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Collection Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin
Books,
Date (inclusive): post 1965
Collection Number: A27
Collector:
Foley, Donald L. and
Foley, Katharine
Foley, Katharine
Extent:
circa 500 vols.
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored
offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the
location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Abstract: Collection includes about 570 Penguin books published after
1965.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title
17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted
by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor
restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that
allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without
permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively
with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection
materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
[Identification of item], Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books,
post 1965, A27, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Related Material
Title: Donald Foley Penguin Books Collector's File
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 99/45 z .
Title: Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, 1935-1965
Identifier/Call Number: A26
The following terms have been used to index this collection in the library's
online public access catalog.
Penguin (Firm)
Penguin books (Series)
Books
Catalogs
This collection is donated to the Bancroft Library by Donald and Katharine Foley
in memory of their son, William Ross Foley.
Scope and Content of the Collection
Contents of this collection include about 570 Penguin books published after 1965,
listed in the
Container
List
below. This finding aid includes an essay about Penguin publishing
since 1965. Three appended tables list series and imprints. See
A26 finding aid for reference items
and their indexing.
The Post-1965 Evolution of Penguin Books
by Donald L. Foley
October 1999
October 1999
Penguin Publishing: A Brief History
We have dealt with the classic 1935-1965 period of Penguin book publishing in two
previous essays (see A26 collection Finding Aid)
Prior to 1970, Penguin Books was the quintessential British publisher. Mature,
independent, with publicly traded shares (since 1962), the firm published mainly
paperback books for a British market with strong world-wide exports as well. The
firm was widely respected as a distinctive British institution. Its books were
readily recognizable in their distinctive covers and set high standards for
content and editorial quality. Allen Lane was very much in charge abetted by a
remarkable editorial and production staff.
When Allen Lane died in 1970, Penguin Books was absorbed into Longmans, in turn
part of a very large Pearson PLC conglomerate. In subsequent years the Pearson
organization engineered the acquisition of other book publishers, including some
of major stature. Pearson/Penguin increased the number of titles published and
broadened the range of imprint names by which these titles were known.
Even by 1970, and most certainly thereafter, competitive pressures impinged on
Penguin Books. It was losing its hegemony in the distinctive paperback market it
helped to create.. Competing paperback publishers were luring away some
best-selling authors. American-style popular paperbacks were picking up market
share. So when Penguin was absorbed into the Pearson publishing organization the
time was ripe for adaptive change. The next decades were to see Penguin move
vigorously into the big American paperback market with several strategic
acquisitions of large American publishers. Penguin also internationalized its
publishing operations, relying increasingly on its American publishing units and
creating new publishing units in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, recently,
India.
During the period from 1970 to the present Penguin, in effect, at least partially
Americanized its publishing. Many books produced as Penguins became
indistinguishable from other American paperbacks. American publishing executives
were brought in to fill key Penguin executive posts. With its growing United
States market so dominant and with acute publishing problems having to be
confronted in its American units, top Penguin executives (especially Peter
Mayer) were sometimes forced to spend a disproportionate amount of time in the
United States away from Penguin's traditional British headquarters.
There were times, particularly during the 1980s, when Penguin faced difficulties.
But the overall organization appears to have remained resilient and, as of the
late 1990s, Penguin publishing seemed to be thriving.
Penguin Publishing: A Selective Chronology
When Sir Allen Lane died in July 1970 he left no successor. By pre-arrangement,
the firm was sold within days to the Longman Group within the larger Pearson
firm. Pearson PLC at that time also included
The Financial Times
, Pearson Television, and the Tussaud Group.
In 1973, Penguin Canada and Penguin New Zealand were launched. Along with Penguin
Australia, which had a longer history, these regional units published their own
titles and distributed titles produced in Britain and the United States.
The Longman Group and Penguin Books purchased Viking Books, the large American
publishing firm, in 1975. The American branch of Penguin became known as Viking
Penguin.
Peter Mayer, an American, served as the Chief Executive of the British-based,
worldwide Penguin Group within Pearson from 1978 until 1996. He led the
revitalization of Penguin. Significantly, the Penguin name remained the dominant
label for a major segment of Pearson's book publishing.
Penguin acquired Frederick Warne, with its Beatrix Potter titles, in 1983.
Two years later Penguin acquired the Thompson group, which included the Michael
Joseph and Hamish Hamilton imprints.
In 1985 Penguin celebrated its 50th anniversary. Penguin, in cooperation with the
Penguin Collectors' Society, put a special exhibition on public display at
London's Royal Festival Hall. Penguin also published
Fifty Penguin Years,
a handsomely illustrated account. And Penguin produced a boxed set of
facsimiles of the first 10 books in the Penguin main series. In subsequent
years, other Penguin series celebrated their respective 50th anniversaries.
