DM1294/9
Christmas Books, Pirated Penguin Books,
Authors’ Manuscripts and Papers
Arranged as follows:
DM1294/9/1 – Allen Lane’s Christmas Books
DM1294/9/2 – Pirated Copies of Penguin Books
DM1294/9/3 – Books and Printed material
DM1294/9/4 – Authors’ Manuscripts and Papers
DM1294/9/1 – Allen Lane’s Christmas Books:
Between 1945 and 1965, Allen Lane commissioned a series of limited edition gift books as
Christmas presents for friends and clients. These books were often accompanied by an individually
designed Christmas card.
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Max Beerbohm, The Happy Hypocrite (Christmas 1948).
1948
Privately produced for Allen and Richard Lane in an edition of 500
copies; printed in Monotype Bell on Bright White Cartridge by the
Shenval Press and bound by James Burn & Co.
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Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Christmas 1949).
Illustrated by John Tenniel.
1949
Privately produced for Allen and Richard Lane in an edition of 500
copies; printed by Richard Clay & Co., Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, and
bound by James Burn & Co., Ltd., London.
Includes signed Christmas card and compliments slip from Allen
Lane.
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Nevill Coghill, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale of Chaucer (Christmas 1950).
With wood engravings by Lynton Lamb.
1950
1000 copies printed for Allen and Richard Lane by R.& R. Clark Ltd.,
of Edinburgh, on unbleached Arnold.
Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane.
[Another copy of this edition is located at DM2204]
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E.V. Rieu, St Mark’s Gospel [Christmas 1951]. With wood
engravings by Reynolds Stone.
1951
1250 copies printed and bound for Allen and Richard Lane at The
Curwen Press, London on Arnold and Foster’s Grey Mould-made.
Type is monotype Ehrhardt.
Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane.
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William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin (Christmas
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1952). Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
1600 copies printed and bound at The Chiswick Press, London for Sir
Allen Lane and Richard Lane. The illustrations were originally made
for a film in the ‘Poet and Painter’ series for the Festival of Britain.
Wiggins Teape & Co. made the paper and Stephenson Blake & Co
supplied the type originally cut by Fry’s Bristol Letter Foundry.
Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane.
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W.S. Gilbert, Selected Bab Ballads (Christmas 1955). Illustrated by
W.S. Gilbert.
1955
1500 copies printed and bound for Sir Allen Lane at the University
Press, Oxford. The collotype plates were printed by the Ganymed
Press, London. The type is Monotype Bell and the paper Grosvenor
Chater’s Abbey Mills. The line engravings were made by John Swain
and Son, Barnet.
Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane.
[Another copy of this edition is located at DM1843 book box 1]
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Eric Linklater, Private Angelo (Christmas 1957). [End papers
illustrated by David Gentleman].
1957
2000 copies printed for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane by
McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., London, and bound by the Dorstel Press
Ltd., Harlow, Essex. The endpapers were designed by David
Gentleman and printed by Lowe & Brydone Ltd., London. The book
was composed entirely without metal type; it is the first to have been
produced in Great Britain by means of photocomposition on the
Intertype Fotosetter.
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Boxwood and Graver. A Miscellany of Blocks (Christmas 1958).
1958
1500 copies printed at the Westerham Press, Westerham, Kent, and
bound at the Dorstel Press, Harlow, Essex. Monotype Van Dijck was
used for the text. The paper is Hosho-Shi from Berrick Brothers,
London, who also supplied the wood veneer for the cover.
Includes wood engravings by Diana Bloomfield, George Buday,
David Gentleman, Derrick Harris, Cecil Keeling, Roy Morgan, Imre
Reiner and Reynolds Stone.
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C.H. Rolph (ed.), The Trial of Lady Chatterley. Regina v. Penguin
Books Ltd. (1961). Illustrated by Paul Hogarth.
1961
Copy no.1273 of 2000 copies printed. Signed by Allen Lane.
Includes a printed card from Allen Lane stating that he decided last
year not to send Christmas cards and that he will instead now send a
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book or keepsake.
[Another copy of this edition is located in DM1843 book box 1]
DM1294/9/1/10 For Such As Are of Riper Years (Christmas 1965). Illustrated by Mel
Calman.
1965
Printed for Allen Lane by The Curwen Press, Plaistow, London. The
paper is Chariot Cartridge and the type Monotype Walbaum.
Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane.
