Bill Amberg For Penguin Classics
Bill Amberg and Penguin
Books have collaborated to produce this series of luxury leather
Penguin Classics. Bill has chosen six of his favourite modern
novels for their enduring and cosmopolitan style, and bound them in
the softest, rich brown calves leather. It is a fresh and
innovative use of leather, a traditional material associated
particularly with hardback volumes, but here used as a pliable
binding for paperbacks. The leather has been specially worked
so that the more ecah book is handled the better protected and more
beautiful it becomes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar
Wilde
A Room with a
View-E.M.Forster
The Great Gatsby-F.Scott
Fitzgerald
The Big Sleep-Raymond
Chandler
Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn
Waugh
Breakfast at Tiffany's-Truman
Capote
"Having spent my teenage years with a paperback
in my jacket pocket, to be asked by Penguin to work on a new
leather binding is a real privilage and an exciting
challenge. Redaing still provides a constant fascination and
source of inspiration for me. I have chosen to use vegetable
tanned, buffalo calf from fallen animals, creating a leather that
improves with every use, the grain and sheen brightening
continually over time".
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