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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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August 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 moreJuly Jaunts
Who would have thought we could have so many sunny days. One could almost believe that it is summer. The book of the month is Gamesmanship [1826] by Stephen Potter which was published in Penguin by 1962. The cover drawing is by Nicolas Bentley...
Read morePeter Mayer (1936-2018)
Highly recommended is this interesting and insightful short profile on Peter Mayer which was broadcast on Radio 4 recently ...
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