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The Penguin Collectors Society is an educational charity with the objects of encouraging and promoting the study of Penguin Books and of conserving historical material in institutions available to researchers.
First published in 1935, Penguins rapidly became a force for cultural good on a par with the BBC or, later, the Open University. Penguins, Pelicans (non-fiction), Puffins (for children) and many other series fed a popular appetite for good reading, attractively packaged and cheap. Penguin today remains part of one of the world’s largest publishers. The Society’s members, numbering around 400 worldwide, are Penguin’s keenest students – and collectors.
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Latest News
Lady Chatterley
Members may have seen that the judge's copy of ‘Lady Chatterley's Lover’ was coming up at auction - and today was the day. Read moreThe Penguin Collectors are Coming!
As surely as the seasons spin around, Penguin collectors continue with their love of all things triband and beyond. Once the summer holidays end we can be sure that the AGM is not far away and so it is that the Trustees are looking forward to seeing those members that can get to Reading for the annual weekend meet, greet and chat... UPDATED ... Read moreAugust rain ... September sun?
The summer weather has definitely broken and some of us have now had more than enough ‘welcome’ precipitation for it to have sunk in that the situation is back to UK normal. Well received, and something that we can never have too much of, has been the PCS package that arrived since my last Latest News blog and which hopefully provided interesting holiday reading. What else is new since last time ... Read morePCS AGM Reading 12 - 14 October 2018
A reminder of details of the AGM which will be held at the University of Reading Special Collections in October. Details as follows ... Read morePenguin Collector 90
A little late, in the longest spell of hot, dry weather in the British Isles since the summer of 19... well, since the publication of the sixth issue of the PCS Newsletter, ‘Penguin Collector 90’ has now been despatched to members. Read more