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This Once Was Us: The Life and Death of Penguin Education

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Author: West Drayton Collective
Editor: Jonathan Croall
Designer: Arthur Lockwood, Peter Tucker
Date: Jun 2018
ISBN: 9780993110689
Type: PCS Publication
Pages: 96
Medium: Paperback
Series: Education
Focus: History of Penguin

The story, told by those who worked in it, of a bold and innovative venture which shone briefly in the publishing firmament in the 1960s and 1970s. It broke the mould in re-inventing the school book, and through a uniquely collaborative way of working. But it came to a sudden and lamented end in 1974.

96 pages, first published by The West Drayton Collective, this second impression is by the Society.

22 x 18.1 cms
Typeset in Sabon and Univers
Printed by offset litho and bound by Hobbs the Printers Ltd, Totton, Hampshire
Print run 525