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Penguin Parade Second Series No. 3

Morpurgo, J.E.: · 1948

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1948 1st. ed. PBK. No. 3 Orange. 124pp. Very good copy.

Britain in the Sixties: The Family and Marriage

Fletcher, Ronald: · 1962

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1962 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. S210 Black/Red. 221 pp. Slightly bumped, o/w good copy.

Life in the Twenty-First Century

Vassiliev, M. and Gouschev, S.: · 1961

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1961 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. S195 Red/Black. Index 222 pp. + 16 b/w plates. Stains head back cover and last few pages. O/w good copy.

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Paterson, Katherine: · 1981

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1981 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. PS1302. 139 pp. Ex-lib., small tear foot spine foredge, o/w good copy.

The High Wire

Haggard, William: · 1965

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1965 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. C2323 multicoloured pictorial cover. 189 pp. Good copy.

Joke Box

Brandreth, Gyles: · 1986

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1986 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. PS2026. 168 pp. Illustrated by Tony Blundell. FC slightly creased, o/w good copy.

Boule de Suif and Other Stories

de Maupassant, Guy: · 1946

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1946 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. L2 Green. 240 pp. Translated by H.N.P. Sloman. Spine broken at foot with small loss, scuffing. Slightly grubby copy.

Jurgen

Cabell, James Branch: · 1946

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

New York: Penguin Inc., August 1946 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 601. 275 pp. Lamination on covers peeling. Covers slightly grubby. Reading copy.

The Spotted Deer

Williams, J.H.: · 1961

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1961 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 1580 Black/Orange cartoon cover. 264 pp. + illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. Good copy.

Selected Poems of Robert Browning

Browning, Robert: · 1938

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1938 1st. ed. thus PBK + both jacket flaps.No. C5. 245 pp. + wood-engravings by Iain Macnab. Ink writing on whole of FEP. Usual foxing/browning. Small splits head/foot spine. Pen/pencil annotations. O/w good copy for prewar Penguin.

Hardy Herbaceous Plants

Roper, Lanning: · 1960

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1960 1st. ed. PBK . No. PH51. Index 224 pp. + 152 b/w plates. Co-published with the Royal Horticultural Society. Spine scuffed. Covers lightly soiled/creased. O/w good reading copy.

A Breath of French Air

Bates, H.E.: · 1990

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1990 19th. imp. PBK. No. 4957 multicoloured photographic cover. Book of the Yorkshire Television Series Darling Buds of May. 159 pp. G+.

The House of Mirth

Wharton, Edith: · 1979

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1979 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 4962 multicoloured photographic cover. 349 pp. Front cover creased. O/w good copy.

The Awkward Age

James, Henry: · 1972

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin, 1972 2nd. imp. thus PBK. No. 2451 Grey/multicoloured pictorial cover. 383 pp. Scuffing on spine. O/w good copy.

The Penguin Book of Animal Verse

MacBeth, George: · 1965

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1965 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. D88 multicoloured pictorial cover. Index of Authors 336 pp. Good copy.

The Silver Spoon

Galsworthy, John: · 1967

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1967 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2678 multicoloured photographic cover. 270 pp. Slight page browning, o/w good copy. The Forsyte Chronicles #5.

The White Monkey

Galsworthy, John: · 1967

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1967 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 2677 multicoloured photographic cover. 283 pp. Slight page browning, o/w good copy. The Forsyte Chronicles #4.

The Penguin Music Magazine No. 1

Hill, Ralph: · 1946

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1946 1st. ed. PBK. No. 1 December 1946. 127 pp. Covers lightly soiled. Top right corner of FC nicked. Heavy browning inside covers and EPs. Reasonable copy for its age.

Manon Lescaut

Prevost, Abbe: · 1949

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Penguin, 1949 1st. ed. PBK. No. L13 Green. Translated by L.W. Tancock. 190 pp. Good copy.

The Diary of a Nobody

Grossmith, George and Weedon: · 1949

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

London: Penguin, 1949 2nd. imp. thus PBK. No. 510 Orange. 160 pp. Usual page browning, o/w G+.