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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. 2 Pelicans A100 - A199






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A100
Series No.: A100
Title: EXPLOSIVES
Author: John Read
Illustrations: 8 pages of photograhic plates; 11 figures, tables and formulae in text
Date Published: May 1942
Pages: 160pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
The book is a slightly smaller size (shorter) 168 x 108 mm.
A101
Series No.: A101
Title: MEN OF AMERICA
Author: Lionel Elvin
Date Published: January 1942 [printed date: 1941]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 6d
A102
Series No.: A102
Title: HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY
Author: Kenneth Walker
Illustrations: 2 photograhic plates; 38 diagrams/figures in text
Date Published: July 1943 [printed date: 1942]
Pages: 128p + 4p
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 9d
A103
Series No.: A103
Title: ADVENTURES OF IDEAS
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Date Published: December 1942
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A104
Series No.: A104
Title: FAMOUS MEN OF AMERICAN SCIENCE Volume I Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry
Author: J. G. Crowther
Date Published: July 1944
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 9d
A105
Series No.: A105
Title: FAMOUS MEN OF AMERICAN SCIENCE Volume II Thomas Alva Edison, Josiah Willard Gibbs
Author: J. G. Crowther
Date Published: September 1944
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 9d
A106
Series No.: A106
Title: BRITAIN B. C.
Author: S. E. Winbolt
Date Published: February 1943
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A107
Series No.: A107
Title: MUSIC IN ENGLAND
Author: Eric Blom
Date Published: 23 October 1942
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A108
Series No.: A108
Title: WHAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY
Author: Gordon Childe
Date Published: December 1942
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A109
Series No.: A109
Title: AN OUTLINE OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE
Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Illustrations: 32 pages photograhic plates; 47 diagrams/figures in text; plus 6 explanatory drawings
Date Published: March 1943 [printed date: 1942]
Pages: 160pp. + 32pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd; collogravure plates by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A110
Series No.: A110
Title: RUTHERFORD OF NELSON
Author: Ivor B. N. Evans
Date Published: November 1943
Pages: 232pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A111
Series No.: A111
Title: SOVIET SCIENCE
Author: J. G. Crowther
Illustrations: 15 photograhic plates
Date Published: March 1943 [printed date: 1942]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A112
Series No.: A112
Title: THE GROWTH OF SCIENCE An Outline History in Basic English with Notes on all Words specially used in the Sciences
Author: A. P. Rossiter
Date Published: April 1943
Pages: 232pp.
Printer: W. S. Cowell Ltd
Price: 9d
A113
Series No.: A113
Title: THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF INSECTS
Author: Hugh Nicol
Illustrations: 8 pages of photograhic plates
Date Published: March 1943
Pages: 176pp. + 8pp.
Printer: W. S. Cowell Ltd
Price: 9d
A114
Series No.: A114
Title: A SHORT HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Author: Lawrence Bisson
Date Published: May 1943
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A115
Series No.: A115
Title: PREHISTORIC BRITAIN
Authors: Jacquetta and Christopher Hawkes
Illustrations: 16 photograhic plates; 20 drawings in text
Date Published: May 1943
Pages: 136pp. + 16p
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A116
Series No.: A116
Title: THE REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY
Author: Stanley Cook
Date Published: February 1943 [printed date: 1942]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 9d
A117
Series No.: A117
Title: GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies
Author: Margaret Mead
Date Published: March 1943
Pages: 216pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A118
Series No.: A118
Title: NARRATIVE POEMS OF THE LATE XIX CENTURY
Edited: by H. A. Treble
Date Published: September 1943
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A119
Series No.: A119
Title: BEYOND THE MICROSCOPE Being an account of a voyage of discovery in the borderland country between the 'living' organism and the 'non-living' chemical
Author: Kenneth M. Smith
Illustrations: 4 pages photograhic plates; drawing in text
Date Published: July 1943
Pages: 112pp. + 4p
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A120
Series No.: A120
Title: THE ANCIENT WORLD A Beginning
Edited: by T. R. Glover
Date Published: February 1945 [printed date: 1944]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A121
Series No.: A121
Title: MATHEMATICIAN'S DELIGHT
Author: W. W. Sawyer
Date Published: August 1943
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A122
Series No.: A122
Title: BALLET - A Complete Guide to Appreciation, History, Aesthetics, Ballets, Dancers
Author: Arnold L. Haskell
Illustrations: with eighteen illustrations from photographs (16 pages of photogravure) and twenty-five original decorations in the text by Kay Ambrose
Date Published: January 1945
Pages: 176pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
This book was first published by Penguin as a Pelican Special 'S5' in July 1938. It was the first book in the Penguin Specials series to be classified as a 'Pelican' Special with a blue and white cover and the 'Pelican' logo.
