| Description | Typescript: G.H. Vallins, 'The Pattern of English' [Pelican A398, published September 1957].
Penguin Plays:
Eunice Frost's correspondence and papers concerning a new series of Penguin Plays edited by E. Martin Browne, 25 February 1955-13 March 1958.
Correspondents include B. Ashmore (Amersham Repertory Players), Elizabeth Barber (The Society of Authors), E. Martin Browne, Dr William Chapman, Sonia K. Chapter (Curtis Brown Ltd.), Mary Garnham (librarian, The British Drama League), A.S.B. Glover (Penguin Books Ltd.), Ronald Gow, C. Hogg (Samuel French Ltd.), Dr Jan Van Loewen, Samuel Marshak, H.F. Paroissien (Penguin Books Inc., USA), Hilary Rubinstien (Victor Gollancz Ltd.), Rene Mavor, Max Reinhardt, Anne Robbins (Penguin Books Ltd.), Martha Smith (Constable and Co. Ltd.), and Ella Winter.
Concerning permissions and rights for 'Four Modern Verse Plays' (PL37), 'Three European Plays' (PL36), a schools anthology (published as PL31), G. Bernard Shaw's 'Selected One-Act Plays' (PL51, PL52), 'Three Irish Plays' (PL35), two volumes of Luigi Pirandello's plays (PL30, PL34) and #Three Soviet Plays' (PL62).
Includes a photocopy of Samuel Marshak's 'Twelve Months'.
Stocklists:
ARCO Publications Ltd. spring book list, 1957.
Oxford Books, autumn book list, 1957.
The Publishers Association, members circular, vol. 33, no.5, May 1957.
'The Bookseller', no.2715, 4 January 1958. Includes an article about new developments in paperbacks and an advertisement for a trainee representative for Penguin Books in the north of England. |