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 […]

A wise woman (my mother) asked me what was up with the vintage-looking Penguin cover that read “Go Away I’m Reading” in my last post. I always do as my mother tells me (right mom?…

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Being bored kicks in with a lot of things to experiment and making penguin classics covers for books was something I quite enjoyed. Here are some of the covers I thought would be suitable for the books that I've read and enjoyed a lot! I tagged some of my friends here and if you feel like to try this, please consider yourself tagged! I'd be glad to see your creations! #bookreview #book #bookcover

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

For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With nearly 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators.

Penguin Books revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through it's high quality, inexpensive paperbacks. Avoiding the gaudiness of other paperback publishers of the time, Penguin opted for the simple appearance of three horizontal bands, the upper and lower of which were colour coded according to

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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!