Book Covers

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Book Covers Anonymous Mon Apr 7 22:59:04 2014 No.4750389 [Reply] [Original]

Please post some of your favorite book covers and why you like them.

>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
>It's the joke about how ugly people wear bags over their heads

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 22:59:04 2014 No.4750392 >>4750389 >>It's the joke about how ugly people wear bags over their heads that's a clever joke.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:06:03 2014 No.4750424 File: 30 KB, 333x500, 1396926370781.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] it's a frown

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:08:07 2014 No.4750435 Killing The Buddha by Peter Manseau >It's using a sky as symbolic of enlightenment through Buddhism and then puts an X through it

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:10:03 2014 No.4750443 File: 20 KB, 314x475, killing_the_buddha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4750435 Whoops, here's the image.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:13:04 2014 No.4750461 File: 113 KB, 233x355, chuck_Dino-FINAL_small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ever wonder how a triceratops flank steak would taste?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:21:04 2014 No.4750501 File: 53 KB, 610x340, hologrampic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the hardcover is really just nicely made

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:28:03 2014 No.4750522 >>4750461 I could have gone my whole without that thought. Now I will die never knowing what a triceratops tastes like. Fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:33:03 2014 No.4750553 >>4750392 that's the joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:34:03 2014 No.4750558 >>4750553 i don't get it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:34:03 2014 No.4750560 >>4750558 that's the joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:35:03 2014 No.4750562 >>4750560 you're funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:35:03 2014 No.4750563 >>4750389 >It's the joke about how ugly people wear bags over their heads I never made this connection before, but possibly an inspiration for Shia's "I Am Not Famous Anymore" bag?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:41:03 2014 No.4750599 >>4750563 Jesus, I hope not. Does he read? I figure the bag on his head was sort of a rejection of his own identity so he replaces it with the message going through his head as he goes through his own kind of weird child star-esque ontological crisis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:42:03 2014 No.4750605 >>4750562 guess the joke's just over your head little guy

Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:44:03 2014 No.4750614
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I really liked these Kafka book designs a lot. Each cover tries to communicate a concept from their story, and they're all united as a series by the flat graphic eye motif.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:46:03 2014 No.4750623 >>4750614 these are beautiful

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:47:03 2014 No.4750626 >>4750605 maybe it's because i'm just a grill btw :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:53:08 2014 No.4750662 >>4750614 What's the purple one? I cannot read the title.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:54:08 2014 No.4750665 >>4750614 Dat nigga really loves eyes, yo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:59:03 2014 No.4750693 >>4750626 u r a joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:59:03 2014 No.4750695 >>4750662 It's The Sons. The handwritten script style font for the titles came from vectorized scans of Kafka's handwriting, which is really nice but a little hard to read sometimes!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:01:03 2014 No.4750705 >>4750693 no i giggle at jokes tho :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:03:04 2014 No.4750716 >>4750695 Never heard of that book by him. Gonna check it out!

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:10:03 2014 No.4750744
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At first I really didn't like this book cover series; I thought that the black and white shapes were sloppy or naive and the typography combination was ugly. I still don't like them very much, but if you think of the sunlight motif in The Stranger, and how the rectangles in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death are all competing for space and pushing against one another, and how in The Rebel's cover those two lines go against the pattern established in the background and reverse the black-on-white with white-on-black, the ideas behind the covers help justify the designs. Still, I'd see these as sketches during the process to a more complete looking design. It's nice to stay simple, but I think these are a little too spare.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:30:03 2014 No.4750837 >>4750744 I know that vintage also made a few of the Dostoevsky releases with these styles of covers. They might have made them for more authors, but I haven't seen them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:32:22 2014 No.4750846 File: 43 KB, 310x500, a_clockwork_orange.large_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Iconic

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:36:22 2014 No.4750862 I've always liked Gravity's Rainbow's original cover. It's just so simple and serene.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:38:22 2014 No.4750864 File: 648 KB, 867x1272, pynchon-rainbow.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've always liked Gravity's Rainbow's original cover. It's just so simple and serene

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:38:22 2014 No.4750867 >>4750522 It's probably incredibly tough and you'd only want it for strews.

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:46:22 2014 No.4750889 [DELETED]

I've always been a big fan of the M&D cover, and it's been the same for approaching 20 years.

