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Number: 1,300
Main Series No.: 1,300
Title: THE DEATH OF GRASS
Author: John Christopher
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,301
Main Series No.: 1,301
Title: DIOR BY DIOR - An Autobiography of Christian Dior
Author: Christian Dior
Translated: by Antonia Fraser
Illustration: 16 pages with 22 black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by Carl Erickson (Vogue)
Type: Biography
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 190pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,302
Main Series No.: 1,302
Title: THE HONEYED PEACE
Author: Martha Gelhorn
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 192
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,303
Main Series No.: 1,303
Title: HOLY DISORDERS
Author: Edmund Crispin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 224
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,304
Main Series No.: 1,304
Title: THE LONG DIVORCE
Author: Edmund Crispin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,305
Main Series No.: 1,305
Title: COROMANDEL!
Author: John Masters
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,306
Main Series No.: 1,306
Title: THE GO-BETWEEN
Author: L. P. Hartley
Cover illustration: by Lynton Lamb
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,307
Main Series No.: 1,307
Title: THE PIONEERS
Author: Jack Schaefer
Type: Fiction (A Penguin Western)
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,308
Main Series No.: 1,308
Title: THE CHRYSALIDS
Author: John Wyndham
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 August 1958
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,309
Main Series No.: 1,309
Title: THERE CAME BOTH MIST AND SNOW
Author: Michael Innes
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 168pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,310
Main Series No.: 1,310
Title: SELECTED SHORT STORIES
Author: H. G. Wells
Type: Short Stories
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,311
Main Series No.: 1,311
Title: ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES
Author: Angus Wilson
Cover illustration: by Ronald Searle
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,312
Main Series No.: 1,312
Title: THE LEDGER IS KEPT
Author: Raymond Postgate
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,313
Main Series No.: 1,313
Title: GIGI and THE CAT
Author: Colette
Translated: by Roger Senhouse
Cover illustration: by Janine Ede
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,314
Main Series No.: 1,314
Title: THE DRUNKEN FOREST
Author: Gerald Durrell
Illustrated: by Ralph Thompson
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 25 September 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,315
Main Series No.: 1,315
Title: THE MOVING TOYSHOP
Author: Edmund Crispin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,316
Main Series No.: 1,316
Title: THE SILENT WORLD
Author: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Illustration: 16 pages with 56 black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by Stephen Russ
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 158pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,317
Main Series No.: 1,317
Title: A HOUSE AND ITS HEAD
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,318
Main Series No.: 1,318
Title: THE PROVING FLIGHT
Author: David Beaty
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,319
Main Series No.: 1,319
Title: THE LAST GRAIN RACE
Author: Eric Newby
Illustration: 24 pages of black-and-white photographic plates; maps and tables
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 256pp. + 24pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,320
Main Series No.: 1,320
Title: CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN
Author: Thomas Mann
Translated: by Denver Lindley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,321
Main Series No.: 1,321
Title: ALIBI INNINGS
Author: Barbara Worsley-Gough
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,322
Main Series No.: 1,322
Title: THURBER'S DOGS - A collection of the master's dogs, written and drawn, real and imaginary, living and long ago
Author: James Thurber
Illustrated: by the author
Type: (Humour)
Date Published: 23 October 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,323
Main Series No.: 1,323
Title: THE CONTENT ASSIGNMENT
Author: Holly Roth
Type: Crime
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,324
Main Series No.: 1,324
Title: MURDER INCLUDED
Author: Joanna Cannan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,325
Main Series No.: 1,325
Title: SELECTED ESSAYS
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Edited: by J. B. Morton
Type: Essays and belles lettres
Date Published: 20November 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
'Belloc and Chesterton' - In November 1958 Penguin Books published simultaneously 11 volumes "to celebrate the association between these two great and controversial writers". The books were Belloc: 1325, 1326, 1327, 1349 and D44; Chesterton:1068, 1069, 1338, 95R and 765R; and a biography by Maisie Ward 1070
Number: 1,326
Main Series No.: 1,326
Title: THE PATH TO ROME
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 244pp.
