Prion Lost Treasures
Issued by the now-defunct Prion Books, Ltd., Prion Lost Treasures was an intriguing series of reissues, ranging from works of military history to three novels by the Hungarian writer, Lajos Zilahy, to Burgo Partridge’s A History of Orgies. Although Prion has been taken over by Carlton Books, many of the titles are still available from Amazon and other booksellers.
• The Atrocities of the Pirates, Aaron Smith
• The Bourbons of Naples (1734-1825), Harold Acton
• Byron: the Last Journey, Harold Nicolson
• The Case of Sergeant Grischa, Arnold Zweig
• Century in Scarlet, Lajos Zilahy
• The Dilessi Murders: Greek Brigands and English Hostages, Romily Jenkins
• Disraeli, Robert Blake
• Doom, William Gerhardie
• The Dukays, Lajos Zilahy
• Dylan Thomas in America, John Malcolm Brinnin
• A History of Orgies, Burgo Partridge
• Kabul Catastrophe: the Invasion and Retreat, 1839-1842, Patrick Macrory
• A King’s Story: the Memoirs of HRH the Duke of Windsor, HRH the Duke of Windsor
• The Marne: the Battle that Saved Paris and Changed the Course of the First World War, Georges Blond
• The Marquise of Montrose, John Buchan
• Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, edited by Lucy Norton
• Mozart, Annette Kolb
• Napoleon and His Marshals, A.G. Macdonnell
• Napoleon’s Letters, edited by J.M. Thompson
• Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851, Earl of Stanhope
• Poets in a Landscape, Gilbert Highet
• The River War, Winston Churchill
• Sardinian Brigade, Emilio Lussu
• Two Prisoners, Lajos Zilahy
• Verdun, Jules Romains
• With Lawrence in Arabia, Lowell Thomas
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The last name of Harold Nicolson is misspeled on this Prion list.
I should know about A History of Orgies by Burgo Partridge, as I was the one who suggested it to Prion for a reprint! How about Lilian Bowes Lyon, author and poet, cousin to the late Queen Mother, of whom there is a biography in the pipeline. Her entire backlist is out of print, most of which is held by Jonathan Cape, now part of Penguin Random House. Most of it is poetry, and her admirers included Edith Sitwell, Philip Larkin, Cecil Day Lewis, Virginia Woolf and E M Forster. If you want to clue yourself up on her life and works, check out my little article, it’s somewhere on the web, called Saint and Scarecrow. As she died in 1949, her work is soon to be out of copyright, so I’m sure some enterprising publisher will rush her work out to coincide with the biography.
The River War
Winston Churchill’s first hand account of the conquest of the Sudan.
I recovered this gem from a pile of books, about to be burnt..!
WC knows how to capture the reader, with his full and detailed description of all the peoples involved.
It had to read it twice.
Now it stands proudly, with my other fine but small collection of books.