565(Saint Joan)

    "Saint Joan" Bernard Shaw

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    1. scatterkeir (43 months ago | reply)

      presumably this is not long after 1946 - my 1946 first penguin has the same price, but it displays it as '1/-' rather than 'one shilling'.

      flickr.com/photos/scatterkeir/2913206442/in/p ool-penguinp...

      I'd guess yours is probably 1947 but maybe 1948 (the typeface of 'Penguin Books' in the shield at the top changed then).

    2. danielweiresq (43 months ago | reply)

      Strangely it is dated 1946 - odd eh ?

      DW x

    3. scatterkeir (43 months ago | reply)

      Does yours have a dust jacket? Mine doesn't.

    4. danielweiresq (43 months ago | reply)

      I'm afraid not . . .

      DW x

    5. scatterkeir (43 months ago | reply)

      hmm.... I've looked at my Penguins of the time and have a theory. For my Penguins dated 1946, there are plenty with both styles of price on the front. Before 1946 there is neither, and after 1946 there is only the numerical style. So I would assume that the word form came first, and that your cover was made before my cover. I would also guess that the insides were made at the same time. Near the front of these Shaws they boast of being printed in volumes or 100,000 each, so perhaps they weren't all covered at the time. perhaps they thought it would be a while before they managed to shift them all.

    6. scatterkeir (42 months ago | reply)

      comfirmed in an article I just read, my '1946' is a well-known 'false first' believed to be from 1947, and yours is the real first edition!

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