/lit/ - Literature

>>6236739

>>6236739
I deliberately bought the hardcover Lolita with the picture of Nabokov on it so I didn't have to carry around a book with a sexy little girl on it.

>>6236739

>>6236794

when will it be my turn for petite yuppie gf

>>6236754

yeah that's so much better man

>>6236834
it is though

>>6236834

Sexy

The best Lolita cover

>>6236816
>petite
> 6'

The first edition of sound and the fury

>>6237182
how do you know?

I like The Trial and The Castle in particular.

Also, a lot of Murakami's books.

>>6237196
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Daniela_Hantuchová

Side question: Do you guys keep the book jackets on your hardcovers or take them off?

>>6237219
oh. okay, buy could have been younger and shorter then

Just got this yesterday

>>6236739

>>6237677
Nearly as good as this one.

beautiful

>>6237677
Skinny George Costanza?

>>6237731
this cover turns me on

finally a feminist book that i can fap to

always liked this one. shame my copy doesnt have this cover but the one it has is almost as good (the black and white pattern)

I really like these new Penguin Modern Classic editions of Camus.

admit it

>>6237732
>not fapping to feminist theory roleplay

>>6237731
Lol at strong feminist!

>>6237677
>>6237688
>Not even trying

IMO a cover that best fit the content of the actual book

>>6237667
Superior cover here.

"Hallmark Entertainment"
"USA Network"
"Sweepstakes Inside"

>>6237379
The net is 3.5 feet high. She is almost twice its height.

>I wanted, above all, to comply with the author’s wishes that the jacket design be consistent, typographically and stylistically, with the design styles of the eighteenth century, the time period in which the novel is set. After toying with the idea of finding an antique letterpress to set the type, I found a book in an antiquarian bookstore and scanned in a page of the eleven point text. I then created the title words from the letters on the scanned page, enlarging each letter so much that the letters became irregular and rough, and the vague shadows of the hot press type became visible. The paper fiber, blown up so many thousands of times, created a kind of mottled peach effect, which became the background color and texture. Originally, I was going to use the type in a more traditional way, all centered on the front jacket, with some kind of map or graphic element depicting the Mason Dixon line, but as I worked on the letterforms, they seemed so beautiful that I almost couldn’t bear to make them small again, to confine them to that 6 x 9 rectangular format of a book cover. I designed it so that they could be as large as possible within the format of an entire jacket, using all the available space allowed from the back and spine and front put together, and even then it didn’t quite fit so I made it larger still, bleeding off the page. I was hoping that it would feel as if we had actually taken an old newspaper from that time period, with the headline of Mason & Dixon, and wrapped it around the book. I was so into that concept that I couldn’t figure out how to integrate the author’s name (the single most important thing about this book, after all!) into the front jacket design without it seeming anachronistic. I kind of liked the idea of those words glaring out at the consumer in a bookstore, “son & xon,” without any further explanation. But of course this was entirely unrealistic, in terms of sales and marketing, so the acetate overlay was the perfect solution. It put the vital information over the jacket front and spine without actually impinging on the paper underneath, and it echoed what they do to old books in antique bookstores, which seemed right in the context of what we wanted to achieve.

>>6237667
My favorite Moby Dick cover

>>6238141
I enjoyed this, thanks anon

>>6237667
Very nice. The Random House 1930 printing I have is also super aesthetic. Can't wait to read it sometime.

>>6238141

quality post
take notes, kids

>>6238151
bit kitschy

I hate illustrations on books, especially of photographs. If there's a painting on the cover of my book it better be done by hand.

>>6238842
Agreed.

>>6237217
has anyone read aphorisms? is that included in the complete stories or diaries or entirely separate?

also what is bottom left, the soup?

>>6238842

A sexy cover for a very sexy book

horror, fantasy and sci-fi covers from the 70s and early 80s.

>>6239147

1983 reprints of foundation

>>6237731
Are redheads not the most /lit/ girls?

>>6239173
no, you're just a pleb

>>6239176
o-oh... I'll just go tell my girlfriend she's not /lit/ enough...

Quite partial to this

Does anyone know what the name of the painting is?

>>6239201

crop and image search it

>>6239201
Jupiter and Semele by Moreau, the full painting is much more beautiful

>>6239201
>that edition that's blanketed in praise
OKAY, WE GET IT

Bruegel and Bosch make for awesome book covers

Japanese covers are always superior.

this post
>>6239069
was meant for this:
>>6239045

>>6238113
HAHAAHAHAHA holy shiiiiiit

> covers with photographs on them

How can these people live with themselves?

>>6238481

yes

sometimes first edition is best