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Advertisements in Wartime Penguin Books: A Further Wartime Blemish

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Author: Tim Graham
Designer: Robert Good
Date: Dec 2021
ISBN: 9781838485214
Type: PCS Publication
Pages: 144
Medium: Paperback
Series: Main Series, Pelican, Various
Focus: Design, History of Penguin

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 written by Tim Graham expands on the earlier article and the Index lists the dates when the advertisements appeared in Penguins.

B format, 12.9 x 19.8 cms; extensively colour illustrated; text set in 10.5 Bembo

Printed by Gwasg Gomer / Gomer Press
Print run 600 copies