The New American Library Group was acquired in 1986. (New American Library back
in 1948 had taken over American Penguin, with the main fiction series becoming
Signet and the American Pelican series becoming Mentor.) In 1992 Signet was
relaunched in Britain.
In 1995 Penguin celebrated its 60th anniversary by publishing small attractive
commemorative paperbacks termed Penguin 60s, Penguin 60s Classics, Penguin
Children's 60s. and Penguin Travel 60s.
Soon after, Michael Lynton, another American, replaced Peter Mayer as CEO of the
Penguin Group in 1996, Penguin acquired the Putnam Berkley Group, a major book
publishing conglomerate. This brought in some best-selling Putnam authors and
titles. And it brought in a fresh new set of imprints. The American publishing
arm was renamed Penguin Putnam.
Pearson PLC, the parent company, in 1997 appointed Marjorie Scardino, an
American, as its Manging Director and Dennis Stevenson as its new Chairman.
The Current Organization of Pearson/Penguin Publishing
As of 1999, Pearson PLC had four major functional groups:
- Penguin Group. Included all of Pearson's non-educational book business. In 1998 the Group, in conjunction with PolyGram, started Penguin classical music labels.
- Pearson Education. The world's largest educational publisher, augmented by acquisition of Simon and Schuster textbook division in 1998 for $4.6 billion. Very large American business.
- Pearson Television. The world's largest indepndent international television producer.
- Financial Times Group. Included The Financial Times. Also other interests, including The Economist.
As of 1999, Penguin UK was organized into two publishing divisions:
- Penguin General Books. Included Viking, Hamish Hamilton and Michael Joseph imprints and much of the Penguin imprint.
- The Penguin Press. Included Penguin Classics, Twentieth Century Classics and Allen Lane The Penguin Press imprints and some of the Penguin imprint.
As of 1999, Penguin Putnam Inc. USA was the American publishing organization. It
had two groupings of imprints:
- Penguin Group imprints. Hardbacks included Viking, Dutton, Donald J. Fine, DAW. Paperbacks included Penguin, Penguin Classics, Plume, Signet, Onyx, Mentor, Meridian, Arkana. Children's books included Dial, Dutton, Viking, Puffin, Warne.
- Putnam Berkley imprints. Hardbacks included Putnam, Riverhead and others. Paperbacks included Berkley, Joyce, Ace, Riverhead, Peigee and others. Children's included Putnam, Philomel, Grosset and Dunlap and others.
Some 65 "non-Penguin" imprints published under the broad "Penguin" umbrella are
listed in Table 10 following this essay. Most of these imprints came in as
acquisitions. Some reflected even earlier mergers or acquisitions prior to being
picked up by Pearson/Penguin.
What changes three and a half decades have brought! Allen Lane might well have
been delighted that the Penguin idea and name has exerted so powerful an
influence over the years. But he would no doubt have been shocked by the
countless unPenguinlike books that have been published under a Penguin
label.
An informational note: The first line, usually in capital letters, of the
short-title page of each Penguin (or Puffin) book provides important
information.
- If book is in Penguin main series and not in a subseries, it states "PENGUIN BOOKS".
- If book is a Puffin and has a short-ttitle page, it states "PUFFIN BOOKS". But many recent Puffin Books lack short-title pages.
- If book is in a Penguin series other than main series and is not in a subseries, it states the name of the series (e.g., "PELICAN BOOKS" or "PENGUIN POETS").
- If book is in a subseries, it states the name of the subseries (e.g., "THE PELICAN HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES" or "PENGUIN MODERN POETS").
The Penguin main series had, as of 1999, run for 64 years. In early decades, this
main series embraced mainly fiction titles and its books were distinguished by
their orange covers and spines. By the 1970s and 1980s more and more titles that
previously would have been assigned to other Penguin series came to be included
in the main series. By 1990 even the nonfiction Pelican series with its
distinctive blue spines and covers was abandoned and these titles allocated to
the main series. In effect, the main series has taken on an omnibus character.
As if in sympathy, many or most of the Penguin main series no longer have orange
spines. Only the Mystery and Crime series titles have generally retained their
distinctive green spines up to the present. The rest of the early color-coding
was given up.
From about 1966 to 1974 Penguin vigorously promoted books intended for
educational use, to serve a wide range of school and university levels.. Within
the broad grouping, Penguin Education, additional series and subseries were
introduced, including Penguin Modern Psychology, Connexions, Penguin English
Poets, Penguin Modern Economics, Penguin Modern Sociology Readings, Penguin
Passnotes and Penguin Poetry Library. This major enterprise was aborted by the
mid-1970s. (It would later be re-promoted with vigor, through a different unit,
currently known as Pearson Education and identified in the previous section.)
