Comments on: One Hundred Penguin Books

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:52:56 +0000

Just discovered this article and your blog. Such a pleasant read so thank you.

Yours

Drew Kent
Aka The Penguin Chap

By: JennyOH

JennyOH — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:08:36 +0000

What a lovely collection – and what a happy coincidence with your neighbor! When I was about the same age I started collecting an edition of Shakespeare plays with distinctive 60s cover illustrations, but twenty years on I’m not sure where they’ve ended up.

By: Melanie Gadsdon

Melanie Gadsdon — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:33:33 +0000

Like you, Gentle Author, I too absolutely adore Penguin books. I have a collection of old and new Penguin books, Modern Classics (black) psychology and mathematics (blue) old classics (light blue) Greek classics (brown 1950s), Guy de Maupassant (light green 1950s). I could write more as I’m a total geek on Penguin books! My father used to have so many books way back in the 60s and there were so many that they were put in the old loft. I used to go there and get lost in those books and read avidly. Pure Heaven.

By: Collin Kelley

Collin Kelley — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 21:02:49 +0000

Thank you so much for this post and telling the story of how you built your collection. It made me smile today and I really needed it.

By: Loveday Herridge

Loveday Herridge — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 23:05:15 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful story, and its beautiful illustration. I wonder if you visited Sheffield on your travels and if so which Penguins you bought at second-hand bookshops there. I’m a member of Reading Sheffield, a community group which has interviewed Sheffield readers of popular fiction to discover what they read in the mid-twentieth century, and what those books meant to them. It’s possible that some of the Penguins our interviewees read and then discarded, might have ended up in your collection!

By: the gentle author

the gentle author — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:06:07 +0000

In reply to Jo Ross. Yes, I bought a lot of books at Leakeys...

By: Jo Ross

Jo Ross — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:30:39 +0000

That was a fascinating read, thank you G A.
I was interested to see that you once worked in Inverness – there is an enormous second-hand bookshop there called Leakeys which is housed in an old church. It was established in 1979.

By: ian harper

ian harper — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:42:49 +0000

I love this story.. it re~confirms for me the great silver lining of being an obsessive collector of ant sort which is always obvious at the time .. you meet people and see place you would never have seen .. bird watching and vinyl collections have led me to damp woods at dusk and dusty thrift shops , places i remember long after the disk is lost and the warbler variety forgotten ,, thanks Author

By: Achim

Achim — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:58:12 +0000

Wonderful these Book items from the Past!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Margie L Wilson

Margie L Wilson — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:18:50 +0000

This is glorious! When I went to college I encountered the first book store I had ever seen. I went straight for the orange Penguins. I’ve been buying them everywhere ever since.