― 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)
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― 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)
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― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)
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― 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)
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― 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)
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)