To celebrate our wonderful ephemera category and the unique and quirky items it holds, our World of Rare Books employees have had a chance to pick out their favourite items this week. You can read more about our Ephemera collection here in a previous blog. Here they are… Weekly Illustrated – Coronation Programme and […]
Tag: History
The Iconic Cover | Penguin Paperbacks
In 1935, Allen Lane founded Penguin Books. At this time, the publication of paperbacks was largely associated with poor quality fiction. Allen Lane was determined to bring high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to everyone. Penguin Books deliberately sold each book for the low price of sixpence per book. This made a profit seem unlikely but […]
Step back in time | First Published Books | Volume 1
We have been thinking about our favourite authors and what was their first ever published story. The story that launched them into literary fame. As there are many classic authors we would love to cover, we are going to split this into a series of blog posts. We will start with some of our own […]