret Service Author: Erskine Childers Type: Crime Date Published: 14 November 1952 Pages: 288pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 906	Main Series No.: 906 Title: TENDER IS THE NIGHT A Romance Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Preface: Malcolm Cowley Type: Fiction Date Published: 26 November 1954 Pages: 352pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 907	Main Series No.: 907 Title: THE TRIAL Author: Franz Kafka Epilogue: by Max Brod Type: Fiction Date Published: 20 February 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 908	Main Series No.: 908 Title: THE THREE HOSTAGES Author: John Buchan Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 288pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 909	Main Series No.: 909 Title: JOURNEY INTO SPRING Author: Winston Clewes Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 910	Main Series No.: 910 Title: DEVIL'S CLUB Author: Georgette Heyer Type: Fiction Date Published: 20 March 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 911	Main Series No.: 911 Title: THE CASE OF THE SUBSTITUTE FACE Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 20 February 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 912	Main Series No.: 912 Title: THE CASE OF THE LAME CANARY Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 913	Main Series No.: 913 Title: OUT OF AFRICA Author: Karen Blixen Type: Travel and Adventure Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 352pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 914	Main Series No.: 914 Title: DEATH-WATCH Author: John Dickson Carr Type: Crime Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of John Dickson Carr's works published on 24 July 1953. Books published nos. 914, 947 - 950.
Number: 915	Main Series No.: 915 Title: TRENT INTERVENES Author: E. C. Bentley Type: Crime Date Published: 20 February 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 916	Main Series No.: 916 Title: DEATH OF A TRAIN Author: Freeman Wills Crofts Type: Crime Date Published: 23 January 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Freeman Wills Crofts' works published on 23 January 1953. Books published nos. 916 - 920.
Number: 917	Main Series No.: 917 Title: INSPECTOR FRENCH AND THE CHEYNE MYSTERY Author: Freeman Wills Crofts Type: Crime Date Published: 23 January 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Freeman Wills Crofts' works published on 23 January 1953. Books published nos. 916 - 920.
Number: 918	Main Series No.: 918 Title: INSPECTOR FRENCH'S GREATEST CASE Author: Freeman Wills Crofts Type: Crime Date Published: 23 January 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Freeman Wills Crofts' works published on 23 January 1953. Books published nos. 916 - 920.
Number: 919	Main Series No.: 919 Title: THE LOSS OF THE 'JANE VOSPER' Author: Freeman Wills Crofts Type: Crime Date Published: 23 January 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Freeman Wills Crofts' works published on 23 January 1953. Books published nos. 916 - 920.
Number: 920	Main Series No.: 920 Title: THE 12.30 FROM CROYDON Author: Freeman Wills Crofts Type: Crime Date Published: 23 January 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Freeman Wills Crofts' works published on 23 January 1953. Books published nos. 916 - 920.
Number: 921	Main Series No.: 921 Title: AN AVENUE OF STONE Author: Pamela Hansford Johnson Type: Fiction Date Published: 20 March 1953 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 922	Main Series No.: 922 Title: THE BRAVE BULLS Author: Tom Lea Type: Fiction Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 923	Main Series No.: 923 Title: BULLETS FOR THE BRIDEGROOM Author: David Dodge Type: Crime Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 924	Main Series No.: 924 Title: THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 925	Main Series No.: 925 Title: CROOKED HOUSE (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 926	Main Series No.: 926 Title: DEATH COMES AS THE END (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 927	Main Series No.: 927 Title: DEATH ON THE NILE (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 928	Main Series No.: 928 Title: THE LABOURS OF HERCULES (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 929	Main Series No.: 929 Title: MISS MARPLE AND THE THIRTEEN PROBLEMS (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 930	Main Series No.: 930 Title: THE MOVING FINGER (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 931	Main Series No.: 931 Title: THE MYSTERIOUS MR QUIN (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 932	Main Series No.: 932 Title: PARKER PYNE INVESTIGATES (with a new foreword by the author) Author: Agatha Christie Type: Crime Date Published: 22 May 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Agatha Christie's works published on 22 May 1953. Books published nos. 924 - 932, and Reprint of no. 684.
Number: 933	Main Series No.: 933 Title: THE INIMITABLE JEEVES Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 24 April 1953. Books published nos. 933 - 937.