A123
Series No.: A123
Title: MINERALS IN INDUSTRY
Author: W. R. Jones
Date Published: February 1944 [printed date: 1943]
Pages: 152pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A124
Series No.: A124
Title: THE WEATHER
Authors: George Kimble and Raymond Bush
Illustrations: 16 pages of photogravure containing 24 plates; drawings
Date Published: November 1943
Pages: 192pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A125
Series No.: A125
Title: METALS IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
Authors: Arthur Street and William Alexander
Illustrations: 46 figures by Francis Coudrill, 8 pages of photographs containing 20 plates
Date Published: March 1944
Pages: 192pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A126
Series No.: A126
Title: FILM
Author: Roger Manvell
Illustrations: 64 pages of photographs containing 192 plates
Cover: shows a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film 'Battleship Potemkin', 1925
Date Published: April 1944
Pages: 192pp. + 64pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A127
Series No.: A127
Title: COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies
Author: Margaret Mead
Date Published: March 1944 [printed date: 1943]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A128
Series No.: A128
Title: GEOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN
Authors: W. G. Fearnsides and O. M. B. Bulman
Illustrations: 8 pages of photographic plates; 39 figures
Date Published: April 1944
Pages: 160pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd; Collogravure by harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A129
Series No.: A129
Title: DEMOCRATIC IDEALS AND REALITY A Study in the Politics of reconstruction
Author: Sir Halford J. Mackinder
Date Published: February 1944
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A130
Series No.: A130
Title: INTERGLOSSA A draft of an auxilliary for a democratic world order, being an attempt to apply semantic principles to language design
Author: Lancelot Hogben
Illustrations: in 'isotype' by Otto Neurath
Date Published: December 1943
Pages: 186pp. + 12pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A131
Series No.: A131
Title: ENGLISH DIARIES OF THE XIX CENTURY
Edited: James Aitken
Date Published: July 1944
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A132
Series No.: A132
Title: THE SECOND COMMON READER
Author: Virginia Woolf
Date Published: July 1944
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A133
Series No.: A133
Title: THE ABC OF PSYCHOLOGY Illustrated
Author: C. K. Ogden
Illustrations: 4 photographic plates; figures
Date Published: July 1944
Pages: 144pp. + 4pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A134
Series No.: A134
Title: BRITAIN UNDER THE ROMANS
Author: S. E. Winbolt
Illustrations: 8 photographic plates; 17 figures
Date Published: March 1946
Pages: 144pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A135
Series No.: A135
Title: CIVILIZATION, SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Author: A. D. Ritchie
Date Published: February 1945
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A136
Series No.: A136
Title: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Author: R. G. Collingwood
Date Published: March 1945 [printed date: 1944]
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A137
Series No.: A137
Title: A SURVEY OF RUSSIAN MUSIC
Author: M. D. Calvocoressi
Date Published: March 1945 [printed date: 1944]
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A138
Series No.: A138
Title: THE AMERICAN CHARACTER
Author: Margaret Mead
Date Published: May 1944
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A139
Series No.: A139
Title: THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF PERSONALITY
Author: V. H. Mottram
Date Published: september 1944
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A140
Series No.: A140
Title: THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION or, What is happening in the world now
Author: James Burnham
Date Published: April 1945
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A141
Series No.: A141
Title: WHY SMASH ATOMS?
