Playing with My Books – A Publisher’s A-Z
Rather than write reviews, I’ve been ‘playing with my books’. Not bookspine poetry this time, but I thought I’d see how much of an A-Z I could make with publishers logos which are initials.
I set some strict criteria, single letters only unless they were doubled, or consecutive, so no W&N, JM, E&T etc. Here’s how I did…
Top Row: Arrow, Alma, Atlantic, Arcadia, Alison & Busby, Borough Press, Corvus, Canongate (old logo) Century, Dome, Dent, Faber & Faber, Gollancz, Galileo, Hesperus (whatever happened to them?), Hodder, Hamish Hamilton, Mantle.
Bottom Row: Orbit, Profile, Phoenix, Pushkin Press, Quartet, Riverrun, Raven, Salt, Sceptre, Serpent’s Tail, Telegram, Text, Unbound, Vintage, Wildfire and Zephyr.
Missing letters: E, I, J, K, L, N, X and Y – so I didn’t do too badly. Are there publishers I could have filled in the gaps with.
Hi, publisher or imprint? Let me know and I will suggest some for you.
Either – just need letter as logo on the spine!
Image Comics, Krause and Langenscheidt were the best I could do. Don’t know if they fully meet your criteria though.
Such fun! I’ll try to think of the missing ones. I don’t know what happened to Hesperus either – I liked their books. Some of them seem to have turned up with Alma.
All employees resigned in 2015, see here: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/staff-exodus-hesperus-press However, assuming this is the same outfit, they appear to be extant: https://hesperus.press/
Yes, I remember seeing that at the time. And one of the company directors went on to found Alma, I think. Hesperus haven’t published anything new in years, but whether they still republish from their back catalogu is another matter…
Alma existed long before the Hesperus debacle, Karen. I remember them winning the Independent Publisher of the Year in 2013. Though they may well have taken over some of the Hesperus list.
Ah! That may be it, because I know I’ve seen the same books on both lists.
What fun! I’ve got some Elliott & Thompson books for E, and one from Icon Books with an i.
E&T aren’t allowed by my rules as not consecutive letters! 😀
Their logo just looks like a cursive E to me 🙂
Don’t you think it has the T built into the E? I’m being picky 😀
Egmont for E, Longman for L? The first do kidslit (though they’ve been subsumed by HarperCollins this month) while Longman do dictionaries, perhaps not ideal bedtime reading …
I haven’t seen a Longman logo which is just the Letter “L”, do you have an example (they do keep changing them!)?
You can stop now! 😀
My bad, I can’t see a letter L, and my E for Egmont was down to poor recollection. But I do see a letter N for Nelson (‘Shorter Atlas of Western Civilisation’) … and that’s it. Sorry!