Printer: William Clowes and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
'Belloc and Chesterton' - In November 1958 Penguin Books published simultaneously 11 volumes "to celebrate the association between these two great and controversial writers". The books were Belloc: 1325, 1326, 1327, 1349 and D44; Chesterton:1068, 1069, 1338, 95R and 765R; and a biography by Maisie Ward 1070
Number: 1,327
Main Series No.: 1,327
Title: THE CRUISE OF THE NONA
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
'Belloc and Chesterton' - In November 1958 Penguin Books published simultaneously 11 volumes "to celebrate the association between these two great and controversial writers". The books were Belloc: 1325, 1326, 1327, 1349 and D44; Chesterton:1068, 1069, 1338, 95R and 765R; and a biography by Maisie Ward 1070
Number: 1,328
Main Series No.: 1,328
Title: THE HONEY SIEGE
Author: Gil Buhet
Translated: from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury
Cover illustration: by Geraldine Spence
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 11 December 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,329
Main Series No.: 1,329
Title: TWO THOUSAND FATHOMS DOWN
Authors: George Huot and Pierre Willm
Translated: from the French by Michael Bullock
Illustration: 16 pages with 24 black-and-white photographic plates; diagrams in text
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 240pp. + 16pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd; Gravure Plates printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,330
Main Series No.: 1,330
Title: THIRTEEN WHITE TULIPS - A Pat Abbott Mystery
Author: Frances Crane
Type: Crime
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,331
Main Series No.: 1,331
Title: MRS PARKINGTON
Author: Louis Bromfield
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,332
Main Series No.: 1,332
Title: THE RAINS CAME
Author: Louis Bromfield
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 512pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,333
Main Series No.: 1,333
Title: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
Author: Louis Bromfield
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,334
Main Series No.: 1,334
Title: THE SPEAKING EYE
Author: Clark Smith
Type: Crime
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,335
Main Series No.: 1,335
Title: DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER
Author: William Brinkley
Cover illustration: by Nicolas Bentley
Type: (Humour)
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,336
Main Series No.: 1,336
Title: A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING
Author: Han Suyin
Introduction: by the Rt Hon Malcolm MacDonald
Cover illustration: by Janina Ede
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 336pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,337
Main Series No.: 1,337
Title: ASPECTS OF LOVE
Author: David Garnett
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,338
Main Series No.: 1,338
Title: THE FLYING INN
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
'Belloc and Chesterton' - In November 1958 Penguin Books published simultaneously 11 volumes "to celebrate the association between these two great and controversial writers". The books were Belloc: 1325, 1326, 1327, 1349 and D44; Chesterton:1068, 1069, 1338, 95R and 765R; and a biography by Maisie Ward 1070
Number: 1,339
Main Series No.: 1,339
Title: THE FRENCHMAN AND THE LADY
Author: Elizabeth Cadell
Cover illustration: by Philip Gough
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,340
Main Series No.: 1,340
Title: DEATH TAKES SMALL BITES
Author: George H. Johnston
Type: Crime
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,341
Main Series No.: 1,341
Title: CORK AND THE SERPENT
Author: Macdonald Hastings
Type: Crime
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,342
Main Series No.: 1,342
Title: KATHLEEN FERRIER
Author: Winifred Ferrier and a memoir edited by Neville Cardus
Illustration: 24 pages with 40 black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: November 1959
Pages: 320pp. + 24pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 5/-
Number: 1,343
Main Series No.: 1,343
Title: THE LONELY PASSION OF MISS JUDITH HEARNE
Author: Brian Moore
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6.
