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PELICAN BOOKS


Pelicans A1-A99 (page 1)
Pelicans A100-A199 (page 2)
Pelicans A200-A299 (page 3)
Pelicans A300-A399 (page 4)
Pelicans A400-A499 (page 5)
Pelicans A500-A599 (page 6)
Pelicans A600-A699 (page 7)
Pelicans A700-A799 (page 8)
Pelicans A800-A899 (page 9)
Pelicans A900-A1000 (page 10)


THIS PAGE: No. 8 Pelicans A700 - A799






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A700
Series No.: A700
Title: RELIGIOUS FAITH AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY MAN
Author: F. C. Happold
Cover: cover shows a photo of the Dumb-Bell Nebula in Vulpecula (© 1959, California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Institute of Washington)
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A701
Series No.: A701
Title: BERNINI
Author: Howard Hibbard
Illustration: 127 integrated plates
Cover: design by Susan Shaw shows a detail from Bernini's 'Ecstasy of St Teresa' in S. Maria della Vittoria, Rome (photo, Encyclopedia Universale dell'Arte, Rome)
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 12/6d.
A702
Series No.: A702
Title: THE GREEK WORLD
Edited: by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Illustration: 8 pages of photographic plates
Cover: shows reproduction of a Greek coin in the Department of Medals, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Snark International)
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 272pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A703
Series No.: A703
Title: THE CAR MAKERS
Author: Graham Turner
Cover: design by Martin Bassett (photos, Ford and United Press International)
Date Published: November 1964
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 5/-
A704
Series No.: A704
Title: SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Author: Erwin Stengel
Cover design: by Martin Bassett
Date Published: October 1964
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A705
Series No.: A705
Title: THE POEM ITSELF - 150 European Poems Translated and Analysed
Edited and introduced: by Stanley Burnshaw
Cover: design by Leif Frimann Anisdahl
Date Published: January 1965 (printed date: 1964)
Pages: 340pp.
Printer: William Clowes and Sons Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
A706
Series No.: A706
Title: THE GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS
Author: Paul Fordham
Cover: design by George Daulby
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 254pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A707
Series No.: A707
Title: USE AND ABUSE OF STATISTICS
Author: W. J. Reichmann
Illustration: with 45 figures in text and 9 Appendices
Cover design: by Germano Facetti
Date Published: October 1964
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
A708
Series No.: A708
Title: PAINTING IN ENGLAND 1500-1880: AN INTRODUCTION
Author: David Piper
Cover: cover shows detail from "Mares and Foals" by George Stubbs (photo John Freeman)
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A709
Series No.: A709
Title: BATTLE FOR MANHATTAN
Author: Bruce Bilven Jnr
Cover: design by Janet Halverson
Date Published: October 1964 (American Edition only)
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: 95¢
A710
Series No.: A710
Title: MODERN ECONOMICS
Author: J. Pen
Translated: from the Dutch by Trevor S. Preston
Cover illustration: shows a metal relief '72 Rounds + 4' by Eugenio Carmi
Date Published: March 1965
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A711
Series No.: A711
Title: A HISTORY OF MODERN FRANCE, VOL. 3: France of the Republics 1871-1962
Author: Alfred Cobban
Cover: shows enlarged photo of one Franc piece of 1916 (supplied by Messrs. B. A. Seaby Ltd.)
Date Published: April 1965
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
A712
Series No.: A712
Title: THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY
Author: Raymond B. Cattell
Cover: design by Frederick Price
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
A713
Series No.: A713
Title: MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS
Author: Martin Gardner
Cover: design by Frederick Price
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A714
Series No.: A714
Title: THE ARCHITECTURE OF MATTER
Authors: Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates (16 plates)
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 448pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A715
Series No.: A715
Title: BRITISH HISTORY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER (1782-1919)
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
Cover: shows detail from painting 'The House of Commons 1860', by John Phillip, RA
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 494pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A716
Series No.: A716
Title: DARK STRANGERS - a study of West Indians in London
Author: Sheila Patterson
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon
Date Published: April 1965
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A717
Series No.: A717
Title: ON JUSTICE IN SOCIETY
Author: Morris Ginsberg
Cover illustration: shows an oscilloscope pattern, Snark International
Date Published: March 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A718
Series No.: A718
Title: THE PYRAMID CLIMBERS
Author: Vance Packard
