Talk:Left Book Club

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The books and pamphlets with their distinctive yellow (hardback) or orange (paperback) covers...

Was it always yellow? I have a copy of Tory MP by "Simon Haxey" from 1939 which is most definitely red hardback. (I also have at the moment a library copy of the paperback The People's Front by G.D.H. Cole from 1937 which is definitely orange) Timrollpickering 21:42, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think the dust-covers of the hardbacks were yellow with the actual cover red -- I'll amend the post! ~~

I think that there are exceptions to every rule in the LBC regarding colouring...some LBC title's were even published without the distinctive design typical of the series. Especially as the war cut into availability of materials.

Gollancz didn't give any of the LBC titles yellow dust jackets - a couple of titles were issued with yellow paper covers (Hitler the Pawn & France Today) and at least one was blue - the Webb's 'Soviet Communism a new civilisation?' (KieronJS 07:59, 27 May 2007 (UTC))