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Secondhand Penguin Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4289

Fifteen vintage paperbacks, mostly Penguin and Pelican, on sagas, sex, zen and the Scots: the Vinland and Laxdaela Sagas, the Bhagavad Gita, Alan Watts’s Way of Zen, Prebble’s Highland Clearances, Steven Marcus’s The Other Victorians, Wölfflin’s Renaissance and Baroque, Hobsbawm’s Jazz Scene under his Francis Newton pseudonym, Maureen Duffy’s Erotic World of Faery, Yeats’s Irish fairy tales, Aboriginal Fables, Plato, Hemingway and The Literary Companion to Sex. A browser’s shelf.

  1. The Jazz Scene — Francis Newton — Eric Hobsbawm, writing under a pseudonym because a Marxist historian wasn’t supposed to review jazz for the New Statesman, on the music, the business and the audience. The best book on jazz by a non-musician. Penguin Special, 1961.
  2. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America — trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson — Leif Eriksson reaches Newfoundland in two Icelandic sagas written two centuries later, and the archaeology that proved them right. Penguin Classics.
  3. Laxdaela Saga — trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson — Gudrun, the proudest woman in Iceland, and the two men she loved and destroyed. The saga with the most romance in it. Penguin Classics.
  4. World in a Jug — Roland Gant — A jazz novel of the 1950s London scene, with the line-drawn band on the cover. Orange Penguin, 4/6.
  5. Renaissance and Baroque — Heinrich Wölfflin — The 1888 book that first took the Baroque seriously, by the Swiss art historian who invented formal analysis. Introduction by Peter Murray. Fontana Library.
  6. Protagoras and Meno — Plato — Can virtue be taught? Socrates argues with the greatest sophist of his day, then proves geometry to a slave boy. Guthrie translation. Penguin Classics.
  7. The Other Victorians — Steven Marcus — My Secret Life, the pornographer’s memoir, and the sexual underworld of nineteenth-century England, read by a Columbia professor. The 1966 book that opened the subject. Corgi.
  8. The Highland Clearances — John Prebble — The landlords who burned their tenants out of the glens to make room for sheep, 1790 to 1850. Prebble’s angry, readable history, and the one that made the Clearances a cause. Penguin.
  9. The Essential Hemingway — Ernest Hemingway — Fiesta complete, extracts from the other novels, the best stories, and the Hemingway face on the cover. Penguin, 6/-.
  10. Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales — A.W. Reed — How the kangaroo got its pouch, the first fire, the Rainbow Serpent. Reed’s 1965 collection, with the painted cover.
  11. The Literary Companion to Sex — ed. Fiona Pitt-Kethley — Catullus to Angela Carter, the best writing about sex in English and translation. A Baedeker to the wilder shores of love, says Peter Ackroyd.
  12. The Way of Zen — Alan W. Watts — The clearest introduction to Zen ever written for Westerners, by the Englishman who became its voice in California. Pelican, 6/6.
  13. The Bhagavad Gita — trans. Juan Mascaró — Arjuna on the battlefield, refusing to fight, and Krishna’s answer. The Penguin Classics edition that most English readers know.
  14. The Erotic World of Faery — Maureen Duffy — Fairies as the return of the repressed, from Spenser to Peter Pan. The novelist’s Freudian reading of the fairy tradition. Panther, illustrated.
  15. Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland — ed. W.B. Yeats — The leprechaun, the banshee, the pooka and the changeling, collected by Yeats in 1888 from Crofton Croker and the country people. Picador.

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Secondhand Penguin Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4289

Fifteen vintage paperbacks, mostly Penguin and Pelican, on sagas, sex, zen and the Scots: the Vinland and Laxdaela Sagas, the Bhagavad Gita, Alan Watts’s Way of Zen, Prebble’s Highland Clearances, Steven Marcus’s The Other Victorians, Wölfflin’s Renaissance and Baroque, Hobsbawm’s Jazz Scene under his Francis Newton pseudonym, Maureen Duffy’s Erotic World of Faery, Yeats’s Irish fairy tales, Aboriginal Fables, Plato, Hemingway and The Literary Companion to Sex. A browser’s shelf.

  1. The Jazz Scene — Francis Newton — Eric Hobsbawm, writing under a pseudonym because a Marxist historian wasn’t supposed to review jazz for the New Statesman, on the music, the business and the audience. The best book on jazz by a non-musician. Penguin Special, 1961.
  2. The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America — trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson — Leif Eriksson reaches Newfoundland in two Icelandic sagas written two centuries later, and the archaeology that proved them right. Penguin Classics.
  3. Laxdaela Saga — trans. Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson — Gudrun, the proudest woman in Iceland, and the two men she loved and destroyed. The saga with the most romance in it. Penguin Classics.
  4. World in a Jug — Roland Gant — A jazz novel of the 1950s London scene, with the line-drawn band on the cover. Orange Penguin, 4/6.
  5. Renaissance and Baroque — Heinrich Wölfflin — The 1888 book that first took the Baroque seriously, by the Swiss art historian who invented formal analysis. Introduction by Peter Murray. Fontana Library.
  6. Protagoras and Meno — Plato — Can virtue be taught? Socrates argues with the greatest sophist of his day, then proves geometry to a slave boy. Guthrie translation. Penguin Classics.
  7. The Other Victorians — Steven Marcus — My Secret Life, the pornographer’s memoir, and the sexual underworld of nineteenth-century England, read by a Columbia professor. The 1966 book that opened the subject. Corgi.
  8. The Highland Clearances — John Prebble — The landlords who burned their tenants out of the glens to make room for sheep, 1790 to 1850. Prebble’s angry, readable history, and the one that made the Clearances a cause. Penguin.
  9. The Essential Hemingway — Ernest Hemingway — Fiesta complete, extracts from the other novels, the best stories, and the Hemingway face on the cover. Penguin, 6/-.
  10. Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales — A.W. Reed — How the kangaroo got its pouch, the first fire, the Rainbow Serpent. Reed’s 1965 collection, with the painted cover.
  11. The Literary Companion to Sex — ed. Fiona Pitt-Kethley — Catullus to Angela Carter, the best writing about sex in English and translation. A Baedeker to the wilder shores of love, says Peter Ackroyd.
  12. The Way of Zen — Alan W. Watts — The clearest introduction to Zen ever written for Westerners, by the Englishman who became its voice in California. Pelican, 6/6.
  13. The Bhagavad Gita — trans. Juan Mascaró — Arjuna on the battlefield, refusing to fight, and Krishna’s answer. The Penguin Classics edition that most English readers know.
  14. The Erotic World of Faery — Maureen Duffy — Fairies as the return of the repressed, from Spenser to Peter Pan. The novelist’s Freudian reading of the fairy tradition. Panther, illustrated.
  15. Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland — ed. W.B. Yeats — The leprechaun, the banshee, the pooka and the changeling, collected by Yeats in 1888 from Crofton Croker and the country people. Picador.