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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)

seven months pass...

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.jpg
http://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 covers
http://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)

Notice that Pound doesn't get one of the more swastikarish ones, but Trotsky does xp

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)

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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...