Endangered Species?

God I hope not.

Jakob von Gunten, first US paperback
Jakob von Gunten

Submitted by Sebastian Borckenhagen
Apparently it’s the first US paperback issue of the Univ. of Texas edition

Practical English Handbook, back cover
Practical English Handbook, 1974, back cover (front)
Best back cover ever? via Daniel Letson

Queneau, German book cover
German Queneau cover

Black Holes, Quasars, etc
Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe by Harry L Shipman

via Daniel Letson, who notes “The whole front cover is just white, with a ‘black hole’ cut out, revealing the black cover underneath. BRUTAL.”

designer, Hawes, Oxford
Granville Sharp cover by Hawes, Oxford Univ. Press

E. McKnight Kauffer, Crazy Like a Fox
E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for Crazy Like a Fox
via Piet Schreuders

see Giusti’s cover for this book

Previously: E. McKnight Kauffer flickr group
Kauffer’s illustrations for Poe

E. McKnight Kauffer, Ill Tempered Clavichord, 1950
E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for The Ill Tempered Clavichord, 1950

E. McKnight Kauffer, Don Quixote, 1948
E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for Don Quixote, 1948

Elaine Lustig cover
Elaine Lustig cover
via Scott Lindberg‘s Elaine Lustig collection

1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
via Daniel Letson

Roy Kuhlman, cover design for New French Writing
Roy Kuhlman, cover design for New French Writing
(another Kuhlman)

Japanese book cover
Japanese book cover

German book cover
German book cover

Robert Jonas, cover for The Odyssey
Robert Jonas, cover for The Odyssey
via cdrummbks

Robert Jonas flickr group

Eppo Doeve, cover for Moord aan Boord
Eppo Doeve, cover for Moord aan Boord
via uk_vintage

See also: Dood in Ecstasy: Dutch Mystery Covers

The Accomplice by Matthew Head, book cover
The Accomplice by Matthew Head, book cover

Submitted by Hyla, aka Queen of Arts

Arthur Hawkins Jr., cover design for Murder on the Palisades
Arthur Hawkins Jr., cover design for Murder on the Palisades

Design by Sugar (likely a pseudonym for Djuna Barnes), Horace Liverlight 1928
Design by Sugar (likely a pseudonym for Djuna Barnes), Horace Liverlight 1928

Madness of War, 1928
Madness of War, 1928

P.A.H. Hofman
via blikkentrom

Hamsun
via blikkentrom

Gobble-Up Stories
Gobble-Up Stories, cover illus. by Jack Carr

Cover of Girondo's 1942 Persuasión de los días
Cover of Girondo‘s 1942 Persuasión de los días

dust jacket from the 1940 first edition of Bioy Casares' La Invencion de Morel, illustrated by Norah Borges, with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges
dust jacket from the 1940 first edition of Bioy Casares’ Invention of Morel, illustrated by Norah Borges, prologue by Jorge Luis Borges

Chwast, Eight Great Tragedies
Seymour Chwast, cover for Eight Great Tragedies

via Daniel Letson

Ronald Searle, cover illustration for A Wolf in Frog's Clothing, The Best of Alphonse Allais
Ronald Searle, cover illustration for A Wolf in Frog’s Clothing, The Best of Alphonse Allais

Some previous cover posts:

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