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S1 1938 Germany puts the clock S3 1938 Blackmail or war, By back, By Edgar Ansel Mowrer. “When, Geneviève Tabouis. (Translated from the French therefore, you hear men ask if that which is by Paul Selver). With forty drawings by Joss of called the future belongs to liberty, you must the “Star” answer that liberty has still better, the eternal.” - Third Edition. First published February 1938; Benedetto Croce. Second Edition (with new footnotes) February A New Edition with new material added April 1938; Third Edition (with revisions and new and August 1938. First published in 1933, material) March 1938. pp. [iv] v-vi 7-252 + 4pp. reprinted 1933. Published in Penguin Books with adverts. 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There is no knowing what the “In May 1938 Hitler launched his long expected ultimate effects of the Anschluss may be.” The offensive against Czechoslovakia. He ordered a author has re-written the last chapter to cover the partial and secret mobilization on the French and latest events in European politics. on the Czechish frontiers. The Germans did not, Rear cover: The third of the Penguin Specials, of course, expect to fight ... they counted on the Blackmail or War was first published on threat of war and British stupidity. For once they February 25th and had to be reprinted in less were wrong. Hitler received the second and than a week. This is the third edition, brought greater reverse of his incredible career.” up-to-date with considerable revisions owing to Rear cover: advert for Specials: Penguin and the rapidly changing European situation. The Pelican Specials are books of topical importance first Special was Edgar Mowrer’s famous published within as short a time as possible from Germany Puts the Clock Back, also brought up- the receipt of the manuscript. Some are reprints to-date with a new chapter. The second Special of famous books brought up-to-date, but usually was Mussolini’s Roman Empire by G.T. Garratt, they are entirely new books published for the probably the most important book on Mussolini first time and his imperial ambitions for some years. We are now able to announce the fourth Penguin S2 1938 Mussolini’s Roman Empire, Special - another publishing scoop - Searchlight By G.T. Garratt. With five maps. on Spain; a new book by the Duchess of Atholl, Fourth Edition, with revisions and new material. who has just returned from Spain First published February 1938; reprinted March 1938; reprinted (with new material) April 1938; S4 1938 Searchlight on Spain, By reprinted (with further revisions) August 1938. 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An entirely new book Front cover: red with white cross-lines and black Rear cover: The first Penguin Special was Edgar title on white band. One of the greatest Mowrer’s famous Germany Puts the Clock Back, authorities on Spain gives a complete and brought up-to-date with a new chapter and now crushing answer to the statements and views of in its fourth Penguin edition (with still further the Duchess of Atholl in her book “Searchlight revisions owing to the rapidly changing on Spain.” European situation). Special No.2 (now in its Rear cover: list of Hutchinson’s “Pocket” third edition) is Mussolini’s Roman Empire by Library Non-Fiction Series G.T. 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Member for Kinross and West Perth is not to be Tabouis is diplomatic editor of L’Oeuvre and has measured by its intrinsic merits, but by the personal contacts with most of the leading personality of the writer, by the size and by the diplomatic figures; her book is described by reactions of her audiences, and not least by the Time and Tide as “a real scoop for Penguins.” amazing anomaly of her dual personality both as Searchlight on Spain is the fourth Special a leading member of the Conservative Party and Notes: Appendix: Translation in full of the as one of the “public orators” of the international procès-verbal of the interview of Signor Popular Front. … A competent Socialist Mussolini with Spanish Monarchist leaders, bookseller assures me that its sales in this March, 1934 country alone will probably exceed 200,000 Another copy: copies. A French translation has just been First published June 1938. Reprinted June 1938. published in Paris … Reprinted (with additions, revisions, new maps and an index) September 1938. pp. [viii] ix-xiv S5 1938 Ballet, A Complete Guide to [xv-xvi] 17-280 + [8]pp. adverts. for Penguin Appreciation: [swan illus.] History, Aesthetics, Books [and Mansion polish]. Map. Frontis., 2pp. Ballets, Dancers. Arnold L. Haskell. [opp. t.p.] facsims. Index Ballet [illus.] Arnold Haskell. With seventeen Printers: Purnell and Sons Ltd., Paulton illustrations from photographs and twenty-five (Somerset) and London original decorations in the text by Kay Ambrose Front cover: Third large edition, With revisions, 1938. pp. [vi] 7-220 + [4]pp. adverts. for additions, new maps & an index Penguin Books + [16]pp. plates between pp.128- Rear cover: List of Specials to October 1938 129. Illus. in text. Blue covers. Glossary, Notes: [p.xii] I have taken advantage of the bibliog., index publication of a 3rd edition to bring the last Printers: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London