Vintage penguin books

Ever evolving and always beautifully designed My love of books goes way back. I would happily hide away in The Exchange Bookshop in Dalkey for hours at a time. It was amazing how far my pocket money would go on second hand books in the 70’s! Most evenings the owner Michael would have to extract […]

The best of the famous publishing house's jacket designs – from the classic colour bands to illustrations by Banksy and Shepard Fairey

John Christopher: The world in winter. Penguin Books 1968. Cover by Bruce Robertson.

Some vintage Penguin Books from my last book haul

Here are some pretty Penguins for your delectation The colours don’t just add beauty to the tomes, they also acted as guidance when they were in wide circulation from WW2 to the 1960s. Here’s what’s the colours symbolise: Green = crime novels Cerise = travel and adventure Dark blue = biography Red = drama Purple [...]

Penguin First Editions - Early, Vintage, Collectable First Edition Penguin Books. A comprehensive free information resource for collectors.

Cover of "The "Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. (1962) What a clever visual pun! And I love the old Penguin convention of telling you which category the book is from (crime) and which book in the series it is by using #/# (3/6 in this case) st the top. Well designed!

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