P for Paladin

 

Paladin - second only to Picador as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter...   

Radical, countercultural, polemical, esoteric, transgressive, avant-garde, youth culture ... a feast for the hungry young mind, portions selling at a reasonable paperback price. Eye-catching design.

I have seven of the above Paladins - and five of the seven have the same covers as shown.

Not all of them were bought at the time, though. 

Back in the day, Picador and Paladin titles were usually displayed in spinners.  

One of those commonplace things that were totally part of the bookworm's life, but no one seems to have seen fit to take a picture of one.  At least one crammed with Paladins and / or Picadors. 

You know what I mean, those rotating wire-metal things with basket compartments that hold about 4 to 6 paperbacks.

They still use them in Oxfam but they tend to be crammed with Penguin + Pelican non-fiction. 

Ooh, the amount of hours in my life I spent rotating those Picador and Paladin spinners.... ogling the  offerings, the opportunities for mind expansion. 

Now what is it with UK publishers and the letter P? 

Panther

Pan

Picador

Paladin

Penguin

Puffin

Pelican

Peregrine

Pluto

Palgrave

Polity