Vintage Books

{{short description|American publishing imprint}}{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Use American English|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox publisher | image = Vintage_Books_logo.png | parent = Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ([[Penguin Random House]]) | status = Active | founded = {{start date and age|1954}} | founder = [[Alfred A. Knopf Sr.]] | successor = | country = United States, United Kingdom | headquarters = [[New York City]] | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = | topics = | genre = | imprints = Vintage Classics, [[Vintage Crime/Black Lizard|Black Lizard]], [[Bodley Head]], [[Jonathan Cape]], [[Chatto and Windus]], [[Harvill Secker]], [[Hogarth Press]], Square Peg, Yellow Jersey | revenue = | owner = [[Bertelsmann]] | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/vintage/}} }}

'''Vintage Books''' is a trade paperback publishing [[imprint (trade name)|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 Books|Bantam]] [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] [[Dell Publishing|Dell]], Doubleday's '''Anchor Books''' trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Carvajal| first = Doreen| title = Bertelsmann Is Reorganizing Random House| work = [[The New York Times]]| access-date = 2019-10-14| date = 1999-05-28| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/28/business/bertelsmann-is-reorganizing-random-house.html| archive-date = 2019-10-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191015031240/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/28/business/bertelsmann-is-reorganizing-random-house.html| url-status = live}}</ref> After Random House merged with [[Penguin Group|Penguin]], Vintage UK was transferred to [[Penguin Books|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]], [[Chatto and Windus]], [[Harvill Secker]], [[Hogarth Press]], Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vintage |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/vintage |website=penguin.co.uk |access-date=2 August 2022 |language=en |archive-date=2 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802022930/https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/vintage |url-status=live }}</ref> Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Doubleday, Knopf Form Mass Market Line| work = PublishersWeekly.com| access-date = 2019-10-14| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20031215/36311-doubleday-knopf-form-mass-market-line.html| archive-date = 2019-10-14| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191014211701/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20031215/36311-doubleday-knopf-form-mass-market-line.html| url-status = live}}</ref>

==Notable authors==

* [[Albert Camus]] * [[Bret Easton Ellis]] * [[Tao Lin]] * [[Lorrie Moore]] * [[Robert Caro]] * [[Joan Didion]] *[[Philip K. Dick]] * [[Dave Eggers]] * [[Ralph Ellison]] * [[James Ellroy]] * [[William Faulkner]] * [[Dashiell Hammett]] * [[Kent Haruf]] * [[Jane Jacobs]] * [[Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel Garcia Marquez]] * [[Cormac McCarthy]] * [[Toni Morrison]] * [[Haruki Murakami]] * [[Vladimir Nabokov]] * [[V.S. Naipaul]] * [[Philip Roth]] * [[William Styron]] * [[Joseph Heller]]

== Edition identification ==

For [[Edition (book)|first editions]], Vintage Books has "First Edition" printed on the [[edition notice]], above the [[copyright notice]], with a "1".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vintage Books – First Edition Identification and Publisher Information|url=https://www.biblio.com/publisher/vintage-books|access-date=2021-02-27|website=biblio.com|archive-date=2021-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414075036/https://www.biblio.com/publisher/vintage-books|url-status=live}}</ref> The number is present in any edition.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/64577-doubleday-vintage-team-with-production-company-on-new-imprint.html Doubleday, Vintage Team with Production Company on New Imprint] *[http://knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/vintage/ Vintage Books] *[https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/vintage Vintage Books UK] *[http://www.businesshistory.com/ind._publishing_from_1900.php Publishing history] timeline

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