The typography is nice: the combination of that and the paper gives you that nice 18th century anachronism that Pynch was going for. And I know there's still likley a hidden meaning in the

SON
&
XON

which is probably why it hasn't changed.

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:48:22 2014 No.4750899
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I've always been a big fan of the M&D cover, and it's been the same for approaching 20 years.

The typography is nice: the combination of that and the paper gives you that nice 18th century anachronism that Pynch was going for. And I know there's still likley a hidden meaning in the

SON
&
XON

which is probably why it hasn't changed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:53:22 2014 No.4750919 File: 99 KB, 457x560, tumblr_lktlm5MkP61qjg7fso1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] charming humble discrete practical comfortable familiar

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:55:23 2014 No.4750927
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Book covers don't usually appeal too much to me, I have a thing for a level of uniformity in a given medium. I made a thread before of a shitload of book covers I made for people to use as replacements for the original covers that came with ebooks, picrelated

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:00:22 2014 No.4750952 >>4750927 you designed this? did you draw it, or find the image and set type on it?

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:02:22 2014 No.4750961
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>>4750952
I pick out the image and set the type on it, yes.
I don't want to take credit for the art at all, but I still think there's a level of skill in choosing images that best fit a book and I take pride in my project in doing so
maybe I'm just a cunt

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:02:22 2014 No.4750962 >>4750899 Yeah I always liked that cover even when I was a pleb and thought "lol why would I read that it sounds lame". Very cool. It's too bad the 'a' and 'i' on the spine aren't centered.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:07:22 2014 No.4750981 File: 1.17 MB, 1212x774, kafkasfinal02.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is a series of Kafka covers I did for a class. I hope that the ideas communicate.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:08:22 2014 No.4750984 File: 80 KB, 309x473, catch22.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4750846 Another classic

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:09:27 2014 No.4750989 >>4750981 I like them but they look a bit too noir for the subject matter imo

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:10:27 2014 No.4750991 >>4750981 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWGouymBxk&t=12

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:14:22 2014 No.4751001

>>4750919
> dat garish orange
>comfortable
> dat cramped typeface
>practical
> publisher's imprimatur stamped all over the covers as if penguin wrote them
>humble
> blocky, nearly-violent division into thirds & contrasting saccharine mascot
>charming or discrete
> last seen in the nineteen fucking seventies
>familiar

You trollin, m8?

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:19:22 2014 No.4751023

>>4750989

I feel you. I thought it might be a funny or interesting aesthetic for Kafkaesque surrealism. The style of noir and 1950s b-movie seemed appropriate at the time.

I wanted to use something with negative & positive space only with the main image, because I thought that contrasts through alienation were important in Kafka's writing. The Trial is the most obvious; it's the bars of a jail cell cutting the silhouetted figure bust apart. The Metamorphosis uses the idea of a bug being squashed. I used a human body because Gregor becomes like an insect, with the various symbolic connotations that come with it. The Castle shows alienation again. It also shows futility against a higher power which has influence over the protagonist. A pawn is the weakest chess piece and the eponymous castle is the ominous rook in the image. I hope that helps to support my design.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:22:22 2014 No.4751036 File: 64 KB, 400x597, The_Big_Nowhere.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I haven't read it yet but it's one hell of a cover.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:25:22 2014 No.4751051 File: 36 KB, 190x290, Dan_Simmons_Ilium.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4750389

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:32:23 2014 No.4751070

Pulp- Bukowski. The cover is just like his books; they just tell you simply what you need to know.

The Great Gatsby. It's the time period looking within itself. Being released in 1925, this book was a reminder to the generation (at least within northern urban cities) that their rash actions without thought of consequence is reckless. The flapper, with the city below her and behind her as a tear falls from her eyes...and the eyes...the naked woman. She woman is seeing herself bare. There is no longer a facade. She is realizing who she is and what she has done as regret finally is unleashed from it's repression and surfaces. The cover IS the book, in this case.

The Kurt Vonnegut 'V' series. They look the way the book feels.