Number: 934	Main Series No.: 934 Title: RIGHT HO, JEEVES Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 24 April 1953. Books published nos. 933 - 937.
Number: 935	Main Series No.: 935 Title: THE CODE OF THE WOOSTERS Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 240pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 24 April 1953. Books published nos. 933 - 937.
Number: 936	Main Series No.: 936 Title: LEAVE IT TO PSMITH Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 24 April 1953. Books published nos. 933 - 937.
Number: 937	Main Series No.: 937 Title: BIG MONEY Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 24 April 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 24 April 1953. Books published nos. 933 - 937.
Number: 938	Main Series No.: 938 Title: THE NIGHTWALKERS Author: James Norman Type: Crime Date Published: 25 September 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 939	Main Series No.: 939 Title: THE CASE OF THE STUTTERING BISHOP Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 25 September 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 940	Main Series No.: 940 Title: THE 'SPECTATOR' CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 25 September 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 941	Main Series No.: 941 Title: THREE SISTERS FLEW HOME Author: Mary Fitt Type: Crime Date Published: 23 October 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 942	Main Series No.: 942 Title: GREEKS AND TROJANS Author: Rex Warner Type: Fiction Date Published: 25 September 1953 Pages: 176pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 943	Main Series No.: 943 Title: THE YELLOW ROOM Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart Type: Crime Date Published: 20 November 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 944	Main Series No.: 944 Title: COMES THE BLIND FURY Author: Douglas Rutherford Type: Crime Date Published: 20 November 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 945	Main Series No.: 945 Title: ONE HUNDRED CROSSWORD PUZZLES FROM THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH' Fourth Series (100 CROSSWORD PUZZLES - 4 'THE DAILY TELEGRAPH') Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 288pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 946	Main Series No.: 946 Title: JASSY Author: Norah Lofts Type: Fiction Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 288pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 947	Main Series No.: 947 Title: THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES Author: John Dickson Carr Type: Crime Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of John Dickson Carr's works published on 24 July 1953. Books published nos. 914, 947 - 950.
Number: 948	Main Series No.: 948 Title: HE WHO WHISPERS Author: John Dickson Carr Type: Crime Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 208pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of John Dickson Carr's works published on 24 July 1953. Books published nos. 914, 947 - 950.
Number: 949	Main Series No.: 949 Title: THE EMPEROR'S SNUFF-BOX Author: John Dickson Carr Type: Crime Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of John Dickson Carr's works published on 24 July 1953. Books published nos. 914, 947 - 950.
Number: 950	Main Series No.: 950 Title: TILL DEATH DO US PART Author: John Dickson Carr Type: Crime Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 208pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of John Dickson Carr's works published on 24 July 1953. Books published nos. 914, 947 - 950.
Number: 951	Main Series No.: 951 Title: THE 'MANCHESTER GUARDIAN' FOURTH CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 24 July 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 952	Main Series No.: 952 Title: THE CASE OF THE COUNTERFEIT EYE Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 953	Main Series No.: 953 Title: MURDER OF MY AUNT Author: Richard Hull Type: Crime Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 954	Main Series No.: 954 Title: TOM BROWN'S BODY Author: Gladys Mitchell Type: Crime Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 955	Main Series No.: 955 Title: EDMUND CAMPION Author: Evelyn Waugh Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 176pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 956	Main Series No.: 956 Title: FOUR ENGLISH TRAGEDIES of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Christopher Marlowe 'Edward II'; Thomas Heywood 'A Woman Killed with Kindness'; John Webster 'The Duchess of Malfy'; John Dryden 'All for Love or, The World Well Lost' Edited: by J. M. Morrell Type: Plays Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 384pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 957	Main Series No.: 957 Title: SELECTED ESSAYS AND POEMS The Soul of Man under Socialism; The Decay of Lying; De Profundis; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Sonnet to Liberty; Portia; Magdelen Walks; and others Author: Oscar Wilde Introductions: by Hesketh Pearson and Vyvyan Holland Type: Essays and Belles Lettres Date Published: 24 September 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 958	Main Series No.: 958 Title: LOVING Author: Henry Green Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 August 1953 Pages: 208pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 959	Main Series No.: 959 Title: SIX CURTAINS FOR STROGANOVA Author: Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon Type: Fiction Date Published: 23 October 1953 Pages: 192pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 960	Main Series No.: 960 Title: JANE EYRE Author: Charlotte Brontë Type: Fiction Date Published: 19 June 1953 Pages: 448pp. Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 961	Main Series No.: 961 Title: THE HEALING KNIFE A Surgeon's Destiny Author: George Sava Type: Biography Date Published: 20 November 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This book was numbered '615' on the spine by mistake, and has a label overstuck by Penguin with the number '961'.
