After the curveball I threw you last week, this week’s return to the golden age of Penguin should ease the DTs. Enjoy this week’s selection and have an amazing weekend. Find previous entries in this series here.
Facts from Figures by M. J. Moroney (design uncredited)
Fires of Youth by James Lincoln Collier (design by Peter Butler)
How to be an Alien by George Mikes (drawing by Nicolas Bentley)
It Wasn’t Me! by Ian Jeffries (design uncredited)
Joby by Stan Barstow (design by Tom Simmonds)
Man and the Movies by W.R. Robinson (design by George Klauber)
The Dialectics of Liberation by David Cooper (design uncredited)
The Shout and Other Stories by Robert Graves (cover shows still from the (amazing) film)
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever (design uncredited)
This Sporting Life by David Storey (design uncredited)
Filed under: Art, Book Design, Books, Design, Retro, Retro Paperbacks Tagged: | 60s, 70s, Design, Paperbacks, Penguin
I love them all! Retro graphic design is so inspiring…
Thanks! I have become somewhat obsessed by them to the point where my bookshelves are suffering.
I totally understand… I don’t have too many physical vintage books, but I have some sticks full of “inspirational images” xD