LEHMANN, ed. John

The Penguin New Writing 27. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin Books, [Harmondsworth],, [1946]. 8vo., First Edition; original green pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Contributors include Sansom, Edith Sitwell, Day-Lewis, MacNiece, Spender, Osbert Sitwell and Hampson.

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LESSING Doris

The Habit of Loving. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin, [Harmondsworth],, [1960]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1473.

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LONGUS

Daphnis and Chloe. A New Translation with an Introduction by Paul Turner. [Penguin Classics]. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN CLASSICS

Penguin, [Harmondsworth],, [1956]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges very lightly browned, small blind stamp on half-title; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First appearance in Rieu's renowned 'Penguin Classics' series, and first publication of Turner's translation. The cover roundel is by John Diebel. Penguin Classics, L59.

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LUCIAN

Satirical Sketches. Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN CLASSICS

Penguin, [Harmondsworth],, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, backstrip very lightly browned else a near fine copy. Penguin Classics, L117. The cover roundel is by Cecil Keeling.

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LUCIE-SMITH (ed. and intro.) Edward

The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse. Introduced and edited by Edward Lucie-Smith. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

Penguin [Harmondsworth],, 1965]. 8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary signature on half-title, fore-edge browning lightly; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Penguin D83.

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MANN Thomas

Confessions of Felix Krull. Confidence Man. Memoirs Part I. Translated by Denver Lindley. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg, [Harmondsworth],, [1958]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, backstrip very slightly browned else a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. Penguin 1320.

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MANN James

[King Penguin 75]. Monumental Brasses. With thirty-two Plates. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Penguin Books, [Harmondsworth,, 1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 fine tinted plates, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original patterned paper boards, near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. King Penguin 75. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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MASTERS John

Bhowani Junction. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin in association with Michael Joseph, [Harmondsworth],, [1960]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, covers lightly dust-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1439.

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MASTERS John

Coromandel!. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin in association with Michael Joseph, [Harmondsworth],, [1958]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial wrappers, covers lightly dust-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1305.

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MASTERS John

Far, Far the Mountain Peak. [First Edition in Penguin]. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin Books in association with Michael Joseph,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition thus; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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MAUPASSANT Guy de

The Mountain Inn and other Stories. A New Translation by H N P Sloman. [Penguin Classics]. DAVID GENTLEMAN'S FIRST COMMISSION FOR PENGUIN

Penguin, [Harmondsworth,, 1955]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial green wrappers, a near fine copy. First appearance in Rieu's renowned 'Penguin Classics' series, and first publication of Sloman's translation. The cover roundel is designed by David Gentleman: 'This was one of the first jobs that I was ever paid for by anybody and it was the first thing I did for Penguins…I did a rough in my digs in Battersea at the time and posted it back to [Tanya] Schmoller or John [Curtis] at Penguins and they sent it back more or less instantly and I engraved it at the next weekend'. [John Curtis Memorial Evening, 2006]. Penguin Classics L65.

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MILLER Arthur

The Misfits. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin with Secker & Warburg, [Harmondsworth],, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition thus; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1666.

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MILTON John

Milton: Poems. Selected and with an Introduction by L.D. Lerner. NEAR FINE COPY

Penguin Books, [Harmondsworth],, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of printed wrappers, a near fine copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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MITFORD Nancy

The Blessing. [First Edition in Penguin.] FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin [with] Hamish Hamilton,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1211.

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MITFORD Nancy

Pigeon Pie. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PENGUIN

Penguin in association with Hamish Hamilton, [Harmondsworth],, [1961]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, page edge tanning slightly; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1532.

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