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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. 10 Pelicans A900 - A1,000






Information and cover photographs of Penguin's Pelican Series Books:

A900
Series No.: A900
Title: THE EXPERIENCE OF CHILDBIRTH
Author: Sheila Kitzinger
Illustration: 4 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: photograph of mother and newborn by Christopher Barker
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 256pp. + 4pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A901
Series No.: A901
Title: PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD ECONOMY
Author: Richard Bailey
Cover: design by Brian Mayers
Date Published: September 1967
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d
A902
Series No.: A902
Title: THE NEW POETIC: YEATS TO ELIOT
Author: C. K. Stead
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: August 1967
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A903
Series No.: A903
Title: THE RAILWAY NAVVIES: A history of the men who made the railways
Author: Terry Coleman
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: shows "Working Shaft - Kilsby Tunnel, 8th July 1837" from a lithograph published by J. C. Bourne, London
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 256pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A904
Series No.: A904
Title: THE PELICAN HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
Author: Robert Thomson
Foreword: by B. M. Foss
Cover: shows names and portraits of 10 founder figures
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 464pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A905
Series No.: A905
Title: THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
Author: S. Handel
Illustrated: by C. Misstear
Cover: no information provided
Date Published: October 1967
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A906
Series No.: A906
Title: THE NEW RADICALS: A report with documents, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Author: Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau
Cover: design by Philip Smythe
Date Published: June 1967
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A907
Series No.: A907
Title: POLITICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Author: W. J. M. Mackenzie
Advisory Editor: J. Blondel
Cover: design by Keith Potts
Date Published: August 1967
Pages: 430pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A908
Series No.: A908
Title: KEYNES AND AFTER
Author: Michael Stewart
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson including a caricature of Keynes by David Low from The New Statesman
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A909
Series No.: A909
Title: EUROPE: GRANDEUR AND DECLINE
Author: A. J. P. Taylor
Cover: illustration by Bruce Robertson shows frontiers of Germany at various points in the last century and a half
Date Published: October 1967
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A910
Series No.: A910
Title: EQUITABLE PAYMENT: A general theory of work, differential payment, and individual progress
Author: Elliott Jacques
Cover: design by Alan Spain
Date Published: October 1967
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A911
Series No.: A911
Title: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Author: Carl Ivar Sandström
Editorial Foreword: by C. A. Mace
Translated: by Albert Read
Cover illustration: photograph by Roger Mayne
Date Published: February 1968
Pages: 260pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A912
Series No.: A912
Title: TABOO
Author: Franz Baermann Steiner
Edited: from author's notes by Laura Bohannan
Preface: by Preface E. Evans-Pritchard
Cover: photograph by Luc Joubert (Snark International)
Date Published: October 1967
Pages: 158pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A913
Series No.: A913
Title: VERWOERD
Author: Alexander Hepple
Cover: photograph by Neville Clayton, Camera Press, London
Date Published: September 1967
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A914