A new hardback imprint, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, was started in 1967. Allen
Lane modelled this on his uncle's earlier firm, John Lane The Bodley Head. Lane
even managed to acquire the earlier firm's building to house his new enterprise.
The new imprint, intended as a prestige line of books, turned out to be only
moderately successful.
In 1967-69 Penguin brought out selected titles of several Penguin series in
hard-cover Library Editions, but this effort was judged unsuccessful and
dropped.
Picture Puffins replaced Puffin Picture Books in 1968 as a major series of
children's illustrated books. Puffin Story Books continued with great success.
(By 1970, Puffin Books replaced Puffin Story Books as imprint name.) By the 50th
anniversary of this series in 1991, over 4,000 Puffin titles had been published.
As of that date Puffin sales reportedly amounted to half of all Penguin Book
sales.
ISBN-coding came into use in 1970-71. The Penguin publishers code became "0-14",
followed by the main series code of "00". This accommodated 10,000 titles. In
about 1988, this series code shifted to "01", for the next 10,000 titles. The
series code for Pelican Books had been "02" from 1971 to 1990. In 1994, the
remainder of the "02" series code was re-allocated to the main series, for the
next 7,500 or so titles. Other Penguin series usually carried distinctive series
codes (e.g., "044" for most Penguin Classics, "046" for Penguin Handbooks). New
series, merging series and discontinued series spelled considerable confusion in
ISBN codes (which most book handlers would not possibly have been aware of or
troubled by).
The Penguin Classics series, started in 1946, has continued to date, and was
augmented in the mid 1980s by transfers from the Penguin English Library, the
Penguin American Library, and the Penguin Poets series. To commemorate its 50th
anniversary, a handsome catalogue of Penguin Classics was published in 1996. It
included an historical essay by Steve Hare.
The original King Penguin series of 76 volumes came to a halt in 1959. A later
series bearing the same King Penguin name was initiated in 1981 for selected
fiction and ran for several years, to the consternation of devotees of the
original King Penguins.
Many earlier series have continued in essentially their earlier style and spirit.
These include: Penguin Poets, Penguin Handbooks, Penguin Reference Books,
Penguin Pl ays, Peregrome Books, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, Puffin Books, and
Picture Puffin Books.
In 1983
Granta: A Paperback Magazine of New Writing came within
the Penguin family.
Granta continued to be published by Granta
four times a year and to carry its own distinctive cover design. But it was now
distributed by Penguin and added Penguin logos on its cover and spine. (In its
ISBNcoding,
Granta was treated as a subseries of Penguin's main
series.) In picking up
Granta Penguin renewed an earlier
interest, having published
Penguin New Writing from 1940 to 1950.
The post-1965 Penguin series are listed in Tables 8A and 8B. Penguin subseries
are listed in Table 9.
The Foley Post-65 Penguin Collection
This portion of the Foley Collection of Penguin Books provides a glimpse of the
growth and changes in Penguin publishing from 1966-1999. It is donated by
Katharine and me in memory of our son, William Ross Foley.
The task of keeping track of Penguin books published after1965 has been more
difficult than documenting Penguin publishing from 1935-65. As Penguin became
part of the Pearson firm and as additional publishers were brought in, the
situation was often fluid.. Many non-Penguin book imprints were brought under
the Penguin publishing umbrella. Some imprints were merged with Penguin series.
Some imprints retained their previous imprint names and styles. By the late
1990s a collector or observer could recognize different degrees of
"Penguinness":
- Traditional Penguin books that maintained a sense of continuity with pre-1965 series character and cover designs.
- Books with Penguin name and Penguin logo (penguin-in-oval) but with cover designs, imprint names and/or other features that were not traditionally Penguin.
- Books that were Penguin only in the loosest sense of being published by Penguin (and so stated on the reverse of the title page), but otherwise not distnguishable as Penguins
In our modest working collection of post-1965 Penguin books, we have mainly dealt
with the first type -- the more traditional Penguin books. We have also included
selected examples of the second type. We have included only a very few examples
of the third type.
The collection in particular provides examples of distinctive series and
subseries. Over the years, series and subseries have emerged and disappeared,
sometimes absorbed into other series or subseries. The collection makes no
pretense of providing an exhaustive picture.
Our post-1965 collection contains a considerably higher proportion of books
printed in the U. S. than was the case for the 1935-1965 collection. In the
earlier colleciton there were 176 "American Penguin" titles, most of which were
printed in the U. S. Other than those American Penguin books, only 26 books
(about 1%) of the collection were printed in the U. S. By contrast, in the
post-1965 collection about one-third of the books were printed in the U. S. And
the proportion rises in the most recent years. We cannot be sure that this
reflects the overall publishing production picture. But in any event many more
Penguin titles now available to Americans are printed right here in this
country.
