Sunday, 17 July 2011





















'The Daughter of Time' by Josephine Tey
No. 990
1960, 4th Penguin printing


'Antony and Cleopatra' by William Shakespeare

B17
1964, 7th Penguin printing

Edited by G.B. Harrison. The Penguin Shakespeare

The portraits on the cover and on the title page were engraved by Reynolds Stone


'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams

PL23
1959, 1st Penguin Edition

Edited by E. Martin Browne. Penguin Plays



'Faust: Part One' by Goethe. A new Translation by Philip Wayne.

L12
1949, 1st Penguin Edition

Edited by E.V. Rieu.
The Penguin Classics.

The brown design is beneath the green dust cover.


'The Harsh Voice' by Rebecca West
No. 1156
1956, 1st Penguin Edition


The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. Edited by R. Vaughan Williams and A.L. Lloyd
Q18
1961, 2nd Penguin printing

Cover Design by Juliet Renny

B-Format

Sunday, 17 April 2011

'Brighter than 1000 Suns' by Robert Jungk
S184

Published as a Penguin Special 1960


'Fandango Rock' by John Masters
no. 1662
1967, 3rd Penguin printing

Cover illustration by John Griffiths
'The Pursuit of Love' by Nancy Mitford
no. 711
1960, 7th Penguin printing

Cover illustration by Nicolas Bentley

Saturday, 16 April 2011

a few purchases this afternoon...


'Henry and Cato' by Iris Murdoch
1977, 1st Penguin edition
isbn 0 14 00.4569 4

The cover shows a detail from 'The Death of Actaeon' by Titian, in the National Gallery, London

'The Land of the Rising Yen' by George Mikes
1985, 7th Penguin printing
isbn 0 14 003679 2

Cover Design by Hardy/Escasany/Lodwick

'Some Notes on Lifemanship' by Stephen Potter
no. 1827
1964, 3rd Penguin printing

Cover drawing by Nicolas Bentley

Fading to front cover

'Island' by Aldous Huxley
1974, 9th Penguin printing
isbn 0 14 00.2193 0

Cover design by Grant Grimbly

Water damaged, slight loss to front cover, curling to back