http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/FireTime(1stEd).jpg/200px-FireTime(1stEd).jpg
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/ManWhoWentUpInSmoke.JPG/175px-ManWhoWentUpInSmoke.JPG
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/bd/93/6664c060ada0174654788110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
Really noticing the Panther editions of Genet and Moravia bks lately:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/62/df/04ec36c622a0cb59ad9eb110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 October 2009 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
Not sure I'd call it a favourite, but this cover for William Trevor's now disowned first novel is certainly eye-catching.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2481/3840588509_c3ec0e3647.jpg
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:30 (sixteen years ago)
Always liked this cover and that corresponding ones of the other two books from back when I was a nipper, I guess because they were innocent and menacing at the same time, in an abstract kind of way. http://www.corrupt.org/drupal/files/images/the_city_of_gold_and_lead.jpg
― When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 13:53 (sixteen years ago)
Now this is a blurb:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/4054465772_d58c8403a6_o.jpg
― When two tribes go to war, he always gets picked last (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 October 2009 00:23 (sixteen years ago)
http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219399875m/277017.jpg'Nose-diving the City', wish I could afford the original, which is in some museum in Italy.
― Carl, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/ciu/d2/d5/0c3336c622a0b2ea56a33110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/The_Muller-Fokker_Effect.JPG/200px-The_Muller-Fokker_Effect.JPG
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ae/af/b2b8810ae7a0c880643c9110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415f2jZj5ML._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/500H/9780374520908.jpg
http://www.papamedia.com/imgbooks/large/0878300791.jpg
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:08 (sixteen years ago)
Love this cover for the Dutch version of The Judas Window
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4855292547_07dfe65708_b.jpg
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)
from here btw.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UV5NKCuhIRM/TEptakhS3vI/AAAAAAAAAHk/OTG9l5DNolQ/s1600/thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet.jpg
― Eggs, Peaches, Hot Dogs, Lamb (remy bean), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/recognitions.jpghttp://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/thatmanbryce.jpg
― peacocks, Friday, 6 August 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)
One of our meeting rooms (I work in a library) has posters of some "iconic" Penguin covers, mostly 50s and 60s - not sure if I'd recognise many of them as the definitive cover personally, and I don't think any of the ones I've read came in the same cover, but the posters are pretty great, I like that meeting room.
(posters are from these guys, according to the note I wrote in a previous meeting. I must've been concentrating really hard, as I jotted down that URL and "brodie/huxley/catcher/brighton rock/WOTW", compared to 6 words on the actual meeting)
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n30/n154152.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)
I think of this as totally iconic:http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/dadoesbr.jpg
and was surprised to learn it wasn't the original US cover, which I guess disqualifies it from real icon status. That is the UK first edition, though.
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)
I am tempted to get this poster of Fontana covershttp://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvt2kapqni1qz7nxjo1_500.jpg
― Stevie T, Friday, 6 August 2010 15:21 (fifteen years ago)
not sure if I'd recognise many of them as the definitive cover personally
Me too, but wow, that Shakespeare one is deeply evocative of school for me xps
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:21 (fifteen years ago)
Notice that Pound doesn't get one of the more swastikarish ones, but Trotsky does xp
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)
that one of the fish telling secrets made me lol irl for some reason.
xp: that gaddis book cover freaked me the eff out when I saw it and I couldn't stop looking at it for days after it was in my possession. Now it's so familiar I think I'll go through a little mourning period when it leaves my bed side table.
― peacocks, Friday, 6 August 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)
Also lol Nietzsche xp
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)
I wish I had that edition of The Recognitions. I have the black Penguin Classics one which I like less.
― franny glass, Friday, 6 August 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)
Comrade Vyshinsky has exposed the traitor Trotsky's villainous ties with the Hitlerite power in open court! Long live Stalin! Long live Yezhov Beria!
― alimosina, Friday, 6 August 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)
Marcuse, Laing, Reich, Fanon, Gramsci... very much of its time.
― alimosina, Friday, 6 August 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)
Love that Gaddis. I saw it just after I finished reading my library's copy (they have the pink one) so I didn't bother but I really should have.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 August 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)
Covers of Lanark
― alimosina, Friday, 6 August 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)
i really dislike book covers with inset pictures, especially ones where the aspect ratio of the picture is opposite from the book (sideways rather than tall). i wish the paperback 'against the day' were designed like the hardcover.
― j., Saturday, 7 August 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ETZX3MAHL.jpg
― Humean froth (Sanpaku), Thursday, 10 December 2015 07:44 (ten years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVaa1wLU4AAwZSw.jpg
him sad
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 December 2015 19:13 (ten years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B017Y39XB2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpghim not
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 December 2015 22:32 (ten years ago)
I had to collect more of that company's output: the best (of many, many awful covers); http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/monkeys-throwing-faeces.html
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 December 2015 23:00 (ten years ago)
First one is more like The Bros Karamazov, amirite?
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:16 (ten years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oJvLdChAL._SX311_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
classic tale of life in the trenches
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 December 2015 00:33 (ten years ago)
haha oh man i'm enjoying your blog, James
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SoUAgIJnbgI/AAAAAAAAF9w/3pduBgcpkA8/s400/wizard+oz.jpg
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 11 December 2015 01:35 (ten years ago)
:) thanks
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)
Love that blog as well, just lolled at Thomas Hardy series.
― Thank you very much, you've got a Lucky Wilbury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:02 (ten years ago)
They are quite astonishing
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Saturday, 12 December 2015 02:16 (ten years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/AmericanPsychoBook.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 December 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch(1stEd).jpg
There are some interesting soviet book covers here http://www.openculture.com/2016/01/download-650-soviet-book-covers-many-sporting-wonderful-avant-garde-designs-1917-1942.html
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Saturday, 16 January 2016 03:28 (ten years ago)
Actually, maybe this link is better http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/01/07/russian-book-jackets-from-the-1930s/
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Saturday, 16 January 2016 03:29 (ten years ago)
Wow--thanks for the link, some beautiful things there
― James Morrison, Saturday, 16 January 2016 06:43 (ten years ago)
Yeah, some cool stuff. Maybe too much to look through...
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 17 January 2016 15:25 (ten years ago)
oh, this saved me having to start a new thread, thanks Jerry
can't decide whether this is good or badhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Meylr9rEL._SY346_.jpg
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 11:47 (five years ago)
(penguin edition of The Honourable Schoolboy in case that disappears)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 11:54 (five years ago)
Wish le Carre had called a book 'A Gripping Plot of Devilish Complexity'
Just on a functional level, it's bad not good
― J.G Ballard otm (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:41 (five years ago)
it’s terrible
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 14:26 (five years ago)
it's one of a set and they hark back to graphic designs of some earlier versions, which pleases me.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/smiley/the-smiley-collection.html
(one of these things is not like the others... in fact there's a whole nother series with those pale blue covers, identical apart from the book name)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:23 (five years ago)
(penguin website run by penguins judging by the speed of it)