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‘Swiss’ Pelicans

Swiss design ideas create order The subjects of these 1960s Pelicans are serious social issues so it’s natural that the…

book cover Hard Edge abstraction, designer Martin Bassett, Swiss influence at Penguin

The beautiful New English Library

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Coralie Bickford-Smith, Penguin English Library cover designs, Viki Ottewill designer

Robert Jonas and the American Penguins

Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, hated illustrated book covers and fought against them in his company. He feared that…

"bosoms and bottoms.", 1940s American book covers, 1940s book cover design, 1940s US paperbacks, American Penguin Ian Ballantine, Bantam art director Gobin Stair, modern art cover design, Robert Jonas American Penguin cover designs, Robert Jonas cover designs

David Pearson’s Great Loves

“Penguin brings you the most seductive, inspiring and surprising writing on love in all its infinite variety”. So runs the…

Claire Scully Great Loves designs, David Pearson Great Loves, David Pearson rubber stamping, Penguin Great Loves, Victoria Sawdon Great Loves designs

The Balkan Trilogy

British author Olivia Manning published the three novels in 1956-64 that comprise the Balkan trilogy. They cover the wartime experiences…

British author Olivia Manning, designer Humphrey Sutton, Fortunes of War series, novel about wartime Romania, television miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, the Balkan trilogy, the Levant trilogy

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