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What is your favorite book cover /lit/?

Mine is the first edition of Goldfinger.

>> No.1034471
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Hellbound Heart

>> No.1034473

The one that gets me most is the first cover of american psycho

creeps me out, my mother read the book when I was a kid and all I had to go on was the creepy book cover and my mother telling me never to touch this book until I was 18

>> No.1034487
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This book must be about a man whose face is a birthing place for deers, right? Right!?

>> No.1034491

>>1034487
Or he likes to wear weird hats, and put them on his face.

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>>1034491
Well, I guess that would explain this one as well.
I usually love the covers that Penguin uses, but this... I think I'll pass.

>> No.1034501

>>1034498
>>1034487
Yeah I see those about a lot, I went for the Vintage editions instead because they just look like modern toss

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This old Scanner Darkly cover, don't know why though

captch: you hilleck

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Der Steppenwolf, any edition

>> No.1034607

>>1034589
i saw that cover in a local used book store the other day. it's awesome. my copy is orange with fur on the cover and that's it. not bad.

>> No.1034638
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This is my favorite cover.

>> No.1034712
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Mario Puzo's: Godfather cover.
I love the puppeteer's symbol

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>> No.1034790

>>1034776
>The Right to Arm Bears is a collection of Gordon R. Dickson's three science fiction novellas that occur on the planet Dilbia, where humans and an alien race known as Hemnoids are trying to win the support of the native bear-like population.
Is this real?

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>>1034838
Yes, bro. Yes.

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I so much enjoy the color of the words, the clouds, and the empty blue space.

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>> No.1034865

>>1034776
Oh, I`ve got one! I`ve got one! The right to bear arms! You get it? You get it? Bear arms! Like actual bear arms. The right to walk around with a dead bear`s arms! XD

What do I get?

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>>1034865

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The old Ubik cover's pretty cool

>> No.1036497
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Codifying and representing the contents of a 700+ page novel seems difficult; and was very successfully done here. If not a favorite, at least a success.

>manital writer.