Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was acquired by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage.^[1] Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage UK was transferred to Penguin UK.

Vintage Books

Parent company	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Penguin Random House)
Status	Active
Founded	1954; 71 years ago (1954)
Founder	Alfred A. Knopf Sr.
Country of origin	United States, United Kingdom
Headquarters location	New York City
Imprints	Vintage Classics, Black Lizard, Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, Yellow Jersey
Owner(s)	Bertelsmann
Official website	knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/vintage/

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, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey.^[2] Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003.^[3]

Notable authors

• Albert Camus
• Robert Caro
• Joan Didion
• Dave Eggers
• Ralph Ellison
• James Ellroy
• William Faulkner
• Dashiell Hammett
• Jane Jacobs
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Cormac McCarthy
• Toni Morrison
• Haruki Murakami
• Vladimir Nabokov
• V.S. Naipaul
• Philip Roth
• William Styron
• Joseph Heller

Edition identification

For first editions, Vintage Books has "First Edition" printed on the Edition notice, above the Copyright notice, with a '1'.^[4] The number is present in any edition.

References

1. Carvajal, Doreen (May 28, 1999). "Bertelsmann Is Reorganizing Random House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 15, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
2. "Vintage". penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
3. "Doubleday, Knopf Form Mass Market Line". PublishersWeekly.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
4. "Vintage Books – First Edition Identification and Publisher Information". biblio.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved February 27, 2021.

External links

• Doubleday, Vintage Team with Production Company on New Imprint
• Vintage Books
• Vintage Books UK
• Publishing history timeline