Paperback Books Bibliography

Any suggestions for inclusion in this bibliography are very welcome.

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Penguin Books

See also the Penguin Collectors' Society Miscellaneous Publications

• Anon - Classified List - Penguin Books, 1960
• Anon - Classified List - Penguin Books, 1962
• Anon - Fifty Penguin Years - Penguin Books, 1985. ISBN: 0140085890
• Anon - Penguins: A Retrospect - Penguin Books, 1951
• Anon - Penguins Progress - Penguin Books, (1936-1940 and 1946-1951) leaflets and booklets
• Anon - Penguins Progress 1935-1960 - Penguin Books, 1960, Q25
• Anon - Seven Hundred Penguins [Penguin Covers] - Penguin Books, 2007. ISBN: 978-0141031880
• Anon - Ten Years of Penguins - Penguin Books, 1945
• Baines, Phil - Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 - Allen Lane, 2005. ISBN: 978-0713998399
• Bancroft Library - Guide to the Donald and Katharine Foley Collection of Penguin Books, 1935-1965 - Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
• Buckley, Paul - Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover - Penguin Books, 2016. ISBN: 978-0143110132
• Buckley, Paul (ed.) - Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the good, the bad...) - Penguin Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-0143117629
• Dutton, G. - A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96 - Penguin Australia, 1996, ISBN: 0145000001
• Edwards, Russell & Hall, David J. - So Much Admired: Die InselBucherei and the King Penguin Series - Salvia Books, 1988
• Eliot, Henry - The Penguin Classics Book - Particular Books, 2018. ISBN: 978-0241320853
• Green, Evelyne - Penguin Books: The Pictorial Cover 1960-1980 - Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1981
• Hare, Steve - Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors 1935-1970 - (Q60) Penguin Books, 1995. ISBN: 0140238522
• Kells, Stuart - Penguin and the Lane Brothers, Black Ink, 2015
• Lewis, Jeremy - Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane, Penguin Viking, 2005
• Morpurgo, J.E. - Allen Lane - King Penguin - 1979. ISBN: 0091396905
• Shorley, Debby & McCann, Wesley - Fifty Years of Penguins: Catalogue of an exhibition at Stranmillis College and the University of Ulster, at Belfast, October to December 1985
• Whitehead, E. - John Lehmann's New Writing: An Author Index 1936-50 - Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter, 1990
• Williams, William Emrys - Allen Lane: A Personal Portrait - Bodley Head, 1973. ISBN: 0370104749
• Williams, William Emrys - The Penguin Story 1935-1956 - Penguin Books, 1956, Q21
• Wood, Sally - A Sort of Dignified Flippancy: Penguin Books 1935-1960 - Edinburgh University Library, 1985. ISBN: 0907182046
• Wood, Sally - Pick Up A Penguin: Penguin Books 1935-1960 - Catalogue of Exhibition at Edinburgh University Library, 1988
• Wootten, William & Donaldson, George - Reading Penguin: A Critical Anthology - Cambridge Scholars, 2013

Specific publisher or series

• Lewis, F - A Brief History of Pocket Books 1939-1967 - New York, Pocket Books, 1967
• Petersen, C - The Bantam Story: Thirty Years of Paperback Publishing - New York, Bantam Books, 1975
• Tauchnitz, B - The Harvest: Being the Record of One Hundred Years of Publishing, 1837-1937 - Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1937

