Linen back
Linen back the volumes of be Rowohlt - paperbacks called, who came to the German market for the first time the 1950s. The Rowohlt publishing house used for the inexpensive rotary printing . Up to 1961, up to volume 451, these paperbacks were stuck on the spine with a linen tape , and up to volume 333 exclusively with the graphic artist couple Karl Gröning Jr. and Gisela Pferdmenges designed the cover pages . This has resulted in a separate area of collecting, the collection of the linen spines.
literature
- Thorsten Oltmer: The Rowohlt linen back. The first 450 numbers of the Rowohlt paperbacks in presentation and bibliography . Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Library and Information, Hamburg 1993 (diploma thesis).