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The Norton Library History of England was a series published by W.W. Norton & Company in the 1960s, and reprinted into the late 1980s / early 1990s, reprints of volumes originally published by Thomas Nelson. Volumes cover the history of England from Roman contact and conquest up to 1955. Seven volumes were published, with a "Forthcoming" eighth volume entitled "The Tudor Age: 1485-1603", alternately attributed to either Margaret Bowker or M.E. James, which does not appear to have ever been completed. The series has been numbered accordingly, with the missing volume four left out.

The Indispensable Library was a series of reprints of titles from the Viking Portable Library, published by the Book Society of New York approximately between 1948 and 1952. Books were originally slip-cased in plain cardboard and wrapped in a glassine jacket.

A series of anthologies of great authors and important works, first published in 1943 by the Viking Press. The series was created by American author and critic Alexander Woollcott. By the end of the 1950s, the original sixty-three hardcover volumes were being replaced by paperbound editions. These continued to be revised, as a few more new volumes appeared, into the early 1970s. Some hardcover editions appeared once again in the early 1970s, including the Portable Saul Bellow and the Portable Graham Greene, but the paperback versions would remain the preferred format. The books were numbered after the first ten volumes (and most of the first ten later numbered retroactively), with a number such as "P51" or "51" appearing on the sail of the Viking ship which adorned the spines of the Viking Press editions. In 1975, the Viking Press was purchased by Penguin Books, and new editions of the Viking Portable Library began to appear. In many cases, the books in new livery were identical to hardcover editions of the 1940s and '50s, but Penguin also added new titles to the range. A further design change in the early 1990s saw the books grow to the more customary trade paperback size, with many titles again being reprinted with uniform white spines. In the most recent incarnation, the Portable Library has been formatted to match Penguin's current black spine design. New titles continue to appear. The numbering system from the Viking days persisted into the early 1990s, with the sequential numbering being preserved in the ISBN (the Portable Library ISBN began "014015", the three digits after this were the P-number, followed by a check digit), but this numbering has been abandoned by Penguin. The last volume which appears to have followed the classic system would have been P109, the Portable Darwin, published in 1993. Numbering for volumes published after 1993 is based on publication date and is merely for convenience. Multiple unexplained gaps in the numbering, however, make this a difficult system to keep straight. Several reprints to the series have occurred, including the Book Society "Indispensable" series of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and a bargain-priced remainder series published by Random House in the mid-1980s. But none of the reprint series have reproduced the entire series, and many of the early volumes have been replaced by new, revised versions, or have gone completely out-of-print.