General books

• Bannon, Ann - Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 - Viking Studio, 1999
• Bonn, T.L. - Paperback Primer: A Guide for Collectors - Paperback Quarterly Publications, 1981
• Bonn, T.L. - Undercover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks - Penguin, 1982
• Breen, J.L. - Murder Off the Rack: Critical Studies of Ten Paperback Masters - Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN: 0810822326
• Canja, Jeff - Collectable Paperback Books - Glenmoor Publishing, 2nd Ed., 2002
• Cinamon, G. (ed.) - Hans Schmoller, Typographer - Monotype, 1987
• Cole, John Y. - Books in Action: The Armed Services Editions - Library of Congress.
• Crider, A.B. - Mass Market Publishing in America - G K Hall, 1982. ISBN: 0816185905
• Davis, K.C. - Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America - Houghton Mifflin, 1984
• Day, B. - Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books
• Doubleday, Richard B. - Jan Tschichold Designer: The Penguin Years, Oak Knoll, 2006
• Dystel, O. - Mass-Market Publishing: More Observations, Speculations, and Provocations - Bowker, 1981. ISBN: 9993424986
• Flanagan, M. - British Gangster & Exploitation Paperbacks of the Postwar Years, Zeon Books, England, 1997
• Flower, D. - The Paper Back: It's Past, Present and Future - Arborfield, 1959
• Hackett, A.P. - Sixty Years of Best Sellers - New York, Bowker, 1956
• Hamilton, Cinthia - Western and Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in America - University of Ohio Press, 1987
• Hancer, K. - The Paperback Price Guide - Cleveland, Overstreet Publications, 1980 (2nd edition 1982, 3rd edition 1990)
• Harbottle, P. - British science fiction paperbacks and magazines, 1949-1956: an annotated bibliography
• Haut, Woody - Pulp Culture - Serpents Tail, 1995
• Holland, S. - The Mushroom Jungle: A History of Post-war Paperback Publishing - Zeon Books, 1994
• Holroyd, Graham - Paperback Prices and Checklist - iGuide Media, 2003
• Huxford, Bob & Sharon - Huxford's Paperback Value Guide - Collectors Books, 1994
• Kaplan, J.B. (ed) - Love Was Cheap and Life Was High : Postcards from Paperback Cover Art of the 40s and 50s - Collier, 1990
• Lovisi, G. - Instant Expert: Collecting Science Fiction and Fantasy - Alliance, 1997. ISBN: 1-887110127
• Lupoff, Richard A. - The Great American Paperback - Collectors Press, 2001
• Lyles, W.H. - Dell Paperbacks, 1942 to Mid-1962: A Catalog-Index - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1983. ISBN: 0313236682
• Lyles, W.H. - Putting Dell on the Map: A History of the Dell Paperbacks - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1984. ISBN: 0313236674
• McLean, Ruari - Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography - Lund Humphries. ISBN: 08533166886
• McLean, Ruari - Jan Tschichold: Typographer - David R. Godine, 1990. ISBN: 0879238410 (featuring, amongst other things, his Typographic Composition Rules for Penguin Books)
• O'Brien, G. - Hardboiled America - Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981
• Petersen, Clarence - The Bantam Story - Bantam, 1970
• Reginald, R. & Burgess, M.R. - Cumulative Paperback Index 1939-1959 - Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1973
• Reginald, R. - Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 - Chicago, Gale, 1973
• Salisbury, Martin - The Illustrated Dust Jacket: 1920-1970 - Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017. ISBN: 978-0500519134
• Schick, F.L. - The Paperbound Book in America - New York, Bowker, 1958
• Schreuders, Piet - The Book of Paperbacks - Virgin Books, 1981. ISBN: 0907080189
• Server, L. - Over My Dead Body: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955 - Chronicle Books, 1994. ISBN: 0811805506
• Server, Lee - Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers - Checkmark Books, 2002
• Server, Lee - Danger Is My Business - Chronicle Books, 1993
• Smith, R.H. - Paperback Parnassus - Boulder, Westview Press, 1976
• Stryker, Susan - Queer Pulp - Chronicle Books, 2001.
• Tebbel, J. - Paperback Books: A Pocket History - New York, Pocket Books, 1964
• Troy, Michele K. - Behind the Scenes at the Albatross Press: A Modern Press for Modern Times, in: John Spiers (ed) - The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume One - , pp. 202-218
• Troy, Michele K. - Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich - Yale University Press
• Walters, R. - Paperback Talk - Academy Chicago Pub, 1985. ISBN: 0897331087
• Warren, J. - The Official Price Guide Paperbacks - House of Collectibles, 1991

