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Number: 1,200
Main Series No.: 1,200
Title: THE GIRL ON THE VIA FLAMINA
Author: Alfred Hayes
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,201
Main Series No.: 1,201
Title: TO BE A PILGRIM
Author: Joyce Cary
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 July 1957
Pages: 384pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,202
Main Series No.: 1,202
Title: THE FAIR BRIDE
Author: Bruce Marshall
Cover illustration: by Leonard Rosoman
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Sir Joseph Causton and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,203
Main Series No.: 1,203
Title: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CORPSE
Author: Max Murray
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,204
Main Series No.: 1,204
Title: THE CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover illustration: by David Caplan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,205
Main Series No.: 1,205
Title: TOUR DE FORCE
Author: Christianna Brand
Type: Crime
Date Published: 28 March 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,206
Main Series No.: 1,206
Title: THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH' SIXTH CROSSWORD BOOK
Type: Miscellaneous
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,207
Main Series No.: 1,207
Title: TAKE THESE MEN
Author: Cyril Joly
Cover illustration: photograph
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 10 January 1957 [printed date: 1956]
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,208
Main Series No.: 1,208
Title: HANGOVER SQUARE The Story of Darkest Earl's Court
Author: Patrick Hamilton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 10 January 1957 [printed date: 1956]
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,209
Main Series No.: 1,209
Title: THE 'MANCHESTER GUARDIAN' SIXTH CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK
Type: Miscellaneous
Date Published: 28 March 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,210
Main Series No.: 1,210
Title: THE BAD SEED
Author: William March
Type: Crime
Date Published: 18 April 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,211
Main Series No.: 1,211
Title: THE BLESSING
Author: Nancy Mitford
Cover illustration: by Nicolas Bentley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,212
Main Series No.: 1,212
Title: SCOTLAND YARD
Author: Sir Harold Scott
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
For those interested - the telephone number of (New) Scotland Yard was 'Whitehall 1212'.
Number: 1,213
Main Series No.: 1,213
Title: THREE MEN IN A BOAT To say nothing of the dog!
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Cover illustration: by Dorrit Dekk
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 June 1957
Pages: 188pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6
Number: 1,214
Main Series No.: 1,214
Title: BUDDENBROOKS The Decline of a Family
Author: Thomas Mann
Translated: from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Cover illustration: by Hans Unger
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 592pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 7/6d.
Number: 1,215
Main Series No.: 1,215
Title: THE PREVALENCE OF WITCHES
Author: Aubrey Menen
Cover illustration: by Abram Games
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,216
Main Series No.: 1,216
Title: THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE
Author: Margery Allingham
Cover illustration: by David Caplan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,217
Main Series No.: 1,217
Title: THE PENGUIN PETER ARNO
Author: Peter Arno
Illustrated: with black-and-white cartoons including cover by the author
Type: Humour
Date Published: 25 JulY 1957
Pages: 124pp.
Printer: Lowe and Brydone (Printers) Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,218
Main Series No.: 1,218
Title: THE NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS
Author: Thorne Smith
Cover illustration: by Margaret Belsky
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 July 1957
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,219
Main Series No.: 1,219
Title: TOPPER TAKES A TRIP
Author: Thorne Smith
Cover illustration: by Margaret Belsky
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 July 1957
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,220
Main Series No.: 1,220
Title: WHISKY GALORE
Author: Compton Mackenzie
Cover illustration: by Edwin Tatum
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 25 July 1957
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Image of 1958 reprint
Number: 1,221
Main Series No.: 1,221
Title: MAIGRET IN MONTMARTRE
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Daphne Woodward
Type: Crime
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of five books by Georges Simenon published simultanously in February 1958 (1221 - 1225).
Number: 1,222
Main Series No.: 1,222
Title: MAIGRET'S MISTAKE
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Alan Hodge
Type: Crime
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of five books by Georges Simenon published simultanously in February 1958 (1221 - 1225).
Number: 1,223
Main Series No.: 1,223
Title: THE MURDERER
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury
Type: Crime
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of five books by Georges Simenon published simultanously in February 1958 (1221 - 1225).
Number: 1,224
Main Series No.: 1,224
Title: POISONED RELATIONS
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury
Type: Crime
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
The number 1219 appears in error on the half fly page.
