Vintage Books

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| 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.

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| country = United States, United Kingdom

| headquarters = New York City

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| imprints = Vintage Classics, Black Lizard, Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, Yellow Jersey

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| owner = Bertelsmann

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| url = {{URL|http://knopfdoubleday.com/imprint/vintage/}}

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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.{{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}} Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage UK was transferred to 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.{{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 }} Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003.{{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}}