Penguins Progress Volume 12
Date Published: 1950
Pages: 32pp.
Printer: King and Hutchings Ltd
Contents include:
announcement of the Penguin Book Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London from 21 November to 2 December 1950; 'American Quintet' (Sinclair Lewis, J.P. Marquand, Louis Bromfield, John Steinbeck and T.S. Stribling); suggestions for Christmas book gifts; Joseph Conrad; Katherine Mansfield; Harold Acton; the holding up of a consignment of 5,000 copies of The Golden Ass by the Australian Customs authorities; Penguin Green Crime novels; A.J.A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo; new Pelicans'; 'Truth in Biography' by Hesketh Pearson; Pelican Science and Reference books; The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek; the increase in the price of Puffin Picture Books.
Condition grading: Good. Some foxing to both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Date Published: 1950
Pages: 32pp.
Printer: King and Hutchings Ltd
Contents include:
announcement of the Penguin Book Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London from 21 November to 2 December 1950; 'American Quintet' (Sinclair Lewis, J.P. Marquand, Louis Bromfield, John Steinbeck and T.S. Stribling); suggestions for Christmas book gifts; Joseph Conrad; Katherine Mansfield; Harold Acton; the holding up of a consignment of 5,000 copies of The Golden Ass by the Australian Customs authorities; Penguin Green Crime novels; A.J.A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo; new Pelicans'; 'Truth in Biography' by Hesketh Pearson; Pelican Science and Reference books; The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek; the increase in the price of Puffin Picture Books.
Condition grading: Good. Some foxing to both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Date Published: 1950
Pages: 32pp.
Printer: King and Hutchings Ltd
Contents include:
announcement of the Penguin Book Exhibition at 117 Piccadilly, London from 21 November to 2 December 1950; 'American Quintet' (Sinclair Lewis, J.P. Marquand, Louis Bromfield, John Steinbeck and T.S. Stribling); suggestions for Christmas book gifts; Joseph Conrad; Katherine Mansfield; Harold Acton; the holding up of a consignment of 5,000 copies of The Golden Ass by the Australian Customs authorities; Penguin Green Crime novels; A.J.A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo; new Pelicans'; 'Truth in Biography' by Hesketh Pearson; Pelican Science and Reference books; The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek; the increase in the price of Puffin Picture Books.
Condition grading: Good. Some foxing to both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