Articles

Articles in the following journals are excluded:

• Penguin Collectors' Society Newsletter (vol.1, 1974 - ) ISSN 0955-0941
• The Penguin Collector (vol.41, 1993 - ) ISSN 1353-0143
• Collecting Paperbacks? (vol.1, 1979 - ) (Portland, Oregon)
• Paperback Quarterly (vol.1 1978 - ) (Brownwood, Texas)
• Ten years of Penguins - in The Bookseller, 23/8/1945, 6/9/1945, 113/9/1945
• The Penguin Look and 'Monotype' Faces - The Monotype Corporation Ltd., 19?? - Insert in ??
• Berry, J. & Miller, K. - Preference for paperbacks - in Library Journal, vol.106, no.16, 15/9/1981, p.1687-1691
• Bonn, T.L.- American mass-market paperbacks - in Collectible Books, (Editor J.Peters), New York, Bowker, 1979
• Burbridge, P. - Penguin Panorama - in Printing Review, No. 72, Autumn 1956, p5-35
• Carrington, N. - A century for Puffin Books - in Penrose Annual, 1957, p.62-64
• Cole, M. - Books for the people - in Times Literary Supplement, 26/11/1938, p.751
• Edwards, R. - Insel Books - in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.11, April 1984, p.18-25
• Edwards, R. - Sixty Penguin Years - in The Bookdealer, no.1024, 4/5/1995
• Graham, E. - Puffin Books - in Signal Magazine, September 1973, p.115-122
• Hall, D.J. - Penguin collectors' story - in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.5 September 1978, p.7-26
• Holloway, D. - The day of the Penguin - in The Daily Telegraph, 13/7/1985
• Jackson, K. - Collecting Penguins - in Book and Magazine Collector, March 1984, p.18-25
• James, Neil - A Paperback Canon: The Australian Pocket Library, in: Australian Literary Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2000
• Joicey, N. - A Guide to Paperback Progress - in Twentieth Century British History, vol.4, no.1, 1993
• Lewis, J. - The paperback explosion and the design of the modern book - in The Twentieth Century Book: Its Illustration and Design, Studio Vista, 1967
• McCleery, Alistair - Tauchnitz and Albatross: A 'Community of Interests' in English-Language Paperback Publishing, 1934-1951 - in: The Library, Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2006, pp. 297-316
• McLean, R. - Collecting books for their design, part 1 - in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, 1981, p.224-227
• McLean, R. - Penguins planned by Tschichold - in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, August 1981, p.292-295
• Morpurgo, J.E. - The King and I - in Blackwoods Magazine, December 19799, p.477-487
• Pressler, K.H. - The Tauchnitz Edition, beginning and end of a famous series - in Publishing History, vol.6, 1979/80, p.62-78
• Rogerson, Ian - Noel Carrington and his Puffin Picture Books - an Exhibition Catalogue, Manchester Polytechnic Library, 1992
• Russell, T. - Half a century of Penguin - in The Listener, June 1985, p.13-15
• Schmoller, H. - The Paperback Revolution - in Essays in the History of Publishing, (Editor A. Briggs), Longman, 1974
• Spencer, H. - Penguins on the march - in Typographica (New Series) No.5 June 1962
• Facetti, Germano - (letter - correcting Herbert Spencer in the previous issue. The then new design format was in fact originated by Romek Marber along with a number of other Graphic Designers of note. The letter is made all the more interesting by the reproduction of Marber's notes), in Typographica (New Series) No.6
• Swift, K. - First Penguin proof - in Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol.8, January 1981, p.16-17
• Todd, W.B. - Firma Tauchnitz: a further investigation - in Publishing History, vol.2, 1978, p.360-367
• Turan, K. - Passion's Plaything: Paperback Parade - in New West, 12/3/1979
• Unwin, S. - Concerning sixpennies - in Times Literary Supplement, 19/11/1938, p.737
• Wilson, Ken - (article on the cover designs of The Penguin Poets), Graphics International, Issue 75, 2000