>--Frank Glenewinkel
<frank.glenewinkel@Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:
>> Is it possible that there were two Signet
paperback editions?
>> I have got a 1948 Penguin Signet (is this a real
Signet?) paperback
>> which bears the proud inscription "Complete and
Unabridged" on
>> the front cover.
>
>Could it not be a British edition, as
originally
>Penguin is a UK pocketbooks series going on since
WW2
>(or even before if I'm not mistaken).
Since 1935. A couple of years later they started an American
branch, which
later on became Signet books. Some of the first titles from
(new owners)
New American Library were in fact issued as Penguin
Signet.
/Staffar Moberg
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