'A perfect period piece, with a cover by Dennis Bailey,' says Jonathan Bell Photograph: Pelican books
'Obviously out of date, but with such a crisp, atom-age cover.' (Design uncredited) Photograph: Pelican books
'Cover design by Germano Facetti. The Italian designer Facetti was the head of Penguin design from 1962 to 1971 and initiated the classic – and timeless – style of the 1960s' Photograph: Pelican books
Packard's classic broadside against American consumerism is still a great read today. At one point I bought every copy of this book I saw. Originally published in the US in 1960, it had a stark graphic cover for the 1963 Pelican edition (by Larry Carter) Photograph: Pelican books
'A photographic cover for the 1966 edition of The Waste Makers' (Image by Don Hunstein) Photograph: Pelican books
'A Pelican Original, exploring the social issues thrown up by the permissive society and the creation of the National Association of Youth Clubs in 1960.' (Cover designed by Martin Bassett, photographs by Roger Maybe) Photograph: Pelican books
'Another period piece, a mass-market version of a hardback from 1967, published to tap into the public interest in rising drug consumption and associated media attention.' (Cover design by Bruce Robertson) Photograph: Pelican books
'A Pelican Original, a pro-legalisation book published on the back of the 1969 Wootton report, with a striking geometric cover by Germano Facetti' Photograph: Pelican books
'Another mass-market reprint for Bannock's prescient enquiry into the role and status of multinationals.' (Cover illustration by Mel Calman, designed by Philip Thompson) Photograph: Pelican books
'Pelican often published revised and updated versions of campaigning hardbacks. Bendixson's anti-auto polemic was first published in 1974, riding on the post-Opec backlash against the car' (Design unknown) Photograph: Pelican books