One of five books by Georges Simenon published simultanously in February 1958 (1221 - 1225).
Number: 1,225
Main Series No.: 1,225
Title: TO ANY LENGTHS
Author: Georges Simenon
Translated: from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury
Type: Crime
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
One of five books by Georges Simenon published simultanously in February 1958 (1221 - 1225).
Number: 1,226
Main Series No.: 1,226
Title: FLAMES IN THE SKY
Author: Pierre Clostermann
Translated: by Oliver Berthood
Illustration: 8 pages with 16 black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by Abram Games
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 25 July 1957
Pages: 176pp. + 8pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd; Collogravure Plates printed by Harrison and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,227
Main Series No.: 1,227
Title: CHANCE ACQUAINTANCES and JULIE DE CARNEILHAN
Author: Colette
Translated: by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Cover illustration: by Dennis Bailey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 October 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,228
Main Series No.: 1,228
Title: THE OVERLOADED ARK
Author: Gerald M. Durrell
Illustrated: by Sabine Baur
Cover illustration: by Paxton Chadwick
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Purnell and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,229
Main Series No.: 1,229
Title: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Author: Tennessee Williams
Type: Plays
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Re-issued as PL22 later
Number: 1,230
Main Series No.: 1,230
Title: THE ALLEYS OF MARRAKESH
Author: Peter Mayne
Cover illustration: by William Stobbs
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,231
Main Series No.: 1,231
Title: THE CASE OF THE HAUNTED HUSBAND
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover illustration: by David Caplan
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,232
Main Series No.: 1,232
Title: EXIT CHARLIE
Author: Alex Atkinson
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,233
Main Series No.: 1,233
Title: BABY DOLL
Author: Tenessee Williams
Illustration: 4 pages with 8 black-and-white photographic plates
Type: Plays
Date Published: 28 March 1957
Pages: 128pp. + 4pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
re-issued as PL82 in October 1968
Number: 1,234
Main Series No.: 1,234
Title: IF IT DIE...
Author: André Gide
Translated: by Dorothy Bussy
Type: Biography
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,235
Main Series No.: 1,235
Title: THE CASTLE
Author: Frank Kafka
Translated: from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional material translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
Cover illustration: by Erwin Fabian
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,236
Main Series No.: 1,236
Title: THE BIG HEAT
Author: William McGivern
Cover illustration: by Derek McKay
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 October 1957
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,237
Main Series No.: 1,237
Title: THE MASK OF GLASS
Author: Holly Roth
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,238
Main Series No.: 1,238
Title: VENTURE TO THE INTERIOR
Author: Laurens van der Post
Cover illustration: by Hans Unger
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,239
Main Series No.: 1,239
Title: THE D. A. HOLDS A CANDLE
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover illustration: by Edwin Tatum
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 September 1957
Pages: 172pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,240
Main Series No.: 1,240
Title: THE PHILANDERER
Author: Stanley Kauffmann
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 October 1957
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,241
Main Series No.: 1,241
Title: THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Type: Crime
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,242
Main Series No.: 1,242
Title: THE DEVIL IN VELVET
Author: John Dickson Carr
Cover illustration: by Derek Mckay
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 October 1957
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,243
Main Series No.: 1,243
Title: SELECTED STORIES
Author: H. E. Bates
Cover illustration: by John Diebel
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 12 December 1957
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,244
Main Series No.: 1,244
Title: SWANN'S WAY
Author: Marcel Proust
Translated: by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 October 1957
Pages: 496pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 6/-
Number: 1,245
Main Series No.: 1,245
Title: PRIVATE ANGELO
Author: Eric Linklater
Cover illustration: by Nicolas Bentley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 236pp.
