About Our Publications
The Penguin Collectors Society publishes each year two issues of The Penguin Collector and in most years one or more special publications. Copies of each year’s publications are supplied to all annual members and to universities taking part in the bursary scheme.The special publications have over the years covered a wide range of aspects of Penguin books, their history, their editing, their design, their marketing, and the people who made Penguin an outstanding cultural phenomenon. Many are the result of original research, others draw on material presented at Study Days, and some have reprinted earlier texts of special interest.
The most important is The Penguin Companion, published in 2020 in its fourth edition, now a handsome hardback illustrated in colour throughout. This provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to all matters relating to Penguin history and is an essential resource for all lovers of Penguin Books.
The special publication in 2021 was Advertisements in Wartime Penguin Books. Inspired by a splendid article written some years ago by Russell Edwards and reprinted here with its nine illustrations, the core of this 144-page book is a gallery of 112 more of the advertisements which appeared in Penguins, reproduced in colour at close to their original size. An Afterword expands on the earlier article and the Index lists the dates when the advertisements appeared in Penguins.
All the Society's earlier publications, in print and out of print, are fully described in the catalogue pages.
 
 
 
 
