# Zephyr Books

Zephyr Books were published by The Continental Book Company, a subsidiary of the Swedish Bonnier Group, from 1942 to 1950. The imprint took its name from the Greek god of the western wind, indicating its speciality.
During World War II no books in English could be imported into Sweden. The Continental Book Company was established in 1942 with the object of publishing books in English in Stockholm. The intended market comprised Sweden and other parts of the European continent where it was possible to sell English books in spite of the war, namely Switzerland, Portugal and Turkey. Considerable quantities of Zephyr Books were also exported to Hungary, Italy, occupied Denmark and the non-occupied zone of France.
After the war it was decided to continue, and even expand, the series. The intention was to replace the English book series published by Tauchnitz before the war. The total destruction of the Leipzig book industry made it clear that Tauchnitz would not be able to start work again for some time. Sweden, on the other hand, had its means of production intact and abundant supplies of paper.
Publication was extended as fast as the continental market was reopened for freer trade, and the number of volumes was doubled within a year. The series was given a distinctive note by its "special volumes", such as its anthologies of prose and verse, and an edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" with illustrations by Mervyn Peake, which appeared as a Zephyr Book in 1946, two years before it was published in London.
Soon, however, competition from British and American publishers became too strong, and the publication of the Zephyr series ended in 1950. By then 167 volumes had been published.
The covers were colour-coded depending on the content: red for modern American authors, blue for modern English authors, green for classics, yellow for detective fiction and thrillers, grey for anthologies and special volumes, light blue for poetry and drama, and purple for memoirs and biographies.

## List of Zephyr Books

| Book number | Author | Title | Years printed |
| 001 | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947 |
| 002 | Dorothy Parker | After Such Pleasures | 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946 |
| 003 | Clarence Day | Life with Father | 1942, 1944, 1945 |
| 004 | Charles Morgan | The Voyage | 1942, 1944, 1945 |
| 005 | Christopher Morley | Kitty Foyle | 1942 |
| 006 | William Shakespeare | Six Plays | 1943, 1946 |
| 007 | John Steinbeck | Tortilla Flat | 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1949 |
| 008 | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 1943, 1945, 1946 |
| 009 | Freeman Wills Crofts | The Pit-Prop Syndicate | 1943, 1945 |
| 010 | Dorothy Sayers | Murder Must Advertise | 1943, 1944, 1946 |
| 011 | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1943, 1945, 1947 |
| 012 | Louis Bromfield | Twenty-four Hours | 1943, 1944, 1946, 1949 |
| 013 | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur 1 | 1943, 1946 |
| 014 | Howard Spring | Fame is the Spur 2 | 1943, 1946 |
| 015 | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 1943, 1944, 1945 |
| 016 | John Steinbeck | The Moon is Down | 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 |
| 017 | James Hilton | Random Harvest | 1943, 1945 |
| 018 | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 1943, 1945 |
| 019 | Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon | 1943, 1946 |
| 020 | Edna Ferber | Saratoga Trunk | 1943, 1944, 1945 |
| 021 | W. Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage 1 | 1943, 1945, 1949 |
| 022 | W. Somerset Maugham | Of Human Bondage 2 | 1943, 1945, 1949 |
| 023 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | 1943 |
| 024 | Dorothy Sayers | Clouds of Witness | 1943, 1949 |
| 025 | Lytton Strachey | Queen Victoria | 1943, 1945 |
| 026 | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943, 1945, 1946 |
| 027 | John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps | 1944, 1946 |
| 028 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | 1943, 1947, 1948 |
| 029 | Cecil Scott Forester | The Happy Return | 1944, 1945 |
