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2434088 No.2434088 [Reply] [Original]

yeah so illustrations
or cover designs
children books
you name it.
show me your favourite book pictures, lit!

>> No.2434100

The new Penguin Classics designs give me a massive boner.

Penguin consistently has the best cover designs I'd say.

>> No.2434101
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2434101

Wait I forgot the picture

>> No.2434106
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I like things like this. Pleasantly simple.

>> No.2434111

>>2434106
A bit boring, though, isn't it?

>> No.2434117
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>>2434101

I love the Penguin Popular Classics covers. Not those horrible green ones, but the ones with nice designs.

>> No.2434129

>>2434117
Penguin just has a history of putting a lot of effort into their designs.
(To get back to the new clothbound ones, the cover of Dante's Inferno is especially good. Little people getting poked by devils everywhere.)

>> No.2434132
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2434132

When it comes to cover design, I like it very minimalistic and vectorized - exept for sci-fi/fantasy, where detailed digital art is great, but I don't read much contemporary ficion so I don't really care.


Anyways, here's my fav.

>> No.2434136
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Always liked this

>> No.2434138
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Also, the newer Discworld covers.
I really don't like the old ones by Kirby, though.

>> No.2434141
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>>2434132
aww i totally love this fabric texture

>> No.2434145

>>2434111
Well, I don't expect book covers to entertain me. I like them plain. Their main goal is to protect the pages and not to be ugly, annoying or calling attention to themselves.

Any object that I'm likely to look at and/or use a lot should be simple looking, in my opinion. I wouldn't be able to live with a polka dotted laptop, for example. It would start to bother me. Then again, my preference concerning aesthetics is very minimalistic in general.

>> No.2434148

>>2434145
Somehow I think you would do well in Plato's Republic.

>> No.2434149

>>2434117

I miss those badly.

>> No.2434151

>>2434132

That was just a spec, right? Never printed.

>> No.2434152

>>2434138
especially because they put half my friends off from reading him.
fuck you kirby, foook yoou

>> No.2434153
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The cover unfortunately outshines the content.

>> No.2434155
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>>2434101

those are perfection.

>> No.2434156
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>>2434148

What I remember of it sounds admirable in strange proto-fascist way, but I don't recall any aesthetic values put forth in the work. Were there?

>> No.2434161

>>2434148
It's like he tried to make the covers as unrepresentative of the stories inside as possible.

Pterry liked them though, so that's why we have to look at deformed half naked bodies all the time.

>> No.2434163
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>>2434106

No-frills covers can be really pleasant in the right hands.

>> No.2434164

>>2434156
Plato strongly disapproves of things that look nice.

>> No.2434172
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2434172

>show me your favourite book pictures, lit!

Just to break it from the covers thing a bit.

>> No.2434185
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I wish there were newer publications that had similar illustration styles to pic related.

>> No.2434194
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>>2434152
same with gene wolfe
at least in the german version.

>> No.2434198

>>2434164
What? he just disliked art because it represents a false copy of a "false dimension".

>> No.2434205
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>> No.2434223

>>2434198
Yeah, I know, I was fucking around a bit.

I just strongly dislike attempts to see art in a utilistic way. That way an Orwellian world lies.

>> No.2434245
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>>2434223

It is odd that anyone could want something like a book cover to be purely functional. One of the many reasons I dislike e-readers is what they mean for cover design.

>> No.2434255
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Vintage do some very nice ones (at least here in the UK).

>> No.2434263
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And Faber poetry books are lovely in their basic way.

>> No.2434264

>>2434245
Yeah I refuse to read e-books. I'm a bit of a romantic faggot that way.

>> No.2434273
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>>2434255
Those are classy indeed. Reminded me of this one. Sadly I own a rather uglier version of 1984.

>> No.2434275

>>2434255

I am fucking in lust with Vintage.

>> No.2434281
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As far as SF and fantasy go Subterranean Press do some really nice covers (though it's a mixed bag as they also have some terribly cheesy, genre generic covers too).

>> No.2434290

>>2434255
Vintage bugs me. I read their I, Claudius and Claudius the God and counted 20+ errors and typos.

Very nice covers and paper though.

>> No.2434292
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>>2434273

I have this 1984 cover, I quite like it.

>> No.2434295
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>>2434292

But this is my favorite.

>> No.2434306

>>2434245
I love these simplified and somewhat comically drawn covers.

>> No.2434326
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>>2434306

Remind me of the nice Penguin Deluxe editions.

>> No.2434330
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>>2434306

I can't make up my mind whether I like this or not. I feel like it tries to do too much.

>> No.2434339
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2434339

Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen has a short story in the dust jacket. I think that's pretty neat.

>> No.2434345

>>2434330
I think it's too chaotic and detailed to be viewed as minimalistic, or even simplified - but it definitely has its charms.

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>> No.2434349

>>2434330
is that candide in graphic novel form? :O

>> No.2434354
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>>2434132
weird, i was going to post the better-known one. this painting has always mesmerized me

>> No.2434355
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>>2434345

Yeah. Chris Ware though. Synonym for simple in my mind, aesthetically anyway, sequentially he's complex.

>> No.2434363

>>2434101

I have the Crime and Punishment one, which is particularly difficult to find. It's the prettiest book I own :3.

>> No.2434365
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2434365

And there's the quite nice Penguin Magnum series too.

>> No.2434366

>>2434349

Nope, just a cover by a prominent and critically acclaimed comics artist.

>> No.2434369

>>2434365

Oh, and the title and author on the front is actually a sticker which you can thankfully peel off. So the covers are even nicer devoid of that (plus the barcodes are the spine, which is another neat touch).

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>> No.2434390
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Anyone else wish covers like these were still around?

>> No.2434392

>>2434390

Aren't they?

