Mr Bingo (?!)

Mr Bingo's sent me links to his flickr sets. He has a small but well formed collection of Penguin/Pelicans and there's some little gems. The Literary Critics and Chosen Words are designed by Birdsall. The Modern Writer is, Bingo tells me, by Gerald Cinamon, who did a lot of freelance work for Penguin during the 60s. Then there's Self and Others, Laing's follow up to The Divided Self, with a cover based on Martin Bassett's earlier design.

I happen to know Edwin Taylor designed the cover for The Normal Child. But for me Hurry on Down, is the the stand out cover; such restraint. I'm probably wrong but I'd take a wild guess at Paul Hogarth. Anybody know for sure?

Bingo's also got a lot of interesting vintage postcards. (Oh, and, of course, a very silly name).

Actually, no offence meant. Perhaps that's your real name; these things happen.

Thanks for sharing Bing.

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[Priit Parmakson]

'Self and Others' is by Germano Facetti. Google shows an image with what are probably original colors: blue, dark blue, black ,red