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I used to like my BBC tie-in versions of 'Sons and Lovers' and the 'novelization' of 'Slade in Flame', which you can now enjoy in CD and DVD form, but it's not as good. I think the lettering was bigger, for a kick off.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00008NUX2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought Everything is Illuminated based on the cover, although at that point I hadn't noticed that the title was also on the back but upside down - after a week of looking stupid on the bus I was ready to rip the cover off. Lucky the book was worth it.

As an aside and being a sucker for free advertising, I should point out (as the girlfriend who works for Mitchell Beazley) we do also have some other splendid titles of a similar ilk - Magazine Covers, Front Cover, Album covers and Hip Hop Cover Art (with the rather splendid if slightly incomprehensible quote from Eminem "This book is like a walk down hip hop memory lane. Brings back memories of myself coming up." If anyone can explain quite what that means, we'd be grateful ...)

― Cathryn (Cathryn), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0375410554.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/binary/44318-273-1/book-6038.jpeg

http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/jpeg/mating.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573222135.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Some great stuff here. Vermont Girl, those bad album covers had me laughing out loud. And Scott Seward, thanks so much for the commentary on "The Medium Is the Massage." I have the paperback somewhere, but when I was with a friend once at a flea market, we found it at a used-book table and I showed him the title. He was stunned. (And it just goes to show how valuable the work of a proofreader can be! I'm in that line of business myself, of course.)

As far as covers go, I've bought books for that reason only, especially in England. I have a paperback of Virginia Woolf's short stories that comes to mind--a vase of flowers on a table in an empty hallway--got to dig that out and read some of those stories again. Much more accessible than her novels.

― Carol Robinson (carrobin), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0375403604.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0375507507.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 30 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Revive!
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1840004215.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
I read bits of this last night while upgrading computer stuff. Fantastic. It is an amazing study of design and influence through the years.I wish the library had the children's one above that JtN posted.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the covers Edward Gorey used to do before he started doing his own books. See examples at:

http://www.goreyography.com/west/paper/paper01.htm

― Mr. Jaggers, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like a few of the covers on that book cover, though! ("Ariel", whatever the mouth is, the George Mackie.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the "Ariel" one either, the mouth is "Only When I Larf"-Len Deighton. Mr. Jaggers-I love the Edward Gorey covers for the Russian novels series.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like any of the covers on that book cover!

― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How about this one
http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?WRK=3635305&userid=2UUPL3R447

or these:
http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/collection.asp?userid=eu15Ex0ATv&PID=61004

or these:
http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/collection.asp?userid=eu15Ex0ATv&PID=61009

― Michael Furey, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.imaging.robarts.ca/~amulder/ar/Puffin/pd77.jpg

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmph.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, trial and error here.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that mouth Len Deighton cover; I picked the book out of a discard bin just to have the cover, actually.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That image might have been too large. But it's a pretty good cover!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Collardio's reminds me... One of my favorites is not a book cover, but rather those small image-logos that Penguin uses.
http://www.wildlysophisticated.com/ws/images/logo_penguin.gif
http://www.penguin.com.au/images/Puffin-Logo.jpg

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I always said that if I ever got a tattoo, it would be the Penguin penguin. Because I love penguins. And Penguin.

They still won't give me a job though, the fuckers.

Funny, that Ariel cover that nobody likes is a good seller in our shop. I can usually price that cover a euro or even two higher than other copies of the same book and have it sell quite comfortably. I think it has art student appeal.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

As does Sylvia Plath, I suppose.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723161.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/KladderkatjesFront1.jpg

― erik, Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chrisbulle.com/ulrike/links/harvill.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I am going to MASSIVELY abuse the thread now by posting the cover of MY OWN BOOK but I *was* very pleased with what they did so:
http://www.haynes.34sp.com/Frogmore/titles/images/three_voices.gif

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

So am I to understand there are lots of poems about mutual oral intercourse in the book?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

omg I hadn't even noticed that! It looks less 69ish in real life... I think!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this mean there are not copious poems about mutual oral intercourse? Should I go cancel my order?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nyisbookcountry.com/content/merchandise.asp
Not covers, but wonderful posters by noted illustrators and I want them all!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

There are a load of great ones (i.e. lurid pulpy things like The Flying Lesbian), plus some movie posters, at http://community.middlebury.edu/%7Emobrien/covers/.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wow i know alan p0wers he emailed today!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Longshot: I am looking for a book which may be one of those British Pelican books though the book itself is about Los Angeles, possibly architecture in LA. I saw it on ebay one time but have forgotten the author and title.

The cover is probably 60s and is of a square building with maybe a swimming pool and its blue and white..

― maricopa john, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Re: http://www3.cerritos.edu/fquaas/graphics/catcher.gif, I also like the cover of Frank Portman's 'King Dork', about a kid forced to read 'Catcher...' every year by desperately trendy teachers...
http://www.thestranger.com/lineout/files/2006/05/kingdork-large.jpg

― James Morrison, Sunday, 18 March 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Cute!

― Casuistry, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

"The perfume", the book, great but with casual cover.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Perfume_cover.jpg

"The perfume", the movie, casual but with great cover.
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/dreamworks_skg/perfume__the_story_of_a_murderer/perfumebigposter.jpg

What an irony.. :)

― dthemora, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

My dad just sent me this book, the cover of which I really like:

http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/thumbs/451_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg

― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Saturday, 24 January 2009 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

Can't find a decent sized image of Michael Moorcock's 'The Final Programme', but this is nice...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/87315093_865607ac46_o.jpg

― '92 ron fan (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.garretwilson.com/books/reviews/historywesternphilosophy.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

man i just love those old '60s and '70s hardcovers

― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n19233.jpg

― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/9/5/9/6/8/webimg/116020951_tp.jpg

― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

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)

one month passes...

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_.jpg
http://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)

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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

― flappy bird, Friday, 18 December 2015 23:03 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

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)

five years pass...

oh, this saved me having to start a new thread, thanks Jerry

can't decide whether this is good or bad
https://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)

― koogs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:23 (five years ago)

four years pass...

anyway once again

https://i.postimg.cc/SNSJYtbJ/rabbit-bunny-book-cover-golding-abomination.jpg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 December 2025 03:31 (five months ago)

two months pass...