God I hope not.
Submitted by Sebastian Borckenhagen
Apparently it’s the first US paperback issue of the Univ. of Texas edition
Practical English Handbook, 1974, back cover (front)
Best back cover ever? via Daniel Letson
German Queneau cover
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.”
Granville Sharp cover by Hawes, Oxford Univ. Press
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 cover design for The Ill Tempered Clavichord, 1950
E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for Don Quixote, 1948
Elaine Lustig cover
via Scott Lindberg‘s Elaine Lustig collection
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
via Daniel Letson
Roy Kuhlman, cover design for New French Writing
(another Kuhlman)
Japanese book cover
German book cover
Robert Jonas, cover for The Odyssey
via cdrummbks
Robert Jonas flickr group
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
Submitted by Hyla, aka Queen of Arts
Arthur Hawkins Jr., cover design for Murder on the Palisades
Design by Sugar (likely a pseudonym for Djuna Barnes), Horace Liverlight 1928
Madness of War, 1928
via blikkentrom
via blikkentrom
Gobble-Up Stories, cover illus. by Jack Carr
Cover of Girondo‘s 1942 Persuasión de los días
dust jacket from the 1940 first edition of Bioy Casares’ Invention of Morel, illustrated by Norah Borges, prologue by Jorge Luis Borges
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
Some previous cover posts:
- Stacks of Books Crushing Me
- Japanese book covers 1 & 2
- Slovak book covers 2
- Polish book covers 1
- Blickfang!
