Vintage Pelican Books

Robert Graves - The Crowning Privilege - Vintage PB 1959

Originally published 1955, this reprint 1959.  Subtitled ' A selection of lectures and essays concerned with professional standards in poetry'

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

Edward de Bono - Lateral Thinking - A Textbook of Creativity - PB - 1978

HE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a...

James A Coleman - Relativity for the Layman - PB - 1972

Published by Pelican UK in this revised edition, 1972, subtitled  ' a simplifiued account of the history, theory and proofs of relativity'  Initially published 1954.  In excellent condition. 

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions. A theory that succeeds better than its rivals in...

Warren Weaver - Lady Luck : The Theory of Probability - Vintage PB

"Should I take my umbrella?" "Should I buy insurance?" "Which horse should I bet on?" Every day ― in business, in love affairs, in forecasting the weather or the stock market questions arise which cannot be answered by a simple "yes" or "no." Many of...

Manya & Eric De Leeuw - Read Better, Read Faster : A New Approach to Efficient Reading - PB 1969

Aims to convey techniques to increase spped and attention in reading texts - maximising the best use of time . 

Leon Radzinowicz & Joan King / The Growth of Crime (Vintage Paperback)

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Peter Nathan / The Nervous System (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Thomson / The Pelican History of Psychology (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Hoggart / Speaking to Each Other (Vintage Paperback)

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J.H. Elliott / Imperial Spain 1469-1716 (Vintage Paperback)

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J. E. Gordon / Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - PB

In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures. Pelican PB 1980, originally 1978      

Maurice Ashley / England in the Seventeenth Century (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Hoggart / The Uses of Literacy (Vintage Paperback)

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G.I Warnock - Berkeley ( Pelican Philosophy) - Vintage PB -1953

Berkeley is one of the most influential and yet most misunderstood of eighteenth-century philosophers. In this classic 1953 introduction, G.J. Warnock examines all Berkeley's major philosophical works and discusses his most original and interesting...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950.  Previous owner's name to title...

David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB

Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950.  Creases to back cover

F. L Marcuse - Hypnosis : Fact and Fiction ( Vintage PB 1977 - Originally 1958)

A discussion and analysis of the theory and technique of hypnosis in the clinical context.   

B. Ifor Evans / A Short History of English Literature. (Vintage Paperback)

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Ronald Frankenberg / Communities in Britain - Social Life in Town and Country(Vintage Paperback)

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W.B. Gallie / Peirce and Pragmatism (Vintage Paperback)

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Christopher Hill / Reformation to Industrial Revolution (Vintage Paperback)

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Rene Dubos / Man, Medicine, and Environment (Vintage Paperback)

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The Pelican Guide to English Literature 3: From Donne to Marvell (Vintage Paperback)

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Boris Ford / The Pelican Guide to English Literature 1 : The Age of Chaucer (Vintage Paperback)

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H. Coombes / Literature and Criticism (Vintage Paperback)

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The Pelican Guide to English Literature 2: The Age of Shakespeare (Vintage Paperback)

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B. Ifor Evans / A Short History of English Literature (Vintage Paperback)

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Ian Watt / The Rise of the Novel (Vintage Paperback)

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Steen Eiler Rasmussen - London : The Unique City - Vintage Pelican PB - 1961 ( Originally 1934)

This study of London and of English social history and manners traces the city's growth from its original walls, emphasizing how the lives of its people shaped the character of the city. Since its first publication in 1934, the book has become a minor...

Julian Huxley - Evolution in Action ( Vintage Pelican PB 1963)

Tanning to page block, scuffing and shelfwear. Previous owner's name to title page.  'The story of the evolutionary process as seen by eminent biologist Julian Huxley. Discusses heredity, natural selection, adaptation, species formation.  

Boris Ford - The Modern Age (Pelican Guide to English Literature - Volume 7 )

This edition ( the last chronologically of 7 in the series ) covers the 20th century, the rise of modernism in literature, the impact of global literature, as well as key essays on notable figures, novels, movements in novels, poetry, literary criticism...

