Publisher
Corgi
Corgi is the paperback imprint of Transworld Publishers, the Ealing house founded in 1950 as Bantam's British arm and now part of Penguin Random House.
- Editions tracked
- 266
- First editions
- 40
- Books
- 266
- Years
- 1958 to 2017
About Corgi
Corgi is a paperback imprint of Transworld Publishers, the London house set up in 1950 as the British arm of the American paperback firm Bantam Books and now a division of Penguin Random House.
Transworld, based in Ealing, west London, has traditionally issued its hardbacks under imprints such as Doubleday and Bantam Press and its paperbacks under Black Swan and Corgi. Terry Pratchett appears on the Corgi paperback list: Penguin, for example, lists his A Blink of the Screen (2013) as a Corgi paperback.
Corgi also built a children's list. In the early 1970s it entered children's paperbacks with the Carousel imprint, and by the mid-1980s it had reorganised that list around Picture Corgis, Young Corgis and Corgis, with illustrators such as Shirley Hughes.
Transworld is now a division of Penguin Random House UK, and Corgi remains one of its imprints alongside Black Swan, Doubleday and Bantam Press.
Identification
How to identify Corgi first editions
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Frequently asked questions
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How many Corgi books does MyVolumes track?
We track 266 editions published by Corgi, 40 of them first editions, across 266 books.
Where these facts come from
- Transworld (publisher), Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- Transworld Publishers, BookBrainz (test.bookbrainz.org)
- BfK News: November 1985, Books for Keeps, 1985 (booksforkeeps.co.uk)
- A Blink of the Screen, Penguin Books UK, 2013 (penguin.co.uk)
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