Printer: McCorquodale and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Note: on the back of the title page is the following comment: "Composed entirely without metal type. The first book published in Great Britain to be produced by means of photocomposition on the Intertype Fotosetter"
Number: 1,246
Main Series No.: 1,246
Title: THE CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Cover illustration: by Hans Unger
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,247
Main Series No.: 1,247
Title: THE CASE OF THE BAITED HOOK
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover illustration: by Erwin Fabian (on variant issue)
Type: Crime
Date Published: 12 December 1957
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
First image by Erwin Fabian, second of variant cover, 1959 reprint
Number: 1,248
Main Series No.: 1,248
Title: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Author: J. D. Salinger
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,249
Main Series No.: 1,249
Title: PICTURES FROM AN INSTITUTION
Author: Randall Jarrell
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 19 February 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,250
Main Series No.: 1,250
Title: TIBETAN MARCHES
Author: André Migot
Translated: from the French by Peter Fleming
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by Stanley Godsell
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 256pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,251
Main Series No.: 1,251
Title: ALIAS BASIL WILLING
Author: Helen McCloy
Type: Crime
Date Published: 12 December 1957
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,252
Main Series No.: 1,252
Title: MISCHIEF
Author: Charlotte Armstrong
Type: Crime
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,253
Main Series No.: 1,253
Title: FOUR MODERN VERSE PLAYS: THE FAMILY REUNION (T. S. Eliot); A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT (Christopher Fry); THOMAS CRANMER OF CANTERBURY (Charles Williams); HAPPY AS LARRY (Donagh MacDonagh)
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Type: Plays
Date Published: 29 August 1957
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Later published as PL37
Number: 1,254
Main Series No.: 1,254
Title: UNDER WESTERN EYES
Author: Joseph Conrad
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 21 November 1957
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,255
Main Series No.: 1,255
Title: SELECTED SHORT STORIES (Chosen by the author)
Author: William Sansom
Type: Short Stories
Date Published: 26 May 1960
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,256
Main Series No.: 1,256
Title: TEN LITTLE NIGGERS
Author: Agatha Christie
Type: Crime
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,257
Main Series No.: 1,257
Title: THE WORLD MY WILDERNESS
Author: Rose Macaulay
Cover illustration: by Derrick Harris
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,258
Main Series No.: 1,258
Title: DRINKERS OF DARKNESS
Author: Gerald Hanley
Cover illustration: not given
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,259
Main Series No.: 1,259
Title: THE WHITE SOUTH
Author: Hammond Innes
Cover illustration: by Richard Taylor
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,260
Main Series No.: 1,260
Title: THE SMALL BACK ROOM
Author: Nigel Balchin
Cover illustration: by Stanley Godsell
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,261
Main Series No.: 1,261
Title: FINAL CURTAIN
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Cover illustration: by Dennis Bailey
Type: Crime
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,262
Main Series No.: 1,262
Title: THE ECHOING GROVE
Author: Rosamond Lehmann
Cover design: by Linton Lamb
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,263
Main Series No.: 1,263
Title: THE FORTRESS A Diary of Anzio and after
Author: Raleigh Trevelyan
Cover illustration: by Hans Unger
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 9 January 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,264
Main Series No.: 1,264
Title: ROBERT BROWNING: A PORTRAIT
Author: Betty Miller
Illustration: 12 pages with 19 black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: anon.
Type: Biography
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 304pp. + 12pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,265
Main Series No.: 1,265
Title: MY UNCLE SILAS
Author: H. E. Bates
Illustrated: by Edward Ardizzone
Cover illustration: after Ardizzone
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 13 February 1958
Pages: 158pp.
Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,266
Main Series No.: 1,266
Title: THE BAFUT BEAGLES
Author: Gerald Durrell
Illustrated: by Ralph Thompson
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,267
Main Series No.: 1,267
Title: THE BIG RANGE
Author: Jack Schaefer
Cover illustration: by Pat Keely
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,268
Main Series No.: 1,268
Title: JUAN IN CHINA
Author: Eric Linklater
Cover illustration: by Nicolas Bentley
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,269
Main Series No.: 1,269
Title: DOUBLE, DOUBLE
Author: Ellery Queen
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,270
Main Series No.: 1,270
Title: THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY
Author: Ellery Queen
Type: Crime
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,271
Main Series No.: 1,271
Title: THE HAPPY PRISONER
Author: Monica Dickens
Cover illustration: by William Barnard
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,272
Main Series No.: 1,272
Title: THE MAN UPSTAIRS AND OTHER STORIES
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Cover illustration: by Geoffrey Salter
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,273
Main Series No.: 1,273
Title: UNEASY MONEY
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Cover illustration: by Geoffrey Salter
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,274
Main Series No.: 1,274
Title: CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY - A Story of Comfort in desolation
Author: Alan Paton
Cover illustration: by Paul Hogarth
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,275
Main Series No.: 1,275
Title: CLOCHMERLE-BABYLON
Author: Gabriel Chevallier
Translated: from the French by Edward Hyams
Cover illustration: by Abram Games
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Number: 1,276
Main Series No.: 1,276
Title: ROBBERS' ROOST
Author: Zane Grey
Cover illustration: by Edwin Tatum
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22May 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,277
Main Series No.: 1,277
Title: TAPPAN'S BURRO AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Zane Grey
Cover illustration: by Dennis Bailey
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,278
Main Series No.: 1,278
Title: THE REASON WHY
Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith
Type: Biography
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,279
Main Series No.: 1,279
Title: FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE
Author: H. E. Bates
Cover illustration: by Imre Reiner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d. (overstuck 2/6d.)