| 030 | Cecil Scott Forester | A Ship of the Line | 1944, 1946 |
| 031 | Cecil Scott Forester | Flying Colours | 1944, 1946 |
| 032 | Ngaio Marsh | Enter a Murderer | 1944, 1945 |
| 033 | P. G. Wodehouse | Money in the Bank | 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947 |
| 034 | Pearl Buck | Dragon Seed | 1943, 1945, 1947 |
| 035 | Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | 1944, 1945 |
| 036 | Ronald Fraser | Financial Times | 1944, 1946 |
| 037 | James Hilton | And Now Good-Bye | 1944, 1946 |
| 038 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair 1 | 1944, 1946, 1947 |
| 039 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair 2 | 1944, 1946, 1947 |
| 040 | Freeman Wills Crofts | Man Overboard! | 1944, 1946 |
| 041 | John Steinbeck | The Long Valley | 1944, 1946, 1948 |
| 042 | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | 1944, 1947 |
| 043 | Dorothy Parker | Laments for the Living | 1944, 1946 |
| 044 | Charles Nordhoff | Mutiny! | 1944 |
| 045 | John Boynton Priestley | Daylight on Saturday | 1945 |
| 046 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | 1944, 1946 |
| 047 | Dorothy Sayers | Lord Peter Views the Body | 1944, 1946 |
| 048 | Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler | 1945 |
| 049 | Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Mystery | 1945, 1947 |
| 050 | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | 1944, 1947 |
| 051 | Ebba Dalin, Editor | The Zephyr Book of American Verse | 1945 |
| 052 | Ebba Dalin, Editor | The Zephyr Book of American Prose | 1945 |
| 053 | Graham Greene | The Power and the Glory | 1945, 1947, 1949 |
| 054 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling | 1945 |
| 055 | William Saroyan | The Human Comedy | 1944 |
| 056 | George Meredith | The Egoist | 1945, 1947 |
| 057 | Lin Yutang | The Importance of Living | 1944, 1945, 1948 |
| 058 | Peter de Polnay | Water on the Steps | 1944 |
| 059 | Michael Sadleir | Fanny by Gaslight | 1945 |
| 060 | M. and R. Bottrall, Editors | The Zephyr Book of English Verse | 1945, 1948 |
| 061 | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | 1945, 1946, 1947 |
| 062 | Anthony Berkeley | The Silk Stocking Murders | 1946 |
| 063 | George Eliot | Silas Marner | 1945 |
| 064 | Anthony Thorne | I'm a Stranger Here Myself | 1945 |
| 065 | Joyce Horner | The Wind and the Rain | 1945, 1946 |
| 066 | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | 1945 |
| 067 | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | 1946 |
| 068 | William Faulkner | The Wild Palms | 1945, 1947 |
| 069 | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | 1945, 1946 |
| 070 | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | 1945 |
| 071 | W. Somerset Maugham | The Razor's Edge | 1945, 1948 |
| 072 | Elizabeth Bowen | To the North | 1946 |
| 073 | Erskine Caldwell | God's Little Acre | 1945 |
| 074 | C. S. Forester | The Captain from Connecticut | 1945 |
| 075 | Charles Nordhoff | Botany Bay | 1945 |
| 076 | Stella Gibbons | The Rich House | 1945 |
| 077 | Nevil Shute | Pastoral | 1945, 1946 |
| 078 | John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | 1945, 1946 |
| 079 | G. K. Chesterton | The Scandal of Father Brown | 1945 |
| 080 | A. E. W. Mason | Musk and Amber | 1946 |
| 081 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark | The Ox-Bow Incident | 1946 |
| 082 | Dorothy Sayers | Unnatural Death | 1946 |
| 083 | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | 1945, 1948 |
| 084 | G. K. Chesterton | Charles Dickens | 1946 |
| 085 | T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral | 1945, 1948 |
| 086 | Erskine Caldwell | Tobacco Road | 1945, 1947 |
| 087 | Dorothy Sayers | The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | 1948, 1950 |
| 088 | Harold Nicolson | Some People | 1946 |
| 089 | Graham Greene | A Gun for Sale | 1947 |
| 090 | Margaret Storm Jameson | Cousin Honoré | 19?? |
| 091 | Francis Iles | Malice Aforethought | 1946 |
| 092 | Dorothy Sayers | Strong Poison | 1949 |
| 093 | Ernest Raymond | We, the Accused | 1946 |
| 094 | Cecil Scott Forester | The Ship | 1945, 1946 |
| 095 | John Buchan | The Three Hostages | 1947 |
