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Showing posts with label White Circle Ceylon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Circle Ceylon. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Wm. Collins's Ceylon Editions Part II
Another of the Ceylonese White Circles from the Scottish-British publisher Wm. Collins Sons & Co. This one is joined by the Indian and Canadian editions. The Indian and Ceylonese editions are undated but circa 1945.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Wm. Collins's Ceylon Editions Part I
The Scottish-British publisher Wm. Collins Sons & Co. published paperbacks in the 1940s and 1950s in a number of countries, including Ceylon. Published in Colombo [nd] by W.A.R. Collins Dames Don't Care is one of eighteen listed at the back of the book. The spine was misprinted with another title and the publisher glued a strip with the correct title over the error. The two Canadian editions join the one from Ceylon.
White Circle Q - 1942
White Circle Q back
White Circle 245 - 1945
White Circle 245 back
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Peter Cheyney and Collins White Circles From Ceylon
Back in August 2009, in my third post on this blog, I talked about the Wm. Collins Sons & Co. White Circle imprint published in India in the 1940s and 50s. I noted the four books I owned and asked how many Indian White Circle editions are there? Recently a correspondent provided me with a list of 150 of them! He also gave me a list of 20 White Circles from Ceylon. I have never seen or heard of these. I don't have any Ceylon White Circles to show but there are 12 titles published as White Circles in Ceylon and Canada.
The most popular author among the Ceylon White Circles was Peter Cheyney with 5 titles. Cheyney, with 24 titles, was the second most popular Canadian WC author. Here are three of the titles seen in both countries. All were first published from 1940 to 1944 by the British parent company Wm. Collins & Sons.
Cheyney (1896-1951), if the number of paperback editions of his books is a guide, has to be among the most popular authors of the twentieth century. An entertaining website says that 5 million of his books were selling per year at the post war peak.
The most popular author among the Ceylon White Circles was Peter Cheyney with 5 titles. Cheyney, with 24 titles, was the second most popular Canadian WC author. Here are three of the titles seen in both countries. All were first published from 1940 to 1944 by the British parent company Wm. Collins & Sons.
Cheyney (1896-1951), if the number of paperback editions of his books is a guide, has to be among the most popular authors of the twentieth century. An entertaining website says that 5 million of his books were selling per year at the post war peak.
White Circle 211 - 1944
White Circle 211 back
White Circle 216 - 1945
White Circle 216 back
White Circle 277 - 1946
White Circle 277 back
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