Author: A. K. Solomon
Illustrations: by Katherine Campbell Duff; 37 photographic plates
Date Published: October 1945
Pages: 160pp. + 20pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A142
Series No.: A142
Title: GREEK SCIENCE Its meaning for us (Thales to Aristotle)
Author: Benjamin Farrington
Date Published: May 1945 [printed date: 1944]
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
This book was first issued in two volumes as Nos. A142 and A192. The two parts were published in 1953 as one volume under the number 'A142'.
A143
Series No.: A143
Title: LIFE IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND A Book of Elizabethan Prose
Author: John Dover Wilson
Illustrations: 8 pages of photographic plates
Date Published: August 1944
Pages: 288pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A144
Series No.: A144
Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE
Author: Stanley Cook
Date Published: February 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d
A145
Series No.: A145
Title: PHILOSOPHY AND THE PHYSICSTS
Author: L. Susan Stebbing
Date Published: January 1945 [printed date: 1944]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d
A146
Series No.: A146
Title: PERSONS AND PERIODS Studies
Author: G. D. H. Cole
Date Published: October 1945
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 9d
A147
Series No.: A147
Title: ANIMAL CAMOUFLAGE
Author: E. M. Stephenson in collaboration with Charles Stewart
Illustrations: 13 photographic plates; 10 figures
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 160pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
A148
Series No.: A148
Title: PSYCHOLOGY AND WORLD ORDER
Author: Ranyard West
Date Published: November 1945
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 9d.
A149
Series No.: A149
Title: GROW UP - AND LIVE
Author: Eustace Chesser
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 296pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
This book was re-issued later in the Penguin Handbook series as 'PH18'
A150
Series No.: A150
Title: OPERA
Author: Edward J. Dent
Illustrations: with nineteen illustrations from photographs (16 pages of photogravure) and seventeen original decorations in the text by Kay Ambrose
Date Published: December 1945
Pages: 192pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 9d.
This book was first published as a Penguin 'Pelican' Special (in the Penguin Special series) on 24 May 1940 as 'S40'.
A151
Series No.: A151
Title: READING FOR PROFIT Lectures on English Literature delivered in 1941, 1942 and 1943 to British Officers prisoners of war in Germany
Author: Montgomery Belgion
Date Published: November 1945
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 9d.
A152
Series No.: A152
Title: EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
Author: W. Kenneth Richmond
Date Published: February 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
A153
Series No.: A153
Title: COMMON WILD FLOWERS
Author: John Hutchinson
Illustrations: with 216 illustrations
Date Published: May 1945
Pages: 256pp. + 12pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd; Photogravure by Clarke and Sherwell Ltd
Price: 9d.
A154
Series No.: A154
Title: MICROBES BY THE MILLION
Author: Hugh Nicol
Illustrations: with 8 pages of photographic plates; 15 figures
Date Published: March 1946 [printed date: 1945]
Pages: 224pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
This book was first published as a Penguin 'Pelican' Special (in the Penguin Special series) in June 1939 as 'S28'.
A155
Series No.: A155
Title: PLATO AND HIS DIALOGUES
Author: G. Lowes Dickinson
Date Published: January 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 1/6.
A156
Series No.: A156
Title: BRITISH MUSIC OF OUR TIME
Edited: by A. L. Bacharach
Date Published: March 1946
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A157
EXP

Series No.: A157
Title: THE SCIENCE OF SEEING
Authors: Ida Mann and Antionette Pirie
Illustrations: with 4 pages of photographic plates and one colour phtograph
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 226pp. + 4pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
Second image shows colour plate on verso of fly-leaf page, opposite the title page. This was the first use of colour photography in Pelicans.
