I normally don't collect editions of anything, but I've always had a bit of a fetish for the Penguin paperback editions... I wish it were easier to get some of the older ones.

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Anonymous Sat Oct 30 21:36:41 2010 No.1247342 [Reply] [Original]

I normally don't collect editions of anything, but I've always had a bit of a fetish for the Penguin paperback editions...

I wish it were easier to get some of the older ones.

>>	Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Sat Oct 30 21:42:41 2010 No.1247354 Good stuff. The closest thing I have to that is like a 26th anniversary edition of Heaven and Hell by Swedenborg.

Anonymous Sat Oct 30 23:09:41 2010 No.1247515
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Yeah I like the old Penguins. I think pic related set me back 30 cents from an op shop. If you live in the former British empire there's no real shortage of them. Look around for "Penguin by Design" if you haven't already. It's an interesting, critical, well illustrated history of the company. There's also "700 Penguins", which is exactly what you get and nothing else.

I do find the Pelicans more interesting and desirable though, because they hardly deviated from a basic design template and set of ideas under one banner, and are probably on the whole even cheaper. The series also ended fairly abruptly in the 80s before the economic rationalists could mangle it.

>>	7FtSpleen !!uNUOgRvMaHD Sat Oct 30 23:56:41 2010 No.1247607 I love the "Great Ideas" Penguin series, which have these fantastic textured covers... and the books themselves are pretty sweet as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 31 00:08:41 2010 No.1247627 >>1247607 I am profoundly unimpressed with William Hazlitt but the idea of owning a beautifully-designed little volume titled "On The Pleasure Of Hating" was just too alluring to pass up

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