At the time of its transfer to The Bancroft Library in 1999, this A27 portion of
Penguin Books included:
- Penguin books published 1966-1999, numbering 568. Most of these carry direct Penguin or Puffin imprints, representing 61 series and 47 subseries.
- About 65 reference books, monographs, catalogs or ephemera that have been added to the reference portion of the A26 Collection. Table 4 (following the essays in the A26 Finding Aid and listing reference material) has been updated. These reference items and the index to them now serve both the A26 and the A27 collections.
- Index entries that have been added to Table 5 (Collection A26 Finding Aid). This brings the index to reference items up to date through Oct. 1999. Users of the index are also encouraged to make direct use of A Penguin Collector's Companion (Penguin Collectors' Society, rev. edit., 1997), a mini-encyclopedia on many facets of Penguin books and publishing.which has now been added as a reference item. Its alphabetized entries are not included in the main index to reference materials.
- Updated computerized data base. As with the A26 collection, the main
data base for this A27 collection is organized at two levels:
- Book. With descriptive information about each book. In addition to normal bibliographic description, the data include: series and/or subseries, cover designer/illustrator, condition of book (and dustjacket, if any) and, in some cases, additional comments.
- Series and subseries. With information about each of the 96 series that are identified. Nearly one-fourth of the books in the A26 collection also fall within subseries. There is also information about each of 64 subseries.
- This essay on post-1965 developments and on the A27 collection, with accompanying Tables 8A, 8B, 9 and 10. Tables 8A, 8B and 9 list Penguin (and Puffin) series and subseries. Table 10 lists non-Penguin imprints published 1986-99 within he larger Penguin Group. These tables -- reflecting the data base from which they are drawn -- also include series and subseries for which the collection lacks examples
A final terminological note: In the post-65 period the term "Penguin" could mean
either Penguin imprint (typically, "Penguin Books", which we'd expect to find at
the foot of the title page and usually on the short-title page) or Penguin
publisher (in recent years, "Penguin Group", which we'd expect to find at or
near the head of publisher information on the reverse of the title page). Which
usage is employed depends on the context. One further clarification: Generally,
we speak of Penguin imprint, but, more precisely, this usually refers to either
Penguin or Puffin imprints. Puffin imprints are for children's books. At some
periods in Penguin history, "Penguin" appeared on the title page for Puffin
titles; for most recent periods, "Puffin" has appeared on the title page. It is
simpler to say "Penguin" than always to say "Penguin or Puffin".
TABLES 8A-8B: Penguin Series, 1966-1999
|
Library
Desig. |
Series Name |
Publication
Dates |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | PENGUIN BOOKS main series | 1935-1989 | |
| A2 | PENGUIN BOOKS (series no. + 10,000) | 1989-1995? | |
| A3 | PENGUIN BOOKS (series no. + 20,000) | 1993- ? | |
| B1 | PELICAN BOOKS | 1937-1990 | |
| B4 | PELICAN BOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | |
| C1 | PENGUIN AND PELICAN SPECIALS | 1937- | |
| D1 | PENGUIN CLASSICS | 1946-1992 | |
| D1.5 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 039 fr.Peng.Am.Lib. | 1983-1985 | |
| D1.6 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 043 fr.Peng.Eng.Lib. | 1985-1986 | |
| D1.7 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 042 fr.Peng.Poets | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| D4 | PENGUIN CLASSICS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | Not held in Collection |
| D4.6 | PENGUIN AUDIOBOOKS of Peng.Classics | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| D6 | PELICAN CLASSICS | 1968- ? | |
| F1 | PENGUIN POETS | 1941- | |
| F1.6 | PENGUIN POETS 058 | 1994? | |
| F3 | PENGUIN POETS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968-1969 | |
| G1 | PENGUIN GUIDES | 1939-1960 | |
| G2 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS | 1942- | |
| G2.5 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS 01 | 1981? | |
| G3 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| G3.7 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS hardback | 1978- ? | Not held in Collection |
| G5 | PENGUIN TRAVEL GUIDES later series | 1980-1991? | |
| G6 | PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS | 1943- | |
