― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 12 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― C J (C J), Sunday, 12 January 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)
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― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)
hmm, the book I've read more times than any other (and my favorite movie), and it's semi-reactionary with a fascist art cover
― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)
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― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)
i'm waiting eagerly for the suedhead cover now!
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)
Hmmm, these aren't very big but:http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0590195220.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.anybook4less.com/detail/0803793812.html
― Genevieve, Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― gabbneb, Sunday, 12 January 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 12 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)
Batsford Books + Brian Cook + jean berte print process RULZ!@#!@#!@#
I rather like these as well. I had the actual books at one point, but never got round to reading them:http://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/IMAGES/gst2.gifhttp://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/IMAGES/dar2.gifhttp://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/IMAGES/gca2.gifhttp://www.abel.net.uk/~savoy/IMAGES/red2.gif
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Monday, 13 January 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)
― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 08:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― spectra, Monday, 13 January 2003 09:42 (twenty-three years ago)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0811206807.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif
Woman or man? was a thought upon finding this elegant cover... and inside it's got a hearty 'Ashkenazi' style soundbite or two in the book, like 'the child is the meaning of this life' or 'the world is a wedding' - a pleasing discrepancy.
― jaunbersin (anthonee), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)
The phrase "Geek Love" is a VERY interesting Google image search, and I thank God I had the offensiveness filter on.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 13 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099428326.15.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140256369.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Genevieve, Monday, 13 January 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)
Still Sidmouth - a poem which has been "lost" for nearly 40 years has finally been published. The 178 line poem, written for the soundtrack of one of JB's television films, has been made into a 48 page book, with illustrations taken from the film.
― erik, Monday, 13 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)
― erik, Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)
Never posted a picture on here before... I really hope it worked.
― Celeste (Celeste), Saturday, 18 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)
http://www.daymaker.freeserve.co.uk/images/rebhbcovsml.jpg
I'm rubbish.
― Celeste (Celeste), Saturday, 18 January 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)
lovin these
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/low-fi-sci-fi/
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:58 (seventeen years ago)
new (red)+penguin classics are beautiful:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194325_annakarenina_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194349_thehouseofmirth_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194356_thereseraquin_0.jpg
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 21 March 2010 09:49 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194363_greatexpectations_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194370_theturnofthescrew_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194387_notesfromunderground_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194332_dracula_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/03/9780141194394_thesecretagent_0.jpg
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 21 March 2010 09:50 (sixteen years ago)
Not sure about the Great Expectations one, but very much like Dracula and Turn of the Screw.
― porn mirth pig (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 21 March 2010 10:00 (sixteen years ago)
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g179/supaflisi/drowned.jpg?t=1269177952
― the fantastic flaw (S-), Sunday, 21 March 2010 13:26 (sixteen years ago)
ehh most of those are too size 72 for me but I like the secret agent
― 丫 power (dyao), Sunday, 21 March 2010 13:30 (sixteen years ago)
omg want
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/damnedgatsby_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/gatsbyopen_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/paradisetender_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/tenderopen_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/flapperstycoon_0.jpghttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2010/08/fitzgeraldspines_0.jpg
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 22 August 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)
Coralie Bickford Smith did those, and the (RED) Secret Agent cover. She's great.
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Sunday, 22 August 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)
Also, comics dude Killoffer's new Marx/Engels cover:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4885915759_835a72d7aa_z.jpg
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Sunday, 22 August 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
ah, I like that a lot. Searching for it the first thing I found was your blog, which surprised me since I have you on my Google Reader list but didn't get that entry in my feed. Any idea why?
I love the Fitzgerald ones too but I have to be honest and admit that they'd make the rest of my books look like shit.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 22 August 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)
http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/Infinite_jest_cover.jpg
― altered boners (rennavate), Sunday, 22 August 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)
I'll confess that I sought out this version rather than the more easily available other one just because of the cover:
http://images.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9780/0615/9780061575594.jpg
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 23 August 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
awesome thread, shame about all the dead pic links
― symsymsym, Monday, 23 August 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5tf8jtRjE1qczxc6o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1282572713&Signature=N/RVVySwmvK4u2oKyutnO71QQIw%3D
― dyao, Monday, 23 August 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)
Searching for it the first thing I found was your blog, which surprised me since I have you on my Google Reader list but didn't get that entry in my feed. Any idea why?
Not sure, but sometimes, with me, Reader will show nothing from a site for weeks, and then suddenly dump a whole backlog of their stuff in at once. Very mysterious.
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Monday, 23 August 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)
What is yr blog James?
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/
It's a niche interest...
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)
It's a niche interest that I geek out about! (see also bookshelfporn.com)
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 02:16 (fifteen years ago)
gormley (& gehry i guess, though more traditionally) seems like the only artist to have successfully incorporated the text into those editions.
― schlump, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 07:26 (fifteen years ago)
http://pentagram.com/en/new/2011/05/new-work-seven-new-nabokov-cov.php
― am0n, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxfom5zaJY1qa0m3lo1_400.jpg
― conrad, Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbNIADqM4lJ6KlQMSlsumy29ekcUuqwC3UwMuDUmC8jo_2iqiNtg&t=1
I should re-read this and see if it still gives me a "boner."
― thirdalternative, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
This.
― thirdalternative, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
http://cache2.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/large/9780/2625/9780262570213.jpg
i received this today, the cover is too compelling for me to have bothered opening it yet.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:45 (fourteen years ago)
do people like the new phil k. dick releases?
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif
P.K.D.
