Orange penguin books

"Wow!" people say, "Those books must be worth a fortune !" They may be worth a fortune but more for me providing a fortune to other people as I snap them up everywhere I go. I think about my Penguin book collection quite a bit. I can't really help it because it is in my face almost constantly. To me this collection is invaluable. But not many of them are monetarily valuable. Yes, there are a few Penguins that are worth more than others. I'm not telling you which ones because I am still…

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Arranging books according to color has become quite popular and looks great. However, it is a method that can result in placing paleontology next to poetry and novels next to non-fiction, a troubling thought indeed! That's why I adore the color-coding system that Penguin has been using 1935, wherein each genre is assigned a color and the spine (and sometimes the cover) of works within that genre are printed in the designated color. Just think of how delicious a shelf of candy-colored…

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The Penguin Bookshelf. Comes in orange.

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The orange Penguin Books cover of Changing Places by David Lodge, published in 1981. Cover illustration by Arthur Robbins.

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 [...]

An image of the orange Penguin cover of Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford from 1954.

An image of the orange Penguin cover of Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis from 1980.

Preferably a classic 1930s tripartite design by Edward Young. Orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biography, cerise for travel & adventure, red for plays and featuring, typographically, a relative newcomer with Gill Sans as the main type face for cover and spine. A classic.