Cover: cover taken from Hints to Gymnasts, 1894
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A719
Series No.: A719
Title: PATTERNS OF INFANT CARE IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
Author: John and Elizabeth Newson
Cover: photograph by Ian Yeomans
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A720
Series No.: A720
Title: THE WORLD IN 1984 VOL. 1 - The Complete New Scientist Series
Edited: by Nigel Calder
Cover: design by Denis Neale
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
A721
Series No.: A721
Title: THE WORLD IN 1984 VOL. 2
Edited: by Nigel Calder
Cover: design by Denis Neale
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/-
A722
Series No.: A722
Title: THE TREASURY UNDER THE TORIES 1951-1964
Author: Samuel Brittan
Cover design: by Mel Calman
Date Published: December 1964
Pages: 344pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A723
Series No.: A723
Title: FLY AND THE FLY-BOTTLE - Encounters with British Intellectuals
Author: Ved Mehta
Cover: design by Tony Anderson
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A724
Series No.: A724
Title: EUROPE SINCE NAPOLEON
Author: David Thomson
Cover: shows detail from 'The Battle of the Rue de Rohan' by H. Lecomte in Musée de Carnavalet (photo, Snark International)
Date Published: January 1966
Pages: 1008pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 15/-
A725
Series No.: A725
Title: PSYCHOLOGY FOR EVERYMAN
Author: Larry S. Skurnik and Frank George
Illustration: 4 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Date Published: October 1964
Cover: designer not stated
Pages: 128pp. + 4pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A726
Series No.: A726
Title: THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
Author: Milton A. Rothman
Illustration: with 39 figures in text and formulae
Cover design: by August von Briesen
Date Published: August 1966
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 6/-
A727
Series No.: A727
Title: THE AMERICANS VOL. 1 THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Cover: design by Alan Aldridge and Marty Stein is based on a drawing of Benjamin Franklin's printing press
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 496pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A728
Series No.: A728
Title: A GEOGRAPHY OF THE U.S.S.R.
Author: John P. Cole
Cover: design by by Bruce Robertson, shows a map of population distribution in the USSR and four sections along the 55th parallel
Date Published: August 1967
Pages: 334pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A729
Series No.: A729
Title: ENGELS: SELECTED WRITINGS
Edited: and with an introduction by W. O. Henderson
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: July 1967
Pages: 414pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A730
Series No.: A730
Title: OPPORTUNITIES AFTER O-LEVEL: a guide for students, teachers, and parents to education and career opportunities beyond G. C. E. O-level
Edited: by Kenneth Newton and Sonia Abrams
Cover: design by Alan Aldridge
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A731
Series No.: A731
Title: THE NEW COLD WAR: MOSCOW v. PEKING
Author: Edward Crankshaw
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Previously published in July 1963 as a 'Special' no. S218
A732
Series No.: A732
Title: THE ARMED SOCIETY: MILITARISM IN MODERN AMERICA
Author: Tristram Coffin
Cover: design by Roy Kuhlman
Date Published: November 1964 (American Edition only)
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: $1.25
A733
Series No.: A733
Title: GOVERNMENT OF EDUCATION
Author: W. O. Lester Smith
Cover design: drawing by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: July 1965
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A734
Series No.: A734
Title: THE DIVIDED SELF: an existential study in sanity and madness
Author: R. D. Laing
Cover: design by Martin Bassett
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 224pp,
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A735
Series No.: A735
Title: YOUR GROWING CHILD AND RELIGION - A PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
Author: Roy Stuart Lee
Cover illustration: photograph by Ian Yeomans
Date Published: April 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A736
Series No.: A736
Title: THE NATURE OF POLITICS
Author: John D. B. Miller
Cover: design by Alan Aldridge
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A737
Series No.: A737
Title: THE UNATTACHED
Author: Mary Morse
Introduction: by Robert Beloe
Cover: design by Martin Bassett, photos Roger Mayne
Date Published: February 1965
Pages: 232pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6.
A738
Series No.: A738
Title: THE SENSES OF ANIMALS AND MEN
Authors: Lorus J. and Margery Milne
Cover: design by Leen Averink
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A739
Series No.: A739
Title: HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION: Sources of English Medieval History 1066-1540
Author: John J. Bagley
Cover: shows a detail from the Bayeaux Tapestry by courtesy of the Town of Bayeaux (Snark International)
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A740
Series No.: A740
Title: READ BETTER, READ FASTER: A New Approach to Efficient Reading
Author: Manya and Eric De Leeuw