A158
Series No.: A158
Title: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE LAW
Author: A. E. Jones
Date Published: January 1946 [printed date: 1945
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd; set by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
A159
Series No.: A159
Title: LAND OF THE SOVIETS
Author: James Gregory
Illustrations: with 8 maps by J. F. Horrabin; and 8 pages of photographic plates
Date Published: April 1946
Pages: 288pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd; Photogravure by Clarke and Sherwell Ltd
Price: 1/-
A160
Series No.: A160
Title: CLIMBING IN BRITAIN
Edited: by J. E. Q. Barford
Illustrations: 16 pages with 18 photographic plates; and 47 figures
Date Published: September 1946
Pages: 160pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 1/-
A161
Series No.: A161
Title: FISHLORE British Freshwater Fishes
Author: A. F. Magri MacMahon
Illustrations: 8 pages with 16 photographic plates; and 9 figures
Date Published: October 1946
Pages: 208pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A162
Series No.: A162
Title: LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Edited: W. Eric Jackson
Date Published: November 1945
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Eric Bemrose Ltd
Price: 9d.
A163
Series No.: A163
Title: ENGLISH LETTERS OF THE XVIII CENTURY
Edited: by James Aitken
Date Published: August 1946
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A164
Series No.: A164
Title: ENGLISH LETTERS OF THE XIX CENTURY
Edited: by James Aitken
Date Published: January 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A165
Series No.: A165
Title: THE PERSONALITY OF MAN New facts and their significance
Author: G. N. M. Tyrrell
Date Published: June 1947 [printed date: 1946]
Pages: 296pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
A166
Series No.: A166
Title: GLASS THROUGH THE AGES
Author: E. Barrington Haynes
Illustrations: with 64 pages of photographs
Date Published: November 1948
Pages: 240pp. + 64pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/-
A167
Series No.: A167
Title: WILLIAM TEMPLE AND HIS MESSAGE
Author: Canon A. E. Baker
Memoir: by the Bishop of Chichester (G. K. A. Bell)
Date Published: July 1946
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
A168
Series No.: A168
Title: THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT
Author: I. E. S. Edwards
Illustrations: with 34 drawings in text by John Cruickshank Rose; 16 pages of photographs
Date Published: October 1947
Pages: 256pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A169
Series No.: A169
Title: JOHN CITIZEN AND THE LAW
Author: Ronald Rubenstein
Date Published: February 1947
Pages: 368pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/-
A170
Series No.: A170
Title: SCIENCE AND THE NATION
Author: Group of members of the Association of Scientific Workers
Date Published: November 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 1/-
A171
Series No.: A171
Title: THE BLEAK AGE
Authors: John L. and Barbara Hammond
Date Published: November 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A172
Series No.: A172
Title: A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH DRAMA
Authors: B. Ifor Evans
Date Published: May 1948
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A173
Series No.: A173
Title: THE WORLD'S WEALTH
Author: W. G. Moore
Date Published: October 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/-
A174
Series No.: A174
Title: THE POPULATION OF BRITAIN
Author: Eva M. Hubback
Date Published: January 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 288pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/-
A175
Series No.: A175
Title: BIRD RECOGNITION Volume I: Sea-Birds and Waders
Author: James Fisher
Illustrated: with 86 illustrations by Fish-Hawk; 77 maps, mainly compiled by W. B. Alexander and 72 charts, compiled by the writer
Date Published: January 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A176
Series No.: A176
Title: BIRD RECOGNITION Volume II: Birds of Prey and Water-Fowl
Author: James Fisher
Illustrated: with 85 illustrations by Fish-Hawk; 82 maps, compiled by W. B. Alexander and 71 charts, compiled by the writer
Date Published: February 1952 [printed date: 1951]
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A177
Series No.: A177
Title: BIRD RECOGNITION Volume III: Rails, Game-Birds and larger perching and singing birds
Author: James Fisher
Illustrated: with 68 illustrations by Fish-Hawk; 71 maps, compiled by W. B. Alexander and 61 charts, compiled by the writer
Date Published: March 1955
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
A178
Series No.: A178
Title: THE INVENTOR AND HIS WORLD
Author: H. Stafford Hatfield
Date Published: May 1948
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A179
Series No.: A179
Title: GENETICS
Author: H. Kalmus in collaboration with Lettice M. Crump
Date Published: May 1948
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A180
Series No.: A180
Title: MORE COMMON WILD FLOWERS
Author: John Hutchinson
