Penguin book covers vintage

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Country Life by Anonymous. King & McGaw has an extensive collection of art prints by established and emerging artists, which are all framed by hand in the UK.

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

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.

An image of the orange Penguin cover of Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh from 1951.

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 […]

Tarka The Otter by Henry Williamson Published in Penguin Books MARCH 1937 Reprinted JUNE 1937 Reprinted OCTOBER 1937 Reprinted OCTOBER 1939 Reprinted MAY 1940

The Challenor Case by Mary Grigg, 1965, cover by Bruce Robertson.