{"id":937,"date":"2006-10-04T23:56:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=937"},"modified":"2009-01-31T05:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T05:16:55","slug":"penguin-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/10\/04\/penguin-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joekral\/sets\/72157594264351021\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/clockwork_cover.jpg\" id=\"image936\" alt=\"clockwork_cover.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice collection of old covers for Penguin Books on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joekral\/sets\/72157594264351021\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Kral&#8217;s Flickr pages<\/a>. Looking over these, many of which are very familiar even though I&#8217;ve never owned them, makes me aware of how many hours of my life must have been spent in secondhand bookshops. The David Pelham cover for <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> has always been a favourite Penguin design. Pelham did a number of great covers for Penguin&#8217;s SF titles in the 1970s but the Burgess volume proved the most durable, unusually for a cover design surviving many reprintings. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice collection of old covers for Penguin Books on Joe Kral&#8217;s Flickr pages. Looking over these, many of which are very familiar even though I&#8217;ve never owned them, makes me aware of how many hours of my life must have been spent in secondhand bookshops. The David Pelham cover for A Clockwork Orange has always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/10\/04\/penguin-book-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Penguin book covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,20],"tags":[170,368,633],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-science-fiction","tag-a-clockwork-orange","tag-david-pelham","tag-penguin-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}