I spent Saturday at work unpacking boxes & putting stock on the system. We've had some of these Penguin English Classics in stock for a while but Joe told me that they're releasing like a few new covers every month in the lead up to Christmas. The covers are just so lovely. My only critique it that the texture on the cover is a bitch to get stickers off, but that's probably not an issue unless you work in a bookshop!
Penguin have made a pretty hellishly animated website with all the covers on it to be interactive & stuff, & this cute little animation is nice. But I was more interested to find out about Coralie Bickford-Smith whose the inhouse designer who gets to make all these beautiful covers, as well as some of those absolutely lovely fabric hardbacks we've had in for a while now. What an absolutely perfect job.
The cover of Edgar Allan Poe also reminded me of this bandana from Slowdownjoe that I keep meaning to buy. I mean, it's cotton! & it's only £15! & it has pen knives on it! They actually have a wonderful selection of bandanas. Makes me wish is was like the 90s again or something...
Anyway, pretty books, yes. Almost enough to actually make me get round to reading some classics!
They're lovely! I'm afraid I saw them in Rise rather than an actual bookshop, but they didn't have any I actually wanted to buy - I imagine Blackwells carry more of them.
ReplyDeletethey have some ace bandanas don't they, nice to find prints which remind you of other things isn't it. i posted about them a while back but might do another
ReplyDeleteI actually just whacked these on my Amazon wishlist yesterday, tempted just to buy them all for the covers (bad habit I've picked up recently).
ReplyDeleteThese are so beautiful! I might just go buy a few so I can have them on my bookshelf...
ReplyDeleteNeed to get on to sending you 1984, I promise I will finish it soon!
And I'm glad you liked the award, you really deserve some recognition.