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Gertrude Hermes

Notes from the Undergrad: The Penguin Illustrated Collapse

November 29, 2012 By Alyssa O'connell

"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway. 1935. This edition of "A Farewell to Arms" was part of the initial ten-book print run of Penguin’s launch in 1935. Other titles in the series included Agatha Christie’s "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" and Dorothy Sayers’s "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club." As you can see from this cover, Penguin paperbacks emphasized the company’s branding rather than the subject or author of the work; the original covers included the trademark drawing of the penguin but only rarely included illustrations pertaining to the book’s content. The covers were color-coded: orange for fiction, green for crime, and blue for non-fiction.

Alyssa O’Connell is an English Honors junior in Professor Janine Barchas’s seminar, “The Paperback,” in which students used the Ransom Center’s collections to research the history of paperbacks. [Read more…] about Notes from the Undergrad: The Penguin Illustrated Collapse

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: A Sentimental Journey, Allen Lane, Alyssa O’Connell, Books, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Hermes, Gulliver’s Travels, Gustave Flaubert, Harold Nicolson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Janine Barchas, John Lane, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Madam Bovary, Notes from the Undergrad, Oscar Wilde, paperbacks, Penguin Illustrated Classics, Penguin Paperbacks, Pride and Prejudice, Publishing, Richard Jefferies, Robert Browning, Robinson Crusoe, Selected Poems, Some Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Bodley Head, The Sphinx, The Story of My Heart, Typee, Undergraduate, Walden, Why Britain is at War

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