Fahrenheit 451- A fireman (book burner) is seen covered in pages and on fire. It holds the theme that if you burn the knowledge of man you are also burning yourself. Destroying knowledge is destroying civilization, man, life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:35:22 2014 No.4751080 File: 471 KB, 837x1405, time machine 1-front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:39:22 2014 No.4751103 File: 73 KB, 468x255, tril.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i like these older ones best

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:43:30 2014 No.4751114 >>4750981 I think The Trial one is alright, but I really like the other two. What kind of course was this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:44:22 2014 No.4751115 >>4751103 I have a pretty beat up The Two Towers copy that's like that. Found it at a thrift store. Unfortunately I haven't found the others.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 01:49:22 2014 No.4751130 >>4751114 Thank you man, I really appreciate it. I definitely agree that The Trial is the weakest one, though. This was a book cover design class; I'm a graphic design major. I'm still working on my website, unfortunately.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 02:25:14 2014 No.4751222 File: 120 KB, 550x200, todd_hido_9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm not big on whole-cover photographs, but these are just too perfect

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 02:52:14 2014 No.4751297

>>4751001
>> last seen in the nineteen fucking seventies
Those are editions that are currently available in Australia and NZ. They're got a green-coloured crime line too, but for the main sets they used orange for everything rather than the different colours (in the original Penguins, orange was only for general fiction).

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 02:59:14 2014 No.4751316 File: 159 KB, 450x677, 1386512229737.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Iconic

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:02:15 2014 No.4751332
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Always loved this one...reminds me a very surreal painting of the human mind... the book itself pretty trippy and deals with some wild ideas about dreams and how human consciousness works..

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:03:14 2014 No.4751336 >>4751316 I don't know what's worse, the lame ass cover or the fact that they actually reference the stupid video game... this makes me cringe thinking it will help sell copies

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:05:14 2014 No.4751340 File: 33 KB, 304x475, phantomlady.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Steranko's Cornell Woolrich covers

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:07:14 2014 No.4751347 File: 26 KB, 305x475, 0743413164.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4751340

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:08:14 2014 No.4751350 File: 16 KB, 305x475, rearwindownew.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4751347

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:54:48 2014 No.4751469 File: 926 KB, 640x360, 1392743438074.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4751316

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 04:28:20 2014 No.4751537 File: 364 KB, 1082x1600, Book of Three.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i love retro illo

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 11:38:09 2014 No.4752378 >>4750864 this, all the GR covers are at least 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 11:44:05 2014 No.4752393 >>4750984 i hate this the only catch 22 cover i like is the corgi 60s one

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 11:45:05 2014 No.4752397
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The book -not the story, the book itself- is really good. The size, the weight, the cover..
>It's using the letters to make a bug
i guess. But as i said, cover is not the mere reason i like this book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 11:46:05 2014 No.4752402 >>4751080 >tfw this kind of crafty covers will never come back. all thi minimalistic bullshit is just lazy.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 11:59:07 2014 No.4752441 >>4752410 Oooh. A leak of Tao Lin's new book. I'm excited.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 12:01:06 2014 No.4752445 File: 47 KB, 273x220, more feeling.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4752410 >>4752441 >mfw sometimes it's like i'm reading lin tao this man is a genius

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 12:21:06 2014 No.4752480 >>4750981 This is really good. I like The Castle version the best. >dat pawn that could also be seen as a keyhole Fucking great stuff, man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 12:31:06 2014 No.4752497 >>4750614 They have deckled edges.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 12:39:06 2014 No.4752508 File: 628 KB, 723x1181, 978-3-10-038188-0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 12:42:07 2014 No.4752517 >>4752497 cool >>4752508 cool

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 13:22:10 2014 No.4752651 >>4750461 >>4750522 Like a cross between a manatee and a bald eagle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 13:26:10 2014 No.4752661 File: 328 KB, 880x1360, brokenpianoforpresident.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This one got Jack Daniels pissed off. They tried to stop it, but lost. Book was meh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 13:27:10 2014 No.4752667 File: 49 KB, 411x597, Coverscan018.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 13:48:10 2014 No.4752727 >>4750614 I have "The Trial" from that collection and I can't wait to get the other ones. I fucking love the design and concept, and Kafka's pretty neato too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 14:32:47 2014 No.4752849 File: 123 KB, 492x750, tumblr_mzk4qh1m671qz6f9yo1_500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4752727 here's another kafka

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 15:24:45 2014 No.4753025 >>4752727 I have The Castle and it looks great in person. It come's with a lot of notes and shit too so that's pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:03:45 2014 No.4753161 >>4752849 That one's nice as well, but the whole set with the eyes is stunning as shit. >>4753025 The rough edges on the pages are so nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:11:10 2014 No.4753176 File: 44 KB, 600x958, lolita-keenan2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's just fanmade I think