Cover: design by Derek Birdsall
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A741
Series No.: A741
Title: LOGIC AND SEXUAL MORALITY
Author: John Wilson
Cover: design by Henrion
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
A742
Series No.: A742
Title: GARIBALDI AND THE THOUSAND
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
Cover: shows a portrait of Garibaldi by an unknown painter (Snark International)
Date Published: July 1965
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A743
Series No.: A743
Title: SLEEP
Author: Ian Oswald
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: January 1966
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/-
A744
Series No.: A744
Title: HOW TO TAKE A CHANCE: The Laws of Probability
Author: Darrell Huff
Illustrated: by Irving Geis
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: June 1965
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A745
Series No.: A745
Title: WITCHCRAFT
Author: Pennethorne Hughes
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: shows detail from 'The Last Judgement', attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, in the Groeningemuseum, Bruges (Snark International)
Date Published: July 1965
Pages: 240pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A746
Series No.: A746
Title: TRADITION AND DREAM: A critical survey of British and American fiction from the 1920s to the present day
Author: Walter Allen
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon
Date Published: July 1965
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A747
Series No.: A747
Title: THE CITY IN HISTORY: Its origins, its transformations, and its prospects
Author: Lewis Mumford
Illustration: 64 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: cover picture wraps around entire book and shows detail from a 15th-century perspective by an unknown artist in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino (Snark International)
Date Published: February 1966
Pages: 696pp. + 64pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 21/-
A748
Series No.: A748
Title: MORE MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS
Author: Martin Gardner
Cover: design by Denise York
Date Published: January 1966
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
A749
Series No.: A749
Title: A HISTORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA: THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION 1917-23 VOL. 1
Author: Edward Hallett Carr
Cover: shows Bolshevik cavalry of the First Army (Snark International)
Date Published: July 1966
Pages: 448pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
A750
Series No.: A750
Title: A HISTORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA: THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION 1917-23 VOL. 2
Author: Edward Hallett Carr
Cover: shows Lenin speaking from a balcony (Snark International)
Date Published: July 1966
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
A751
Series No.: A751
Title: A HISTORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA: THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION 1917-23 VOL. 3
Author: Edward Hallett Carr
Cover: shows a Red Army poster of 1920/22: 'Have you enrolled as a volunteer?'
Date Published: July 1966
Pages: 606pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
A752
Series No.: A752
Title: EUROPEAN THOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Author: Paul Hazard
Translated: from the French by J. Lewis May
Cover: design by George Daulby
Date Published: September 1965
Pages: 512pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A753
Series No.: A753
Title: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW
Author: Alan Harding
Cover: design by John Sewell
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 512pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A754
Series No.: A754
Title: CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY
Author: Erik H. Erikson
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A755
Series No.: A755
Title: GUIDE TO THE BRITISH ECONOMY
Author: Peter Donaldson
Cover: design by Willock/Haynes/Aldridge
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A756
Series No.: A756
Title: THE WORKER AND THE LAW
Author: K. W. Wedderburn
Cover: design by John Sewell
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A757
Series No.: A757
Title: STALIN
Author: Isaac Deutscher
Cover: illustration by Snark International
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 654pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
A758
Series No.: A758
Title: CRYSTALS, DIAMONDS AND TRANSISTORS
Author: L. W. Marrison
Illustration: 24 pages of black-and-white photographic plates (35 plates) and 63 figures in text
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: February 1966
Pages: 320pp. + 24pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A759
Series No.: A759
Title: A HISTORY OF ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
Authors: Peter Kidson, Peter Murray and Paul Thompson
Illustration: includes 179 illustrations
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson (photos by Ken Coton and the National Trust);
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Taylor Garnett Evans and Co
Price: 12/6d.
A760


