― 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
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― 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
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
from here btw.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/recognitions.jpghttp://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/thatmanbryce.jpg
― peacocks, Friday, 6 August 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n30/n154152.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Also lol Nietzsche xp
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:24 (thirteen 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)