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:20:10 2014 No.4753202 >>4753176 too bad that looks like lacy panties and legs

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:23:10 2014 No.4753214 >>4753202 maybe if you're some kind of sex pervert

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:23:10 2014 No.4753215 >>4753202 is this bait

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:25:10 2014 No.4753219 >>4753215 post-bait

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:28:25 2014 No.4753232 >>4753176 That one's real nice. >>4753214 >>4753215 >>4753219 >I don't see what that anon interprets, so it's bait.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:31:12 2014 No.4753245 >>4750899 >Manson and Nixon

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:35:42 2014 No.4753253 >>4753232 reported for pedoing

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:36:42 2014 No.4753263 >>4753176 joke's on the idiot who uses that book cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:45:40 2014 No.4753288 >>4753263 Why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 16:53:42 2014 No.4753306 File: 39 KB, 320x481, r and b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Only thing I don't like is the blurb cluttering it up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:07:03 2014 No.4753882 File: 43 KB, 409x640, 1396998432651.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I actually went out of my way to buy this cover for Lolita because I am a rampaging paedophile.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:18:03 2014 No.4753940 File: 522 KB, 1200x595, 1396999085128.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I love those 3

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:19:03 2014 No.4753950 >>4753202 It's meant to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:26:03 2014 No.4753987 File: 1009 KB, 4504x1432, 1396999616845.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Absolutely gorgeous covers. Well, except for the Return of the King one. It has 9 stars instead of 7

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:39:36 2014 No.4754078 File: 61 KB, 240x350, 19102012145530_oblomov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've actually bought this edition based in cover alone, is wrapped in some sort of tissue, very fancy

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:39:37 2014 No.4754073 File: 81 KB, 266x400, trial.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:41:36 2014 No.4754099 >>4753987 rad as fuck. would buy if it didn't seem like a waste of money since i already have the hobbit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:41:36 2014 No.4754100 File: 99 KB, 271x434, asd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4751316 you think that's bad?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:43:36 2014 No.4754117 >>4754099 well it's always worth to invest in hardcovers I think, my 3-in-1 Lord of the Rings book looks like I wiped my ass with it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:47:36 2014 No.4754139 >>4753882 Good cover, but not the best. I know what you mean, though

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:48:36 2014 No.4754150 >>4754100 That's a lot better than the Inferno one, honestly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:49:36 2014 No.4754153 File: 24 KB, 360x480, 1397000981157.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] White noise, from Delillo. These bobbles and small lines are raised on the cover.

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:51:36 2014 No.4754163
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>>4753987
I like the ones for The Hobbit and RotK. The other two are meh. The style and colors are great but I just dislike the design.

Also, all these people gushing over the Kafka eyeball covers: really? I like the theme but the colors are too garish for my tastes. I was annoyed that they're the only ones in print around my area. I like pic related for some reason though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:51:37 2014 No.4754169 File: 1.08 MB, 3520x1360, 81TvUAlRcML._SL1360_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4753940

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>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:57:37 2014 No.4754188 File: 256 KB, 984x1500, 91YM6vGa5SL._SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw checked amazon for German version, new Hardcover with this cover is at 3,95, kindle download is for free

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:00:37 2014 No.4754197 File: 135 KB, 434x663, chronic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:02:37 2014 No.4754205 File: 73 KB, 600x800, 1397001779154.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] there's an actual bookbinder offering custom-made books on german ebay

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:04:37 2014 No.4754207
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>>4754205
that quality, man...
also 3 simlarils, the hobbit and lotr books she offers have terrible cover images though but they have an actual one ring on the spine of the book

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:04:37 2014 No.4754209 File: 32 KB, 367x413, NG_05PINDER_24429125.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] it's the little things in life

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:06:37 2014 No.4754215

>>4754205
My dad is a huge Tolkien nerd and has the original limited printing of the Silmarillion with that cover. Pretty ballin. All told my dad's Tolkien collection is probably worth over $10k. He's been collecting and leaving shit in the wrapping for like 30 years now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:06:38 2014 No.4754216 File: 101 KB, 318x471, 18599537.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] always liked this Carrie cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:08:38 2014 No.4754221 File: 136 KB, 500x725, catcher-in-the-rye.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] call me a pleb but this is a seriously gorgeous cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:09:37 2014 No.4754225 File: 99 KB, 1024x768, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754209 >if all the animals came inside

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:11:37 2014 No.4754233
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>>4754215
I started collecting different versions of Lord of the Rings recently, wish I had started earlier with that since a lot of the older, nicer versions are hardly available any more or used or only at crazy prices.

this one's great, German version, I only have a shitty one.

