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Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. The penguin collectors society is an educational charity with the objects of encouraging and promoting the study of penguin books and of conserving historical material in institutions available to researchers. Mystery and crime titles with dark green covers, published before 1946. First published in 1935, penguins rapidly became a force for cultural good on a par with the bbc or, later, the open university.
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