Number: 1,344
Main Series No.: 1,344
Title: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
Author: E. M. Forster
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,345
Main Series No.: 1,345
Title: SELECTED SHORT STORIES
Author: W. W. Jacobs
Selected: by Denys Kilham Roberts
Type: Short Stories
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,346
Main Series No.: 1,346
Title: FRAMED FOR HANGING
Author: Guy Cullingford
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,347
Main Series No.: 1,347
Title: MORE GHOST STORIES: A School Story; The Rose Garden; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; Martin's Close; Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance
Author: M. R. James
Type: Short Stories
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,348
Main Series No.: 1,348
Title: NOBLESSE OBLIGE - An Inquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English Aristocracy
Authors: Alan S. C. Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix', Christopher Sykes and John Betjeman
Edited: by Nancy Mitford
Illustrated: by Osbert Lancaster
Type: Essays and belles lettres
Date Published: 26 March 1959
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,349
Main Series No.: 1,349
Title: SELECTED CAUTIONARY VERSES
Author: Hilaire Belloc
Illustrated: with original pictures by B. T. B. and Nicolas Bentley
Type: (Humour)
Date Published: 20 November 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
'Belloc and Chesterton' - In November 1958 Penguin Books published simultaneously 11 volumes "to celebrate the association between these two great and controversial writers". The books were Belloc: 1325, 1326, 1327, 1349 and D44; Chesterton:1068, 1069, 1338, 95R and 765R; and a biography by Maisie Ward 1070
Previously published in 1950 as a Puffin PS67
Number: 1,350
Main Series No.: 1,350
Title: THE BOY FRIEND - A Play in Five Acts
Author: Sandy Wilson
Preface: by Vida Hope
Illustrated: by the author
Cover illustration: by Sandy Wilson
Type: Plays
Date Published: 15 January 1959
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,351
Main Series No.: 1,351
Title: THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION AND HEAVEN AND HELL
Author: Aldous Huxley
Type: Essays and belles lettres
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,352
Main Series No.: 1,352
Title: THE DAFFODIL SKY (and other stories)
Author: H. E. Bates
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,353
Main Series No.: 1,353
Title: THE SLEEPER
Author: Holly Roth
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,354
Main Series No.: 1,354
Title: THE WOODEN OVERCOAT
Author: Pamela Branch
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,355
Main Series No.: 1,355
Title: THE WRONG SET AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Angus Wilson
Cover illustration: by Ronald Searle
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,356
Main Series No.: 1,356
Title: THE NEW MEN
Author: C. P. Snow
Cover illustration: by Erwin Fabian
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,357
Main Series No.: 1,357
Title: ROMAN TALES
Author: Alberto Moravia
Translated: and selected by Angus Davidson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,358
Main Series No.: 1,358
Title: MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Translated: from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,359
Main Series No.: 1,359
Title: RIPENING SEED
Author: Colette
Translated: from the French by Roger Senhouse
Cover illustration: by Janina Ede
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,360
Main Series No.: 1,360
Title: THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE
Author: Lesley Blanch
Illustration: 16 pages with 24 black-and-white photographic plates; 53 figures in text
Type: Biography
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 336pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,361
Main Series No.: 1,361
Title: ROOM AT THE TOP
Author: John Braine
Cover illustration: photograph of Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton in the Romulus film of the book
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,362
Main Series No.: 1,362
Title: MAIGRET AND THE BURGLAR'S WIFE
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,363
Main Series No.: 1,363
Title: MAIGRET'S REVOLVER
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Nigel Ryan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,364
Main Series No.: 1,364
Title: MY FAIR LADY - A musical play in two acts based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Author: Alan Jay Lerner (adaptation and lyrics); with music by Frederick Loewe
Illustration: 8 pages with 14 black-and-white photographic plates by Cecil Beaton
Cover illustration: by Cecil Beaton
Type: Plays
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 128pp. + 8pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,365
Main Series No.: 1,365
Title: HUNTING THE FAIRIES
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by George W. Adamson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,366
Main Series No.: 1,366
Title: THE MONARCH OF THE GLEN
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by George W. Adamson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,367
Main Series No.: 1,367
Title: THE RIVAL MONSTER
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by George W. Adamson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,368
Main Series No.: 1,368
Title: WATER ON THE BRAIN
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by George W. Adamson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,369
Main Series No.: 1,369
Title: THIN ICE
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by George W. Adamson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,370
Main Series No.: 1,370
Title: DOCTOR SALLY