Number: 1,280
Main Series No.: 1,280
Title: THE NATURE OF LOVE - Three Short Novels
Author: H. E. Bates
Cover illustration: by Imre Reiner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,281
Main Series No.: 1,281
Title: THE SCARLET SWORD
Author: H. E. Bates
Cover illustration: by Imre Reiner
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,282
Main Series No.: 1,282
Title: THE KEY ABOVE THE DOOR
Author: Maurice Walsh
Cover illustration: by Len Deighton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,283
Main Series No.: 1,283
Title: THE SMALL DARK MAN
Author: Maurice Walsh
Cover illustration: by Len Deighton
Type: Fiction
Date Published: July 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,284
Main Series No.: 1,284
Title: THE BIG SHOW
Author: Pierre Clostermann
Foreword: by Air Marshal Sir John Slessor
Translated: by Oliver Berthoud
Illustration: 16 pages of black-and-white photographic plates
Cover illustration: by David Caplan
Type: Travel and Adventure
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 256pp. + 16pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,285
Main Series No.: 1,285
Title: THE 'CAINE' MUTINY
Author: Herman Wouk
Cover illustration: given as by Stanley Godsell
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 576pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
No cover illustration provided, though name of illustrator given
Number: 1,286
Main Series No.: 1,286
Title: DEATH AT THE PRESIDENT'S LODGING
Author: Michael Innes
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,287
Main Series No.: 1,287
Title: A PRIVATE VIEW
Author: Michael Innes
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 April 1958
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,288
Main Series No.: 1,288
Title: GOING TO THE WARS - A Journey in Various Directions
Author: John Verney
Cover illustration: by the author
Type: Biography
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,289
Main Series No.: 1,289
Title: THREE EUROPEAN PLAYS: RING ROUND THE MOON (Jean Anouilh); THE QUEEN AND THE REBELS (Ugo Betti); IN CAMERA (Jean-Paul Satre)
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: 27 March 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Issued later as PL36
Number: 1,290
Main Series No.: 1,290
Title: MAN OF THE WEST
Author: Philip Yordan
Type: Fiction
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,291
Main Series No.: 1,291
Title: FREQUENT HEARSES
Author: Edmund Crispin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,292
Main Series No.: 1,292
Title: BURIED FOR PLEASURE
Author: Edmund Crispin
Type: Crime
Date Published: 22 May 1958
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,293
Main Series No.: 1,293
Title: THE CASE OF THE BURIED CLOCK
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,294
Main Series No.: 1,294
Title: THE CASE OF THE CROOKED CANDLE
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,295
Main Series No.: 1,295
Title: THE CASE OF THE SHOPLIFTER'S SHOE
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Type: Crime
Date Published: 26 June 1958
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,296
Main Series No.: 1,296
Title: THE FOUR OF HEARTS
Author: Ellery Queen
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,297
Main Series No.: 1,297
Title: THE DOOR BETWEEN
Author: Ellery Queen
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,298
Main Series No.: 1,298
Title: THE SECRET VANGUARD
Author: Michael Innes
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Wyman and Sons Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Number: 1,299
Main Series No.: 1,299
Title: STOP PRESS
Author: Michael Innes
Type: Crime
Date Published: 24 July 1958
Pages: 368pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.

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