Series No.: A914
Title: EARLY RENAISSANCE
Author: Michael Levey
Illustration: contains 111 illustrations within text
Cover: design by by Gerald Cinamon, shows: front, a detail from Donatello's Cupid-Atys (photo R. Bencini-Hamlyn), back "Estienne Chevalier and St Stephen" by Jean Fouque
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Jarrold and Sons Ltd
Price: 12/6d.
A915
Series No.: A915
Title: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
Authors: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction: by A. J. P. Taylor
Cover: design by Freda Morris
Date Published: September 1967
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A916
Series No.: A916
Title: TEACHING MACHINES AND PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION
Author: Harry Kay, Bernard Dodd and Max Sime
Cover: illustrated by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: February 1968
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A917
Series No.: A917
Title: WORK (Twenty Personal Accounts)
Edited: by Ronald Fraser
Cover: design by Patrick McCreeth
Date Published: January 1968
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A918
Series No.: A918
Title: THE RACE WAR: THE WORLD-WIDE CONFLICT OF RACES
Author: Ronald Segal
Cover: design by Germano Facetti
Date Published: 1967
Pages: 464pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A919
Series No.: A919
Title: THOUGHT REFORM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALISM: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 592pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A920
Series No.: A920
Title: THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRONG MATERIALS (or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor)
Author: James Edward Gordon
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: January 1968
Pages: 272pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 6/-
A921
Series No.: A921
Title: INTRODUCTION TO MORAL EDUCATION
Author: John Wilson, Norman Williams and Barry Sugarman
Cover: shows detail from Adam and Eve in Paradise from a 17th century wood carving (photo Rodney Todd-White)
Date Published: February 1968 [printed date: 1967]
Pages: 464pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A922
Series No.: A922
Title: CHINA READINGS 1: IMPERIAL CHINA; The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edited: and annotated, and with an introduction by Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell
Cover: design by Alan Spain
Date Published: September 1968 [printed date: 1967]
Pages: 300pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A923
Series No.: A923
Title: CHINA READINGS 2: REPUBLICAN CHINA Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism 1911 - 1949
Edited: and annotated, and with an introduction by Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell
Cover: design by Alan Spain, shows Chinese postage stamps
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A924
Series No.: A924
Title: CHINA READINGS 3: COMMUNIST CHINA: Revolutionary Reconstruction and International Confrontation 1949 to the Present
Edited: and annotated, and with an introduction by Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell
Cover: design by Alan Spain
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 654pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A925
Series No.: A925
Title: EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOUR
Author: Peter McKellar
Foreword: by C. A. Mace
Cover: design by Robert Hollingsworth, photograph by Nelson Christmas
Date Published: March 1968
Pages: 432pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A926
Series No.: A926
Title: WORDS AND THINGS
Author: Ernest Gellner
Introduction: by Bertrand Russell
Cover: design by Alan Spain
Date Published: February 1968
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A927
Series No.: A927
Title: A HUNDRED YEARS OF PHILOSOPHY
Author: John Passmore
Cover: design by Nick Sutton, showing names of 12 philosophers
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 640pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 10/-
A928
Series No.: A928
Title: THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Author: Robin Davis
Cover: design by Robert Hollingsworth
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A929
Series No.: A929
Title: THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
Author: Martin Esslin
Cover: design by Lou Klein
Date Published: March 1968
Pages: 464pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A930
Series No.: A930
Title: HUMANISM
Author: H. J. Blackham
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: March 1968
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 5/-
A931
Series No.: A931
Title: THE CITY OF MAN - Prophecies of a World Civilization in Twentieth Century Thought
Author: W. Warren Wagar
Cover: design by George Klauber
Date Published: October 1967 (American Edition only)
Pages: 312pp.
Printer: in U.S.A.
Price: $1.65
A932
Series No.: A932
Title: CORPORATE STRATEGY: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO BUSINESS POLICY FOR GROWTH AND EXPANSION
Author: H. Igor Ansoff
Cover: design by Don Mason
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A933
Series No.: A933
Title: A PARENTS' GUIDE TO EDUCATION
Author: E. B. Castle
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A934
Series No.: A934
Title: THE GENESIS OF MODERN MANAGEMENT: A Study of the Industrial Revolution In Great Britain
Author: Sidney Pollard
Cover: design by Don Mason
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 42½p 8/6d.
A935
Series No.: A935
Title: THE ART OF AUSTRALIA
Author: Robert Hughes
Illustration: 8 pages of colour photographic plates, and in text
Book design: by Gerald Cinamon
Cover: shows detail from 'Christie and Hectorina McLennan' by Brett Whiteley (Marlborough Fine Art Ltd)
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 336pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Fletcher and Son Ltd
Price: £1.05 (Australia $3.60)
A936
Series No.: A936
Title: IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION
Author: David Horowitz
Cover: design by Germano Facetti incorporates a Cuban woodcut by Carmito
Date Published: 1971
Pages: 274pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 40p
A937
Series No.: A937
Title: PSYCHOANALYSIS OBSERVED
Authors: Geoffrey Gorer, Anthony Storr, John Wren-Lewis and Peter Lomas;
Edited: and with an introduction by Charles Rycroft
Cover: design by Nicholas Sutton
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 25p 5/-
A938
Series No.: A938
Title: THE AUSTRALIAN - AMERICAN ALLIANCE: Costs and Benefits
Author: H. G. Gelber
Cover: design by Ian Escott
Date Published: July 1968
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Also published in Australia as 'AU22'
A939
Series No.: A939
Title: SEX IN THE MOVIES: THE CELLULOID SACRIFICE
Author: Alexander Walker
Illustration: 32 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: shows a scene with Macha Meril from Jean-Luc Goddard's 'Une Femme Mariée'
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 35p 7/-
A940
Series No.: A940
Title: SUMMERHILL
Author: A. S. Neill
Cover: shows photograph of A. S. Neill by Chris Barker
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 35p 7/-
A941
Series No.: A941
Title: THE INNOVATORS: THE ECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGY
Author: Michael Shanks
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: September 1967
Pages: 300pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A942
Series No.: A942
Title: THE HISTORY OF MAN From the First Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond
Author: Carleton S. Coon
Illustration: 32 pages of black-and-white photographic plates and 64 illustrations in text
Cover: photograph by Denis Rolfe, models by Maurice Wilson
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 464pp. + 32pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
A943
Series No.: A943
Title: LEARNING TO PHILOSOPHIZE
Author: E. R. Emmet
Cover: design by Robert Hollingsworth
Date Published: February 1968
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A944
Series No.: A944
Title: VICTORIAN CITIES
Author: Asa Briggs
Cover: shows detail from St Pancras Station from the Pentonville Road by John O'Connor
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A945
Series No.: A945
Title: THE NAMELESS: ABORTION IN BRITAIN TODAY
Author: Paul Ferris
Cover: design by Patrick McCreeth
Date Published: February 1968 [printed date: 1967]
Pages: 140pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A946
Series No.: A946
Title: THE CAPTIVE WIFE: CONFLICTS OF HOUSEBOUND MOTHERS
Author: Hannah Gavron
Cover: design and photo by Graham Bishop
Date Published: June 1968
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
A947
Series No.: A947
Title: THE THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE - An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama
Edited: by Eric Bentley
Cover: shows pages from the prompt book of Bethlehem 1902 by Edward Gordon Craig (photo Rodney Todd-White) and a project for a stage set by Appia (Snark International);
Date Published: June 1968
Pages: 496pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 10/-
A948
Series No.: A948
Title: LANDMARKS IN GREEK LITERATURE
Author: C. M. Bowre
Illustration: 16 pages of photographic plates
Cover: shows a Greek bronze in the British Museum, incised with a picture of a discus thrower (photograph by John Smith)
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 352pp. + 16pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 10/-
A949
Series No.: A949
Title: THE TRUE WILDERNESS
Author: Harry Abbott Williams
Cover: shows detail from Dürer's woodcut "Christ on the Mount of Olives"
Date Published: March 1968
Pages: 156pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A950
Series No.: A950
Title: THE BIRTH OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION: INDIA AND PAKISTAN BEFORE 500 BC
Authors: Bridget and Raymond Allchin
Illustration: 32 pages of photographic plates
Cover: cover shows the painted lid of a vessel from the Harappa Cemetery, by courtesy of the National Museum, New Delhi (photograph by Darshan Lall)
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 368pp. + 32pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 10/-
A951
Series No.: A951
Title: URBAN CHOICES: THE CITY AND ITS CRITICS
Author: Roger Starr
Cover: design by George Klauber
Date Published: October 1967 (American Edition only)
Pages: 284pp.
Printer: in U.S.A.
Price: $1.45
A952
Series No.: A952
Title: GOD IS NO MORE
Authors: Werner and Lotte Pelz
Foreword: by Edward Carpenter, Canon of Westminster
Cover: no information provided
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 172pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
A953
Series No.: A953
Title: A REAPPRAISAL OF MARXIAN ECONOMICS
Author: Murray Wolfson
Cover: design by George Klauber
Date Published: April 1968 (American Edition only)
Pages: 232pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: $1.45