| G8 | PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS: LIBR. ED. | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| H1 | BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND paperback | 1951-1964 | Not held in Collection |
| H2 | BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND hardback | 1952-1982? | |
| H3 | PELICAN HISTORY OF ART hardback | 1953-1992 | |
| H4 | PELICAN HISTORY OF ART paperback | 1966-1992 | |
| H5.7 | PENGUIN NEW ART | 1971- ? | Not held in Collection |
| J2 | PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY | 1965-1985 | |
| J4 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK SOCIETY | 1962- ? | Not held in Collection |
| J5 | PENGUIN PLAYS | 1946- ? | |
| J6 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE | 1937-1959 | |
| K1 | PUFFIN [STORY] BOOKS | 1941- | |
| K1.6 | PUFFIN CLASSICS | 1986-1990 | |
| K2 | PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS | 1940-1965 | Not held in Collection |
| K8 | PEACOCK BOOKS | 1962-1979 | |
| L1 | MISCELLANEOUS | 1938- ? | |
| L3 | PENGUIN AFRICAN LIBRARY | 1962- ? | |
| L6 | PEREGRINE BOOKS | 1962- ? | |
| L8 | HUMMINGBIRD BOOKS | 1965-1974? | Not held in Collection |
| M9.6 | GRANTA: PAP.MAG. OF NEW WRITING 00 | 1983-1988 | |
| M9.7 | GRANTA: PAP.MAG. OF NEW WRITING 01 | 1988- | |
| N6 | PELICAN SHAKESPEARE (U.S.) | 1956-1966 | |
| P6 | AUSTRALIAN PENGUIN BOOKS (AUS.) | 1963- ? | Not held in Collection |
| P8 | PERMANENT PENGUINS (AUS.) | 1983? | Not held in Collection |
| S1 | PENGUIN EDUCATION | 1966-1974 | Not held in Collection |
| S2 | ILLUSTRATED WORLD HISTORY | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| S4 | LIVES AND LETTERS | 1978?- | |
| S5 | NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE | 1967- ? | |
| S6 | NUFFIELD PUBLICATIONS | 1966- ? | Not held in Collection |
| S7 | NUFFIELD A SERIES: CHEM. AND BIOL. | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| S8 | PENGUIN AMERICAN LIBRARY (U.S.) | 1980?-1985 | |
| T1 | PENGUIN PLAYS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| T2 | VIKING PORTABLE LIBRARY | 1978?- | |
| T3 | NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE: LIBR. ED. | 1967-1968 | |
| T4 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY: LIB.ED. | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| T6 | PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY: LIBR. ED. | 1968- ? | |
| T7 | PEREGRINE BOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | |
| U1 | ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS | 1966- ? | |
| U2 | PENGUIN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS | 1970- ? | Not held in Collection |
| U3 | PENGUIN MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS | 1966-1970? | Not held in Collection |
| U4 | PENGUIN MODERN PSYCHOLOGY | 1966- ? | |
| U5 | PENGUIN NATURE | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| U6 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY | 1967- ? | Not held in Collection |
| U7 | PENGUIN UNIVERSITY BOOKS | 1971- ? | Not held in Collection |
| U8 | WRITING TODAY: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1968 | Not held in Collection |
| U9 | SYRENS | 1994? | |
| V1 | PICTURE PUFFINS 050 | 1985? | |
| V1.5 | PICTURE PUFFINS 054 | 1993-1994? | |
| V1.6 | PICTURE PUFFINS 055 | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| V1.7 | PICTURE PUFFINS 056 | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| V2 | PUFFIN BREAKTHROUGH TO LITERATURE | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| V3 | PUFFIN EXPLORERS paperback | 1972-1975 | Not held in Collection |
| V5 | PUFFIN FOLKTALES OF THE WORLD | 1976? | Not held in Collection |
| V6 | PUFFIN READERS' DIARY | 1967-1973 | Not held in Collection |
| V6.1 | PUFFIN CLUB DIARY | 1973-1978 | Not held in Collection |
| V8 | PUFFIN CHOICE (AUS.) | 1983-1985 | Not held in Collection |
| W1 | PENGUIN TROLLOPE, THE | 1992-1993? | |
| W2 | PENGUIN QUARTERLY | 1992- ? | Not held in Collection |
| W4 | PENGUIN 60s: BRIT. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W5 | PENGUIN 60S: U. S. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W6 | PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS: BRIT. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W7 | PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS: U. S. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W8 | PENGUIN CHILDREN'S 60s: BRIT.SERIES | 1996 | |
| W8.1 | PENGUIN TRAVEL 60s: BRIT.SERIES | 1996 | Not held in Collection |
| W9 | AUSTRALIAN PENGUIN 60s | 1997 | |
| W9.1 | METHUEN POOH 70 (Peng. 60s parody) | 1997 | |
| X2 | VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS | 1985? | |
| X3 | PLUME/PENGUIN BOOKS | 1993-1995? | |
| X4 | PENGUIN BOOKS/ARKANA | 1990-1996? |
