Series Note: The Panther Books series featured paperback fiction and non-fiction, including titles from internationally known authors. From 1954 it concentrated on publishing reprints of best-selling works from other publishers.
Some of the authors published in the series included Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Hermann Hesse, Ursula Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Henry Miller, Paul Scott, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In 1952 Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd. in London began publishing books emblazoned with the line "A Panther Book" or "Panther Science Fiction". Around 1968 Panther Books was acquired by the British publishing firm, Granada Group, and became part of the Granada Publishing Limited. For a time the Panther Books series was published by Panther Books Ltd., which was in fact an imprint of Granada Publishing Limited. During this period publishers of Panther Books included Triad Panther and Panther Grafton, which were also Granada imprints.
In 1983 sold Panther Books to another U.K. publishing firm, William Collins. In 1989 William Collins merged with Harper & Row , New York, with the British part of the publishing business (including Panther) being run by HarperCollins.
Further Reading
Hamilton and Panther Books 1945-1956, With a Guide to Their Value
by Stephen Holland and Richard Williams
Dragonby Press, 1987 (British Paperback Checklist 31)
Panther Books 501-1200, With a Guide to Their Value
by Richard Williams
Dragonby Press, 2000. Second Edition. (British Paperback Checklist 15)
Books Published in the Panther Books Series: A Select List
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
by A. E. Van Vogt
1959
Cocksure
by Mordecai Richler
1960
Intimacy
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1960
Some Came Running
by James Jones
1960
The Key
by Junichiro Tanizaki
1962
Behold, Here's Poison
by Georgette Heyer
1963
Death in the Stocks
by Georgette Heyer
1963
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi
Translated by Sir Richard Burton
1963
The Satyricon
by Petronius
1963
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
1964
Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Carson
1964
Demian
by Hermann Hesse
1965
Landlocked
by Doris Lessing
1965
The Martian Way and Other Science Fiction Stories
by Isaac Asimov
1965
The Merry Muses of Caledonia : A Collection of Bawdy Folksongs
by Robert Burns
1965
The Unbearable Bassington and Other Stories
by Saki
1965
The Black Madonna
by Doris Lessing
1966
Conditionally Human
by Walter M. Miller
1966
The Immoral Tradition: Prostitution & Society: Volume I: The Pretense of Love
by Fernando Henriques
1966
The Immoral Tradition: Prostitution & Society: Volume II: Europe & The New World
by Fernando Henriques
1966
The Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry Miller
1966
Winter in July
by Doris Lessing
1966
The Lure of the Limerick
by W. S. Baring-Gould
1967
Sell Your Way to Success
by Alfred Tack
1967
Sometimes a Great Nation
by Ken Kesey
1967
Horror Movies: An Illustrated Survey
by Carlos Clarens
1968
Diary of a Mad Old Man
by Junichiro Tanizaki
1968
The Function of the Organism
by Wilhelm Reich
1968
The Great Extermination: A Guide to Anglo-Saxon Cupidity, Wckedness and Waste
A. J. Marshall, ed.
1968
Angelo
by Jean Giono
1969
The Death of Artemio Cruz
by Carlos Fuentes
1969
The Purple Cloud
by M. P Shiel
1969
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1970
The Valachi Papers
by Peter Maas
1970
Why Are We in Vietnam?
by Norman Mailer
1970
Mozart: His Character, His Work
by Albert Einstein
1971
Birdless Summer
by Han Suyin
1972
The Crippled Tree
by Han Suyin
1972
The Dice Man
by Luke Rinehart
1972
The Erotic World of Faery
by Maureen Duffy
1972
The Journey to the East
by Hermann Hesse
1972
Sleep and his Brother
by Peter Dickinson
1972
Blue Movie
by Terry Southern
1973
The Essential Lenny Bruce
by Lenny Bruce. Edited by John Cohen.
1973
The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov
1973
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula LeGuin.
1973
The Martian Chronicles (The Silver Locusts)
by Ray Bradbury
1973
Tne Osterman Weekend
by Robert Ludlum
1973
The Raj Quartet
- Vol. 1: The Jewel in the Crown
- Vol. 2: The Day of the Scorpion
- Vol. 3: The Towers of Silence
- Vol. 4: A Division of Spoils
1973-1977
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula LeGuin
1974
Going Home
by Doris Lessing
1974
The Palliser Novels:
- Can You Forgive Her?
- The Eustace Diamonds
- The Duke’s Children
- The Prime Minister
- Phineas Redux
- Phineas Finn
by Anthony Trollope
1974. Boxed set of six volumes.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip Jose Farmer
1974
100 Years of Science Fiction Illustration
by Anthony Frewin
1975
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1975
The Dispossessed
by Ursula LeGuin
1975
Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
1975
A Mortal Flower
by Han Suyin
1975
The Outcasts of Foolgarah
by Frank Hardy
1975
Yesterday’s Spy
by Len Deighton
1976
A High Wind in Jamaica
by Richard Hughes
1976
Chrome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley
1977
Death in the Afternoon
by Ernest Hemingway
1977
Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
1977
Diamonds are Forever
by Ian Fleming
1977
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
1977
To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway
1977
Staying On
by Paul Scott
1978
Hothouse
by Brian Aldiss
1979
Snakes and Ladders
by Dirk Bogarde
1979
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
1984
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
1985
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