American Penguins (1942-1948)

Penguin had an American publishing house with its own independent line of books between the years of 1942 and 1948. At that point the company separated itself from Penguin and became an independent company, the New American Library, which published Signet and Mentor Library titles. Books 660 onward are denoted as “Penguin Signet,” and after 674 Penguin is dropped entirely. The cover art, much of which was illustrated by Robert Jonas, is very distinctive from the classic look of Penguin’s original line.

A note on Shaw: The 10 American Shaws actually look identical to the original British Penguin book covers, including the brown color. Their spines are simply numbered 1-10; they’re given the GBS prefix here to prevent (more) confusion.

60	The Dark Invader	Captain Von Rintelen
79	The Rasp	Phillip MacDonald
239	Stealthy Terror	John Ferguson
276	The Case of the Late Pig	Margery Allingham
339	High Rising	Angela Thurkell
501	Murder by an Aristocrat	Mignon G. Eberhart
502	Pygmalion	Bernard Shaw
503	Death of a Ghost	Margery Allingham	1946
504	All Concerned Notified	Helen Reilly
505	The Mother	Pearl S. Buck
506	Two Survived	Guy P. Jones
507	The Physiology of Sex	Kenneth Walker
508	Walden	Henry David Thoreau
509	The Pastures of Heaven	John Steinbeck
510	Trent’s Own Case	H. Warner Allen & E.C. Bentley
511	Cause for Alarm	Eric Ambler	1945
512	Miss Annie Spragg	Louis Bromfield
513	The Catalyst Club	George Dyer
514	Tombstone	Walter Noble Burns	1942
515	The Confidential Agent	Graham Greene
516	Gehghis Khan	Harold Lamb	1944
517	Philosopher’s Holiday	Irwin Edman
518	The Middle Temple Murder	J.S. Fletcher
519	A Blunt Instrument	Georgette Heyer	1943
520	The Saga of Billy the Kid	Walter Noble Burns
521	The Ox-Bow Incident	Walter Van Tilburg Clark
522	Sabotage	Cleve F. Adams
523	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
524	Pencil Points to Murder	W.A. Barber & R.F. Schabelitz
525	The Penguin Book of Sonnets	Carl Withers (ed.)
526	My Own Murderer	Richard Hull	1943
527	The Telephone Booth Indian	A.J. Liebling	1943
528	The Blind Barber	John Dickson Carr	1945
529	Kitty Foyle	Christopher Morley	1944
530	The Ministry of Fear	Graham Greene
531	Drawn Conclusion	W.A. Barber & R.F. Schabelitz	1943
532	Hag’s Nook	John Dickson Carr
533	The Purple Sickle Murders	Freeman Wills Crofts	1943
534	Black Plumes	Margery Allingham
535	The Old Dark House	J.B. Priestly
536	In Hazard	Richard Hughes
537	Out of this World	Julius Fast	1944
538	The Laughing Fox	Frank Gruber	1946
539	Laughing Boy	Olive LaFarge	1944
540	My Name is Aram	William Saroyan	1945
541	Mr. Pinkerton Grows a Beard	David Frome
542	Murder Enters the Picture	W.A. Barber & R.F. Schabelitz
543	Shell of Death	Nicholas Blake	1944
544	The Ten Holy Horrors	Francis Beeding
545	The Talking Clock	Frank Gruber	1944
546	O’Halloran’s Luck and Other Stories	Stephen Vincent Benet
547	Death of My Aunt	C.H.B. Kitchin
548	Black-Out in Gretley	J.B. Priestly	1944
549	Murders in Volume 2	Elizabeth Daly
550	To Walk the Night	William Sloane	1944
551	Mr. Littlejohn	Martin Flavin
552	Murder in Trinidad	John W. Vandercrook	1944
553	Nine Times Nine	H.H. Holmes	1945
554	Tales of Piracy, Crime and Ghosts	Daniel Defoe
555	Mr. Toby Finds Murder	Sturges Mason Schley	1945
556	The Mycenaid	C. Everett Cooper
557	McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon	Joseph Mitchell
558	Porgy	DuBose Heyward
559	Death of a Saboteur	Hulbert Footner	1945
560	Murder in Fiji	John W. Vandercrook	1945
561	Young Man with a Horn	Dorothy Baker	1945
562	Simon Lash, Private Detective	Frank Gruber
563	Appointment in Samarra	John O’Hara	1945
564	Maigret Travels South	Georges Simenon	1945
565	Step in the Dark	Ethel Lina White	1945
566	Say Yes to Murder	W.T. Bollard	1945
567	Trouble in July	Erskine Caldwell	1945
568	Night Flight	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	1945
569	Conceived in Liberty	Howard Fast	1945