Image courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A954
Series No.: A954
Title: MONOPOLY CAPITAL: AN ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ORDER
Authors: Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson, shows histogram of the dollar assets of the ten largest American companies compared with gold and dollar reserves of selected countries for 1966
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 400pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 8/6d.
A955
Series No.: A955
Title: THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
Author: Ved Mehta
Cover: design by Stuart Flanagan
Date Published: July 1968
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A956
Series No.: A956
Title: SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY IN PRACTICE (The Idea of the Therapeutic Community)
Author: Maxwell Jones
Cover: design by Patrick McCreeth
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
A957
Series No.: A957
Title: RADICAL THEOLOGY AND THE DEATH OF GOD
Authors: Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
A958
Series No.: A958
Title: INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: SOCIAL SCIENCES IN MANAGEMENT
Edited: by Denis Pym
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 464pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 50p 10/-
A959
Series No.: A959
Title: MAIN CURRENTS IN SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT VOL. 1: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, Tocqueville, The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848
Author: Raymond Aron
Translated: from the French by Richard Howard and Helen Weaver
Cover: design by Don Mason
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A960
Series No.: A960
Title: BRITAIN ON BORROWED TIME
Authors: Glyn Jones and Michael Barnes
Cover: design by Robert Hollingsworth
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A961
Series No.: A961
Title: THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
Author: Sister Edna Mary
Cover: photograph of convent by Corbusier, Lucien Hervé (Snark International)
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A962
Series No.: A962
Title: THE UNIVERSITIES
Author: Vivian H. H. Green
Cover: design by Germano Facetti incorporates the Arms of the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Sheffield and Oxford
Date Published: October 1969
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 40p 8/-
A963
Series No.: A963
Title: THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Author: Esther Moir
Cover: design by Germao Facetti incorporates seals from legal documents by permission of the Lord Chancellor
Date Published: October 1969
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
A964
Series No.: A964
Title: THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Edited: by Timothy Raison
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: January 1969
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
A965
Series No.: A965
Title: LIFE IN A SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL
Author: John Partridge
Cover: design by Patrick McCreeth
Date Published: February 1968
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
A966

