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In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks were available, but their poor production generally tended to mirror the quality between the covers. Penguin paperbacks were the brainchild of Allen Lane, then a director of The Bodley Head. After a weekend visiting Agatha Christie in Devon, he found himself on a platform at Exeter station searching its bookstall for something to read on his journey back to London, but discovered only popular magazines and reprints of Victorian novels. Appalled by the selection on offer, Lane decided that good quality contemporary fiction should be made available at an attractive price and sold not just in traditional bookshops, but also in railway stations, tobacconists and chain stores. He also wanted a 'dignified but flippant' symbol for his new business. His secretary suggested a Penguin and another employee was sent to London Zoo to make some sketches. Seventy years later Penguin is still one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

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Man in the Monster, The - An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Manga Claus - The Blade of Kringle

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Miracle of Dunkirk, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $7.95

Monarchy Transformed, A - Britain 1603-1714

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Night Ocean, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Modern Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $27.00

No Silent Night - The Christmas Battle for Bastogne

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $26.95

(tape on cover)

Normandy Crucible

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $15.00

Now Write! - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $15.95

Order of the Death's Head, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Original Fake

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Graphic Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $17.99

(dust jacket VG)

Patton at the Battle of the Bulge

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $27.95

(former library copy)

Pillars of the Earth, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Plantagenets, The - The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Quicksand - America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

(slipcover VG+)

Reality is Broken

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

(cover taped, notated)

Reckoners, The - Calamity

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $10.99

Reckoners, The - Firefight

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $10.99

(dust jacket Fair, name inside)

Reindeer Hunters, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $5.99

Riddles of the Sphinx, The - And the Puzzles, Word Games, Brainteasers, Conundrums, Quizzes, Mysteries, Code and Ciphers That Have Baffled, Entertained and Confused the World Over the Last 100 Years

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Mystery Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $14.00

Rise of the Roman Empire, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

(cover notated)

Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw

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Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Sanitorium, The

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Product Line: Horror Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Science of Harry Potter, The - How Magic Really Works

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Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Secret Explorers and the Ice Age Adventures, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Children's Books & Products (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $18.99

Seven Serpents, The (1st Printing)

By: Penguin Publishing

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Sink the Shigure

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $7.99

Soldier's Tale, The - Bearing Witness to Modern War

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Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Sorcery Spell Book, The

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Product Line: Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

Spirits Walking Woman

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Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $5.99

Stalingrad - The Fateful Siege - 1942-1943

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Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $16.95

Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Sundial, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Horror Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $17.00

Tales #1 - The Magic of Krynn (2nd Printing)

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Dragonlance Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $9.95

Tales Vol. 3 - Love and War

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Dragonlance Novels (Penguin Publishing)

The Fall of Berlin 1945

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Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

The Vikings - A History

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Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

They Fought Alone

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Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates - The Forgotten War That Changed American History

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $27.95

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Modern Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $9.99

(name inside)

Tribune, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $7.99

Tried by War - Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $35.00

Under Cover - An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $12.95

Vietnam - A History

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $17.95

War of the World, The - Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

War of the World, The - Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

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War With Hannibal, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Wars of the Roses, The - The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $19.00

Way of the Knife, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

MSRP $29.95

Where it Hurts

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Mystery Novels (Penguin Publishing)

99 Ways To Tell A Story - Exercises In Style

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Amy Girl

Arabian Nights, The - Tales of the 1001 Nights Vol. 1

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

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