>only €150

I'm actually tempted...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:12:37 2014 No.4754236 File: 198 KB, 1600x1200, pkd Houghton Mifflin covers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Houghton Mifflin PKD covers are really nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:13:37 2014 No.4754239 File: 59 KB, 600x800, 1397002409320.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754233 polish version of the hobbit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:13:37 2014 No.4754240 File: 113 KB, 800x1202, 1397002410019.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754236 This one's my favorite, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:13:37 2014 No.4754243 >>4754236 yeah those are rad I love how there's something 'off' in all the title boxes

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:14:37 2014 No.4754248 >>4754243 Same. It's a nice touch, seeing as how PKD got crazier and crazier as he lived.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:14:37 2014 No.4754249 >>4754239 I don't like the other ones but that's seriously cool

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:15:37 2014 No.4754251 >>4754233 I love this cover. I considered buying one with it even though I already have the Hobbit. Dem mountains man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:15:37 2014 No.4754255 File: 67 KB, 600x800, 1397002538224.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754240 I have that one as well. french version of the hobbit

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:17:38 2014 No.4754263 File: 575 KB, 2528x1252, 1397002665833.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754255 top lel, it looks like a milch-schnitte

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:19:37 2014 No.4754267 File: 75 KB, 800x600, 1397002788088.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754263 russian hobbit one

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:21:37 2014 No.4754269 File: 352 KB, 1484x957, 81I76eiwRkL._SL1484_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754236 >>4754240 bunch of German covers

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:25:37 2014 No.4754280 File: 70 KB, 600x800, 1397003126451.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4754267 whoops, almost missed this one, English version >€125 tempted...

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:27:37 2014 No.4754285 >>4754221 TRU

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 20:38:37 2014 No.4754325 >>4751103 my psychology teacher in high school had a big ass poster with that whole image on it. said he stole it from where he worked in the 70s

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 05:13:05 2014 No.4755603 >>4753202 Damn. I never liked at it that way. I thought it was just a cornice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 05:14:06 2014 No.4755605 >>4755603 *looked at it that way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 05:18:05 2014 No.4755609 >>4754221 Ah... the classical rebellious horse.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 08:36:58 2014 No.4755995 >>4753202 Isn't that the purpose?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 08:59:58 2014 No.4756033 File: 155 KB, 780x960, steppenwolf-bantam-1969.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:01:58 2014 No.4756039 >>4754141 nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:07:58 2014 No.4756049 >>4754141 wow. this is great

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:09:58 2014 No.4756053 >>4754221 i never understood what the horse had to do with the story

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:22:58 2014 No.4756080 File: 1.20 MB, 2560x1440, WIN_20140409_141616.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] no great ideas? disappointed. >1/2

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:23:58 2014 No.4756081 >>4756053 It's from the carousel at the end used by Phoebe, who Holden rapes earlier on in the story

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:25:58 2014 No.4756083 File: 1.16 MB, 2560x1440, WIN_20140409_141730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >2/2

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:31:24 2014 No.4756091 >>4756083 >>4756080 they got real elaborate. the first sets were pretty plain. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/23/88/c2/2388c2a93ecd44255352ce9f452dce75.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:35:24 2014 No.4756098 >>4756091 these are from the first two series, it's just that some are plain while others are more complex. they're all fairly clean, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 15:17:17 2014 No.4757040 bump for good thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 15:19:17 2014 No.4757049 >>4756081 >who Holden rapes earlier on in the story thefuck?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 15:30:16 2014 No.4757084 >>4757049 That anon says that every time Catcher is mentioned. Every Single Time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 15:48:20 2014 No.4757156 File: 419 KB, 999x565, 1397072924837.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've always had a weakness for the Josh Kirby covers of Terry Pratchett books, shame he died, the artist is crap.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 16:39:51 2014 No.4757316 >mfw the best editor in all the language just refuses to use a good image >mfw they also refuse to make hardcovers Fuck you Catedra. You're the best.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 16:39:51 2014 No.4757318 >>4757156 >the artist is crap I meant "the new artist is crap"

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