If you spend more time staring at a screen than you do staring at well-stocked, improving shelves, then this fantastic collection of 60 years of Pelican covers might bring you pleasure. I want to read this one, this one, this one and this one (and, to be honest, pretty much all the others, including this one).
Friday, February 01, 2008
Books Do Furnish A Blog
If you spend more time staring at a screen than you do staring at well-stocked, improving shelves, then this fantastic collection of 60 years of Pelican covers might bring you pleasure. I want to read this one, this one, this one and this one (and, to be honest, pretty much all the others, including this one).
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I think i might have the London book somewhere! they all look great I do like these sort fo web pages.
I thought Peter Townsend wanted to die before he got old?
No reason why you can't read them - one of my favourite sites is www.abebooks.co.uk , where second had bookdealers advertise their wares under one name. All of the books you selected are easily available for prices between 51p and £7.
I have a little something for you over at mine....."E is for...."
NMO
D'oh! Nmoo beat me to it....oh well, jut means you are twice as Excellent!
Hey BA: He wanted us to remember him for something more substantial than pop, I fear...
Ken: Agreed about abe - I've bought may a great item from them...
Buythisbuythisbuytthis:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Hundred-Penguins-Art-Design/dp/0141031883/ref=pd_sim_b_img_1
You can even look inside the book on Amazon and EVERYTHING. I bought it for 'im indoors for Christmas and spent most of Boxing Day with my nose in it.
soup for us all week again cos i'm spending all our cash at abes. bugger
x
Since I'm writing a dissertation about the correlation between avant-garde art movements and coinciding eras of Penguin/Pelican book covers, this has been a big help.
Any more links relating to this?
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