Series No.: A966
Title: CHARTRES
Author: George Henderson
Illustration: includes 83 black-and-white photographic plates in text
Cover: shows detail of Chartres Cathedral: front - the North Portal; back - flying buttresses of the nave, photographs by Eric de Maré, design and text by Gerald Cinamon
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 170pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 60p 12/-
A967
Series No.: A967
Title: A QUARTER OF MANKIND: AN ANATOMY OF CHINA TODAY
Author: Dick Wilson
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A968
Series No.: A968
Title: MATHEMATICS AND THE IMAGINATION
Authors: Edward Kasner and James Newman
Illustrated: with drawings and diagrams by Rufus Isaacs
Cover: design by Briggs and McLaren
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A969
Series No.: A969
Title: REVOLUTION IN OPTICS
Author: Samuel Tolansky
Illustration: 12 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Samuel Tolansky
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 224pp. + 12pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 7/-
A970
Series No.: A970
Title: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Author: Hugh Thomas
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Ian Escott
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 912pp. + 16pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 15/-
Previously published in March 1965 as no. 2146
A971
Series No.: A971
Title: THE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Author: Michael Schofield (in collaboration with John Bynner, Patricia Lewis, and Peter Massie)
Cover: design by Chris Barker
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
A972
Series No.: A972
Title: THE SLEEPWALKERS: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler
Introduction: by Herbert Butterfield
Cover: shows detail from Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'
Date Published: July 1968
Pages: 624pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 10/-
Previously published in August 1964 as no. 2148
A973
Series No.: A973
Title: A BOOK OF SCRIPTS
Author: Alfred Fairbank
Illustration: 88 pages of photographic plates
Cover: design from original King Penguin by Jan Tschichold, adapted from Juan de Yciar, 1547.
Date Published: February 1969 [printed date: 1968]
Pages: 46pp. + 88pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 50p 10/-
Previously published in November 1949 in the 'King Penguin' series as no. K48
A974
Series No.: A974
Title: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLAY
Author: Susanna Millar
Cover: design by Mel Calman and Graham Bishop
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
A975
Series No.: A975
Title: THE SECULAR CITY: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective
Author: Harvey Cox
Cover: design by Graham Bishop
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
A976
Series No.: A976
Title: PLENTY AND WANT: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day
Author: John Burnett
Illustration: 12 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 368pp. + 12pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 10/-
A977
Series No.: A977
Title: THE AUSTRALIAN AND THE LAW
Author: Geoffrey Sawer
Cover: design by John Sewell
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A978
Series No.: A978
Title: NEO-CLASSICISM
Author: Hugh Honour
Illustration: 109 illustrations in text
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, front cover shows "Death of Marat" by Jaques-Louis David in the Royal Museum Brussels; rear shows design for a monument to Isaac Newton by Etienne-Louis Boullée
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 222pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 60p 12/-
A979
Series No.: A979
Title: THE NAVY
Author: Oliver Warner
Illustration: 32 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: shows detail from 'Trafalgar' engraving by John Hall after John Thomas Serres (photograph by Rodney Todd-White) and a photograph of HMS Hermes (Crown copyright)
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 224pp. + 32pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
A980
Series No.: A980
THIS NUMBER (No. A980) WAS NOT USED.

