The Penguin Collector 96
| Editor: | James Mackay |
| Date: | Jun 2021 |
| Type: | Newsletter (The Penguin Collector) |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Medium: | Newsletter |
| Series: | Classics, Main Series, Other and Misc, Various |
| Focus: | Authors, Design, Ephemera, History of Penguin, Penguin Personalities |
Penguin Collector 96 continues the occasional series of specially designed front covers. In this instance, Maurice Spira has provided the cover artwork which has been taken from a larger piece, Vessels. A postcard of the complete picture was sent to members with the publication.
The major sections of PC96 are Penguins in the Time of Corona, Penguins in Earlier Times and Penguin Points.
Contents include:
- 'Books Do Furnish a Zoom' by John Naughton
- 'Books, Art, Anxiety and Economics'
- 'Art on Art on Psychology'
- 'Concentrating on the Background'
- 'Lockdown Cooking' by Hannah Lowery
- 'A Conservation Windfall'
- 'Three Views from Canada'
- 'John Lehmann and 'the voice of literature at war'' by Anna Richardson
- 'Penguins Progress Post-War' by Tim Graham
- 'James Thurber The New Yorker – and Penguin' by Terry Taylor
- 'The 1950s Bound Penguins – and some from the USA' by Andrew Malin
- 'Two Knights' by Jo Lunt
- 'A New World in One Old Penguin' by Peter Miller
- 'Errors and Omissions' by Tim Graham
- 'What Makes a Penguin Classic?' by Alexander Larman
- Review 'Dean Blackburn, Penguin Books and Political Change' by Jeremy Carver
- Penguin Points
- Obituaries: Neil Middleton; Katherine Whitehorn; Enzo Apicella; Beverly Cleary; David Cornwell;
- Society News including Annual General Meetings 2021/22
- AGM Insert and obituary of Russell Edwards
Set in Bembo Standard 10 on 12pt
Printed by Short Run Press Ltd
Print run 600