Dust Jackets Part I

One of my collecting interests is vintage paperbacks with dust jackets. Britain leads the way with Penguin alone publishing some 400 books with jackets between 1935 and 1940. There were also a few dozen in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

In the US there are scattered examples from half-a-dozen publishers. Here are three examples - two from Penguin and one from Bantam who published 27 in the late 1940s.

Penguin 260 DJ - 1940

Penguin 260 DJ back

Penguin 67 DJ - 1936

Penguin 67 DJ back

Bantam 26 DJ - March 1946

Bantam 26 DJ back

Bantam 26

Bantam 26 back