Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing
imprint
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of
Penguin Random House originally established by
Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by
Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with
Bantam Doubleday Dell
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, Doubleday's
Anchor Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random Hous ...
trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage. Following Random House's merger with
Penguin
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, Vintage was transferred to
Penguin UK.
In addition to publishing classic and contemporary works in paperback under the Vintage brand, the imprint also oversees the sub-imprints
Bodley Head,
Jonathan Cape
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,
Chatto and Windus
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,
Harvill Secker
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History
Secker & Warburg
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,
Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey. Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003.
Notable authors
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William Faulkner
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Cormac McCarthy
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Albert Camus
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Ralph Ellison
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Dashiell Hammett
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William Styron
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Philip Roth
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Toni Morrison
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Dave Eggers
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Robert Caro
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Haruki Murakami
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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James Ellroy
First editions
Vintage Books have "First Edition" printed on the copyright page with a '1' that is present.
References
External links
Doubleday, Vintage Team with Production Company on New ImprintVintage BooksVintage Books UKPublishing history
timeline
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Companies based in New York City
Random House
Publishing companies established in 1954
1960 mergers and acquisitions
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