What do we need to say? These vintage paperbacks from Penguin speak for themselves. Those simple color-coded designs still catch the eye decades after the books were published.
No bookshelf is complete without a little orange, green, dark blue, purple, yellow.
Aging Lit Major: The shelf of cherished books I've kept from child…
Aging Lit Major: I have a shelf dedicated to the children's books …
Aging Lit Major: I recommend Happy All the Time, by Laurie Colwin, …
P. D. Carswell: Ernest Hemingbird.…
Beth Carswell: Perhaps estate sales and church rummage might be a…
I recommend Penguin By Design, by Phil Barnes, which traces the development of the Alan Lane aesthetic. My far-sighted eyes struggle with the small print, and my older Penguins have disintegrated anyway, but I’ve just discovered you can buy a large set of postcard representations of these covers, so I’m bringing the rainbow back to my study that way.