List of Penguin Specials
I am attempting to put together a collection of all of the Penguin Specials from 1937 to 1970.Here is a list of the early Penguin Special books that I have collected over the last 40 years or so. The list is presented as a complete list of Penguin Specials, with the ones I have in first Penguin Special edition in blue, the ones I have in Penguin Special reprint in brown and the ones I still am searching for in purple. The date years are indicative only after 1940, as many of the books were published out of order.
Penguin Specials 1-200
1937
S1. Germany Turns Back the Clock: Edgar Mowrer
1938
S2. Mussolini’s Roman Empire: G T Garratt
S3. Blackmail or War: Genevieve Tabouis
S4. Searchlight on Spain: Duchess of Atholl, M.P
S5. Ballet: Arnold Haskell
S6. Modern German Art: “Peter Thoene”
S7. China Struggles for Unity: J.D.M. Pringle
1939
S8. The Air Defense of Britain : L.E.O. Charlton, G.T. Garratt & R.Fletcher
S9. Europe and the Czechs: S. Grant Duff
S10. The Jewish Problem: Louis Golding
S11. Literary Taste: Arnold Bennett
S12. The Mortal Storm: Phyllis Bottome
S13. What Hitler Wants: Emily Overend Lorimer
S21. Ourselves and Germany: Marquess of Londonderry
S22. Design: Anthony Bertram
S23. Not used
S24. They Betrayed Czechoslovakia: G.J. George
S25. I was Hitler’s Prisoner: Stefan Lorant
S26. Between 2 Wars: K. Zilliacus
S27. Britain’s Health: S. Mervyn Herbert
S28. Microbes by the Million: Hugh Nichol
S29. You and the Refugee: N. Angell and D.F. Buxton
S30. Germany What Next?: L.S. Amery et al
S31. Why War?: Cyril E. M. Joad
S32. Our Food Problem: F Le Gros Clerk & R M Titmuss
S33. The New German Empire: F Borkenau
S34. Poland: W.J. Rose
S35. A Hundred Years of Photography: L Moholy
S36. The Attack from Within: Elwyn Jones
S37. The Good Soldier Schweik: Jaroslav Hasek
S38. British Agriculture-The Principles of Future Policy: Viscount Astor & B S Rowntree
S39. The Suez Canal: Hugh Joseph Schonfield
S40. Opera: Edward J Dent
S41. In Search of Hot Water: H G Wells
S42. Not used
S43. Not used
S44. Light on Moscow: D N Pritt
S45. The Government Blue Book:
S46. The Case for Federal Union: W B Curry
S47. Why Britain is at War: Harold Nicholson
S48. The Penguin Political Dictionary: Walter Theimer
1940
S49. Europe since Versailles; David Low
S50. The Rights of Man: H G Wells
S51. Must the War Spread: D N Pritt
S52. Not used
S53. Not used
S54. Our Struggle “Unser Kampf”: R Acland
S55. Good God: John Hadham
S56. My Finnish Diary: Sir Walter Citrine
S57. Hitler’s war: Hugh Dalton
S58. The Problem of India: Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar
S59. Stalin and Hitler: Louis Fischer
S60. Warships at Work: A.C. Hardy
S61. Not used
S62. Why Freedom Matters: N Angell
S63. Hydroponics: C Isabel Hilyer
S64. The Common Sense of War and Peace: H G Wells
S65. Christianity and the World Order: Bishop of Chichester
S66. The Penguin Political Atlas: S C Johnson
S67. Not used
S68. Not used
S69. Not used
S70. Labour and the war: John Price
S71. Not used
S72. The case for Family Allowances: Eleanor K Rathbone
S73. God in a World at War: John Hadham
S74. Science in War: Anon
S75. New ways of War: Tom Wintringham
S76. The Real Cost of War: J Keith Horsfield
S77. The Psychology of Fear and Courage: Edward Glover
S78. Where Do We Go From Here: Harold J Laski
S79. The Internment of Aliens: F Lafitte
S80. Europe in Chains: Paul Einzig
1941
S81. Russia: Bernard Pares
S82. Aircraft Recognition: R A Saville-Sneath
S83. Europe at War: David Low
S84. The Truth About France: Louis Levy
S85. Flight to Victory: Ronald Walker
S86. Not used
S87. Food The Deciding Factor: Frank Wokes
S88. World Shipping: A C Hardy
S89. The Catholic Church and International Order: A C F Beales
S90. The Penguin Book of Food Growing, Storage and Cooking: F W P Carter