It was allocated for Pelican A980 The Rites of Passage by Arnold van Gennep, but was never issued in the Series.
A981
Series No.: A981
Title: ASIAN DRAMA: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE POVERTY OF NATIONS VOL. 1
Author: Gunnar Myrdal
Date Published: January 1969 [printed date: 1968]
Pages: 736pp.
Printer: The Colonial Press, Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Price: 25/-
A982
Series No.: A982
Title: ASIAN DRAMA: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE POVERTY OF NATIONS VOL. 2
Author: Gunnar Myrdal
Date Published: January 1969 [printed date: 1968]
Pages: 838pp.
Printer: The Colonial Press, Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Price: 25/-
A983
Series No.: A983
Title: ASIAN DRAMA: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE POVERTY OF NATIONS VOL. 3
Author: Gunnar Myrdal
Date Published: January 1969 [printed date: 1968]
Pages: 770pp.
Printer: The Colonial Press, Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Price: 25/-
A984
Series No.: A984
Title: MACMILLAN: A STUDY IN AMBIGUITY
Author: Anthony Sampson
Cover: photograph by Roger Mayne
Date Published: July 1968
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
A985
Series No.: A985
Title: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Author: Peter Nathan
Illustration: 8 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Bruce Robertson
Date Published: March 1969
Pages: 400pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
A986
Series No.: A986
Title: ONE MILLION VOLUNTEERS: THE STORY OF VOLUNTEER YOUTH SERVICE
Author: Arthur Gillette
Cover: shows photograph of volunteers working on a building site (copyright Unesco/A Gillette)
Date Published: June 1968
Pages: 258pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 6/-
A987
Series No.: A987
Title: THE ANATOMY OF JUDGEMENT: An investigation into the processes of perception and reasoning
Author: M. L. Johnson Abercrombie
Illustration: 6 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover: design by Patrick McCreeth
Date Published: June 1969
Pages: 192pp. + 6pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 25p 5/-
A988
Series No.: A988
Title: ON ESCALATION: METAPHORS AND SCENARIOS
Author: Herman Kahn
Cover: design by George Klauber
Date Published: April 1968 (American Edition only)
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: $1.65

