For the US publisher, see Pelican Publishing Company.
Pelican Books
Four Pelican book covers, showing the gradual shift in the design. From left – 1937 (three bands), 1955 (grid), 1969 (illustrated), and 2007 (a "Penguin Celebrations" throwback edition)
Parent company
Penguin Random House
Founded
1937
Founders
Allen Lane V. K. Krishna Menon
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Headquarters location
London
Publication types
Books
Official website
pelicanbooks.com
Pelican Books is a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books[1] founded by Allen Lane and V. K. Krishna Menon.[2] It publishes inexpensive paperbacks of academic topics intended to reach a broader audience. The imprint originally operated from 1937 to 1984,[3] and was relaunched in April 2014.[4][5]
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Princeton University Press. Finley, M.I. The World of Odysseus, London. PelicanBooks (1962). Hall, Edith (2008), The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History...
Cambridge University Press (1989), p. 51. Andrewes, Antony, Greek Society, PelicanBooks (1971), p. 254 f. Rothbard, Murray N., Economic Thought Before Adam...
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& Faber ISBN 978-0571253432 (paper) Dunbar. 2014. Human Evolution. PelicanBooks ISBN 978-0141975313 Dunbar. 2016. Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior...
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140, Oxford University Press, 1976 Nora Kershaw Chadwick, The Celts, PelicanBooks, 1970 C. Thomas Cairney, Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland...
Penguin Books. pp. 230 & 294. Milyukov, Pavel. The elections to the second state Duma. pp. 91–92., is quoted by Trotsky, Leon (1971). 1905. PelicanBooks. pp...
short introduction to the subject published as part of the relaunch of PelicanBooks in the United Kingdom in 2014. In it Figes argues for the need to see...
(help) Pevsner, Nikolaus (1964). An Outline of European Architecture. PelicanBooks. ISBN 978-0-14-061613-2. Poisson, Georges; Poisson, Olivier (2014)....
Greek Society. PelicanBooks, 1981, pp. 247–248 Aristophanes: Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds A. H. Sommerstein (ed), Penguin Books 1975, p. 9 footnote...
resurrection. Davidson, H.R. Ellis (1964). Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. PelicanBooks. ISBN 0140136274[page needed] Gutenbrunner, Siegfried (1936). Die germanischen...
Harmondsworth: PelicanBooks, 1981. Karl Marx, "The general law of accumulation", in: Capital Volume 1. Harmondsworth: PelicanBooks, 1976. Steven Mufson...
Matthew (1970). Selected Prose. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-043058-5. Barrow, R (1949). The Romans. Penguin/PelicanBooks. Barchiesi, A (2001). Speaking Volumes:...
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