Illustrations: with 228 illustrations in text; 16 pages of photographs
Date Published: May 1948
Pages: 272pp. + 16pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/-
A181
Series No.: A181
Title: MAN, THE UNKNOWN
Author: Alexis Carrel
Date Published: November 1948
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A182
Series No.: A182
Title: RUSSIAN ART
Author: Tamara Talbot Rice
Illustrations: with 9 figures in text; 32 pages of photographic plates
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 276pp. + 32pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A183
Series No.: A183
Title: BRITISH HERBS
Author: Florence Ranson
Illustrations: by Edith Longstreth Thompson; 8 pages of photographic plates
Date Published: June 1949
Pages: 208pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A184
Series No.: A184
Title: THE IRISH
Author: Sean O'Faolain
Date Published: May 1948 [printed date: 1947]
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A185
Series No.: A185
Title: GEOLOGY AND SCENERY IN ENGLAND AND WALES
Author: A. E. Trueman
Illustrations: with 93 figures in text
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 352pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A186
Series No.: A186
Title: SCIENTIST IN RUSSIA
Author: Eric Ashby
Date Published: September 1947
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 1/-
A187
Series No.: A187
Title: ANIMALS WITHOUT BACKBONES An Introduction to the Invertebrates Volume One
Author: Ralph Buchsbaum
Illustrations: with numerous drawings in text; 64 pages of photographs (1-64)
Date Published: February 1951
Pages: 208pp. + 64pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A188
Series No.: A188
Title: ANIMALS WITHOUT BACKBONES An Introduction to the Invertebrates Volume Two
Author: Ralph Buchsbaum
Illustrations: with numerous drawings in text; 64 pages of photographs (65-128)
Date Published: February 1951
Pages: 208pp. + 64pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A189
Series No.: A189
Title: THE LIFE OF JESUS
Author: John Cecil Cadoux
Date Published: may 1948
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Northumberland Press Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A190
Series No.: A190
Title: EARLY VICTORIAN NOVELISTS Essays in Revaluation
Author: David Cecil
Date Published: March 1949 [printed date: 1948]
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Balding and Mansell Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A191
Series No.: A191
Title: AFRICA EMERGENT A Survey of Social, Political and Economic Trends in British Africa
Author: W. M. Macmillan
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 352pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
A192
Series No.: A192
Title: GREEK SCIENCE Its Meaning for us. Volume II Theophrastus to Galen
Author: Benjamin Farrington
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 188pp.
Printer: Northumberland Press Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
This book was re-issued in August 1953 as a single volume under the number A142.
A193
Series No.: A193
Title: THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE
Author: F. J. Hargreaves
Illustrations: with 32 figures in text; 16 pages of photographs
Date Published: May 1948
Pages: 176pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A194
Series No.: A194
Title: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX
Author: Oswald Schwarz
Date Published: March 1949
Pages: 296pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A195
Series No.: A195
Title: MUSIC HO! A Study of Music in Decline
Author: Constant Lambert
Date Published: December 1948
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A196
Series No.: A196
Title: THE ROMANS
Author: R. H. Barrow
Date Published: September 1949
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A197
Series No.: A197
Title: ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1815 - 1914)
Author: David Thomson
Date Published: September 1950
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
This book was later issued as part of the Pelican History of England, Volume 8; Volumes: (1) A315; (2) A245; (3) A252; (4) A234; (5) A212; (6) A268; (7) A231; and (8) A197.
A198
Series No.: A198
Title: BEFORE PHILOSOPHY The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man - An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near east
Authors: Henri Frankfort, Mrs Henri A. Groenwegen Frankfort, John A. Wilson and Thorkild Jacobsen
Date Published: June 1949
Pages: 284pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 1/6d.
A199
Series No.: A199
Title: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PALESTINE
Author: William Foxwell Albright
Illustrations: with 63 figures in text; 16 pages with 32 photographic plates
Date Published: June 1949
Pages: 272pp. + 16pp. A 'Double Volume'
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd; Collogravure by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.


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