Thursday 25 October 2012

Penguin Poets I Own

Penguin Poets Books I Own





D 2:   Wordsworth: A Selectionby W.E. Williams
D 3:  Robert Burns
D 4:  T.S. Eliot: A Selection by The Author- reprint
D 5:  The Centuries' Poetry 5 Bridges to Present Day
D 6:  The Centuries' Poetry I-Chaucer to Shakespeare-1st
D 7:  The Centuries' Poetry 2-Donne to Dryden
D 8:  The Centuries'Poetry 3- Pope to Keats - reprint
D 9:  The Centuries'Poetry 4:  Hood to Hardy- reprint
D 12: Contemporary Verse: Edited by Kenneth Allott- 1st
D 13:  John Donne (reprint 1958)
D 15:  Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Selection of His Poems & Prose by W. H. Gardner- 1st
D 16:  Edith Sitwell:  A Selection by the Author- 1st
D 18:  Poems 1951: Prize Winning Entries for the Festival of Britain Competition-1st
D 19:  The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse (reprint 1961)
D 20:  Border Ballads: Selected & Edit. by William Beattie-1st
D 21:  Milton:  Selected and Edited by L. D. Lerner
D 22:  The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse: Edited by Geoffrey Moore-1st
D 24:  Browning: A Selection by W.E. Williams-1st
D 25:  Mathew Arnold: A Selection by Kenneth Allott-1st
D 27:  Robert Frost: Selected by Himself -1st
D 27:  Robert Frost: Selected by Himself & W/ an Intro. by C. Day Lewis- reprint
D 27:  Robert Frost: Selected by himself (different cover from one above) -reprint
D 28:  John Dryden:  A Selection by Douglas Grant-1st
D 31: More Comic & Curious Verse: Selected by J.M. Cohen
D 33:  The Penguin of French Verse 3 (The Nineteenth Century)
D 35: Samuel Taylor Goldridge
D 37:  The Penguin Book of Italian Verse
D 38:  The Metaphysical Poets: Edited by Helen Gardner-1st
D 39:  Robert Graves: Selected by Himself
D 38:  The Metaphysical Poets: Introduced and Ed. by Helen Gardner-reprint
D 40:  The Penguin Book of Australian Verse: Ed. by J.Thompson, K.Slessor, & R.G. Howarth-1st
D 43:  The Penguin Book of French  Verse 2 (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century)
D 44:  Hilaire Belloc:  Collected Verse-1st
D 48: Yet More Comic & Curious Verse: Selected by J.M. Cohen-1st
D 50:  The Penguin Book of French Verse 1 (to 15th century)
D 53:  Thomas Hardy 1st
D 58: Robert Herrick: Selected Poems, Edited & Intro by John Hayward-1st
D 59: Georgian Poetry:  Selected and Introduced by James Reeves
D 62: Penguin Modern Poets 2: Kingsley Amis; Dom Moraes; Peter Porter
D 69: Yevtushenko Selected Poets Penguin Modern European Poets (1968)-reprint
D 71: Pushkin: Selected Verse w/ an Introduction and Prose Translations by John Fennell-1st
D 70: Penguin Modern Poets 3: George Barker, Martin Bell, Charles Causley -1st
D 83:  The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse: Introduced & Edited by Edward Lucie-Smith -1st
D 85:  Mallarme': Edited w/ Introduction & Prose Translation by Anthony Hartley-1st
D 88:  The Penguin Book of Animal Verse: Intro & edit. by George MacBeth-1st
D 89:  The Common Muse:  Popular British Ballad Poetry from the 15th to 20th Century-1st
D 90: Penguin Modern Poets 7: Richard Murphy, Jon Silkin, Nathaniel Tarn-1st
D 96:  The Penguin Book of Welsh Verse- Translated with an Introduction by Anthony Conran-1st
D 98:  Heine:  Selected Verse W/ an Introduction and Prose Translation by Peter Branscombe-1st
D 108: The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse: Intro & Edited by Harold Love- 1st
D 113:  Penguin Modern Poets 14: Alan Brownjohn, Michael Hamburger, Charles Tomlinson- 1st



Wednesday 24 October 2012

Vintage Penguin Classics I Own

Vintage Penguin Classics I Have Collected (first published) 

My Penguin Classics collection are mainly first published Penguins.
All copies are first published by Penguin Books unless otherwise marked. 
I am always looking to complete the collection with first published books.