chapter up to date, and to add to earlier chapters and Aylesbury information derived from two important books Front cover: illus. and: The first complete guide which have appeared since this was published – to ballet for the price of a theatre programme; its Frank Jellinek’s Civil War in Spain, and M. history, its theory, notes on the leading Georges Bernanos’ Grands Cimetières Sous la personalities and creators of modern Ballet, Lune studies of individual ballets and of some A rival publication: contemporary dancers, illustrated with sixteen Professor Charles Sarolea. Daylight on Spain, pages of photogravure and decorations by Kay The Answer to the Duchess of Atholl. Ambrose. First publication Introduction by Le Comte de St. Aulaire, Rear cover: In December 1937 we published the Formerly French Ambassador in London and first Penguin Special, Germany Puts the Clock Madrid. Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., Back, which was reprinted in four days. This was London followed by two new books, Mussolini’s Roman Hutchinson “Pocket” Library (non-Fiction Empire and Blackmail or War, which both went Series), No.20. [1938]. Pp. [iv] 5-126 [127-128] into three editions within a month. The adverts. for Hutchinson pocket titles. extraordinary enthusiasm which these specials have received has prompted us to begin a new frescoes and the remains of Goya, and saw them series called Pelican Specials, the first of which again during the attack on Madrid in order to is Ballet. Like the first specials, Pelican Specials complete a book on Spanish culture which has are books of topical importance, but unlike the since been published. He is now working on a Penguin Specials they deal with matters of non- book on the comparative history of art. political significance, particularly such subjects He knows intimately the artists whose work he as the arts and sciences. The Pelican Specials discusses in Modern German Art; he deals with will include books on the various phases of the fate and the ideas of artists whom he may call modern culture, and the Penguin Specials will his teachers and his friends. He wrote this book provide you with urgent topical material on because of his concern for the destiny of art, and politics and economics. Usually both series will particularly of its most disputed group – the be completely new books specially modern German artists. commissioned by us ... S7 1939 China struggles for unity, by S6 1938 Modern German art, By J.M.D. Pringle, with 25 maps by Marthe Peter Thoene. Translated from the German by Rajchman Charles Fullman. With an introduction by First published February 1939; Reprinted Herbert Read. With thirty-two plates. A Pelican February 1939. pp. [iv], v, [vi] blank, vii, [viii] Special blank, ix-x, 11-182 + [8]pp. adverts. for Penguin First published 1938. pp. [iv], 5-108 + 4pp. Books + [2]pp. blank. 25 maps as frontis. and in advert.[Penguin Books] + 32 monochrome text plates. Blue covers Printers: Purnell and Sons Ltd, Paulton Printers: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London (Somerset) and London and Aylesbury Rear cover: advert. for Specials Front cover: The only work in English on the Copy: has d.j. subject, and specially written for this series, this J.M.D. Pringle. Born 1912. Educated at book is a remarkable survey of 20th-Century Shrewsbury and at Lincoln College, Oxford. German art. It treats art, not as something First Class in Classical Greats (Literae isolated from contemporary events, but as a Humaniores). Took up journalism as a mirror of its time in which one can learn to profession. Has now been on the Manchester understand oneself and society. Its publication Guardian for some time, writing almost entirely coincides with the London opening of the on foreign affairs and especially the Far East. famous Munich exhibition of “degenerate” Has done a good deal of broadcasting on North German art. The author is a very well-known Regional and written feature programmes and German art critic who for special reasons must plays. Is interested in all ideas, especially hide his identity under the name of Peter Thoene philosophy and political theory. Also likes “food, Rear cover: advert. for Specials wine and travels in countries where the sun is Dust jacket: matches covers. Synopsis on front hotter than Manchester.” flap. Author photo and biog. on rear flap Marthe Rajchman is generally considered to be Copy: Konrad Hopkins don. one of the most brilliant political cartographers The name Peter Thoene hides the identity of a in Europe, particularly in dealing with the East. foremost German art critic and writer. He was She was the first graduate of the New School of born in 1904 and attended the Academy of Art in Cartography in Paris. She contributed 30 maps to Berlin. He has edited and contributed to G.F. Hudson’s Atlas of Far Eastern Politics and numerous periodicals on art and culture in 209 maps to Alexander Rado’s Atlas of Today Berlin, and lectured at workers’ educational and Tomorrow. She is of Polish nationality. schools. He has travelled throughout Europe studying art and literature. “The places which I S8 1938 The air defence of Britain, by found most fruitful were the Vienna Art Gallery, Air-Commodore L.E.O. Charlton, G.T. Garratt, containing the unforgettable works of Pieter Lt.