Series No.: A760
Title: IN A FEW HANDS: Monopoly Power in America
Author: Estes Kefauver (with the assistance of Irene Till)
Cover: design by Roy Kuhlman
Date Published: 1965 (USA edition)
Pages: 256pp.
Printed: in U.S.A.
Price: $1.25

Second image of UK edition
Cover: design by George Daulby
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-

First image (USA edition) courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A761
Series No.: A761
Title: TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Source: Scientific American
Pull-out: sheet containing charts with information on output/production stuck to inside back cover
Cover: cover shows an aerial view of the Port Dickson Oil Refinery, Malaya (photo, Shell Oil)
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A762
Series No.: A762
Title: THE LONG REVOLUTION
Author: Raymond Williams
Cover: shows detail from Mondrian's Composition 1913 (Rijksmuseum 'Kröller-Müller', Otterloo, Holland)
Date Published: September 1965
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A763
Series No.: A763
Title: THE PACIFIST CONSCIENCE
Edited: by Peter Mayer
Cover: design by Ian McLaren
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 448pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 9/6d.
A764
Series No.: A764
Title: THE BOOK OF THE ACTS OF GOD: Modern Christian Scholarship Interprets The Bible
Authors: G. Ernest Wright and Reginald Fuller
Cover: shows a medieval lectern from Honfleur (Snark International)
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A765
Series No.: A765
Title: OBJECTIONS TO HUMANISM
Authors: H. J. Blackham, Ronald Hepburn, Kingsley Martin and Kathleen Nott
Cover: design by Tony Anderson
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A766
Series No.: A766
Title: OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIAN BELIEF
Authors: D. M. MacKinnon, H. A. Williams, A. R. Vidler and J. S. Bezzant
Introduction: by A. R. Vidler
Cover: design by Tony Anderson
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A767
Series No.: A767
Title: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND VOL. 1: 1066-1540
Authors: John J. Bagley and Peter B. Rowley
Cover: photograph of the seal of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, by Rodney Todd-White, permission of Society of Antiquaries, London.
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A768
Series No.: A768
Title: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND VOL. 2: 1559-1931
Author: E. Neville Williams
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, shows page from the Articles of Union between England and Scotland
Date Published: May 1965
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A769
Series No.: A769
Title: A HISTORY OF INDIA VOL.1
Author: Romila Thapar
Cover: shows stone nymph in Archaeological Museum, Gwalior (Snark International)
Date Published: August 1966
Pages: 382pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A770
Series No.: A770
Title: A HISTORY OF INDIA VOL. 2
Author: Percival Spear
Advisory Editor: J. H. Plumb
Cover: shows detail of painting of two European officers being entertained by an Indian gentleman at a 'nautch' by an unknown artist of the Delhi School, circa 1800
Date Published: November 1965
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A771
Series No.: A771
Title: MISEDUCATION OF AMERICAN TEACHERS
Author: James D. Koerner
Introduction: by Sterling M. McMurrin
Cover: design by Donald Crews
Date Published: April 1965 (American Edition only)
Pages: 366pp.
Printer: Printed in USA
Price: $1.25
A772
Series No.: A772
Title: THE SYMPHONY VOL. 1: HAYDEN TO DVORAK
Edited: by Robert Simpson
Cover: shows detail from a painting by Raoul Dufy in the Musee de Nice (Snark International) cover of this vol. and A773 match to show a full orchestra
Date Published: May 1967
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 8/6d.

