those penguin waughs are great... a few there i've never seen before. similarly, the penguin ionicus wodehouse covers!
my canonical lord of the flies...https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/6c/b5/836cb59f1362200e4f555ffdd81ddceb.jpg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 13 June 2016 07:58 (seven years ago) link
When I was a teenaged Wyndham maniac, these Peter Lord covers were THE covers...http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SKTXbQVsrnI/AAAAAAAABWI/5VpRGeDdX0s/s400/peng+86+peter+lord+%285%29.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SKTXboxbCdI/AAAAAAAABWQ/DRRZar1tWWI/s400/peng+86+peter+lord+%284%29.jpg
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 13 June 2016 08:06 (seven years ago) link
My generation's Lord Of The Flieshttp://cdn.mhpbooks.com/2011/11/lotf3-320x483.jpg
― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Monday, 13 June 2016 10:42 (seven years ago) link
You would see this version of I Sing the Body Electric! with the eerie mummy-meld cover on a shelf at seemingly every other household in the seventies in the US.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ia-FbHxcUB4/UAniFy2P3II/AAAAAAAAAGE/Tj1b7yIUcnA/s1600/ray_bradbury_i_sing_the_body_electric_cover.8u6z4e94wq4oscok804w04ss.d28e1p3urvkkosc8o0okcc0sg.th.jpeg
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Usually side by side with this version of The Illustrated Man.http://highwaytomars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/illustrated_man.jpg
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
This exercise reminds of that recent thread - I can't recall the exact title - called something like "How strong is your inner vision center?" because, while I have some reasonably strong sense of the general layout of these covers in my memory, many of the details have long been forgotten, if they were ever remarked upon in the first place.
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
"My" Code of the Woostershttp://wodehouse.ru/cover/e/59-02.jpg
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
And Leave it to Psmithhttp://2016.wodehouse.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wh08_big1.jpg
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Looks like Jonathan Rosenbaum had the same copy of The Last Gentleman that I had: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2016/04/dr-percy-to-the-rescue-on-walker-percys-the-second-coming/
― Cry for a Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
http://www.therocktraveler.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Readability006.jpg
― Brad C., Tuesday, 14 June 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Much canonicals here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26518458@N05/sets/72157628002693444/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Not sure about that Code of the Woosters cover, I seem to remember Jeeves making his feeling about moustaches pretty clear.
― .robin., Thursday, 16 June 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Okay, confirmation and new recollection. Saw "my" Lord of the Flies as above https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6532799-M.jpgon a table of used books at 8th Street and 6th Avenue and in the pile of books was one of these Sigmund Freud editions: http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780393096514-us.jpg
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
What's black and white and re(a)d all over?
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Sigmund judges us all and finds us wanting
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780393096514-us.jpgThe great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my decades of posting here is 'What does ILB want?'
― Polyphemos Def (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
― Polyphemos Def (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:44 (seven years ago) link
Used to see this cover of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang everywhere. Still have yet to read myself.
http://www.lwcurrey.com/pictures/medium/135665.jpg
― Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 September 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
That cover for The Sound and the Fury has a similar Red Sky theme to those for Gravity's Rainbow. Probably could do a whole thread about that in itself. Also, surprised no one posted anything for Dhalgren yet.
Reposting the very slightly changed Jonathan Rosenbaum Walker Percy link: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1980/07/dr-percy-to-the-rescue-on-walker-percys-the-second-coming/.
― Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 September 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
There are dozens of different covers for Heinlein's 'Space Cadet' and 'Starship Troopers', but these are the ones I remember:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SpaceCadet_790.JPGhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bb/a8/40/bba840c9b22938f7b30957b4c032b383.jpg
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 25 September 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
This was the cover of Starship Troopers I had. Very effectively menacing.https://www.worldswithoutend.com/alt_covers/starship_troopers7.jpg
― Autotune the Sky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 September 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
All the Len Deighton covers that used this font:http://www.bookgasm.com/wp-content/images//BDBALT.jpg
― here we are now entertain us (snoball), Sunday, 25 September 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Think maybe some recent Len Deighton covers pay tribute to that look.
Came to post all the Saul Bellow covers that looked like these: https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780380009619-us-300.jpghttp://thesmartestbookclubever.com/perch/resources/book_covers/henderson-the-rain-king-w800.jpg
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
this was the version of Lord of the Flies we had in my school library, the cover to the first edition by Anthony Gross:
http://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2011/11/lotf11-320x484.png
― soref, Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
And the Avon cover of Herzog, recently discussed on the current rolling threadhttps://pictures.abebooks.com/100POCKETS/md/md15248976356.jpg
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 June 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
Not a Delillo fan, so I like how inappropriately cheesey this one is:
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780394741215-us.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 9 June 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
there have been a zillion covers of gravity's rainbow but this one, which freaked me out a little when i first looked at it in a waldenbooks sometime in the late 90s, remains the "real" one for me:
I take my stand on this
― alimosina, Friday, 9 June 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
i used to have a copy of that one! i loaned it to someone who never returned it >:[
― j., Saturday, 10 June 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
The original cover of Mystery Trainhttps://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--0SFBtWYu--/f_auto,t_large/v1548875166/ddmahcmmmt9ns6yex3j4.jpgLater covers emphasized Elvis - seems there was at least one edition with a Warhol Double Elvis- and now there is just a black on white image of a guitar headstock.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
*bumpit*
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 March 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
Just saw this weird gimme pile of books I will try to describe later
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 March 2024 22:19 (one month ago) link