Number: 962	Main Series No.: 962 Title: LUCINDA BRAYFORD Author: Martin Boyd Type: Fiction Date Published: 26 November 1954 Pages: 512pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 3/6d.
Number: 963	Main Series No.: 963 Title: TRIO Author: Dorothy Baker Type: Fiction Date Published: 11 December 1953 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 964	Main Series No.: 964 Title: THE CASE OF THE BORROWED BRUNETTE Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Erle Stanley Gardener's works published on 22 January 1954. Books published nos. 964 - 968.
Number: 965	Main Series No.: 965 Title: THE CASE OF THE DROWSY MOSQUITO Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Erle Stanley Gardener's works published on 22 January 1954. Books published nos. 964 - 968.
Number: 966	Main Series No.: 966 Title: THE CASE OF THE SLEEPWALKER'S NIECE Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Erle Stanley Gardener's works published on 22 January 1954. Books published nos. 964 - 968.
Number: 967	Main Series No.: 967 Title: THE D. A. CALLS A TURN Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 176pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Erle Stanley Gardener's works published on 22 January 1954. Books published nos. 964 - 968.
Number: 968	Main Series No.: 968 Title: MURDER UP MY SLEEVE Author: Erle Stanley Gardner Type: Crime Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of Erle Stanley Gardener's works published on 22 January 1954. Books published nos. 964 - 968.
Number: 969	Main Series No.: 969 Title: ONE PAIR OF FEET Author: Monica Dickens Cover illustration: by Geoffrey Salter Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1956 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 970	Main Series No.: 970 Title: AS I WAS GOING DOWN SACKVILLE STREET A Phantasy in Fact Author: Oliver St John Gogarty Type: Biography Date Published: 29 October 1954 Pages: 352pp. Price: 2/6d.
Number: 971	Main Series No.: 971 Title: UNCLE FRED IN SPRINGTIME Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 30 July 1954. Books published nos. 971, 985, 986, 994 and 995.
Number: 972	Main Series No.: 972 Title: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR A Novel Author: George Orwell Type: Fiction Date Published: 26 February 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 973	Main Series No.: 973 Title: THE CASE OF THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN Author: Nicholas Blake Type: Crime Date Published: 26 February 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 974	Main Series No.: 974 Title: LOVE LIES BLEEDING Author: Edmund Crispin Type: Crime Date Published: 26 February 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 975	Main Series No.: 975 Title: THE FLOATING DUTCHMAN Author: Nicolas Bentley Type: Crime Date Published: 26 March 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 976	Main Series No.: 976 Title: RED THREADS Author: Rex Stout Type: Crime Date Published: 26 March 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 977	Main Series No.: 977 Title: DEATH OF A DOLL Author: Hilda Lawrence Type: Crime Date Published: 26 March 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 978	Main Series No.: 978 Title: CURLEW AND SARDONYX CROSSWORDS FROM 'TIME AND TIDE' (THE 'TIME AND TIDE' CROSSWORD BOOK) Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 26 March 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 979	Main Series No.: 979 Title: MAIDEN VOYAGE Author: Denton Welch Type: Biography Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 305pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 980	Main Series No.: 980 Title: THE HEYDAY IN THE BLOOD A Novel Author: Geraint Goodwin Type: Fiction Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 981	Main Series No.: 981 Title: CAN YOU TELL ME? Authors: Norman and Margaret Dixon Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 982	Main Series No.: 982 Title: BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME Author: Peter Quennell Type: Fiction Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd Price: 2/6d.
Number: 983	Main Series No.: 983 Title: FAMOUS TRIALS Fourth Series Winifred Duke 'Harold Greenwood'; J. W. Hall 'William Joyce'; F. tennyson Jesse 'Ley and Smith'; William Roughead 'Dr Pritchard'; Basil Hogarth 'Robert Wood'. Edited: by James H. Hodge Type: Crime Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: R. R. Clark Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 984	Main Series No.: 984 Title: LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE Author: Nancy Mitford Type: Fiction Date Published: 23 April 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 985	Main Series No.: 985 Title: BLANDINGS CASTLE and Elsewhere Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 30 July 1954. Books published nos. 971, 985, 986, 994 and 995.