Image of 1971 reprint
A773
Series No.: A773
Title: THE SYMPHONY VOL. 2: ELGAR TO PRESENT DAY
Edited: by Robert Simpson
Cover: shows detail from a painting by Raoul Dufy in the Musee de Nice (Snark International) cover of this vol. and A772 match to show a full orchestra
Date Published: May 1967
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A774
Series No.: A774
Title: ALCOHOLISM
Authors: Neil Kessel and Henry Walton
Cover design: by Martin Bassett*
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
A775
Series No.: A775
Title: NEW HORIZONS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Edited: by Brian M. Foss
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates and sketches in text
Cover: design by Germano Facetti, of an impossible triangle, adapted from a figure by L. S. Penrose
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 448pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Re-printed as 'New Horizons in Psychology - 1' in 1972
A776
Series No.: A776
Title: BIRTH CONTROL IN THE MODERN WORLD: The role of the individual in population control
Author: Elizabeth Draper
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A777
Series No.: A777
Title: UNDER PRESSURE: THE WRITER IN SOCIETY, EASTERN EUROPE AND THE USA
Author: A. Alvares
Cover: design by Jules Lee Waldman
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A778
Series No.: A778
Title: A HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT: THE MIDDLE AGES
Author: Walter Ullmann
Cover: shows the coronation of King Charles V of France from his own Book of Offices, 1374, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Snark International)
Date Published: 25 November 1965
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Later published as a Peregrine book Y102
A779
Series No.: A779
Title: THE FAMILY AND MARRIAGE IN BRITAIN
Author: Ronald Fletcher
Cover: photograph by Roger Mayne
Date Published: June 1966
Pages: 250pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Previously issued as a 'Special' no. S210
A780
Series No.: A780
Title: THE CONSUMER SOCIETY: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
Author: Peter d'A. Jones
Cover: design by Roy Kuhlman
Date Published: August 1965
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A781
Series No.: A781
Title: THE AGE OF AUTOMATION: The Reith Lectures 1964
Author: Sir Leon Bagrit
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: June 1966
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A782
Series No.: A782
Title: ELITES AND SOCIETY
Author: T. B. Bottomore
Cover: design by Martin Bassett shows a photo of some steps
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A783
Series No.: A783
Title: THREE WHO MADE A REVOLUTION: A Biographical History
Author: Bertram D. Wolfe
Cover: design by Martin Bassett
Date Published: February 1966
Pages: 734pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 12/6d.
A784
Series No.: A784
Title: THE DEATH OF JESUS
Author: Joel Carmichael
Cover: design by Derek Birdsall
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A785
Series No.: A785
Title: ESSAYS OF A HUMANIST
Author: Julian Huxley
Cover: photograph by Ian Yeomans of Huxley
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A786
Series No.: A786
Title: WORLD RELIGIONS: A DIALOGUE
Author: Ninian Smart
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson shows, left to right: Moses, from the Sarajevo Haggadah (photo Behram Kapadia); Buddha, from a firth-century sculpture of the Gupta Dynasty at Sarnath (photo R. Skelton); Jesus Christ, from a thirteenth century panel of the Umbrian School in Victorian and Albert museum; Muhammad, from an original manuscript in the Edinburgh University Library; Kali, a nineteenth century Indian peasant sculpture
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A787
Series No.: A787
THIS NUMBER (No. A787) WAS NOT USED.

It was allocated for Pelican A787 Empress Josephine by Ernest J. Knapton, possibly intended as an American Edition, but was never issued in the Pelican Series. It was however published as a (main series) Penguin no. 2,615 in December 1969. Click link to 2615.  

Image shown is of the cover of Main Series 2,615 (not Pelican)
A788
Series No.: A788
Title: THE CULTURE CONSUMERS: Art and Affluence in America
Author: Alvin Toffler
Cover: design by Janet Halverson
Date Published: November 1965 (American Edition only)
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: in USA
Price: $ 1.25
A789
Series No.: A789
Title: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: The History of a Society
Author: Oscar Handlin
Cover: photograph by Don Hunstein
Date Published: November 1966
Pages: 480pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A790
Series No.: A790
Title: THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE
Author: Steven Rose
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: shows electron micrograph of a burst E.-coli cell after attack by a virus (photo E. Kellenberger)
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 272pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A791
Series No.: A791
Title: MUST THE BOMB SPREAD?
Author: Leonard Beaton
Cover: design by Tony Anderson
Date Published: January 1966
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
A792
Series No.: A792
Title: THE PELICAN HISTORY OF GREECE
Author: Andrew Robert Burn
Pull-out: sheet containing pre-history information stuck to inside back cover
Cover: shows the 'bronze head of Hypnos' (late 4th century) in the British Museum
Date Published: April 1966
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A793
Series No.: A793
Title: DE GAULLE
Author: Alexander Werth
Cover: design by Denise York
Date Published: October 1965
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A794
Series No.: A794
Title: THE ENSNARED SHAREHOLDER: Directors and the Modern Corporation
Author: Alex Rubner
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: June 1966
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
A795
Series No.: A795
Title: THE ENGLISH CHURCH: A NEW LOOK
Edited: by Leslie S. Hunter
Cover: design by Tony Anderson
Date Published: March 1966
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A796
Series No.: A796
Title: JUVENILE COURTS, THE CHILD AND THE LAW
Author: W. E. Cavenagh
Cover design: by John Sewell
Date Published: January 1967
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
A797
Series No.: A797
Title: ECONOMIC PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY
Author: Firmin Oulès
Translated: from the French by R. H. Barry
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: June 1966
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
A798
Series No.: A798
Title: COMMUNITIES IN BRITAIN: Social Life in Town and Country
Author: Ronald Frankenberg
Cover: design by George Daulby
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
A799
Series No.: A799
Title: SOUTH-EAST ASIA IN TURMOIL
Author: Brian Crozier
Cover: design by George Daulby
Date Published: January 1966
Pages: 224pp.
Printer:
Price: 5/-
Previously published as a 'Special' no. S240

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