Herbert G. Grubel / The International Monetary System - 3rd Edition (Vintage Paperback)

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Michael D. Biddiss / The Age of the Masses : Ideas and Society in Europe Since 1870 (Vintage Paperback)

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Alfred Cobban - A History of France 1715-1799 & A History of Modern France 1799-1945( Vintage Pelican PB ) 2 Book Vintage Pelican

Cobban's narrative commences with the death in 1715 of Louis XIV after 54 years of personal rule. Louis XIV had used those five decades to perfect a system of absolutist monarchy and to exert French power and influence throughout the continent of Europe...

Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman - Free to Choose - PB 1979

A hugely influential Nobel Prize winning economist, Friedman was championed by free market monetarists from the 1970's onwards , into the modern era .  A powerful discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from one...

Lambert, R.S - Art in England ( Vintage Pelican PB 1938)

A first edition paperback, Pelican 1938, with '38 photogravure plates ' ( i.e black and white photographs ) A collection of essays on various aspects of English art, including an essay on sculpture by Henry Moore, and Kenneth Clark.  Water tidemark...

A. L. Bacharach / The Music Masters 4 (Vintage Paperback)

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Young, Michael & Willmott, Peter - Family and Kinship in East London - Vintage Pelican PB 1980 ( Originally 1957)

Family and Kinship in East London was a 1957 sociological study of an urban working class tight-knit community, and the effects of the post-war governments' social housing policy leading to their rehousing. Many East Londoners by rigid slum...

Thomson, Robert - The Pelican History of Psychology - Vintage PB 1974 ( Originally 1968)

A general history , outlining the birth of psychology in the 19th century, the impact of major thinkers - German, British and French - and of key figures such as Jung and Freud .  Light edgewear only, internally unmarked. 

C.O Carter - Human Heredity - Vintage Pelican PB 1972 ( Originally 1962)

Condition - crease to front cover, tanning to page block and previous owners name written neatly in pen on front endpaper. Pelican blue spine and cover.  Carter provides the reader with a basic lesson in statistics and probability using real life...

Moroney, M.J - Facts From Figures - 3rd Edition - Vintage Pelican PB 1963 ( Originally 1951)

Explaining logically with lots of practical examples the use and abuse of statistics and how to apply them to real life situations to enable you to understand data better enabling you to assess what the data actually means.It does pre-date computers...

de Paor, Liam - Divided Ulster - 2nd Edition Pelican PB 1972 - Northern Ireland

First published as a Penguin Special in 1970, this is the revised and expanded second edition from 1972, one of the darkest years of Northern Irish history.  from the blurb - ''In this skilful and perceptive analysis he takes us through the long...

Berger, Peter L - A Rumour of Angels : Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural - PB - Pelican - 1973 ( Originally 1969)

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural is a 1969 book about sociology by the sociologist Peter Berger. The book is one of Berger's most important works on the topic of the sociology of religion A Rumor of...

Milton, David & Schurmann , Franz ( Editors) - People's China : China Readings 4 ) 1966-1972 - Vintage Pelican PB

Published by Penguin pelican. 1977, subtitled Social Experimentation, politics, Entry onto the World Scene - 1966-1972.  A period of ( sometimes disastrous) social change in China - The Cultural Revolution, various economic plans and China's entry...

Doris Mary Stenton - English Society in the Early Middle Ages 1066-1307 - Vintage Pelican PB - 1959

A vintage Penguin Pelican , issued as part of the Pelican History of England ( which was an 8 volume chronological set when completed) This is Volume 3 - English Society in the Early Middle Ages ( 1066 -1307)  by Doris Mary Stenton.    In...

Herbert Marcuse - An Essay on Liberation - Vintage Pelican PB 1972 ( Originally 1969)

In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation had come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of...

Ford, Boris ( Editor) - The Age of Chaucer - Penguin Pelican Guide To English Literature - Vintage 1959 PB

The first ( standalone)  book in the The Pelican Guide to English Literature, ( and literature in English ) under the general editor Boris Ford. Essays on each period, further reading, individual essays on authors by noted critics.  (1) The...

Denys Thompson - Discrimination and Popular Culture ( Vintage Pelican 1966 )

A vintage Pengin Pelican edition, 1966, of the collection of articles and essays on the impact of mass media and popular culture on society. It asks, 'is  a squalid mediocrity the highest common factor of popular culture the best we can...