570	And Berry Came Too	Dornford Yates	1945
571	Death Down East	Eleanor Blake	1945
572	The Good Soldier Schweik	Jaroslav Hasek
573	The Turning Wheels	Stuart Cloete	1946
574	A Passage to India	E.M. Forster	1946
575	The Cask	Freeman Wills Crofts
576	The Lovely Lady	D.H. Lawrence	1946
577	Manhattan Transfer	John Dos Passos	1946
578	Bread and Wine	Ignazio Silone	1946
579	The Patience of Maigret	Georges Simenon	1946
580	Pal Joey	John O’Hara	1946
581	God’s Little Acre	Erskine Caldwell	1946
582	Thunder on the Left	Christopher Morley	1946
583	Vein of Iron	Ellen Glasgow	1946
584	Dead Reckoning	Francis Bonnamy	1946
585	Winesburg, Ohio	Sherwood Anderson	1946
586	The Rasp	Philip MacDonald	1946
587	Martin Eden	Jack London	1946
588	The Unvanquished	Howard Fast	1946
589	Back Street	Fannie Hurst	1946
590	Orlando	Virginia Woolf	1946
591	Mildred Pierce	James M. Cain	1946
592	Malice in Wonderland	Nicholas Blake	1946
593	Handbook of Politics	Lowell Mellett	1946
594	Heavenly Discourse	Charles Erskine Scott Wood	1946
595	Cabbages and Kings	O. Henry	1946
596	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers	1946
597	The Summing Up	W. Somerset Maugham	1946
598	Put out the Light	Ethel Lina White	1946
599	Tortilla Flat	John Steinbeck	1946
600	Montana Rides	Evan Evans	1946
601	Jurgen	James Branch Cabell	1946
602	The New Veteran	Charles G. Bolte	1946
603	Short Stories	James T. Farrell	1946
604	Trio	Dorothy Baker	1946
605	Cimarron	Edna Ferber	1946
606	A Rope of Sand	Francis Bonnamy	1946
607	Pygmalion	Bernard Shaw	1946
608	Major Barbara	Bernard Shaw	1946
609	Saint Joan	Bernard Shaw	1946
610	Lady Chatterly’s Lover	D.H.Lawrence	1946
611	Messer Marco Polo	Donn Byrne	1946
612	Christianity Takes a Stand	Ed. William Scarlett	1946
613	The Odyssey	Homer	1946
614	Hoyle	Albert H. Morehead	1946
615	Lady into Fox & A Man in the Zoo	David Garnett	1946
616	The Eleven of Diamonds	Baynard Kendrick	1946
617	Saratoga Trunk	Edna Ferber	1947
618	The Perennial Boarder	Phoebe Atwood	1947
619	Almayer’s Folly	Joseph Conrad	1947
620	Lady Chatterley’s Lover	D.H.Lawrence	1947
621	Serenade	James M. Cain	1947
622	Looking for a Bluebird	Joseph Wechsberg	1947
623	The Silver Jackass	Frank Gruber	1947
624	Velvet Well	John Gearon	1947
625	Daisy Miller	Henry James	1947
626	The Purple Onion Mystery	H. Ashbrook	1947
627	Tobacco Road	Erskine Caldwell	1947
628	The Innocent Voyage	Richard Hughes	1947
629	The King is Dead on Queen Street	Francis Bonnamy	1947
630	Mother Wore Tights	Miriam Young	1947
631	A Funeral in Eden	Paul McGuire	1947
632	Sanctuary	William Faulkner	1947
633	Great Son	Edna Ferber	1947
634	The Unbearable Bassington	Saki	1947
635	Blood on Lake Louisa	Baynard Kendrick	1947
636	The Voice of Bugle Ann	Mackinley Kantor	1947
637	Hotel Splendide	Bemelmans	1947
638	Portrait of Jennie	Robert Nathan	1947
639	So Big	Edna Ferber	1947
640	Cartoons	Steinberg	1947
641	Murder!	Alan Wynd	1947
642	The Kiss of Death	Eleazar Lipsky	1947
643	Young Lanigan	James T. Farrell	1947
644	Short Stories	Thomas Wolfe	1947
645	Sonf of the Whip	Evan Evans	1947
646	Journeyman	Erskine Caldwell	1947
647	Uncle Tom’s Children	Richard Wright	1947
648	Deadly Weopon	Wade Miller	1947
649	The Tyranny of Sex	Ludwig Lewisohn	1947
650	American Beauty	Edna Ferber	1947
651	Market for Murder	Frank Gruber	1948
652	The New Quiz Book	Albert H. Morehead	1948
653	Show Boat	Edna Ferber	1948
654	Great Western Stories	America’s Foremost Western Writers	1948
655	Great Murder Stories	Anon.	1948
656	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Carlo Levi	1948
657	Desire Me	Leonhard Frank	1948
658	Death of a Swagman	Arthur W. Upfield	1948
659	The Wild Palms	William Faulkner	1948
660	100 American Poems	Selden Rodman, ed.	1948
661	Tragic Ground	Erskine Caldwell	1948
662	Invitation to the Waltz	Rosamond Lehmann	1948
663	As Good As Dead	Thomas B. Dewey	1948
664	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	1948
665	Strange Fruit	Lillian Smith	1948