L  1:  The Odyssey by Homer (reprint 1961)
L  2:  Boule De Suif and Other Stories (1946)
L  3:  The Theban Plays by Sophocles (1947)
L  4:  Candide by Voltaire (1947)
L  5:  Tacitus on Britaine and German by H. Mattingly  
           (trans) Edited by E.V. Rieu (1948)
L  8:  The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues) by Virgil (1949)
L  9:  On The Eve by I.S. Turgenev (1950)
L 11: The Golden Ass (Apuleius) (1954R)
L 13:  Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost (1949)
L 14:  The Iliad by Homer (1950)
L 15:  Madame Bovary by Flaubert (1961 reprint)
L 16:  Three Plays (The Pillars of the Community, The
          Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler) by Henrik Ibsen
L 18:  The Nature of the Universe by Lucretius (1951)
L 22:  The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (1951)
L 23:  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky  
           (1951)
L 24:  Plato- The Symposium (reprint 1965)
L 26:  The Lusiads by Camoens (1952)
L 27:  The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis (1952)
L 28:  Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles (1953)
L 31:  Euripedes Alcestis and Other Plays - Hippolytus/ I Phigenia in Tauris/ Alcestis
L 32:  The Four Gospels Transl by E.V.Rieu (1956 reprint)
L 33:  The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953)
L 34:  Herodotus/The Histories (1965 reprint)
L 36:  Five Plays by Moliere (1953)
L 37:  The Last Days of Socrates (1958 reprint)
L 39:  The Peloponnesian War (1954)
L 40:  Oblomov by Goncharob (1954)
L 41:  Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy (1954)
L 42:  A History of the English Church and People by Bede (1955)
L 44:  The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (1954)
L 47:  Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais (1955)
L 49:  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Trans/Edit by George Bull (1956)
L 52:  The Koran Translated by N.J. Dawood (reprint)
           (1961)
L 53:  The Master Builder and Other Plays by Ibsen (1958)
L 54:  The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
L 58:  Ovid/Metamorphoses (reprint 1964)
L 59:  Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (1956)
L 62:  War and Peace I by L. N. Tolstoy (1957)
L 63:  War and Peace II by L. N. Tolstoy (1957)
L 67:  The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
L 75:  The Song of Roland- New Translation by Dorothy L. Sayers (1957)
L 79:  The Brothers Karamazov Part II by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1958)
L 80:  Domestic Peace and Other Stories by Balzac (1958)
L 81:  Arrian's Life of Alexander The Great (1958)
L 82:  Three Plays (The Father/Miss Julia/Easter) Edited by E.V.Rieu (1958)
L 83:  Essays by Montaigne (1958)
L 84:  Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch (1958)
L 87:  Piers the Ploughman by Langland (1959)
L 89:  The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Moliere (1959)
L 90:  The Jewish War by Josephus (1959)
L 95:  Maxims by LA Rochefoucauld (1959)
L 96:  Chehov Plays (Ivanov-The Cherry Orchard-The Seagull-Uncle Vania-3 Sisters (1959
L 99:  Selected Works by Cicero (1960)
L 101: St John of the Cross Poems (1960)
L 102:  The Rise and Fall of Athens Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch (1960)
L 111:  Monkey Wu Ch' êng-ên (1961)
L 114:  Confessions by Saint Augustine (1961)
L 117:  Satirical Sketches by Lucian (1961)
L 130:  The New Life by Dante (1964)
L 137:  The Nibelungenlied (1965)
L 140:  Marcus Aurelius/Meditations (1st 1964)
L 143:  Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories (1964)
L 160:  Cousin Bette by Balzac (1965)
L 162:  Plato/Timaeus 1st (1965)
L 185:  Sketches From a Hunter's Album by Turgenev (1967)
L 193:  Menander Plays & Fragments/Theophrastus the Characters