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Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:01:13 2018 No.10539480 [Reply] [Original]

what is the best book cover ever?
(no fan art shit)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:03:11 2018 No.10539488 File: 47 KB, 334x500, 513XpOgZtiL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539480 I like The Great Gatsby's. It says that Rex Bonomelli created it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:04:30 2018 No.10539493 File: 88 KB, 534x800, 27AFD048-2295-4DA5-947B-AB46AA0A5CC1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539480

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:08:44 2018 No.10539509 File: 17 KB, 271x406, tgf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:27:29 2018 No.10539553 >>10539480 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:50:56 2018 No.10539611 File: 300 KB, 750x548, AH_Nabokoff_003_1000px_popup-A.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not best but I just picked these up and I like them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:53:04 2018 No.10539616 File: 85 KB, 308x475, Doors.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539480 haven't read it yet, but this one's cover is my fav

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 01:57:25 2018 No.10539626 File: 47 KB, 403x650, bizare de urmuz 39 00 lei 0 din 5 categorie autori români autor urmuz ___.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:04:36 2018 No.10539641 >>10539480 I looked this up and it has a lot of praise. But is it a kid's book? It sounds like a kid's book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:05:40 2018 No.10539644 >>10539611 Those are nice. Too bad is penguin tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:08:53 2018 No.10539648 File: 283 KB, 592x800, PinterCover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This isn't a full cover, but the artist, Ferenc Pinter, did amazing covers/illustrations, including italian translations of James Bond and Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:11:10 2018 No.10539654 File: 61 KB, 506x736, e5a668583c1d4714a2e25eaf8ef30a5e.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539648

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:11:49 2018 No.10539655 >>10539641 It's a kid's book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 02:14:27 2018 No.10539657 >>10539641 it is a kid's book, but one of the best imo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 12:07:27 2018 No.10540971 File: 57 KB, 332x499, 51eFju283LL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 16:18:17 2018 No.10541964 File: 15 KB, 337x500, herbert cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems (he's pretty good too, though of course poetry in translation is never ideal)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 16:19:24 2018 No.10541969 File: 204 KB, 500x805, wordsworth-classics-crime-and-punishment-fyodor-dostoevsky-3379541.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 16:19:42 2018 No.10541971 File: 178 KB, 736x1181, zarathustra cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also a great translation

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 16:29:18 2018 No.10542006 wow fuck i've been looking for this for years

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 19:35:20 2018 No.10542779 File: 34 KB, 322x500, 51vuGh8xewL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10541969 >wordsworth on no

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 19:54:58 2018 No.10542899 >>10542779 >>10541969 I always thought those were fake covers. Disturbing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 20:08:31 2018 No.10542965 >>10539480 Ferdinand

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 20:10:03 2018 No.10542974 >>10539488 >>10539493 Is the great gatsby a new meme here or something?

Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:25:32 2018 No.10543288

>>10542899

I also first experienced them as a 4chan meme and then I went in a better local bookseller and they had bunches of the things. I was unable to restrain myself, and said aloud: "Jesus Christ, the meme is real."

I like a theory which some other anon has floated, which is that the covers are intentionally bad in order to help the ironic camp-sales among hipsters.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:26:09 2018 No.10543292 >>10539488 I fucking hate this book cover.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:28:03 2018 No.10543302 File: 34 KB, 322x500, been down so long it looks like up to me.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539480

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:34:03 2018 No.10543326 >>10539654 Bacon meets Rothko. Interesting and dynamic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:35:14 2018 No.10543329 File: 27 KB, 314x475, 95558.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10541969 >>10542779

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:36:31 2018 No.10543335 >>10541969 I opened this thread just to see this cause I knew someone would post it. Thanks for the laugh, anon. Much appreciated

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:42:29 2018 No.10543347 File: 184 KB, 372x400, BLu2BGC7i1Af8iQ29kiBB37GyqmVyhLkr3Jr7iyJ[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Idk if it's the best but it is very elegant and tasteful

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:50:40 2018 No.10543366 >>10543329 uugggghhhhhhhh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 21:51:18 2018 No.10543369 File: 32 KB, 175x288, A04959CC-E119-4BA4-B9B6-1B6A6B33F6F1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10539480

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 23:39:19 2018 No.10543780 >>10539488 >>10539493 hands-down the most overrated book cover

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 15 23:44:53 2018 No.10543800 File: 20 KB, 254x391, HighRise(1stEd).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 01:50:01 2018 No.10544327 >>10543780 its objectively one of the book covers of all time tbqhwyf

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 01:51:39 2018 No.10544330 >>10544327 nope

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 01:53:52 2018 No.10544338 File: 45 KB, 339x499, 51GxfRnDRhL._SX337_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 02:11:45 2018 No.10544391 >>10544330 >nope pic related, is you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 04:30:29 2018 No.10544720 File: 57 KB, 315x475, 1234147.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10543302 this one's better

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 16 04:46:35 2018 No.10544751 File: 103 KB, 800x450, dante's eanferno.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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