Publisher SeriesThe Pocket Library

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Man and the State: The Political Philosophers by Saxe Commins 180 copies, 1 reviewPL-1
Man and Man: The Social Philosophers by Saxe Commins 155 copies, 1 reviewPL-2
Man and the Universe: The Philosophers of Science by Saxe Commins 172 copiesPL-3
Man and Spirit: The Speculative Philosophers by Saxe Commins 171 copies, 1 reviewPL-4
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis 9,748 copies, 79 reviewsPL-5
The Golden Ass by Apuleius 4,639 copies, 76 reviewsPL-6
Dialogues of Plato by Plato 146 copies, 2 reviewsPL-7
Famous Chinese Short Stories by Lin Yutang 145 copiesPL-8
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 77,672 copies, 1,337 reviewsPL-9
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 49,772 copies, 671 reviewsPL-10
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant 4,072 copies, 26 reviewsPL-11, PL-500
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon 1,481 copies, 21 reviewsPL-12, PL-501
The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson 129 copiesPL-14
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 8,366 copies, 112 reviewsPL-15
Tales from the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated) by Sir Francis Burton 6 copiesPL-16, PL-506
The Way West by A.B. Jr Guthrie 690 copies, 21 reviewsPL-17
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 7,095 copies, 108 reviewsPL-18
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 12,542 copies, 118 reviewsPL-19, PL-502
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 10,752 copies, 127 reviewsPL-20
The Pocket Book of Great Operas by Henry W. Simon 76 copies, 2 reviewsPL-21
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 35,341 copies, 438 reviewsPL-22, PL-522
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories by Philip Van Doren Stern 138 copies, 2 reviewsPL-24
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 18,606 copies, 241 reviewsPL-25
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 35,284 copies, 360 reviewsPL-26
Silas Marner by George Eliot 10,962 copies, 148 reviewsPL-27
Moby Dick: Or, the White Whale (An Abridged Edition) by Herman Melville 294 copies, 7 reviewsPL-28
The Great Short Stories of De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant 138 copiesPL-29
4 Plays: Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 284 copies, 1 reviewPL-30
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 278 copies, 1 reviewPL-31
German Stories and Tales by Robert Pick 96 copiesPL-32
The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton 60 copies, 2 reviewsPL-33
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 10,353 copies, 117 reviewsPL-34
The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse by Oscar Williams 218 copies, 2 reviewsPL-35
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 4,615 copies, 116 reviewsPL-36
French Stories and Tales by Stanley Geist 33 copiesPL-37
The Pocket Book of O. Henry Stories by O. Henry 325 copies, 3 reviewsPL-38
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 31,604 copies, 319 reviewsPL-39
Spanish Stories and Tales by Harriet de Onís 35 copies, 1 reviewPL-40
The Pocket Book of Verse: Great English and American Poems by M. E. Speare 257 copies, 1 reviewPL-41
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 41,657 copies, 509 reviewsPL-42
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 345 copies, 2 reviewsPL-43
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 56,906 copies, 895 reviewsPL-44
Confessions by Saint Augustine 21,503 copies, 157 reviewsPL-45
Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 1,174 copies, 5 reviewsPL-46
A Pocket Book of Robert Frost's Poems by Robert Frost 285 copies, 2 reviewsPL-47
Irish Stories and Tales by Devin A. Garrity 47 copies, 1 reviewPL-48
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 32,510 copies, 425 reviewsPL-49
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37,033 copies, 420 reviewsPL-50
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,035 copies, 159 reviewsPL-51
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,127 copies, 110 reviewsPL-52
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 18,139 copies, 158 reviewsPL-53
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 3,057 copies, 54 reviewsPL-54
A Pocket Book of Short Stories by M. Edmund Speare 255 copies, 6 reviewsPL-55
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3,047 copies, 30 reviewsPL-56
King Lear by William Shakespeare 14,480 copies, 143 reviewsPL-57
Great Essays in Science by Martin Gardner 191 copies, 1 reviewPL-58
The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1,373 copies, 16 reviewsPL-59
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 10,944 copies, 109 reviewsPL-60
Othello by William Shakespeare 16,359 copies, 128 reviewsPL-61
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 12,641 copies, 120 reviewsPL-62
Nana by Émile Zola 3,811 copies, 65 reviewsPL-63
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 31,528 copies, 287 reviewsPL-64
Mid-Century: An Anthology of Distinguished Contemporary American Short Stories by Orville Prescott 24 copies, 1 reviewPL-65
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 11,933 copies, 103 reviewsPL-66
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 19,025 copies, 170 reviewsPL-67
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 23,502 copies, 503 reviewsPL-68
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 25,497 copies, 379 reviewsPL-69
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 25,069 copies, 217 reviewsPL-70
Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge 694 copies, 20 reviewsPL-71
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 6,369 copies, 68 reviewsPL-75
Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams 1,340 copies, 10 reviewsPL-504
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse by Oscar Williams 429 copies, 1 reviewPL-505
Adam Bede by George Eliot 4,096 copies, 72 reviewsPL-507
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 3,219 copies, 50 reviewsPL-508
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,432 copies, 118 reviewsPL-509
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,869 copies, 313 reviewsPL-510
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne 7,533 copies, 112 reviewsPL-511
A Pocket History of the United States by Allan Nevins 386 copies, 1 reviewPL-512
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 23,251 copies, 227 reviewsPL-514
The Pocket History of American Painting by James Thomas Flexner 45 copiesPL-515
Story Poems: An Anthology of Narrative Verse by Louis Untermeyer 103 copies, 1 reviewPL-516
Don Quixote - abridged and Edited by Lester Cervantes ; Crocker 7 copiesPL-517
Essays in Philosophy by Houston Peterson 68 copiesPL-518
The Pocket Aristotle: Selections from physics, psychology, metaphysics, Nicomachean ethics, politics, poetics by Aristotle 408 copies, 1 reviewPL-519
The Selected Essays of Montaigne by Lester G. Crocker 23 copies, 1 reviewPL-520
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,300 copies, 191 reviewsPL-750
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 19,974 copies, 260 reviewsPL-751

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Publisher series from Pocket Books, Inc, New York, 1953–1959. In general the reference number reflects the cover price: 35c as standard, with the "500" numbers 50c, and the "750" numbers larger books at 75c. (English, Member-written)

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English: Pocket Library

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