Avi's article about dust jackets, book covers, and why they matter
A look at dust jackets and ISBN numbers. Beyond all else, dust jackets constitute the first marketing of a book, the point when a potential reader (borrower or purchaser) encounters the book. #dustjackets #bookcovers #ISBN
My article: bit.ly/4c3KI8w
i bought *vicious modernism* (cambridge university press) at d.a.v.e. #bookstore in orlando. $22. i love these 1980s & 1990s academic books w/ #hardcovers & #dustjackets & cover #art. i'm avidly collecting them. very few u.s. academic presses currently publish #books w/ dust jackets. #blackstudies
photo of three books placed upright that are multi-colored
#bookhaul orlando main public library has biggest #publiclibrary #bookstore i've ever seen. & they are open every day! i just missed their 1/2 off sale but was still able to get these gorgeous #waltermosely books. all #firsteditions w/ #dustjackets. $1.50 each. the middle dj is my fav. #blackstudies
photo of red and white bookcases filled with books and partial showings of a window and a shopping cart.
horizontal stack of 8 books with differently colored dust jackets.
sharing #bookhaul @salvation army #thriftstore in hyattsville, md. i'm especially excited re joshua bennett's *the sobbing school*. i've never seen it at a sale. deal: buy 3 and get 1 free = $6. i'll keep a couple 4 my collection & share others. #blackstudies #rarebooks #dustjackets #1steditions
a book measuring 8x5 inches sitting upright showing front and spine with a white & purple background and yellow and white lettering.
sonia sanchez’s 1973 book *love poems* is gorgeous. bennie arrington designed dust jacket. joseph okpaku, third press founder, published it. i love how arrington designed the title to look like a lighted neon sign. #blackstudies #1970s #graphicdesign #rarebooks #dustjackets #typography #fonts #art
Day 22 of the Bookish Christmas Advent Calendars! I am a sucker for a pretty cover 😍
#bookish #christmas #adventcalendar #prettycovers #dustjackets #booksky
Attn. #Pollyanna #collectors! This 1927 #FirstEdition of #DebtofHonor is the Fifth #GladBook. Six #plates by #HWestonTaylor. $40. We also have some later #British editions with #dustjackets: www.daveshootsbookseller.com/quicksearch/... #Booksky #ChildrensBooks #KidsSeries
I’m so excited to share the dust jacket artwork I did for the @illumicrate editions of Ava Reid's A STUDY IN DROWNING and A THEORY OF DREAMING! I was absolutely thrilled to be part of this project ❤️ #illumicrate #coverillustration #dustjackets
These four ca.1900 #art #books from the #MasterpiecesinColour #series are #scarce with #dustjackets! Each has 8 #ColourPlates and an #artist #biography. $25 each, or all four for $85! #Booksky #Perugino #Ingres #BernardinoLuini #Mantegna #ItalianArt #FrenchArt #OldMasters
Etsy be giving me a negative amount in my account. #crescentcity #dustjackets #sarahjmaas #booktok #sjm
Today on my blog, I've posted my 119th installment in my Cover Love series. This time I've featured 35 novels that have wallpaper on their covers. #CoverLove #FictionBooks #Dustjackets #Fictionophile #BookCovers
fictionophile.com/2024/12/08/c... via @fictionophile.bsky.social
The evolution of early Watership Down dustjacket design. The yellow is the true first edition (British). The second is the first American edition. The third is a British edition from about a decade after the first.
#books #collectibles #firsteditions #rarebooks #dustjackets #bookdesign
The evolution of early Watership Down dustjacket design. The yellow is the true first edition (British). The second is the first American edition. The third is a British edition from about a decade after the first. #books #collectibles #firsteditions #rarebooks #dustjackets #bookdesign
1828 dustjacket on this law book! Cloth jacket with title printed on the spine. I don't think you'll find another from approx. 200 years ago! #rarebooks #dustjackets #oldbooks #lawbooks #bookcollecting
and ‘The Satanist’ (1960) by ‘SAX’ [Rudolf Michael Sachs, 1897-1969]
#bookart
#illustrations
#bibliophilia
#dustjackets
Has The Lonely by Paul Gallico got a Barnett Freedman dust jacket? It looks too Freedman for it not to be! #barnettfreedman #books #dustjackets
