Penguin book covers vintage

Penguin First Edition 1958. Games Cover Format. Illustration by Dennis Bailey

Penguin Classics - Original designs for Penguin Classics of Alice in Wonderland and Dracula. These were inspired by the 70's layouts of Penguin book covers.

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!

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

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 Fall by Albert Camus La Chute first published 1956 This translation first published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton 1957 Published in Penguin Books 1963 Reprinted 1965, 1966

pub.as Penguin 1964 rep. 1965 - cover drawing by Duncan Grant

In 1934, on his way to London after visiting his friend Agatha Christie, the young publisher Allen Lane stopped at the station bookstall at Exeter St Davids and saw that the books on sale were of a poor quality and overpriced.

Penguin / old mixed spines

Penguin Crime Covers In early 1961, Romek Marber’s covers for The Economist prompted Germano Facetti, art director at Penguin, to commission some cover designs. Seeking an exciting new identity for the tired-looking Penguin Crime series, Facetti then asked Marber and two other designers to submit their proposals. Marber won the job and his modernist

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6 march 16. Penguin Books Classified List 1957

Penguin Books Classified List cover, 1954

The illustrator John Griffiths has died aged 85. During his career he produced a number of striking book cover illustrations for Penguin, highlights of which can be seen here

waxworks murderer green penguin book cover

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