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This web-site is for those who love PENGUIN BOOKS or simply want to find out more about them. However, for many of us, it is that familiar look and feel that brings warmth. Although many thousands of copies were made of most books, some have almost but disappeared - hence their rarity and high value.

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All of the series produced by Penguin are collected - and some books are much rarer than others and have become prized by the cognoscenti. It should be of help to researchers and collectors. This website is intended to provide a resource for those who are collecting PENGUIN BOOKS, researching PENGUIN BOOKS or are just interested or fascinated by them and want to know more. There is also a growing section on The HISTORY of Penguin Books. Alternatively, you can view the list in chronological order of creation at CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SERIES

Each page contains information, with titles and photographs of covers. Just click on that to take you to the relevant series. In the list you will find those series already included in our data-base are entered in CAPITAL letters. You can also view a list of all the 'PENGUIN SERIES' (also accessed from the green tab on the left) of all the books and periodicals series published by Penguin from 1935. You can access the various series from the WEBSITE CONTENTS. The site includes detailed lists of books, photographs and information on all of the early Penguin Books - usually thought of as the first 21 years of publishing - from 1935 to 1956, although we also list books and/or series running into the 1960s and 1970s.

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This site is a free information resource on Penguin First Edition books (or Penguin First Impressions) - those lovely early and vintage Penguin paperbacks which have now become very collectable!

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Plus pages on Penguin Ephemera, Classified Booklists and Penguin Progress, and lists of the Penguin Collectors Society publications. There are also alphabetical lists of designers and translators. This website provides an easy to use comprehensive resource for Penguin lovers everywhere!Ī unique reference site for Penguin Book collectors and researchers - with lists and images of early Penguin and vintage Penguin books. Within the first two years of existence, four new series were introduced signalling the breadth of his publishing ambitions: Over the following 35 years some 60 additional series were created. Allen Lane, its founder, was constantly looking for new ideas, ways to diversify, to promote understanding, knowledge and education.

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The other two shown here are Trees and Shrubs and how to grow them first published in the Penguin Special series at S145 in January 1945 and then as a Penguin Handbook, PH6 in 1951 and Understanding Weather published as Pelican A469 in May 1960.Īmong the 7,500 or so of the early Penguin titles to be found on this website, Penguin published many books on science, astronomy, meteorology, and the plant and animal kingdoms. The images shown are of some of the books published, such as The Weather by George Kimble and Raymond Bush A124 from November 1943 and the American edition published in May 1946. The importance of our weather, growing things at home (low carbon footprint), trees, climate and bio-diversity have populated the pages of Penguin series such as Penguin Specials (S), Pelicans (A), Penguin New Biology (NB), Penguin Science News (SN) and for children the Puffin Picture Books (PP).

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