| 096 | Ernest Raymond | For Them that Trespass | 1947 |
| 097 | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest | 1946 |
| 098 | Helen MacInnes | Above Suspicion | 1947 |
| 099 | Christine Weston | Indigo | 1947 |
| 100 | Artur Lundkvist, Editor | Twelve Modern Poets | 1946 |
| 101 | James Aldridge | Signed with Their Honour | 1945 |
| 102 | Kate O'Brien | The Last of Summer | 1948 |
| 103 | Rachel Field | And Now Tomorrow | 1945 |
| 104 | Edith Sitwell | The English Eccentrics | 1947 |
| 105 | Pearl Buck | The Promise | 1945 |
| 106 | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1948 |
| 107 | John Boynton Priestley | Black-out in Gretley | 1945 |
| 108 | E. X. Ferrars | Neck in a Noose | 1947 |
| 109 | Osbert Sitwell | Open the Door | 1947 |
| 110 | Frank Tilsley | I'd do it Again | 1947 |
| 111 | Kate O'Brien | The Land of Spices | 1947 |
| 112 | Carson McCullers | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 1947 |
| 113 | Mignon G. Eberhart | Speak no Evil | 1947, 1948 |
| 114 | Charles R. Jackson | The Lost Weekend | 1946 |
| 115 | Osbert Sitwell | Before the Bombardment | 19?? |
| 116 | Rose Franken | Claudia | 1945 |
| 117 | Eudora Welty | A Curtain of Green | 1947 |
| 118 | Carson McCullers | Reflections in a Golden Eye | 1947 |
| 119 | Phyllis Bottome | The Mortal Storm | 1947 |
| 120 | William Faulkner | Sanctuary | 1947 |
| 121 | Mignon G. Eberhart | Wings of Fear | 1947 |
| 122 | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield 1 | 1947 |
| 123 | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield 2 | 1947 |
| 124 | George Moore | Esther Waters | 1947 |
| 125 | Gertrude Stein | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | 1947 |
| 126 | Christopher Isherwood | Goodbye to Berlin | 1947 |
| 127 | Walter De la Mare | Memoirs of a Midget | 1948 |
| 128 | A. E. W. Mason | Königsmark | 1947 |
| 129 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1950 |
| 130 | Jane Austen | Emma | 1947 |
| 131 | Walter de la Mare | The Return | 1948 |
| 132 | Edgar Allan Poe | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1947 |
| 133 | Edward Morgan Forster | Howards End | 1948 |
| 137 | David Cecil | The Young Melbourne | 1949 |
| 139 | Bruce Marshall | All Glorious Within | 1946 |
| 140 | Nevil Shute | Most Secret | 1947 |
| 144 | Eugene O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra | 1948 |
| 146 | Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises | 1947 |
| 147 | Daphne Du Maurier | Hungry Hill | 1946, 1947 |
| 148 | Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep | 1947 |
| 149 | Edison Marshall | Benjamin Blake | 1946 |
| 151 | Christopher Isherwood | Prater Violet | 1946 |
| 152 | Nevil Shute | Pied Piper | 1947 |
| 153 | Samuel Shellabarger | Captain from Castile 1 | 1947 |
| 154 | Samuel Shellabarger | Captain from Castile 2 | 1947 |
| 155 | Nigel Balchin | Mine Own Executioner | 1948 |
| 156 | P. G. Wodehouse | Joy in the Morning | 1947 |
| 157 | Edmund Wilson | Memoirs of Hecate County | 1947 |
| 158 | Henry James | The Aspern Papers | 1947 |
| 159 | Henry James | The Turn of the Screw | 1947 |
| 161 | Erskine Childers | The Riddle of the Sands | 1948 |
| 162 | Raymond Chandler | The Lady in the Lake | 1948 |
| 166 | John Masefield | Sard Harker | 19?? |
| 167 | Irving Stone | Lust for Life 1 | 1949 |
| 168 | Irving Stone | Lust for Life 2 | 1949 |
| 169 | George Hopley | Night has a thousand eyes | 1948 |
| 170 | Margaret Storm Jameson | The Other Side | 1947 |
| 179 | Dorothy Sayers | Have his Carcase | 1948 |
| 180 | William Saroyan | The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze | 1948 |
| 181 | Kenneth Fearing | The Big Clock | 1948 |
| 188 | H. E. Bates | A House of Women | 1948 |
| 199 | John O'Hara | Appointment in Samarra | 1948 |
| 201 | Raymond Chandler | The High Window | 1948 |
| 209 | William Sansom | Fireman Flower and Other Stories | 1949 |
| 211 | Denys Val Baker | The White Rock | 1948 |
| 223 | Carter Dickson | She Died a Lady | 1948 |
| 227 | James Hilton | Contango | 1948 |
| 228 | W. Somerset Maugham | The Gentleman in the Parlour | 1949 |
| 229 | Ernest Hemingway | To Have and Have Not | 1947 |
| 230 | Betty MacDonald | The Egg and I | 1949 |