666	Valley of Hunted Men	Paul Evan Lehman	1948
667	The Pinkerton Case Book	Alan Hynd	1948
668	The Dim View	Basil Heater	1948
669	The Caballero	Johnston McCulley	1948
670	They Shoot Horses Don’t They	Horace McCoy	1948
671	Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler	1948
672	Cattle Kingdom	Alan LeMay	1948
673	Sons of the Saddle	William MacLeod Raine	1948
674	Mine Own Execution	Nigel Balchin	1948
G1	The Penguin Guide to California	Carl Maas	1947
GBS1	Caesar and Cleopatra	George Bernard Shaw	1951
GBS2	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	1951
GBS3	Saint Joan	George Bernard Shaw	1951
GBS4	Major Barbara	George Bernard Shaw	1951
GBS5	Androcles and the Lion	George Bernard Shaw	1951
GBS6	Arms and the Man	George Bernard Shaw	1952
GBS7	Candida	George Bernard Shaw	1952
GBS8	Man and Superman	George Bernard Shaw	1952
GBS9	The Doctor’s Dilemma	George Bernard Shaw	1954
GBS10	The Devil’s Disciple	George Bernard Shaw	1955
P1	Public Opinion	Walter Lippmann	1946
P2	Patterns of Culture	Ruth Benedict	1946
P3	You and Music	Christian Darnton	1946
P4	The Birth and Death of the Sun	George Gamow	1946
P5	An Enemy of the People: Anti-Semitism	James Parkes	1946
P6	What Happened in History	V. Gordon Childe	1946
P7	The Physiology of Sex	Kenneth Walker	1946
P8	The Mathematician’s Delight	W.W. Sawyer	1946
P9	The Weather	Raymond Bush & George Kindle	1946
P10	America’s Role in the World Economy	Alvin H. Hansen	1946
P11	Heredity, Race and Society	Th. Dobzhansky & L.C. Dunn	1946
P12	The Story of Human Birth	Alan F. Guttmacher	1947
P13	Thomas Jefferson on Democracy	Thomas Jefferson	1947
P14	Introducing Shakespeare	G.B. Harrison	1947
P15	Emerson: The Basic Writings of America’s Sage	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1947
P16	The Personality of Animals	H. Munro Fox	1947
P17	Human Breeding and Survival	Guy Burch	1947
P18	Is Marriage Necessary?	George H. Bartlett	1947
P19	Good Reading	The Committee on College Reading	1947
P20	An Introduction to Modern Architecture	Elizabeth Mock & J.M. Richards	1947
P21	The Odyssey	Homerus	1947
P22	Religion and the Rise of Capitalism	R.H. Tawney	1947
P23	Heredity, Race and Society	Th. Dobzhansky & L.C. Dunn	1947
P24	Sweden: The Middle Way	Marquis Childs	1948
P25	Philosophy in a New Key	Susanne Langer	1948
S1	New Ways of War	Tom Wintringham	1940
S81	Russia	Bernard Pares	1943
S82	Aircraft Recognition	R.A. Saville-Sneath	1943
S201	What’s That Plane	Walter Pitkin, Jr.	1942
S202	New Soldier’s Handbook		1942
S203	Guerilla Warfare	“Yank” Levy	1942
S204	How the Jap Army Fights	Paul Thompson	1942
S206	How Russia Prepared	Maurice Edelman	1942
S207	Christianity and Social Order	William Temple	1942
S209	Americans vs. Germans		1942
S210	Modern Battle	Paul Thompson	1942
S211	The Good Soldier Schweik	Jaroslav Hasek	1942
S212	Psychology and the Fighting Man		1943
S213	Empire in the Changing World	W.K. Hancock	1943
S214	Hitler’s Second Army	Alfred Hancock	1943
S215	Handbook for Army Wives and Mothers	Catherine Redmond	1943
S216	A History of the War	Rudolf Modley	1943
S217	The Next Germany		1943
S218	Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder	Augusta Clawson	1943
S219	The Moon is Down	John Steinbeck	1943
S220	Guadacanal Diary	Richard Tregaskis	1943
S221	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Ted Lawson	1944
S222	The British Navy’s Air Arm	Owen Rutter	1944
S223	They Were Expendable	W.L. White	1944
S224	A Short History of the Army and Navy	Fletcher Pratt	1944
S225	G.I. Sketch Book	Aimee Crane	1944
S226	The Battle is the Pay-off	Ralph Ingersoll	1944
S227	This is the Navy	Gilbert Cant	1944
S229	Psychology for the Returning Serviceman	Marjorie van de Water	1945
S230	I Knew Your Soldier	Eleanor Stevenson & Peter Martin	1945
S231	Cartoons for Fighters	Frank Brandt	1945
S237	Pipeline to Battle	Peter Rainier	1945
S238	Storm	George Stewart	1945
S239	This is the Navy	Gilbert Cant	1945
S240	Island Victory	S.L.A. Marshall	1945