8B: Alphabetically by Series Name
|
Library
Desig. |
Series Name |
Publication
Dates |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS | 1966- ? | |
| W9 | AUSTRALIAN PENGUIN 60s | 1997 | |
| P6 | AUSTRALIAN PENGUIN BOOKS (AUS.) | 1963- ? | Not held in Collection |
| H2 | BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND hardback | 1952-1982? | |
| H1 | BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND paperback | 1951-1964 | Not held in Collection |
| J4 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK SOCIETY | 1962- ? | Not held in Collection |
| M9.6 | GRANTA: PAP.MAG. OF NEW WRITING 00 | 1983-1988 | |
| M9.7 | GRANTA: PAP.MAG. OF NEW WRITING 01 | 1988- | |
| L8 | HUMMINGBIRD BOOKS | 1965-1974? | Not held in Collection |
| S2 | ILLUSTRATED WORLD HISTORY | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| S4 | LIVES AND LETTERS | 1978?- | |
| W9.1 | METHUEN POOH 70 (Peng. 60s parody) | 1997 | |
| L1 | MISCELLANEOUS | 1938- ? | |
| S5 | NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE | 1967- ? | |
| T3 | NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE: LIBR. ED. | 1967-1968 | |
| S7 | NUFFIELD A SERIES: CHEM. AND BIOL. | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| S6 | NUFFIELD PUBLICATIONS | 1966- ? | Not held in Collection |
| K8 | PEACOCK BOOKS | 1962-1979 | |
| B1 | PELICAN BOOKS | 1937-1990 | |
| B4 | PELICAN BOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | |
| D6 | PELICAN CLASSICS | 1968- ? | |
| H3 | PELICAN HISTORY OF ART hardback | 1953-1992 | |
| H4 | PELICAN HISTORY OF ART paperback | 1966-1992 | |
| N6 | PELICAN SHAKESPEARE (U.S.) | 1956-1966 | |
| W6 | PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS: BRIT. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W7 | PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS: U. S. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W4 | PENGUIN 60s: BRIT. SERIES | 1995 | |
| W5 | PENGUIN 60S: U. S. SERIES | 1995 | |
| L3 | PENGUIN AFRICAN LIBRARY | 1962- ? | |
| S8 | PENGUIN AMERICAN LIBRARY (U.S.) | 1980?-1985 | |
| C1 | PENGUIN AND PELICAN SPECIALS | 1937- | |
| D4.6 | PENGUIN AUDIOBOOKS of Peng.Classics | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| A1 | PENGUIN BOOKS main series | 1976? | |
| A2 | PENGUIN BOOKS (series no. + 10,000) | 1989-1995? | |
| A3 | PENGUIN BOOKS (series no. + 20,000) | 1993- ? | |
| X4 | PENGUIN BOOKS/ARKANA | 1990-1996? | |
| W8 | PENGUIN CHILDREN'S 60s: BRIT.SERIES | 1996 | |
| D1 | PENGUIN CLASSICS | 1946-1992 | |
| D1.5 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 039 fr.Peng.Am.Lib. | 1983-1985 | |
| D1.7 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 042 fr.Peng.Poets | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| D1.6 | PENGUIN CLASSICS 043 fr.Peng.Eng.Lib. | 1985-1986 | |
| D4 | PENGUIN CLASSICS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | Not held in Collection |
| S1 | PENGUIN EDUCATION | 1964-1974 | Not held in Collection |
| J2 | PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY | 1965-1985 | |
| T6 | PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY: LIBR. ED. | 1968- ? | |
| G1 | PENGUIN GUIDES | 1939-1960 | |
| G2 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS | 1942- | |
| G3.7 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS hardback | 1978- ? | Not held in Collection |
| G2.5 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS 01 | 1981? | |
| G3 | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| U2 | PENGUIN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS | 1970- ? | Not held in Collection |
| U3 | PENGUIN MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS | 1966-1970? | Not held in Collection |
| U4 | PENGUIN MODERN PSYCHOLOGY | 1966- ? | |
| U5 | PENGUIN NATURE | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| H5.7 | PENGUIN NEW ART | 1971- ? | Not held in Collection |
| J5 | PENGUIN PLAYS | 1946- ? | Not held in Collection |
| T1 | PENGUIN PLAYS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| F1 | PENGUIN POETS | 1941- | |
| F1.6 | PENGUIN POETS 058 | 1994? | |
| F3 | PENGUIN POETS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1968-1969 | |
| W2 | PENGUIN QUARTERLY | 1992- ? | Not held in Collection |
| G6 | PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS | 1943- | |
| G8 | PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS: LIBR. ED. | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| J6 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE | 1937-1959 | |
| U6 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY | 1967- ? | Not held in Collection |
| T4 | PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY: LIB.ED. | 1968 | Not held in Collection |
