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| PENGUIN BOOKS | |
| A Collectors' Companion (Part 1, A-L), PCS Miscellany vol.7, 1992, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| A Collectors' Companion (Part 2, M-Z), PCS Miscellany vol.8, 1993, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Advertising in Penguins, PCS Miscellany vol.1, 1986, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Classified List, Penguin Books, 1962 | |
| Fifty Penguin Years, Penguin Books, 1985, ISBN 0140085890 | |
| For the Forces, PCS Miscellany vol.2, 1987, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Happy Birthday Puffin, PCS Miscellany vol.6, 1991, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Mock... Missing... Miscellaneous..., PCS Miscellany vol.3, 1988, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Pelican Books: A Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration, PCS Miscellany vol.12, 1997, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| The Penguin Classics, PCS Miscellany vol.9, 1994, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Penguin Illustrated Classics, PCS Miscellany vol.5, 1990, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Penguins Progress, Penguin Books, (1936-1940 and 1946-1951) leaflets and booklets | |
| Penguins Progress 1935-1960, Penguin Books, 1960, Q25 | |
| Twenty One Years, PCS Miscellany vol.10, 1995, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Yankee Doodle Penguin; Christmas Crackers, PCS Miscellany vol.4, 1989, ISSN 0954-8157 | |
| Bishop,D | King Penguins, Penguin Collectors' Society, 1982 |
| Cherry,B | The Buildings of England, Penguin Collectors' Society, 1983, ISBN 0907049060 |
| Dutton,G | A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96, Penguin Australia, 1996, ISBN: 0145000001 |
| Edwards,R | So Much Admired: Die InselBucherei and the King Penguin Series, Salvia Books, 1988 |
| Green,E | Penguin Books: The Pictorial Cover 1960-1980, Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1981 |
| Hall,DJ | The King Penguin Series, Penguin Collectors' Society, 1980, ISBN 0907049028 |
| Hare,Steve | Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970, (Q60) Penguin Books, 1995, ISBN 0140238522 |
| Morpurgo,JE | Allen Lane - King Penguin, 1979, ISBN 0091396905 |
| Pearson,J | Penguins March On: Books for the Forces during World War II, PCS Miscellany vol.11, 1996, ISSN 0954-8157 |
| Whitehead,E | John Lehmann's New Writing: An Author Index 1936-50, Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, 1990 |
| Williams,WE | Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait, Bodley Head, 1973, ISBN 0370104749 |
| Williams,WE | Penguin Story 1935-1956, Penguin Books, 1956, Q21 |
| Wood,S | A Sort of Dignified Flippancy: Penguin Books 1935-1960, Edinburgh University Library, 1985, ISBN 0907182046 |
| Wood,S | Pick Up A Penguin: Penguin Books 1935-1960, Catalogue of Exhibition at Edinburgh University Library, 1988 |
| SPECIFIC PUBLISHERS OR SERIES | |
| Lewis,F | A Brief History of Pocket Books 1939-1967, New York, Pocket Books, 1967 |
| Petersen,C | The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing, New York, Bantam Books, 1975 |
| Tauchnitz,B | The Harvest: Being the Record of One Hundred Years of Publishing, 1837-1937, Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1937 |
| GENERAL BOOKS | |
| Bannon, Ann | Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969, Viking Studio, 1999 |
| Bonn, TL | Paperback Primer: A Guide for Collectors, Paperback Quarterly Publications, 1981 |
| Bonn, TL | Undercover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks, Penguin, 1982 |
| Breen, JL | Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters, Scarecrow Press, 1989, ISBN:0810822326 |
| Canja, Jeff | Collectable Paperback Books, Glenmoor Publishing, 2nd Ed., 2002 |
| Cinamon,G (ed.) | Hans Schmoller, Typographer, Monotype, 1987 |
| Cole, John Y | Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions, Library of Congress. |
| Crider, AB | Mass Market Publishing in America, G K Hall, 1982, ISBN:0816185905 |
| Davis, KC | Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America, Houghton Mifflin, 1984 |
| Day, B | Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books |
| Dystel, O | Mass-Market Publishing: More Observations, Speculations, and Provocations, Bowker, 1981, ISBN:9993424986 |
| Flanagan, M | British Gangster & Exploitation Paperbacks of the Postwar Years, Zeon Books, England, 1997 |
| Flower,D | The Paper Back: It's Past, Present and Future, Arborfield, 1959 |
| Hackett,AP | Sixty Years of Best Sellers, New York, Bowker, 1956 |
| Hamilton, Cinthia | Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America, University of Ohio Press, 1987 |
| Hancer,K | The Paperback Price Guide, Cleveland, Overstreet Publications, 1980 (2nd edition 1982, 3rd edition 1990) |
| Harbottle, P | British science fiction paperbacks and magazines, 1949-1956: an annotated bibliography |
| Haut, Woody | Pulp Culture, Serpents Tail, 1995 |
| Holland,S | The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Post-war Paperback Publishing, Zeon Books, 1994 |
| Holroyd, Graham | Paperback Prices and Checklist, iGuide Media, 2003 |
| Huxford, Bob & Sharon | Huxford's Paperback Value Guide, Collectors Books, 1994 |
| Kaplan, JB (ed) | Love Was Cheap and Life Was High : Postcards from Paperback Cover Art of the 40s and 50s, Collier, 1990 |
