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Lady Chatterley's Lover Madame Bovary Crime and Punishment The Idiot Tender is the Night.

2006 · Best.-Nr. PENGUIND002282 — Penguin Books London. 2006. First editions thus. A full set of the five titles published in this series to celebrate sixty years of Penguin Classics. Five leading contemporary designers were commissioned to provide cover artwork each of which was issued as one of 1000 numbered copies and in a sturdy lettered perspex box. Larger 8vo format than that of the regular Penguin books.Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence edited with notes by Michael Squires and an Introduction by Doris Lessing. Purple text and floral endpapers purple cloth embroidered silk dust jacket by Paul Smith upper cover with blue and yellow flower spray.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall. Preface by Mich�le Roberts. Blue cloth dustwrapper design by Manolo Blahnik.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Translated bv David McDuff. Red silver and buff wrappers by FUEL.The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Translated by David McDuff. Design by Ron Arad which dispenses with covers and uses the textblock edges for titles etc.Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dustwrapper design from a photograph by Sam Taylor-Wood.All five volumes are fine in fine perspex boxes and unopened in original shrinkwrap. With the original folding card mailing boxes. Complete sets are almost never to be found. Penguin Books, London. hardcover