‘Penguins Progress’ publicity booklets were published between 1946 and 1951 in 14 issues. This is issue 12 from 1950. Includes a “STOP PRESS” slip-in.
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: Very Good. Some foxing to edges of both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
‘Penguins Progress’ publicity booklets were published between 1946 and 1951 in 14 issues. This is issue 12 from 1950. Includes a “STOP PRESS” slip-in.
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: Very Good. Some foxing to edges of both covers. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