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Cover illustration: by Geoffrey Salter
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,371
Main Series No.: 1,371
Title: THE LITTLE NUGGET
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Cover illustration: by Geoffrey Salter
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,372
Main Series No.: 1,372
Title: THE D. A. BREAKS A SEAL
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover design: by Alan Aldridge
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 September 1964
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Petty and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,373
Main Series No.: 1,373
Title: THE VOLCANOES ABOVE US
Author: Norman Lewis
Cover illustration: by Brian Keogh
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,374
Main Series No.: 1,374
Title: TAKE TWO AT BEDTIME - WANTED: SOMEONE INNOCENT and LAST ACT
Author: Margery Allingham
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,375
Main Series No.: 1,375
Title: THE CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTENS
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 May 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,376
Main Series No.: 1,376
Title: THE CASE OF THE GOLD-DIGGER'S PURSE
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 25 June 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,377
Main Series No.: 1,377
Title: THE CASE OF THE PERJURED PARROT
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 April 1959
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,378
Main Series No.: 1,378
Title: CRIME AT GUILDFORD
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,379
Main Series No.: 1,379
Title: FATAL VENTURE
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type:
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,380
Main Series No.: 1,380
Title: MYSTERY IN THE CHANNEL
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,381
Main Series No.: 1,381
Title: DESTINATION CHUNGKING
Author: Han Suyin
Type: Biography (autobiography)
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,382
Main Series No.: 1,382
Title: MAJOR THOMPSON LIVES IN FRANCE and Discovers the French
Author: Pierre Daninos
Translated: from the French by Robin Farn
Illustrated: with drawings by Walter Goetz
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,383
Main Series No.: 1,383
Title: WING LEADER
Author: 'Johnnie' Johnson
Foreword: by Douglas Bader
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Biography
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 304pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,384
Main Series No.: 1,384
Title: DOCKEN DEAD
Author: John Trench
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 March 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,385
Main Series No.: 1,385
Title: THE SEEDS OF TIME
Author: John Wyndham
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 23 July 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,386
Main Series No.: 1,386
Title: THE HIDDEN RIVER
Author: Storm Jameson
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,387
Main Series No.: 1,387
Title: THE ANNOTATED ALICE - ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
Author: Lewis Carroll
Edited: and with an introduction and notes by Martin Gardner
Illustrated: by John Tenniel
Cover design: by Germano Facetti
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 November 1965
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 10/6d.
Number: 1,388
Main Series No.: 1,388
Title: KNIGHT WITH ARMOUR
Author: Alfred Duggan
Cover illustration: by Roy Morgan
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,389
Main Series No.: 1,389
Title: MAGNUS MERRIMAN
Author: Eric Linklater
Cover illustration: by John Griffiths
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 326pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,390
Main Series No.: 1,390
Title: THE IMPREGNABLE WOMEN
Author: Eric Linklater
Cover illustration: by John Griffiths
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,391
Main Series No.: 1,391
Title: PATRICK BUTLER FOR THE DEFENCE
Author: John Dickson Carr
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,392
Main Series No.: 1,392
Title: RANSOM OF THE ANGEL
Author: David Dodge
Type: Crime
Date Published: 31 August 1961
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,393
Main Series No.: 1,393
Title: OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY
Authors: Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
Illustrated: by Alajalov
Cover illustration: by Alajalov
Type: Biography
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,394
Main Series No.: 1,394
Title: THE PLAGUE AND I
Author: Betty MacDonald
Type: Biography
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,395
Main Series No.: 1,395
Title: THE SEA MYSTERY - An Inspector French case
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 August 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,396
Main Series No.: 1,396
Title: GOLDEN ASHES
Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,397
Main Series No.: 1,397
Title: THÉRÈSE - containing: THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX; THÉRÈSE CHEZ LE DOCTEUR; THÉRÈSE À L'HÔTEL; LA FIN DE LA NUIT
Author: François Mauriac
Translated: by Gerard Hopkins
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 November 1959
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,398
Main Series No.: 1,398
Title: A PERFECT WOMAN
Author: L. P. Hartley
Cover illustration: by Charles Mozley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,399
Main Series No.: 1,399
Title: MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
Author: Gerald Durrell
Cover illustration: by Ralph Thompson
Type: Biography
Date Published: 29 October 1959
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.

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