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Axel Munthe - The Story of San Michele
Albatross Books 86, 1948
Cover Design: Hans Mardersteig
"Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A."
The Paperback Bookshop is an independent general bookshop that was established in the early 1960s at the top of Bourke street and was then one of the few Melbourne bookshops to sell a good selection of Australian and imported books, particularly paperback editions of books not commonly available in Melbourne.
Source: Paperback Website
Project 52 Week 11
Better Res: 500px.com/photo/28102223
I came up with this idea in bed last night and couldn't sleep as I thought about it more and more and then I fashioned this dress from book pages
Curt Aldrich - Anytime Girl
Evening Reader Books ER1244, 1966
Cover Artist: unknown
William Campbell Gault - Sweet Wild Wench
Crest Books 309, 1959
Cover Artist: Robert Abbett
Brigitte Bardot
En Cas de Malheur, 1958
20200525_7243_7D2-70 Paperback fiction
On Saturday we did a trip out to my friend's place (allowed now in Level 2) and took about 500kg of stuff out of our storage container. We did a huge sort out and took a trailer load to the waste plant/rubbish dump but did bring some good stuff home, including a carton of my science-fiction novels, most about 40-45 years old. Many Issac Asimov, E E 'Doc' Smith, Larry Niven etc. This is a page from 'First Lensman' part of E E 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series.
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Quiet street in Brisbane suburbia.
I think the trees are weeping paperbark Melaleuca leucadendra
Brisbane suburbia
Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One
Penguin Books 823, 1982
Cover design by Bentley/Farrell/Burnett
"A triumph of barbed flippancy."
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The Penguincubator appeared in London in 1937. Conceived by Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, the Penguincubator dispensed classic literature in paperback form for about the same price as a pack of cigarettes.
Sir Allen may have succeeded in changing English reading habits, but the Penguincubator had little to do with it. Specifically, it was never manufactured in sufficient quantity to make an impact on the market.
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In June 1947, Popular Science featured an early book vending machine called the Book-O-Mat which offered a selection of 50 books published by Pocket Books, any one of which could be purchased for a quarter.
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In the early 1950s Avon Books created the VendAvon, a coin-operated book vending machine, found in airports, hospitals, and ferry terminals. Avon installed 210 machines, each containing 24 of the latest Avon titles, across several states.
Check out this modern one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVf23w79zs
The Biblio-Mat is a random book dispenser built by Craig Small for The Monkey's Paw, an idiosyncratic antiquarian bookshop in Toronto. Biblio-Mat books, which vary widely in size and subject matter, cost two dollars. The machine was conceived as an artful alternative to the ubiquitous and often ignored discount sidewalk bin. When a customer puts coins into it, the Biblio-Mat dramatically whirrs and vibrates as the machine is set in motion. The ring of an old telephone bell enhances the thrill when the customer's mystery book is delivered with a satisfying clunk into the receptacle below.
Camera: James Cooper
Editor: Nick Goso
Coding: Dan Donaldson
Thank you to the gentleman for allowing me to disturb his afternoon reading and take this shot. Also like a muppet I didn't get his name, sorry, though I did tell him it would be up on Flickr so I hope he sees it. The truth plaque behind him is part of the Gladstone memorial in the gardens behind St. Georges Hall.
First up, Please, these are here as freebies - please don't make copies to sell for profit. I promise Bad Toy Karma to any who do.
Anyhow, this is a small assortment of paperbacks from Baghead's bookshelves. Missing are the complete covers I found while Googling - instead these are either scans from my own collection or pieced together from various sources online (sometimes with a custom spine added) so they're ones you probably wouldn't find anywhere else.
Just download the original size file, print onto paper of your choice (it should fit onto a sheet of A4), cut out and glue around bits of card, wood etc.
They're designed to be printed out at 372dpi (giving an average paperback a height of 2.718 cm or just over an inch for the Imperial folk) probably not authentically scaled, but it should give a book that doesn't look too out of place in either a doll's dainty hand or a GI Joe's big mitt. If you want to change the size remember it's best to alter the dpi resolution you're printing at rather than the actual pixel by pixel size as that way there won't be any drastic degradation in image quality.
Enjoy!