Literature as a collector's item

The Independent - London | August 12, 1995| | Copyright

As far as collectables go, Penguin books have not yet rivalled Chippendale furniture or even John Lennon's hand-written examples of poetry.

There are nevertheless few book publishers who have catered for the collector as much as Penguin. On 30 July, 1935, the first Penguin book - Ariel by Andre Maurois - was released for sale. It was the first of almost 25,000 titles numbered for posterity. The titles were numbered until 1970, when the founder of Penguin, Sir Allen Lane, died.

As soon as they switched to international standard book numbers on the spine that year, collectors seemed to lose ...

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