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)