| W8.1 | PENGUIN TRAVEL 60s: BRIT.SERIES | 1996 | Not held in Collection |
| G5 | PENGUIN TRAVEL GUIDES later series | 1980-1991? | |
| W1 | PENGUIN TROLLOPE, THE | 1992-1993? | |
| U7 | PENGUIN UNIVERSITY BOOKS | 1971- ? | Not held in Collection |
| L6 | PEREGRINE BOOKS | 1962- ? | |
| T7 | PEREGRINE BOOKS: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1969 | |
| P8 | PERMANENT PENGUINS (AUS.) | 1983? | Not held in Collection |
| V1 | PICTURE PUFFINS 050 | 1985? | |
| V1.5 | PICTURE PUFFINS 054 | 1993-1994? | |
| V1.6 | PICTURE PUFFINS 055 | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| V1.7 | PICTURE PUFFINS 056 | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| X3 | PLUME/PENGUIN BOOKS | 1993-1995? | |
| V2 | PUFFIN BREAKTHROUGH TO LITERATURE | ?? | Not held in Collection |
| V8 | PUFFIN CHOICE (AUS.) | 1983-1985 | Not held in Collection |
| K1.6 | PUFFIN CLASSICS | 1986-1990 | |
| V6.1 | PUFFIN CLUB DIARY | 1973-1978 | Not held in Collection |
| V3 | PUFFIN EXPLORERS paperback | 1972-1975 | Not held in Collection |
| V5 | PUFFIN FOLKTALES OF THE WORLD | 1976? | Not held in Collection |
| K2 | PUFFIN PICTURE BOOKS | 1940-1965 | Not held in Collection |
| V6 | PUFFIN READERS' DIARY | 1967-1973 | Not held in Collection |
| K1 | PUFFIN [STORY] BOOKS | 1941- | |
| U9 | SYRENS | 1994? | |
| T2 | VIKING PORTABLE LIBRARY | 1978?- | |
| X2 | VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS | 1985? | |
| U8 | WRITING TODAY: LIBRARY EDITION | 1967-1968 | Not held in Collection |
TABLE 9: Penguin Subseries, 1966-1999
|
Library
Desig. |
Subseries Name | Publication Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1. | PENGUIN BOOKS Main Series | ||
| Contemporary American Fiction | 1985-1991? | ||
| Lives of Modern Women | 1986? | ||
| Penguin Classic Crime | 1986? | ||
| Penguin Crime Fiction | 1966-1988 | ||
| Penguin Metaphysical Library | 1972? | ||
| Penguin Modern Masters | 1976? | ||
| Penguin Modern Stories | 1969-1972 | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin New Writers | 1968-1969? | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin Phrase Books | 1972? | ||
| Penguin Short Fiction | 1983-1987? | ||
| Penguin Sports Library | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin Travel Library | 1989 ? | ||
| Writers for the Other Europe | 1981-1986? | ||
| A2. | PENGUIN BOOKS Main Series no. + 10,000 | ||
| Contemporary American Fiction | 1987- | ||
| Essential Series | 1990 ? | ||
| King Penguin later post65 series | 1981-1989? | ||
| Penguin Crime Fiction | 1989-1995? | ||
| Penguin Crossword Puzzles | 1989-1994? | ||
| Penguin Nature Library | 1990-1994? | ||
| Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics | 1985-1993? | ||
| A3. | PENGUIN BOOKS Main Series no. + 20,000 | ||
| Penguin Crime Fiction | 1994-1998? | ||
| Penguin Mystery | 1998? | ||
| B1. | PELICAN BOOKS | ||
| Architect and Society, The | 1966? | ||
| Concepts of the Man-Made Environment | 1975? | ||
| New Pelican Guide to English Literature | 1984? | ||
| Pelican Anthropology Library | 1970? | ||
| Pelican Biographies | 1970? | ||
| Pelican Geography Series | 1970? | ||
| Pelican History of the United States | 1971-1980? | ||
| Pelican Latin American Library | 1971- ? | Not held in Collection | |
| Studies in Social Pathology | 1964-1983? | ||
| Style and Civilization | 1967-1983? | ||
| B4. | PELICAN BOOKS Library Edition | ||
| Style and Civilization: Libr. Edit. | 1967-1969 | Not held in Collection | |
| C1. | PENGUIN AND PELICAN SPECIALS | ||
| Penguin Science Survey | 1961-1968 | Not held in Collection | |
| F1. | PENGUIN POETS | ||
| Penguin Modern European Poets | 1964- ? | ||
| Penguin Modern Poets | 1962- | ||
| Poet to Poet | 1973- ? | ||
| G3.7. | PENGUIN HANDBOOKS Hardback | ||
| Penguin Nature Guides | 1978- ? | Not held in Collection | |
| G6. | PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS | ||
| Penguin Atlas Series | 1986-1988? | ||
| J5. | PENGUIN PLAYS | ||
| New English Dramatists | 1959-1970? | Not held in Collection | |
| K1. | PUFFIN [STORY] BOOKS | ||
| Puffin Newb.Libr. repr. by Troll Assocs. | 1988? | ||
| Puffin Newbery Library | 1993?- | ||
| Puffin Plus | 1986? | ||
| Young, Puffin, A | 1959? | ||
| S1. | PENGUIN EDUCATION | ||
| Connexions | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin Cookbooks | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin Education Specials | 1969? | ||
| Penguin English Poets | 1971? | ||
| Penguin Modern Economics | 1972? | ||
| Penguin Modern Sociology Readings | 1972? | ||
| Penguin Passnotes | 1984- | Not held in Collection | |
| Penguin Poetry Library | 1985?- | Not held in Collection | |
