Best covers in lit

best covers in lit

bought this specifically for that cover.
minimalism boners everywhere.

>hey guys let's not even waste money on a cover artist for our cheap mass produced paperback, we'll save a bit that way and it's just going in bulk to schools where the kids won't give a fuck about it anyway
>omg so aesthetic

shut the fuck up you phony

That's not minimalism.

He rapes his sister phoebe

where's THAT cover though?

I always was fond of the Illuminatus! Trilogy covers

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better version

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what i'd do to get my hands on this

am I a plebeian for liking the penguin classics covers? they're simple and to the point.

wow

give me that

forgot picture

you're only a pleb if you like movie tie-in covers

that's the British or German edition, I can't remember

prob UK version and prob way out of print but follow your heart user, it may lead you places you desire

For the low low price of only $99,999

Vintage Contemporaries have good-bad covers which are my favorite type.

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I love her fashionable and completely 100% contemporary blouse.

I got that and this suuuper cool looking edition of this book on a trip to Vancouver B.C. yesterday.

the disdain in his glance is great

ahh yes i love this one. one of those that makes you want to get the book just for the cover. i like that whole cover series actually.

you got me

>the eternally unmoving gaze of a statue
>"glance"

???

Maybe he's on a swivel.

kek you have me there

One of my favorites.

you better shut your whore mouth

Is anyone else a fan of this cover? I quite like it, but don't often see people mention it.

Couldn't find any hq pics online so I just took a picture of my own copies

One of my favorite scifi covers

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>Ler Gravity's Rainbow e Infinite Jest em português

Pic related would be great if it didn't have that shameless Guardian plug in the lower left corner.

Lembro do tópico desse mano tomando porrada de geral por ter lido tradução de duas obras que é inútil ler em outra língua que não a original

book itself and the cover. personal favourites of mine.

Nah, they got solid design.

The only thing that bothers me about them is when they use an inaccurate image.

Damn.

2spook

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Yes, they are very ugly.

Especially the texture, the way the top part is all glossy is disgusting.

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This is a great cover for Notes.

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Hate incoming

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i know

Those are shit.

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What's the original paintings name?

Picador publishes in the anglosphere, but wiki says they do a lot in UK and Australia

My bet is that is an 80s/90s Australia edition

Actually just looked it up both and are UK editions the first from the mid-90s the latter from the late 80s

Here's the German edition cover which is pretty slick I feel

I feel that. I have a couple of those and they're weirdly nostalgic

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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, or at least something like that

Ur absolutely correct user

The Wanderer

It's somewhat of a cliche and is commonly the cover to Frankenstein (because they're both from 1818) and Schubert's Wanderer fantasie

Thank you very much

how do you guys feel about barnes and noble classics cover?

I loved this run of Murukami editions that Vintage did... but then they stopped with them and made these awfully generic paperback editions....

All of them look exactly like this cover now, they're so generic and glossy and lame looking now.

What's the pattern from? It doesn't look too Japanese. Anyway, I like it.

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Better than most new book covers

Nice. And the book is amazing.

>Robert Anton Wilson

What the fuck. Did he write fiction? Is this any good?

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Is the Illuminatus Trilogy worth reading? My friend who read it told me it was a waste of time.

your friend is a dumbass

am I a pleb if I love pretty much every NYRB or OWC

Você deve ter viajado, ou talvez seja invejinha por ser apenas um filisteu, acontece nas piores senpaiílias

aliás
>achar que a complexidade e genialidade de GR e IJ estão na escrita
educação pública é triste mesmo

No.

They are nothing genius but they all look good, and they don't have the glossy shit that Penguin uses.

I love minimalist covers. I was going to buy pic related yesterday, but it was too expensive, so I bought a cheaper edition, with another cover.

Just checked the rest of the new Vintage editions.

Goddam.

Japp

Murakami's books always have great covers. I just don't like the font in pic related, but the photograph is amazing.

The title was hard for me to read at first but damn, that looks amazing. I'm a sucker for that '20 poster style.

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Those are kind of cool, but I think it would be neater if they had some noticeable difference between them even if it was something small.

Politically Corrected

One of them is in red ink. What more do you want?

Let's bump the quality here a bit, shall we?

And while were at it, does anyone know whitch edition is this one from?

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It's the American flag as designed by and for Nazi sensibilities, hence the stripes are changed to SS-like lightning bolts. It's subtle, unlike

>SS-like lightning bolts

that's a stretch

It looks like a quilt. Probably because the swastikas got them in shit. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich had that problem. Why take a chance?

...Have...have you read the fucking book?

The manji on the second cover are technically wrong; the Nazi swastika was designed turned at an angle to be diamond-shaped, adhering to the "pointy" aesthetic of the National Socialists.

My favourite painting desu, and pretty fitting for anything Nietzsche.

German doesn't have 'å', it's Norwegian or Swedish, because it isn't Danish.

That's the Swedish edition though

Same here mate, cozy yet so alive

Yeah, this one's definitely; "let us rather not offend anyone."

You bought the one from booklet editions? How much cheaper was it?

Uhm... No, just NO! Capar has such an opposing philosophy that they simply don't go together. In all honesty, It's like putting Parthenon to the cover of a book about Roman architecture.

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