Talk:Penguin 60s

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The name of the series is Penguin 60s Classics, as it says on the boxes of the items listed. Cosprings (talk) 18:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

See sections below. -- Hoary (talk) 23:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

"Classics"?

I have a handful of these books. Each orange-spined one says on the front:

penguin 60s

and on the back:

penguin 60s are published on the occasion of Penguin's 60th anniversary

without any mention anywhere of "Classics"; and each black-spined one says on both the front and the back:

PENGUIN 60s CLASSICS

If the boxes of those with non-black spines said "Classics", then I think this is anomalous. -- Hoary (talk) 07:13, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Moved. -- Hoary (talk) 23:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Imitation/flattery

In (or around) 1996, Orion Books brought out a set of Phoenix paperbacks of the same format as the Penguins: gold spines, 60p each. Each is written by a woman.

Each that I possess was published in 1996, and one has a list of 25 "Other books in this series". The series doesn't seem to have a title, and the list includes the book within which the list appears; perhaps there were just 25 such books. -- Hoary (talk) 07:13, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Noteworthiness?

I'm having trouble coming up with a justification for this "article" (list). It doesn't cite any independent sources. Do we have reason to believe that anyone has cared, cares, might care or should care about this series? -- Hoary (talk) 23:18, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Proposal to rename

The majority of the books announce themselves as "penguin 60s" (see above). (That the "p" is lowercase is surely just a design quirk that we can safely ignore, just as we'd ignore the choice of typeface.) And "Penguin 60s" is how they've been referred to. Five mentions in the Guardian/Observer (each with my emboldening):

• Steven Poole, "Small, imperfectly formed": "the PR success of the Penguin 60s (pocket-sized selections from the works of canonical writers from Montaigne to Saki)"
• Ian Sansom, "Brief encounters": "For the price of a tortilla wrap and a decaf cappuccino you could purchase a Canongate Pocket Canon, one of the Penguin 60s' or a little bit of the LRB , courtesy of Profile Books, and keep it in your lunchbox."
• Peter Mayer, "Peter Carson obituary": "...I proposed we publish pocket-sized Penguin 60s at 60p each to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary in 1995..."
• Joel Rickett, "The bookseller": "The project echoes the Penguin 60s, the miniature series of the mid-1990s."
• Will Self, "Modernism and me": "(Vindication came in the form of upwards of 100,000 sales in the Penguin 60s edition.)"

I propose to rename the article "Penguin 60s". Comments from Cosprings, or anyone? -- Hoary (talk) 23:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Moved. -- Hoary (talk) 23:04, 3 October 2017 (UTC)