[Another copy of this edition is located at DM1843/51]
DM1294/9/2 – Pirated Copies of Penguin Books:
Books donated to Penguin by their India Office and Hans and Tanya Schmoller and deposited by
Penguin in Special Collections on 17 November 1986.
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Ernest Hemingway, The Old Men and the Sea. Illustrated by C.F.
Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard.
[c.1954].
Pirated Penguin cover on a Jonathan Cape edition of the text.
Published by Nobel Publishing Co. Ltd. The cover includes the
printed text: ‘Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1954.
[Given by Tatyana and Hans Schmoller]
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest. The Penguin Shakespeare,
edited by G. B. Harrison. [Uses the 1958 Penguin reprint].
[c.1958]
A note inside the book in Hans Schmoller’s handwriting states that:
“This wrong font (Perpetua) ‘s’ made it possible to prove Caedmon
Records in N.Y that they had offset this edition without permission.
They voluntarily admitted to have done so for the entire
Shakespeare and paid $4,000.00 in retrospect. (The discovery was
made when we borrowed the Caedmon recording from the public
library, so Sebastian could hear it in preparation for O Level
English.)”.
[Given by Tatyana and Hans Schmoller]
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Josephus, The Jewish War. Translated by G.A. Williamson. [Uses
the 1959 Penguin edition].
[c.1959]
Reprinted in Israel by Steimatzky’s Agency and published in Israel
by arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd.
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H.J. Eysenck, Check Your Own I.Q. Cover design by Patrick
McCreeth. [Uses the1973 Penguin reprint].
[c.1973]
Inside the book is a compliments slip from Penguin Overseas Ltd.,
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New Delhi that reads: “Section Sewn Binding”.
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H.J. Eysenck, Check Your Own I.Q. Thai edition.
[c.1973]
With compliments slip from Elizabeth B. Gubersky, Penguin Books
Ltd., Hong Kong.
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A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth and Other Stories. (1974 edition).
Cover photograph by Harri Peccinotti.
1974
Misprint on title page reads: ‘Dusty Ruth and other stories’.
[Given by Tatyana and Hans Schmoller]
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D.H. Lawrence, The Second Version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
[Uses the 1977 Penguin reprint].
[c.1977]
Inside the book is a compliments slip from Penguin Overseas Ltd.,
New Delhi that reads: “Lady Chatterley’s Lover is banned in India –
vide a decision of the Supreme Court. Therefore the “Second
Version” piracy. Note jacket design using Penguin colophon and
Phoenix logo”.
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H.J. Eysenck, Know Your Own I.Q. Cover design by Patrick
McCreeth. [Uses the 1977 Penguin reprint].
[c.1977]
Inside the book is a compliments slip from Penguin Overseas Ltd.,
New Delhi that reads: “Kind of Perfect Bound”. With a receipt
from the Rough Book Store for two copies of ‘I.Q’ purchased on
[15 August 1981?].
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P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in Springtime. Cover illustration by
Ionicus. [Uses the 1979 Penguin reprint].
[c.1979]
[From Penguin’s Indian office]
DM1294/9/2/10 Royal Canadian Air Force, Physical Fitness. [Uses 1981 Penguin
reprint].
[c.1981]
Inside the book is a compliments slip from Penguin Overseas Ltd.,
New Delhi that reads: “Rather half-hearted attempt”.
DM1294/9/2/11 P.G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves. Cover illustrated by
Ionicus. [Uses the 1981 Penguin edition].
[c.1981]
[From Penguin’s Indian office]
DM1294/9/2/12 P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves. Cover illustration by
Ionicus. [Uses the 1981 Penguin edition].
[c.1981]
[From Penguin’s Indian office]
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DM1294/9/2/13 P.G. Wodehouse, Meet Mr Mulliner. Cover illustration by Ionicus.
[Uses the 1981 Penguin edition]
[c.1981]
[From Penguin’s Indian office]
DM1294/9/2/14 George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. [Uses the 1983 Penguin
reprint]
[c.1983]
A Signet Classics Special Release.
Inside the book is a compliments slip from Penguin Overseas Ltd.,
New Delhi, that reads: ”The covers of this pirate 1984 should not
lead you to believe that the insides have been offset from the Signet
edition. See title/verso carefully and text!”.
[From Penguin’s Indian office]
DM1294/9/3 – Books and Printed material:
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S.Marsak, Pozar (1935).
1935
An example of the type of Russian illustrated children’s books that
inspired the design of the first Puffin Picture Book series.
[Donated by Pearl Binder]
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Printed list of selected titles from the Albatross Modern Continental n.d.