Number: 986	Main Series No.: 986 Title: THE LUCK OF THE BODKINS Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 288pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 30 July 1954. Books published nos. 971, 985, 986, 994 and 995.
Number: 987	Main Series No.: 987 Title: ONE HUNDRED CROSSWORD PUZZLES FROM 'THE SCOTSMAN' (100 CROSSWORD PUZZLES - 'THE SCOTSMAN') Type: Miscellaneous Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 244pp. Printer: The Campfield Press Price: 2/-
Number: 988	Main Series No.: 988 Title: THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY Author: Edmund Crispin Type: Crime Date Published: 25 June 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 989	Main Series No.: 989 Title: THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE Author: Julian Symons Type: Crime Date Published: 25 June 1954 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 990	Main Series No.: 990 Title: THE DAUGHTER OF TIME Author: Josephine Tey Type: Crime Date Published: 25 June 1954 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 991	Main Series No.: 991 Title: BLOOD UPON THE SNOW Author: Hilda Lawrence Type: Crime Date Published: 25 June 1954 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 992	Main Series No.: 992 Title: KEEP IT QUIET Author: Richard Hull Type: Crime Date Published: 25 June 1954 Pages: 192pp. Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 993	Main Series No.: 993 Title: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS Author: John Wyndham Type: Fiction Date Published: 22 January 1954 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd Price: 2/-
Number: 994	Main Series No.: 994 Title: QUICK SERVICE Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 30 July 1954. Books published nos. 971, 985, 986, 994 and 995.
Number: 995	Main Series No.: 995 Title: SUMMER LIGHTNING Author: P. G. Wodehouse Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of five volumes of P. G. Wodehouse's works published on 30 July 1954. Books published nos. 971, 985, 986, 994 and 995.
Number: 996	Main Series No.: 996 Title: RICEYMAN STEPS Author: Arnold Bennett Introduction: by Frank Swinnerton Cover Drawing of Arnold Bennett: by Walter Tittle Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 May 1954 Pages: 288pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 2/- This edition is one of a uniform set of six volumes of Arnold Bennett's works published on 21 May 1954. Books published nos. 996 - 999 and Reprints of nos. 33 and 176.
Number: 997	Main Series No.: 997 Title: CLAYHANGER Author: Arnold Bennett Introduction: by Frank Swinnerton Cover Drawing of Arnold Bennett: by E. A. Rickards Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 May 1954 Pages: 528pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 3/6d. This edition is one of a uniform set of six volumes of Arnold Bennett's works published on 21 May 1954. Books published nos. 996 - 999 and Reprints of nos. 33 and 176.
Number: 998	Main Series No.: 998 Title: THE OLD WIVES' TALE Author: Arnold Bennett Introduction: by Frank Swinnerton Cover Drawing of Arnold Bennett: by Sir William Rothenstein Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 May 1954 Pages: 592pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price: 3/6d. This edition is one of a uniform set of six volumes of Arnold Bennett's works published on 21 May 1954. Books published nos. 996 - 999 and Reprints of nos. 33 and 176.
Number: 999	Main Series No.: 999 Title: THE JOURNALS OF ARNOLD BENNETT Author: Arnold Bennett Selected and Edited: by Frank Swinnerton Type: Fiction Date Published: 21 May 1954 Pages: 496pp. Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd Price: 3/6d. This edition is one of a uniform set of six volumes of Arnold Bennett's works published on 21 May 1954. Books published nos. 996 - 999 and Reprints of nos. 33 and 176.
Number: 1,000	Main Series No.: 1,000 Title: ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES Author: Edward Young Illustrations: Contains 32 pages of photographic plates, 9 maps (by K. C. Jordan), drawings Type: Fiction Date Published: 30 July 1954 Pages: 320pp. + 16p Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd; Collogravure Plates printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd Price: 2/6d. This book contains a special eight page article 'Penguins, A Retrospect' reprinted from The Bookseller. There are specially designed wreaths on front cover and spine. The top 'quartic' panel which usually contains the name PENGUIN BOOKS has the number '1000' printed on the panel to commemorate the thousandth book (in the main series).

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