>> No.2434395

>>2434392

I sure can't find any.

>> No.2434396
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2434396

DFW's covers are generally nice and a rare instance of US versions being better than the UK ones.

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>>2434375

>> No.2434401
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>>2434395

Huh.

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>> No.2434441

>>2434101
>>2434365
Oh my, they really do know how to design great covers, don't they..

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>> No.2436587
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2436587

>French illustrator Edmund Dulac

>> No.2436594
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2436594

>not posting Rackham

>> No.2436608
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2436608

This is not really a cover, but I use it as my ebook screensaver.

>> No.2436610
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2436610

Here's another version.

>> No.2436630
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It drives me insane when people get fantasy in trade paperback. Fuck.

>> No.2436632

>>2436608
>>2436610

Cool.

>> No.2436634

>>2436630
Implying we all have loads of money to spend on books. I really only buy books second-hand. (Also because old books smell nice)

>> No.2436636

>>2436630

I never really gravitated towards hardbacks for novels. I like hardcover comics.

>> No.2436638

>>2436634

Indeed. They should sell that shit to women as perfume.

>> No.2436641
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>>2436587

I fucking love that this guy is called Dulac, like Lancelot. I'd give anything for my name to allude to literature. Well, except give up my real name, otherwise I could've done it I guess.

>> No.2436645

>>2436638
Heard on QI the other day that it's caused by mold.
Lolshrooms.

>> No.2436646

>that amazing feel when you have that kick ass LOTR edition where it's in seven volumes and it's hardcover and hasn't even been opened and its going for 300 dollars used on ebay

feels great man

>> No.2436655
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>>2436641
Reminds me of Swedish illustrator John Bauer. He made some kickass drawings of trolls and elves and the likes, Scandinavian fairy tales in short.
I know him because my sister used this picture as a birthcard when her daughter was born.

>> No.2436660

>>2436646

I have that sexual hardback illustrated Hobbit.

>>2436655
> birthcard

What is that exactly? Pretty creepy images to associate with an infant.

>> No.2436670
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ever page in The Rainbow Goblins by Ul De Rico is wonderful

i grew up on that shit

>> No.2436674

>>2436660
Umm just a card announcing the birth of your child to send to family and friends, also to invite them to come visit.

And what's wrong with an elf princess looking into a pond?

>> No.2436682
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>>2436674
Who doesn't like looking at reflections in water?

>> No.2436684
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not to mention almost every Kay Nielsen illustration.. like.. ever..

>> No.2436686

>>2436674

Nothings *wrong* exactly, it just doesn't look like the most joyous thing in the world. Bit grim.

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>>2436684

Completely unfamiliar with this guy!

>> No.2436693

>>2436686
WELL WE ARE VERY GRIM PEOPLE

>> No.2436696

>>2436686
>Implying the birth of another child into an overpopulated and heartless world is joyous

>> No.2436699
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>> No.2436712

>>2434194
What does “Urth” mean?

>> No.2436713

>>2436696
>Implying nihilism would be the first thing I jump to when my sister has just become very happy.
That would make me a special kind of asshole, wouldn't it?

>> No.2436716

>>2436712
book?

>> No.2436717

>>2436712
The fuck do you think it means?
You know english comes from german, right? They are basically the same language.

>> No.2436718

>>2436717
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urth_of_the_New_Sun

apparently it means Urth

>> No.2436722

>>2436713
That's not nihilism, it's some kind of malthusianism if anything. And yes, though I doubt your sister was that happy up until she had given birth.

>> No.2436728
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I just love this cover for some reason

>> No.2436749
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Quality of the book aside, I do think this is a neat cover.

>> No.2437078

>>2436696
>>2436693
>>2436655
haha oh you!
i love you lits.
and i love this thread

>> No.2437101
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Urth is the planet on which gene wolfes New Sun epic is located. certain hints and references not to mention the geography per se tell us it is indeed the earth in another time or dimension. great literature btw not only for fantasy lovers.
here is the cover illustration, since this was the thema of this thread in the first place.

>> No.2437118

>>2437101

I love baroque fantasy.

try Vance's Elder Isles books too.

>> No.2437124

>>2436728

I have that edition. Yes, the cover is fantastic.

>> No.2437140
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2437140

My favourite ever. No fooling - I'd love to get a copy of this edition.

>> No.2437143
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>no one has put the Sound and the Fury

/lit/, I am disappoint.

>> No.2437146
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2437146

I love Everyman's Library.

Especially the ones with the authors face on the front.

>> No.2437150

>>2437143

My copy just had the title and author on a white background.

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>> No.2437167
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I love the cover of my SF Masterworks hardback edition of Dune.
Like an old oil painting on the front of a dusty pulp magazine from the 60s.

>> No.2437170

>>2437143
Phew, I was worried that nobody else had posted that.

>> No.2437171
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'The enchanted world' books tend to have lovely covers and illustrations.

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>> No.2437178
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It's a bit gimmicky, but I like that the cover of John Berger's 'Ways of seeing' is also the first page of the book.

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>> No.2437193
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Wish this was an actual book cover. Simple, to the point, relevant to the story.
Not at all like the sci-fi simply for the sake of sci-fi covers we usually get that try to hard and alienate a certain type of reader as a result.

>> No.2437286
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obligatory finnish Harry Potter covers
also have you gentleman ever heard of Chris Riddell?

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>>2437193
>wish this was an actual book cover
You're joking, right? It's the 1st. Ed.

>> No.2437304

>>2437286
Edge Chronicles were fantastic. Great illustration.

>> No.2437456

>>2437301
It is?
Oh, wow. Didn't see it on http://www.philipkdick.com/ when I was looking for it or google image search as an actual cover.

>> No.2437653
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>>2437286

Sure do.

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I just dig the semi-rustic style. Its cool.