http://www.granarybooks.com/books/clay/cover.jpg
The book's cover is not bad but inside it has replicas of all sorts of fantistic "lo fi" book covers.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 May 2004 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00008NUX2.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 6 May 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0375507507.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, 30 May 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.goreyography.com/west/paper/paper01.htm
― Mr. Jaggers, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry, trial and error here.
― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 9 September 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― erik, Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― maricopa john, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Morrison, Sunday, 18 March 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― dthemora, Thursday, 22 March 2007 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.garretwilson.com/books/reviews/historywesternphilosophy.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
man i just love those old '60s and '70s hardcovers
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n19233.jpg
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/9/5/9/6/8/webimg/116020951_tp.jpg
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/ManWhoWentUpInSmoke.JPG/175px-ManWhoWentUpInSmoke.JPG
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 26 October 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
First one is more like The Bros Karamazov, amirite?
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 December 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
:) thanks
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 11 December 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
They are quite astonishing
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Saturday, 12 December 2015 02:16 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/AmericanPsychoBook.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 December 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Wow--thanks for the link, some beautiful things there
― James Morrison, Saturday, 16 January 2016 06:43 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
(penguin edition of The Honourable Schoolboy in case that disappears)
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 11:54 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
it’s terrible
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
(penguin website run by penguins judging by the speed of it)