Library and Tauchnitz Edition of British and American Authors, n.d. [c.1940].
[c.1940]. With a request slip for inclusion on Albatross mailing list.
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W.E. Williams, The Penguin Story (Penguin Miscellaneous Q21,
1956).
1956
Signed by Hans Schmoller. With an orange plastic dust jacket
printed with the Penguin colophon and the text ‘Pick up a Penguin at
Times The Bookshop’.
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William Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond.
1969
Proof copy with annotations (Penguin English Library EL49, 1970).
Edited by John Sutherland and Michael Greenfield, with an
introduction by John Sutherland. Date stamped 3 October 1969.
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Pick Up A Penguin: the Story of Allen Lane, n.d. [c. late 1970s].
n.d. [c.late
1970s].
Booklet printed for Penguin Overseas Ltd. New Delhi by India
Offset Press. With a Penguin Overseas Ltd. New Delhi
compliments slip dated 27 November 1984 stating that the booklet
was printed several years previous for school children.
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Sale catalogue for the sale by C.C. Kohler, antiquarian bookseller,
[1979]
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of a collection of 2102 Penguin Books [date stamped 1 November
1979].
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‘Penguin Books: The Pictorial Cover 1960-1980’, exhibition
catalogue by Evelyn Green, Manchester Polytechnic Central
Library, May-June 1981.
1981
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Offprint from Granta Magazine of Doris Lessing’s Jane Somers’s
Diaries. Signed by Doris Lessing, 22 July 1985.
1985
[Purchased at Phillips’ auction of books sold in celebration of the
50th anniversary of Penguin Books on 24 October 1985].
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‘The Art of the Paperback’ exhibition catalogue, The Clarendon
Gallery, 5 September-14 October 1985. An exhibition of graphic
work by contemporary Penguin cover artists to mark the occasion of
Penguin’s fiftieth anniversary and the unveiling of the Allen Lane
commemorative plaque at 8 Vigo Street, London.
1985
DM1294/9/4 – Authors’ Manuscripts and Papers:
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Arnold Wesker, ‘I Marvel At These Things’:
1985
Manuscript and typescript copies of Arnold Wesker’s poem ‘I
Marvel at These Things’, dated May 1982 and May 1983. Signed
and dated by Arnold Wesker, 11 July 1985.
With a letter from Richard Adams to Arnold Wesker, 3 May 1985,
in which Adams returns the copies to Wesker; and a letter from
Arnold Wesker to Linda Lloyd Jones (50th Anniversary Coordinator, Penguin Books Ltd.), 11 July 1985, in which Wesker asks
Jones to put the items in Penguin’s forthcoming literary auction.
[The poem appeared in Occasional Poets, an anthology edited by
Richard Adams and published by Viking in 1986].
[Purchased at Phillips’ auction of books sold in celebration of the
50th anniversary of Penguin Books on 24 October 1985].
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Shirley Conran, Lace (Penguin no. 6387, published 1983):
1980s
‘Lace Time Plan’: original time plan chart [drawn up by Shirley
Conran?] of the fictional characters in Lace, with details of
significant dates in their lives, their loves, homes, and a physical
description of each character, n.d. [c.1980?]. With a signed black
and white portrait photograph of Shirley Conran, n.d.
[c.1982/1983?]. [Purchased at Phillips’ auction of books sold in
celebration of the 50th anniversary of Penguin Books on 24 October
1985].
Correspondence between Dotti Irving, Head of Publicity, Penguin
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Books Ltd., and Shirley Conran, 15 August-14 October 1985.
Conran requests a copy of the original plan for Lace before it is
auctioned and sends her thanks for receipt of the 50th anniversary
limited edition set of the first ten Penguins in facsimile, adding ‘I
have been a Penguin fan since I was about 6 and the first person I
interviewed was Allan Lane, so I feel very much a part of the
wallpaper.’
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Reay Tannahill, A Dark and Distant Shore (Penguin no. 6763,
published 1984):
1980s
Tannahill’s notes and working papers for A Dark and Distant Shore,
including character cards; chronology and reject chronology cards;
detailed notes: maps; family tree; research notes; plot summary; plot
summary; title; length and structure; locations; synopsis; breakdown
into episodes; first single narrative version; first draft; reject pages;
final draft; final typescript; and poster.
With covering note from Reay Tannahill dated 6 September 1985.
[Purchased at Phillips’ auction of books sold in celebration of the
50th anniversary of Penguin Books on 24 October 1985].
Recatalogued by Rachel Hassall
26 October 2009
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