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the art of Penguin book covers

illustration of a white profile silhouette of a man's head filled with blackbirds on branchesCover detail from Anton Chekhov's The Kiss

Book love meets graphic design love meets collectible love in cupcakeninja's post on Greg Neville's Penguin Series Design. ❤️ 📔🐧

08/11/24
by taz

“ T—S.T.D.—B”

an open book showing the page with the printed notation at the bottomPhoto by whitewall

An interesting discussion on the origins of some printed mystery notations in a 1966 Penguin book: "The bottom of page 33—and only page 33 – in my 1966 Penguin edition of Saul Bellow’s “Seize the Day” has “T—S.T.D.—B” written on the bottom left, opposite the page number. What does it stand for?"

04/08/23
by taz

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