Vintage Books

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Vintage Books
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Parent company Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Penguin Random House)
StatusActive
Founded1954;71 years ago (1954)
Founder Alfred A. Knopf Sr.
Country of originUnited States, United Kingdom
Headquarters location New York City
Imprints Vintage Classics, Black Lizard, Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, Yellow Jersey
Owner(s) Bertelsmann
Official website knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/vintage/

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was acquired by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage. [1] Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage UK was transferred to Penguin UK.

Contents

In addition to publishing classic and contemporary works in paperback under the Vintage brand, the imprint also oversees the sub-imprints Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey. [2] Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003. [3]

Notable authors

Edition identification

For first editions, Vintage Books has "First Edition" printed on the Edition notice, above the Copyright notice, with a '1'. [4] The number is present in any edition.

References

  1. ↑ Carvajal, Doreen (May 28, 1999). "Bertelsmann Is Reorganizing Random House". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Vintage". penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Doubleday, Knopf Form Mass Market Line". PublishersWeekly.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Vintage Books – First Edition Identification and Publisher Information". biblio.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2021.


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