Image courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A989
Series No.: A989
Title: BLACK POWER U.S.A.: THE HUMAN SIDE OF RECONSTRUCTION 1867-1877
Author: Lerone Bennett Jnr
Cover: design by George Klauber/Blumenstock
Date Published: June 1969 (American Edition only)
Pages: 440pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: $1.95

Image courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A990
Series No.: A990
Title: THE SECULAR MEANING OF THE GOSPEL: Based on an Analysis of its Language
Author: Paul M. Van Buren
Cover: design by Romek Marber
Date Published: November 1968
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 25p 5/-
A991
Series No.: A991
Title: GENERATION ON TRIAL: U.S.A. vs. Alger Hiss
Author: Alistair Cooke
Cover: design by George Klauber
Date Published: September 1968 (American Edition only)
Pages: 372pp.
Printer: Printed in the USA
Price: $1.95

Image courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A992
Series No.: A992
Title: LATER LIFE: GERIATRICS TODAY AND TOMORROW
Author: Ivor Felstein
Cover: design by Graham Bishop and Mel Calman
Date Published: April 1969
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-

Image courtesy of Paul Lickiss
A993
Series No.: A993
Title: THE SAFETY OF THE UNBORN CHILD
Author: Geoffrey Chamberlain
Illustration: 12 pages of photographic plates
Cover: shows foetus in utero by Leonardo da Vinci
Date Published: November 1969
Pages: 184pp. + 12pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
A994
Series No.: A994
Title: SCIENCE IN HISTORY, VOL. 1: THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENCE
Author: J. D. Bernal
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, cover shows a detail from Egyptian tombs in El Amarna (photograph by Eric Lessing, Magnum Photos)
Date Published: February 1969
Pages: 388pp.
Printer: Taylor Garnett Evans and Co
Price: £1.00 20/-
A995
Series No.: A995
Title: SCIENCE IN HISTORY, VOL. 2: THE SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Author: J. D. Bernal
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, cover shows laboratory equipment used by Louis Paseur, in the Pasteur Institute, Paris (Snark Interantional)
Date Published: February 1969
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Taylor Garnett Evans and Co
Price: £1.00 20/-
A996
Series No.: A996
Title: SCIENCE IN HISTORY, VOL. 3: THE NATURAL SCIENCES IN OUR TIME
Author: J. D. Bernal
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, cover shows the main control room of Nimrod, the proton synchrotron at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (photograph by Chris Barker)
Date Published: February 1969
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: £1.00 20/-
A997
Series No.: A997
Title: SCIENCE IN HISTORY, VOL. 4: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: CONCLUSION
Author: J. D. Bernal
Cover: design by Gerald Cinamon, cover shows a pair of 275kv. tension insulators in position, courtesy of the CEGB
Date Published: February 1969
Pages: 344pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: £1.00 20/-
A998
Series No.: A998
Title: STIGMA: NOTES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SPOILED IDENTITY
Author: Erving Goffman
Cover design: by Briggs and McLaren
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 25p 5/-
A999
Series No.: A999
Title: REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America
Author: Régis Debray
Foreword: by Leo Huberman and Paul M. Sweezy
Translated: from French and Spanish by Bobbye Ortiz
Cover: no information provided
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A1,000
Series No.: A1,000
Title: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
Author: E. P. Thompson
Cover illustration: shows a collier from Costumes of Yorkshire, 1814, by G. Walker; photo by John Freeman (British Museum)
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 960pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 18/-
This book was specially chosen to be published as the thousandth Pelican. "probably the greatest and most imaginative post-war work of English social history."


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