A History of Penguin Books and the Mass Market Paperback — Mrs Blackwell's Village Bookshop

You probably already know that an orange Penguin cover indicates general fiction, green for crime fiction, cerise for travel and adventure, dark blue for biographies, yellow for miscellaneous, and red for drama. But what led to this uniquely simple cover design?

Romeo Juliet - First Edition - Seller-Supplied Images - AbeBooks

Agatha Christie - Penguin - AbeBooks

Agatha Christie - Penguin - AbeBooks

Selected Short Fiction (Penguin). Barnaby Rudge (Penguin). The Pickwick Papers (bantam classic).

Vintage Book Lot of 10 Mass Market Paperback Fiction Books by Charles Dickens

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait (Haunted Bookshop Mystery #7) by Cleo Coyle, Paperback

Agatha Christie - Penguin - AbeBooks

When You are More than a Muse: The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick - Historical Novel Society

The Journal — Mrs Blackwell's Village Bookshop

Allen Lane & Penguin Books Invent the Mass-Market Paperback : History of Information