Literature Vintage Book Bundle - Capra Chapbook, Reader's Guide, Penguin Publishing History

This bundle contains three books.

1) The Penguin Story. Softcover. 124 pages. 1956. 

"This brief account of the development of Penguin Books, published to mark its twenty-first birthday in July 1956, has been written by Sir William Emrys Williams, C.B.E., who has been associated with the firm for twenty years. The book has been designed by the Penguin typographer, Hans Schmoller."

2) The Reader's Guide A Guide and Companion for the General Reader. Softcover. 1960. 350 pages.

"A panel of distinguished scholars and scientists advise you how and what to read in: anthropology, archaeology, art, belles lettres, biography, classics, history, music, natural history, novels, philosophy, plays, poetry, politics, psychology, religion, science, sociology. This planned syllabus for profitable reading contains over 1800 descriptive recommendations of the essential books in all these fields of knowledge and interest."

3) The Capra Chapbook Anthology. Softcover. 1979. 348 pages. 

Henry Miller, Faye Kicknosway, Lawrence Durrell, Ross Macdonald, Ray Bradbury, Victor Perera, Colin Wilson, James Houston, William Nolan, Ursula Le Guin, Mark Vinz. "Chapbook - a modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant deals or chapmen consisting chiefly of small pamphlets of popular tales, ballads, tracts, etc."