| Lovisi, G | Instant Expert: Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy, Alliance, 1997, ISBN 1-887110-12-7 |
| Lupoff, Richard A | The Great American Paperback, Collectors Press, 2001 |
| Lyles, WH | Dell Paperbacks, 1942 to Mid-1962: A Catalog-Index, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983, ISBN: 0313236682 |
| Lyles, WH | Putting Dell on the Map: A History of the Dell Paperbacks, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1984, ISBN:0313236674 |
| McLean,Ruari | Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography, Lund Humphries, ISBN: 08533166886 |
| McLean,Ruari | Jan Tschichold: Typographer, David R. Godine, 1990, ISBN: 0879238410 (featuring, amongst other things, his Typographic Composition Rules for Penguin Books) |
| O'Brien, G | Hardboiled America, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981 |
| Petersen, Clarence | The Bantam Story, Bantam, 1970 |
| Reginald, R & Burgess, MR | Cumulative Paperback Index 1939-1959, Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1973 |
| Reginald,R | Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959, Chicago, Gale, 1973 |
| Schick,FL | The Paperbound Book in America, New York, Bowker, 1958 |
| Schreuders,P | The Book of Paperbacks, Virgin Books, 1981, ISBN 0907080189 |
| Server, L | Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955, Chronicle Books, 1994, ISBN:0811805506 |
| Server, Lee | Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers, Checkmark Books, 2002 |
| Server, Lee | Danger Is My Business, Chronicle Books, 1993 |
| Smith,RH | Paperback Parnassus, Boulder, Westview Press, 1976 |
| Stryker, Susan | Queer Pulp, Chronicle Books, 2001. |
| Tebbel,J | Paperback Books: A Pocket History,New York, Pocket Books, 1964 |
| Walters, R | Paperback Talk, Academy Chicago Pub, 1985, ISBN:0897331087 |
| Warren, J | The Official Price Guide Paperbacks, House of Collectibles, 1991 |
Articles
Articles in the following journals are excluded:
Penguin Collectors' Society Newsletter (vol.1, 1974 - vol.40, 1993) ISSN 0955-0941
The Penguin Collector (vol.41, 1993 - ) ISSN 1353-0143
Collecting Paperbacks? (vol.1, 1979 - ) (Portland, Oregon)
Paperback Quarterly (vol.1 1978 - ) (Brownwood, Texas)
| Ten years of Penguins, in The Bookseller, 23/8/1945, 6/9/1945, 113/9/1945 | |
| The Penguin Look and 'Monotype' Faces, The Monotype Corporation Ltd., 19?? - Insert in ?? | |
| Berry,J & Miller, K | Preference for paperbacks, in Library Journal, vol.106, no.16, 15/9/1981, p.1687-1691 |
| Bonn,TL | American mass-market paperbacks, in Collectible Books, (Editor J.Peters), New York, Bowker, 1979 |
| Burbridge,P | Penguin Panorama, in Printing Review, No. 72, Autumn 1956, p5-35 |
| Carrington,N | A century for Puffin Books, in Penrose Annual, 1957, p.62-64 |
| Cole,M | Books for the people, in Times Literary Supplement, 26/11/1938, p.751 |
| Edwards,R | Insel Books, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.11, April 1984, p.18-25 |
| Edwards,R | Sixty Penguin Years, in The Bookdealer, no.1024, 4/5/1995 |
| Graham,E | Puffin Books, in Signal Magazine, September 1973, p.115-122 |
| Hall,DJ | Penguin collectors' story, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.5 September 1978, p.7-26 |
| Holloway,D | The day of the Penguin, in The Daily Telegraph, 13/7/1985 |
| Jackson,K | Collecting Penguins, in Book and Magazine Collector, March 1984, p.18-25 |
| Joicey,N | A Guide to Paperback Progress, in Twentieth Century British History, vol.4, no.1, 1993 |
| Lewis,J | The paperback explosion and the design of the modern book, in The Twentieth Century Book: Its Illustration and Design, Studio Vista, 1967 |
| McLean,R | Collecting books for their design, part 1, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, 1981, p.224-227 |
| McLean,R | Penguins planned by Tschichold, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, August 1981, p.292-295 |
| Morpurgo,JE | The King and I, in Blackwoods Magazine, December 19799, p.477-487 |
| Pressler,KH | The Tauchnitz Edition, beginning and end of a famous series, in Publishing History, vol.6, 1979/80, p.62-78 |
| Rogerson,I | Noel Carrington and his Puffin Picture Books, an Exhibition Catalogue, Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1992 |
| Russell,T | Half a century of Penguin, in The Listener, June 1985, p.13-15 |
| Schmoller,H | The Paperback Revolution, in Essays in the History of Publishing, (Editor A. Briggs), Longman, 1974 |
| Spencer,H | Penguins on the march, in Typographica (New Series) No.5 June 1962 |
| Facetti,Germano | (letter - correcting Herbert Spencer in the previous issue. The then new design format was in fact originated by Romek Marber along with a number of other Graphic Designers of note. The letter is made all the more interesting by the reproduction of Marber's notes), in Typographica (New Series) No.6 |
| Swift,K | First Penguin proof, in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, January 1981, p.16-17 |
| Todd,WB | Firma Tauchnitz: a further investigation, in Publishing History, vol.2, 1978, p.360-367 |
| Turan,K | Passion's Plaything: Paperback Parade, in New West, 12/3/1979 |
| Unwin,S | Concerning sixpennies, in Times Literary Supplement, 19/11/1938, p.737 |
| Wilson, Ken | (article on the cover designs of The Penguin Poets), Graphics International, Issue 75, 2000 |
Thanks to Richard Weston for some recent suggestions for addition to this list
