Happy 75th Birthday, Penguin Books

This year marks 75 years since the publication of the first Penguin paperback, which initially went for sixpence.From the BBC:"With the average hardback costing the equivalent of a week's rent, in the 1930s, a good contemporary read for most was absolutely unobtainable. "That is until Penguin's founder, Allen Lane, brought out the first sixpenny paperbacks in the now iconic Penguin colours of