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:05 (fourteen years ago)
not loading, just check em here http://www.amazon.com/VALIS-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547572417/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330452289&sr=1-11
― NO NUTRITIONAL CONTENT (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:06 (fourteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81rGgQsNPiL.jpg
The Young Meteors - Jonathan Aitken
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 12:29 (ten years ago)
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1075/3267568068_1cda274477_z.jpg?zz=1
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie - Jean Rhys
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 12:31 (ten years ago)
http://mgodding.biz/103/103068.jpg
The Twisting Lane - Tony Parker
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 12:32 (ten years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51y3NLZtUxL.jpg
Brief Lives - John Aubrey
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 12:33 (ten years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lKNb6NW9L._SL500_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Soviet Sisterhood: British Feminists on Women in the USSR
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 12:36 (ten years ago)
http://www.bookstellyouwhy.com/pictures/22757.jpg
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:06 (ten years ago)
http://www.bouquinerie.net/catalogue/P/images/1.jpg
Les amitiés particulières - Roger Peyrefitte
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:07 (ten years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sBhRKKqxdzY/S87S12CSHtI/AAAAAAAADTI/LDiOxO7ez1I/s1600/decades_jonhsquire_latecomers3_0-1.jpg
Latecomers - Anita Brookner
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)
http://www.qualitybargainmall.com/image/?0060805110-ebay
The Sweet Dove Died - Barbara Pym
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:22 (ten years ago)
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/92/cc/c592cc021c046e5e0a259cb81b2a2dc1.jpg
The Undiscovered Country - Julian Mitchell
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:25 (ten years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/BGYI1GR.png
John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:41 (ten years ago)
This thread has lead me to discover that Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson is mostly known with this fairly disagreeable (to me) golden cover painting - the one I know and love is a beautiful painting with much better impression of the Terabithian trees, and it has one of the kids wearing a numbered sports top: can anyone find an image of this on the net??? I have a couple of actual copies so I guess I'll be able to scan it one day.
― spectra, Monday, January 13, 2003 4:19 AM (12 years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/8bYioEb.jpg
(the current cover is a reproduction of the movie poster, complete with CGI monster and Disney castle and bucolic Kinkade landscapery)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 14:01 (ten years ago)
lots of Bridge to Terabithia covers below, I agree that the one above is by far the best
http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/16/top-100-childrens-novels-poll-10-bridge-to-terabithia-by-katherine-paterson/#_
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 14:05 (ten years ago)
https://literarylondonrg.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/a-start-in-life.jpg
A Start in Life - Anita Brookner
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 19:36 (ten years ago)
http://www.bookedupac.com/pictures/685.jpg
We Think the World of You - J. R. Ackerley
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 19:37 (ten years ago)
children's books being reissued with awful covers seems to be fairly common. here is the cover to for first edition on A N Wilson's Stray:
http://en.wikifur.com/w/images/c/c8/StrayCover.JPG
and its recent reprint:
https://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-400/1486-1/E36/7EF/DB/%7BE367EFDB-4E0F-4E0E-91F2-6BFBD010E19B%7DImg400.jpg
― soref, Sunday, 12 July 2015 22:06 (ten years ago)
the latest trend in YA book covers seems to be [stock photo of a generic teenager with no compelling design elements]. one of the worst offenders is that Bridge to Terabithia cover with the photo of a boy jumping against a sky blue backdrop — it looks like it should be an illustration in a middle school health textbook.
illustrators seem to have a tough time with Diana Wynne Jones's novels; her convoluted plots are hard to distil into single representative image, and it's interesting to compare different editions:
http://i.imgur.com/lHq8HPq.jpg(first UK edition, 1993)
http://i.imgur.com/W2QSqdQ.jpg(first US edition, 1994)
http://i.imgur.com/UCb19nQ.jpg(UK reprint, 2009?)
first UK edition is tasteful and mysterious, first US edition is an abomination, 2000s edition is ok but a little too heavy on the Tim Burtonish whimsy (and the forward is probably by Neil Gaiman, so)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)
*a single representative image
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 22:45 (ten years ago)
http://www.tradebit.com/usr/ebook-reader/pub/9002/8261237000503714038Pic.jpg
Requiescat - Nigel Barley
― pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Sunday, 19 July 2015 23:56 (ten years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fh9364IpU2o/VOgXWEfiMtI/AAAAAAAAbqo/pQhCAw1_QxI/s1600/Berridge%2C%2BElizabeth%2B-%2BAcross%2Bthe%2BCommon%2Bcover.jpg
https://frisbeebookjournal.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/sing-me-who-you-are-berridge-2.jpg
Across The Common and Sing Me Who You Are by Elizabeth Berridge
― soref, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 18:58 (eight years ago)
https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/images/2591_J_G_BALLARD_The_Wind_From_Nowhere_1974.jpgThe Wind from Nowhere - J.G. Ballard
― new noise, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:32 (eight years ago)
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
― new noise, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 19:36 (eight years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJReZa7XsAAfE6_?format=jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 18:49 (six years ago)
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch ('70s Paladin paperback)
https://i.imgur.com/tRKeCV0.jpeg
until recently I wasn't familiar with the artwork (a quote on wikipedia calls it "one of the most 'instantly recognizable images in post-war publishing'") or the artist (John Holmes), but I see that he also created some sick/surreal Lovecraft covers in the '70s:
https://i.imgur.com/ZKZHe8D.jpeg
https://paperbackpalette.blogspot.com/2022/10/my-favorite-lovecraft-artist.html
― ozempic tentacles (unregistered), Saturday, 28 June 2025 17:57 (eleven months ago)