/'pengwin/ n. flightless black and white sea bird of the southern hemisphere, with wings developed into flippers for swimming underwater

Designer and writer Charles Foster has very generously sent me a big box of Penguins and Pelicans which included this superb cover by Keith Whitehead (published in 1965).

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[SebHayez]

Hi, the arrow is pointing a specific word wich give sense or it's just a graphic composition ?…

[Richard]

Hi Seb,

It's pointing to the word "dictionary".

[SebHayez]

So it's ver nice ! Thanks

[Charles Foster]

Glad you like the books, Richard, and that they have gone to a good home. They were mainly in the category which a bookseller acquaintance of mine calls 'tired political', which means from his point of view they were virtually unsellable. However some have interesting covers. I bought that dictionary when I was a student. As you can tell from the 12/6 cover price, that was some time ago. Probably why I am tired.