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Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Joseph Kessel’s Les Nuits de Siberie (1928):

“Cliches anonymes, Six tableaux vivants realises a partir du Moine, de Lewis” Six tableaux vivants for The Monk by Matthew Lewis, a book Artaud translated and abridged.

Illus. and design by Oskar Garvens, book cover, Germany, 1925

Long Neck Gazelle by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (thanks to roma cintilante for providing details!) I have no information about most of the books featured in this post, except that they are from Iran.

Lorenzo Mattotti, from The Raven by Mattotti (illus) and Lou Reed (text), 2009 (c) Mattotti, courtesy of Galerie Martel

All works by Frans Masereel from Notre Temps, 1952 From the collection of Richard Sica:

A big thank you to VonMurr for sending the first ten covers in this post. They come from his personal collection. The rest were found on my searches through online Polish bookstores.

from the collection of John Gall John Gall is the art director for Vintage and Anchor Books. He’s also the man behind the Nabokov Collection and the blog Spine Out. (Read two interviews with him: 1, 2.) I want to…

Illustration by STO for Bontempelli’s Chess Set in the Mirror (1922)

1948, Apoutsiak, written and illustrated by Paul Emile Victor