Penguin recently published a new set of F. Scott Fitzgeralds – beautiful, Art Deco-inspired, foil-decorated hardbacks, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. And as it's turned into something of a tradition that when Coralie designs a new set of books we make a blog post about them, we made this video. Really attentive viewers might even spot a chance to win a set of the books...
Great F. Scott from Penguin Books on Vimeo.
I hope you like it, as it was quite traumatic to film.
Here are the books:
And to see the full list, find out more about the books, and buy them all (and why wouldn't you?) just go here.
I think we all realize that it's meaningless to wish good luck to an entire group of people who are in direct competition with each other for a strictly finite reward, and I can only hope that realization doesn't make this sound any less sincere. Good luck to each and every last one of you!
Alan Trotter
Penguin Press Marketing
[UPDATE: The competition's now over, but thank you very much to everyone who entered! The winner has been notified (I'm sure they'll take good care of the books).]
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