Run for covers !

[Patrick Murtha]

I dote on vintage paperback covers that feature well-dressed men. For example, this one - hey, it’s me in the 1940s! And to top that, Elizabeth Daly’s series character Henry Gamadge is a rare books specialist. ?

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Here’s another. Nice suit, great trouser cuffs. Like the haircut, too.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Of course, you could get hit by a car and that would mess it all up…

 

[Patrick Murtha]

One of my favorite paperback covers, intensely cinematic. Menswear angle also covered.

 

[kpjayan]

This is about the book covers.. The Graphics Artist of Seagull Books. Some impressive covers here

‘Book covers not only about great image-editing skills’

An interview with Sunandini Banerjee, graphic artist at Seagull Books.

frontline.thehindu.com

 

[Stevie B]

I challenge you to find a worse cover for a classic book than this one.

 

[Liam]

I challenge you to find a worse cover for a classic book than this one.

 

[Leseratte]

I challenge you to find a worse cover for a classic book than this one.

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What I would call a generic cover. It would fit about 600.000 different titles but just not this one.

 

[Liam]

What I would call a generic cover. It would fit about 600.000 different titles but just not this one.

Honestly, it would even fit The Hobbit: There and Back Again, ?

 

[Benny Profane]

Brazilian edition of Farah's From a Crooked Rib:

 

[Stevie B]

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I recently ordered a Chiltern Classics copy of Mrs Dalloway. Now I'm having regrets.

 

[Stevie B]

What I would call a generic cover. It would fit about 600.000 different titles but just not this one.

Who knows? Maybe they used to have parking spots for horse and buggies.

 

[Stevie B]

Brazilian edition of Farah's From a Crooked Rib:

Since it's hovering above her shoulders, that must be what they call the floating rib.

 

[Leseratte]

Since it's hovering above her shoulders, that must be what they call the floating rib.

Anyway, it doesn't leave any doubt of what a rib is.

I recently ordered a Chiltern Classics copy of Mrs Dalloway. Now I'm having regrets.
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Looks quite classic to me.

 

[Stevie B]

I usually prefer Chiltern Classics to Folio Society books. I also like how they take up less room on the shelf.

 

[tiganeasca]

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Reminds me more of Elizabeth Bennet. (Or, possibly, Jane Eyre).

 

[Liam]

Reminds me more of Elizabeth Bennet. (Or, possibly, Jane Eyre).

I don't think either one of those would have been aware of French manicure, Dave, ?

 

[Stevie B]

Really love the color and simplicity of the design for this Alejandro Zambra book. Too bad it's for the German edition. I'm sometimes tempted to buy beautiful books in languages I don't speak, but then I remember that I'm already running low on shelf space as it is.