Misleading Book Covers

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gy8NMyaoL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-5,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg
Nice typography.

xp

Macaron, macaroon, what's the difference?

(I stand corrected)

Beautiful. Sequel to The Rainbows I guess.

Last one for now.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mcQNm%2BnQL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-2,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCTpr4P2L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg

I think I remember a "Star Wars" themed one, too.

Here we go.

http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/22/95/229558439eaf52759392f3450514141414c3441.jpg

I used to make a habit of collecting these covers (not the actual books, I'm not that mad)...
There was a POD outfit called Tutis who was especially talented at getting the wrong cover image (usually copyright stealing in the process)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Urll49ZI/AAAAAAAAGw0/n-yQwTiCC3M/s1600-h/royo+nicked+%281%29.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Uv8czdPI/AAAAAAAAGxE/6qVkP-qaAjQ/s1600-h/royo+nicked+%283%29.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Yp4zRk3I/AAAAAAAAGx0/V_ffj3C03n8/s1600-h/kim.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aPVZTzXI/AAAAAAAAGyE/H9Dq3WOwX5s/s1600-h/516IjHYbkEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SH20_OU01_.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aRGaqfnI/AAAAAAAAGyM/KDN50KoDQJM/s1600-h/8132051130.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aTl7yu7I/AAAAAAAAGyU/AvWys8QZbto/s1600-h/8132038487.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpM--Hht01I/AAAAAAAAGC4/mL73T1EtWlU/s1600-h/jkj1.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpXFS9K_hfI/AAAAAAAAGGA/gItED5dq_ag/s1600-h/doyle1.jpg

Fuck, that didn't work. See here, though: http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutis%20bashing (sorry for the self-plug)

My especial favourite is the Thomas Hardy book with Slash from Guns n Roses on the cover.

Amazing!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpRxPLDnuII/AAAAAAAAGEQ/Vitc1-hRLog/s1600/hardy3.jpg

Those Proust macarons made me laugh a little too hard!

omg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aTl7yu7I/AAAAAAAAGyU/AvWys8QZbto/s400/8132038487.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpM-9mX0InI/AAAAAAAAGCw/Mff8AvM3T8w/s1600-h/jkj2.jpg

Aargh, that didn't work, it was the one by "Pelham Grenville" with the pink doughboy on the cover.

(sorry for the self-plug)

is that the church from the november rain video in the background behind slash?? is that a still from the november rain video?!?

I _think_ it's from a Rock Star game cover

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51iwkPPTMPL._SS500_.jpg

just in case JM is shy of plugging again, check the new collection at ccc:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ysByywuUdw/UGpQpKAuU_I/AAAAAAAALns/oFAi2D7kXmo/s1600/Henry+James+%284%29.jpg

(The Coxon Fund!)

^perfect for this thread:

Henry James in Space

that is a great thread premise, it is a shame it fizzled out. I am going to think about Henry James in space some.

tears at these

I think I posted about this on another thread, but I was SO bummed by this cover after waiting months for the new printing:

http://ecimages.kobobooks.com/Image.ashx?imageID=8_cOEEyMGEmkInJwinw6Sw&Type=Full

(trilogy is about a wealthy heroin addict who was sexually abused by his father)

misleading? it does what it says on the tin.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yquZUsax3R0/UGpQrdFuzoI/AAAAAAAALn8/O3E9m35AEMY/s1600/Henry+James+%286%29.jpg

except it's a nut not a screw.

apparently it's two wrenches having a nut tug-of-war?

adjustable wrenches with screw adjusters fyi, i think it's a valid picture

One wrench is polished and new, the other old and rusty.

it is like a virile young wrench feeding a moribund elder

or an old wrench passing on the nut of life to the next generation

the turn of this crew

rusty wrench = governess is insane
shiny wrench = ghosts are real
nut = reader

not quite as misleading as most of what's going on in here, but i found this today sans textual information i'd have guessed 'erotic sci fi'

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/full/672731372.jpg?key=320480&Expires=1350356224&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=Aghr1Y2Y93vNCudpAy2U4Bcjwg3pVWMcQpy0DlnNsHO5xiNoEEkPmR1yVZLqh10-z7Kf5jOBIbCB57sR25mJgek~ipKjSqJPfVLpcdJcJFS5Tk8LGSZIuN0yYUy9-6dMrYGGt8yvVdJIHuM4DpToM7GuSbM44fN--NO9ceIcoxw_

The mystery is killing me!

huh, i guess twitter doesn't like the internet outside of twitter. http://twitpic.com/b4iyuk

Erotic sci fi, or maybe unerotic but full of sex Ballard sci fi

digging these Dorothy Richardson covers
http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=3941

i've never read those books. has anyone read them all? i never SEE them to buy. even copies with goofy covers.

not has anyone ever read them all. has anyone here read them all.

virago did okay covers of them in the 70's. i never even see those. must not have sold much here.

Virago still sells them, but only as print-on-demand, so they never make it to shops. And probably nobody buys them, either.

did you read them? kinda figured if anyone had here...

old virago copies on amazon but not always cheap. i'll find them all eventually.

Yeah, I always intended to get the viragos if I saw them, but I never have seen them :( of course, once I do it will probably be 20 years before I actually get round to reading them. or at least the first 2 before losing momentum.

Seen a couple of the Viragos around but have never read them. Thomp was curious about them, I think, but I don't know if he actually read them.

I decided to go with the Penguin edition.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xf%2B0Xz59L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Love imagining cover-quoter Nabokov's reaction to that cover

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/9a/38/fe9a38f55e926e78bd9e95a2dd23b93c.png

That is at least a Liartown fake, thank God.