S91. Signalling and Map Reading for the Home Guard: H G Stokes
S92. General and Generalship: General Sir Archibald Wavell
S93. The Gospel for Tomorrow: The Bishop of Truro
S94. The French Canadians Today: Wilfred Bovey
S95. Nazis in Norway: Ake Fen
S96. Planning the War: Lt-Col. Clive Garcia
S97. The remaking of Italy: ‘Pentad’ (pseud)
S98. A Diary of World Affairs: Marcel Holden
1942
S99. Ley Farming: Sir George Stapledon and William Davies
S100. Reaching for the Stars: Nora Waln
S101. Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps: Alan Thompson & Claude Goodchild
S102. Guerrilla Warfare: Yank Levy
S103. Seed the Plough: C S Orwin
S104. Christianity and Social Order: William Temple Archbishop of Canterbury
S105. The British Way of Warfare: B H Liddell Hart
S106. The German Lebensraum: Robert E Dickinson
S107. Health of the Future: Aleck Bourne
S108. The Quest for Security in New Zealand: W B Sutch
S109. Is Christ Divided?: William Temple Archbishop of Canterbury
S110. How Russia Prepared: B H Liddell Hart
S112. Aircraft Recognition Vol II : R B Saville-Sneath
S113. Modern Battle: Maj Paul W Thompson
S114. An A.B.C. of the Pacific: Dorothy Woodman
S115. The World at War: David Low
S116. A Diary of World Affairs Vol II: Dorothy Woodman
S117. People in Production: Mass Observation
S118. Warfare by Words: Ivor Thomas
S119. Soft Fruit Growing: Raymond Bush
S120. Young Citizen: A E Morgan
1943
S121. Science and World Order: J G Crowther, O R J Howarth & D P Riley
S122. The Future of Medicine: D Stark Murray
S123. Is Tomorrow Hitler’s?: H R Knickerbocker
S124. What About Business: John Gloag
S125. What the Church Teaches: Alfred Walter Frank Blunt
S126. People’s War: Tom Wintringham
S127. Wartime ‘Good Housekeeping’ Cookery Book: Anon
S128. Venereal Disease in Britain : Sydney K Laird
S129. Crux Ansata: H G Wells
S130. Argument of Empire: W K Hancock
1944
S131. Soviet Light on the Colonies: Leonard Barnes
S132. Soft Fruit Growing Vol I Apples: Raymond Bush
S133. The Next Germany: Anon
S134. Our New Order or Hitler’s? : Phyllis Bottome
S135. How the Jap Army Fights : PW Thompson, Harold Dowd & John Schofield
S136. Why Not Prosperity?: A J Evans
S137. Preserves for all Occasions: Alice B Crang
S138. Tree Fruit Growing Vol II Pears, Quinces and Stone Fruits: Raymond Bush
S139. Country and Town : G M Young
S140. Rabbit Farming : Claude H Goodchild
S141. God and Human Progress: John Hadham
S142. Our Settlement with Germany: H N Brailsford
S143. India since Cripps: Horace Alexander
S144. Poultry Farming: Alan Thompson
1945
S145. Trees and Shrubs: W H Rowe
S146. The Vegetable Growers Handbook Vol I : Arthur J Simons
S147. The Vegetable Growers Handbook Vol II : Arthur J Simons
S148. A Plan of Economic Development for India: P Thakurdas
S149. Miners Day: Bert Lewis Coombes
S150. Lend Lease: E R Stettinius
S151. TVA Tennessee Valley Authority: David Ely Lilienthal
S152. Not used until 1963 for The Profumo Affair: Wayland Young
S153. Russia and the Peace: Bernard Pares
S154. Politics Made Plain: T L Horabin
S155. France: The Birth of the Fourth Republic: Maurice Edelman
At this point the series was suspended for more than three years, until 1949. As you can see, the number of new Pelicans issued in each of the following ten years was greatly reduced compared to the war years, getting as few as five books or fewer per year.
1949
S156. The Case for Communism: William Gallagher
S157. I Choose Peace: K Zilliacus
1950
none issued
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
S169. The Atom and the Energy Revolution: Norman Lansdell
1959
S174. Geography of World Affairs: JP Cole
1960
1961
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Book Collecting World 
Unarmed Victory by Bertrand Russell is S220 (1963).
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