I love reading, but I also adore books as physical objects. This is why I am in love with Penguin. Especially today. In fact, I can barely contain the love I feel for these bright, beautifully designed book sets & their matching posters (HINT: Scroll down for some Shepard Fairey). SWOON!!!
I was reading The Penguin Blog, which is UK-based, and found out about these awesome Penguin Sets. There are 13 sets of books which contain a bunch of novels of a similar theme or by the same author, and each set has covers designed by a single artist.
What’s more, FIVE of the sets also have an accompanying poster (or two). The BEST of which is the George Orwell set because it includes TWO posters (1984 and Animal Farm) designed by Shepard Fairey (of Obama Poster fame).
Each Penguin set includes 2 to 16 books (and 0 to 2 posters) and run from $40 to $380 (the priciest collections aren’t necessarily the ones with the most books).
Click to see the rest of the posters and details of the most expensive “luxury” books. (Also, more of my rambling.) Or, check out the UK Penguin Sets page (I can’t find a US Sets page, but you can order to the US)!
Posters for Classic Boys’ Adventure, Philip Marlowe Mysteries
Posters for The Complete Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Gothic Classics: Tales of the Supernatural
Close-ups of the luxury sets! Arabian Nights, The Bill Amberg Collection
So, I just want to add that I LOVE these and think they would make fabulous gifts. The children’s sets would make great gifts for kids, and the poster sets would make great gifts for graphic designers. And, of course, all of them would be great for book lovers! (You would think I have stock in Penguin.)
9 Responses for "Penguin’s Book & Poster Sets"
I like them all! However, I would LOVE to own a copy of the Bill Amberg’s The Great Gatsby.
love the roald dahl set in particular!!
Yo that George Orwell set is badass. Maybe worth the price. Btw you da best Maria!
It’s Shepard Fairey dawling, not Sheperd. No need to post this, but you might want to fix the typo.
Love your blog.
Thanks Janice! I have a horrible spelling deficit.
As if reading wasn’t fun enough already! ; )
Ok, I really, really want to buy some of these as christmas gifts, but the UK site gives me a “unfortunately because you are a US customer we cannot sell to you…” and redirects to the US Penguin site, where these sets DO NOT exist. And, no one else seems to be selling them either.
I want to spend money on books! You’d think someone would be willing to sell to me.
WHAT?!?!!!! The UK Penguin site LEAD ME TO BELIEVE we in the US could buy them! Even though I can’t afford them, I would like to be ABLE to buy them should I come into money.
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