Asked by: Tori Kent

Are Penguin Books good quality?

Penguin Classics are perfect for laypeople and high school or non-English major students. They offer many of the same study tools as Oxford Classics and usually cost under $10. Great Illustrated Classics are a great tool to start young children off reading quality literature.

Are Penguin Books paperback?

Penguin Fiction Books | Paperback, Hardback, eBooks & Audiobooks.

Where is Penguin Books printed?

Penguin Books has its registered office in the City of Westminster, London, England.
Penguin Books.

What Colour was the first Penguin paperback?

1935 – Allen Lane publishes the first Penguin books, realising his vision to make quality books available to all at low prices. The books cost sixpence and are colour-coded: orange for fiction, blue for biography and green for crime. The first batch includes books by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.

Which is better Penguin Classics or Oxford World Classics?

Penguin produced a large number of irritatingly wooden translations of the Greek and Latin classics back in the 1970s. A lot of these are still around. Oxford is a much better bet, especially where ancient drama is concerned.

Which publisher is best for classics?

Oxford, Cambridge, and Teubner are three gold-standard publishers for editions in the original.

Are Penguin Books worth anything?

Very few Penguin paperbacks printed after 1950 have any monetary value – that is more than a new paperback would cost today. Battered reprints, while they may still make an excellent read, have very little real resale potential.

Are Penguin and Puffin books the same?

Puffin Books is a longstanding children’s imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children’s books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.

What do the different Colours of Penguin Books mean?

Considering illustrations to be trashy, he set a simple thee-part grid, with colour coded bands – orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biographies and pink for travel and adventure – while text was set in crisp Gill Sans and strictly marshalled into the centre.

What are Penguin orange spine books?

Penguin Orange Collection Series (12 Titles)

• The Broom of the System.
• Ceremony.
• The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.
• On the Road.
• The Joy Luck Club.
• The Crucible.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
• White Noise.

Why is it called Penguin Books?

For his new paperbacks, Lane needed a name, a logo and a look for his books. According to The Guardian, he was inspired to go with an animal by the publishing house The Albatross Library. The name came from a secretary, Joan Coles, and with his brothers Lane decided the company would be called Penguin Books.

What does an imprint mean in publishing?

The Imprint Page is the page that appears on the back of the Title Page. It contains everything we need to know about who wrote the book, who the publisher is, how we can contact them, where the book was printed, what the ISBN is, etc.

How many imprints does Penguin have?

Penguin Random House is the international home to nearly 275 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Together, our imprints publish over 70,000 digital and 15,000 print titles annually, with more than 100,000 eBooks available worldwide.

Is Doubleday still in business?

In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an imprint, not a publisher.

Does Doubleday Book Club still exist?

As a Doubleday Book Club Member, you will be able to purchase Doubleday Book Club titles at discounted Member’s- only prices. Doubleday Book Club books may differ in certain respects from publisher’s editions. From time to time,Doubleday Book Club provides its members with special promotional offers.

How do you know if you have a first edition Doubleday?

Identifying Doubleday First Editions

1927-2000: The words “first edition” appear underneath the copyright notice, which can be found on the back of the title page.

What is the difference between first edition and first printing?

What and Why First Editions. A first edition is the first printing of a book. It’s true that a first edition may have one or more printings and that a second edition will normally be noted only if there are actual changes, usually major, in the text. But for a collector, a first printing is the only true first edition.

What if there is no copyright page in a book?

The book could be in the public domain for some reason. Therefore no one would own the copyright to it. The copyright may have expired or the copyright owner may have released it to the public domain, or it may not have been eligible for federal copyright in the first place.