Every now and then I mention my loft-based Pelican collection and make an empty promise to get them online. Well here they are, or at least nearly half of them. You may have seen some of them before but I'm trying to get them all together and present them in a consistent way (on a knackered old box).
Stand out covers include Jock Kinnier's startlingly contemporary design for Sex in Society, the brilliant David Gentleman's cover for Aspects of the Novel and Herbert Spencer's cunning solution for A Short History of Religion.
Wow.
They are fucking gorgeous.
Posted by: Ben | 03 April 2007 at 11:12 AM
Three colours?
If you get the chance to see David Gentleman give a talk, do go. Much better than some I've been to. (Eg recent d&ad Vince Frost, flashonthebeach Neville Brody)
Posted by: andrew | 03 April 2007 at 01:08 PM
Thank you for sharing. These are precious. I'd covet them like a shiny shiny ring.
Posted by: Rachel | 03 April 2007 at 03:13 PM
Mmmm blue....nice....
Posted by: claire Gates | 03 April 2007 at 04:37 PM
Holy sh*t.
Posted by: Blip | 03 April 2007 at 04:50 PM
cool covers.
Posted by: Freeza | 04 April 2007 at 10:34 AM
An inspiration. Excellent!
Posted by: Mark.S. | 06 April 2007 at 02:21 PM
what a beautiful post
Posted by: David | 06 April 2007 at 10:25 PM
i'm just dying here..i've had a growing pelican collection since high school, but no gems like this. so many must-haves, particularly soviet education..thank you, jesus.
Posted by: shannon | 09 April 2007 at 07:07 AM
I read about this post in Print.
so glad I did.
I don't know which one I love most.
Anne
Posted by: Anne t. | 30 June 2007 at 04:29 AM
marvellous stuff
Posted by: Al | 27 March 2008 at 04:43 PM
I am very jealous of your super collection of penguins....I amde a short animation full of penguin books (penguin were a little difficult at first when it started showing at festivals...but eventually the nice people there let me show it!) You can watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/1322323
Posted by: Lesley Barnes | 24 September 2008 at 06:33 PM