| Voices | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| X1.1. | PICTURE PUFFINS 054 | ||
| Puffin Pied Piper, A | 1976? | ||
| Puffin Unicorn. A | 1992- ? | ||
| X1.2. | PICTURE PUFFINS 055 | ||
| Puffin Pied Piper, A | 1994? | ||
| Puffin Unicorn. A | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| X1.3. | PICTURE PUFFINS 056 | ||
| Puffin Pied Piper, A | ?? | Not held in Collection | |
| Puffin Unicorn. A | 1997? | ||
| X2. | VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS | ||
| Penguin Books/Virago Press | 1985? |
TABLE 10: Non-Penguin Imprints within Pearson/Penguin Publishing
This list of imprints is no doubt incomplete, particularly for British imprints. The
list comes mainly from American sources. The imprint names and the types of books to
which they applied may have varied over time. Even so, our list provides a feel for
the complex array of imprints not directly bearing a Penguin name on the cover or
title page, but showing in fine print on the verso page that the imprint was
published under Pearson/Penguin publishing umbrella. Only a very few examples in the
A27 Collection.
| Imprint Name | Dates of Publication | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Ace | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Ace/Putnam | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Arkana | 1996-1998 | Paperback. |
| Berkley Books | 1998-1999 | |
| Boulevard | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Consumer Guides/Pub. | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| Darkhorse Comics | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| DAW | 1998 | Hardcover & paperback. |
| Dial Books for Young Readers | 1998 | Children's. |
| Dial Easy to Read | 1993-1996 | Children's. |
| Dial Pied Piper | 1993 | Children's. |
| Donald L. Fine | 1993-1998 | Hardcover. |
| Dutton | 1991-1998 | Hardcover. Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y4 |
| Dutton Children's Books | 1998 | Children's. |
| Dutton Unicorn | 1993-1996 | Children's. |
| Element | 1996-1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| Elm Tree Books | 1993 | |
| Frederick Warne | 1998 | Children's. |
| G. P. Putnam | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Grosset and Dunlap | 1998 | Children's. |
| Grosset/Putnam | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Hamish Hamilton | 1993-1996 | |
| High Bridge Audio | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| HP Books | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Jeremy P. Tarcher | 1989-1998 | Hardcover & paperback. Libr. Designat. of Examples in |
| Jove | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Kestrel | ||
| Ladybird Books | 1998 | Children's. |
| Library of America, The | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| Mentor | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Meridian | 1996 | |
| Mermaid | 1993-1996 | |
| Michael Joseph | 1993-1996 | |
| Monacelli Press | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| New American Library | 1996 | |
| Onyx | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Overlook Press | 1986-1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| PaperStar | 1998 | Children's. |
| Pavilion Books | 1993-1996 | |
| Pelham Books | 1993-1996 | |
| Penguin Putnam | 1993-1996 | |
| Penguin Studio | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Perigee | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Philomel | 1998 | Children's. |
| Plume | 1992-1996 | Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y4.1 |
| Price Stern Sloan | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Prime Crime | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Reader's Digest | 1998 | Distributed by Penguin. |
| Riverhead Books | 1998 | Hardcover. |
| Roc | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Rough Guides | 1988-1998 | Distributed by Penguin. Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: |
| Signet Books | 1996-1998 | Paperback. Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y4.2 |
| Signet Classics | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Stephen Greene Press | 1996 | |
| Topaz | 1998 | Paperback. |
| Truman Talley | 1996 | Paperback. |
| Viking Books | 1992-1999 | Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y2 |
| Viking Children's Books | 1993-1998 | Children's. |
| Viking Compass Books | ||
| Viking Critical Library | ||
| Viking Kestrel | 1986 | Children's. Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y2.1 |
| Viking Portable Library | 1996 | |
| Virago Modern Classics | 1983 | Libr. Designat. of Examples in Collection: Y3 |
| Webb & Bower | 1993 | |
| Wee Sing | 1998 | Children's. |