-Commdr. R. Fletcher, M.P. Bruegel and Albrecht Dürer, the exclusive art First published in Penguin Books 1938. pp. [ix], salons of Paris with the brilliant work of the 10-224 French Impressionists, the Hermitage in Printers: Wyman and Sons Ltd., London, Leningrad in which all epochs of European Fakenham and Reading painting are represented.” He visited the chapel Front cover: Three well-informed authoritative of San Antonio de la Florida, which contains the writers discuss urgent problems of - The Air Defence of Britain. 1. The new factor in warfare, by Air-Commodore L.E.O. Charlton; 2. Air raid S12 1938 A Penguin Special. The precautions, by G.T. Garratt; 3. Britain’s air mortal storm, by Phyllis Bottome strength, by Lieut.-Commdr. R. Fletcher, M.P. First Published 1937; Published in Penguin Rear cover: advert for Specials Books September 1938; Reprinted January 1939; April 1939; June 1939; September 1939; S9 1938 Europe and the Czechs, by S. 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With 33 illustrations S13 1939 What Hitler wants, By E.O. First Published November 1938; Reprinted Lorimer November 1938; Reprinted January 1939. pp. First published 1939. pp. [v] 6-188 + [4]pp. [vi], 7, [8], 9-213 + 8 monochrome plates + adverts. [Penguin Books] 7pp.advert [Penguin Books]. Illus. in text Printers: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London Printers: Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London and Aylesbury and Aylesbury Front cover: caricature of Hitler in lower white Front cover: Louis Golding, author of band. Step by step the aims and threats which “Magnolia Street” ... illus. Hitler set out in the original German edition of Rear cover: advert. for Specials Mein Kampf have become actualities. What else does he want? S11 1938 Literary taste: How to form Rear cover: advert. for Specials it, with detailed instructions for collecting a complete library of English Literature, By *S14 1938 Mowrer in China. Edgar Arnold Bennett. Edited with additional Lists by Mowrer Frank Swinnerton. With a new chapter specially designed for this edition. A Pelican Special S15 1939 One man against Europe, By First published 1909; First published in The New Konrad Heiden Library 1937; Published as a Pelican Special First Published 1939; Reprinted May 1939. pp. 1938. pp. [iv], v, [vi blank], 7-184 + [viii], 9-279 + 7pp.advert.[Penguin Books] 6pp.Complete list of all Penguin and Pelican Printers: Wyman & Sons Ltd., London, Reading Books to the end of 1938 and Fakenham Printers: Purnell and Sons Ltd., Paulton Front cover: First English publication of an (Somerset) and London important work by a famous authority on Hitler Front cover: “It is well to remind ourselves that and his policy literature is first and last a means of life, and that Rear cover: advert. for Specials the enterprise of forming one’s literary taste is an enterprise of learning how best to use this means S16 1938 Blue angels and whales: a of life. 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The strange under-sea world of the coral S18 1938 The great illusion - now, by reef described by a well-known artist who went Norman Angell. 1939 Edition to Tahiti, Bermuda and the Red Sea and made This edition published in December 1938; drawings actually under the water Reprinted January 1939; August 1939. pp. [vi], Rear cover: advert. for Specials vii-xii, [xiii-xiv], 15-282 + 1p.advert.for full title Notes: [plate 2] The drawings printed on this and + [4]pp. advert. for Penguin Books the eleven following pages are direct Printers: Purnell and Sons Ltd., Paulton reproductions from the author’s pencil sketches (Somerset) and London made on xylonite while he was actually under Front cover: Angell warns again! ... In 1908 water Norman Angell forecast that the measures we were then taking would not prevent war, nor S17 1938 Warning from the West victory give either the peace, security or Indies: a tract for the Empire, by W.M. economic stability we sought. His forecast, and Macmillan his reasons, then regarded as preposterous, have First published February 1936; published in been verified in every particular. His book has Penguin Books, with revisions and a new stood the test of thirty years of criticism and of preface, 1938. pp. [iv], 5-15, [16-17] map, [18] events. Now, in perhaps the most critical hour of blank, 19-23, [24] blank, 25-184 + [8]pp. our history, he warns again. adverts. for Penguin Books. References, index Rear cover: advert. for specials Printers: Purnell and Sons Ltd., Paulton Copy: has flaps of original d.j. with notes on (Somerset) and London book and author Front cover: map Notes: [p.283] If you have been interested in that Rear cover: advert. for Specials part of The Great Illusion here reproduced, you Copy: has d.j. should buy the entire book, for only about half of Notes: [d.j.]: ... This book appeared in its it has been incorporated in this edition. ... original form two years ago. It told then the Sir Norman Angell. Childhood in England, unpopular truth about the state of the islands, and boyhood at a French Lycée, adolescence at its analysis of their condition is just as relevant Geneva University, early manhood as a cowboy to-day. Discontent has become more conscious, and prospector in Western America and Mexico; more violent, bu