Read the full article, “Penguin and the Paperback Revolution.”

“Le terze rime di Dante” by Dante Alighieri. Published in 1502 by Aldus Manutius of the Aldine Press. 

“Terrible Tales” by George Sala. 1873.

“A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway. 1935.

“The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism & Fascism” by George Bernard Shaw. 1937.

“What Hitler Wants” by E. O. Lorimer. 1939.

“Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. 1943.

“What Maisie Knew” by Henry James. Book cover design by Edward Gorey. 1954.

“The Case of the Velvet Claws” by Erle Stanley Gardner. 1948.

“Howl and Other Poems” by Allen Ginsberg. Published in 1956 by City Lights Pocket Bookshop, signed by Ginsberg and inscribed to Edith Sitwell.

“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence. 1960.

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