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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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