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Source: University of Stirling Archives and Special Collections (Mitchell Collection)
Title: Selection of Penguin Books
Date: 20th Century
Description: Priced at sixpence – the same as a pack of cigarettes – the first Penguins appeared in the summer of 1935. A copy of the first one hundred titles and more are held in the Stirling collection. The colour of the jacket indicated the content: blue for biography, green for crime and mystery, pink for adventure travel, and yellow for essays; but it is orange for fiction that we know and love best. Each book also had a number, which enhances their collectability today.
These items form part of the University of Stirling ‘Treaures’ exhibition
(via bankston)
The Tower of Babel, by Marta Minujin, erected in Buenos Aires, Argentina to celebrate the city being named World Book Capitol for the year 2011. That’s a lot of books, yar.
