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James M. Cain, "The Postman Always Rings Twice", Dutch edition translated by J.C. Bloem, Karavaan, 1935 (Collection Fred Hermsen, Amsterdam)
Nikolaus Pevsner - The Buildings of England - Cambridgeshire
Penguin Books BE10, 1954
Dust Jacket cover photo uncredited
The Buildings of England was a major project under the editorship and authorship of Nikolaus Pevsner. BE1, the first volume, was published in July 1951 and was on Cornwall. Although about 30,000 copies of the early books were printed, sales were disappointing. However Pevsner managed to get sponsorship and the series survived until 1974 with the publication of BE46 on Staffordshire. After that, the series broadened to encompass other parts of the British Isles.
I've posted here before about recycled paper and card being used in the publishing industry because of paper shortages (Kellogg's) and here's another, even more astonishing, example of recycling. This time it's the dust jacket. On the outside it's the mild mannered, pious, non-fiction After Confirmation but its secret inner identity is The Iron Way, an adventure novel sporting a cover featuring ruffians with a gun beating up a railway signalman.
The outside is here:
At first glance this portrait might seem poorly framed. But if you read the surrounding text, you can see that it's all about the background.
poster A2 that folds into a dust jacket
redesign of the book - "arte brasilieira, arte moderna e contemporânea", book about brazilian modern and contemporany art
to see how the poster works and more spreads
Title: WELWITSCHIA, Paradox of a Parched Paradise ;
Author: Chris H. Bornman;
Editor: C. Struik Publishers (Cape Town- Johannesburg, RSA);
Edition: 1st 1978:
Cover: hard under color dustjacket;
Pages: 72 (40 color photos in habitat);
Language: Afrikaans and English;
Sizes: 24,2 x 16,3 cm;
ISBN: 0 86977 097 7
The author is regarded as the world’s leading authority on the subject.
Frank Clune's 'Try Anything Once - the autobiography of a Wanderer' describes his early years as an adventurer. Clune became a popular writer on Australian adventurers, explorers, bushrangers etc.
Published by Angus & Robinson, Sydney. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 242 pages 13cm x 18cm..
Inscribed to the Australian book collector,Len Woodward.
A biography of Frank Clune: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clune-francis-patrick-frank-9769
Edward Tufte is coming to Minneapolis for a conference that Mrs. Mamluke will be attending so I'm hoping to get this bad boy autographed :-)
Re: Libro de Hermes Trismegisto.
"[...] tu libro es siruela?? que chistoso tu y yo ya habiamos hablado de editoriales y el se puso a hablarlo ayer, dice que en el samborns venden libros del hermetismo, pero que estan asquerosisimos por que k son de esa onda de teorias orientales [...]"
Pues nopis, no es ed. Siruela, es Ed. Indigo de la colección "Archivo Hermético 7" .
Pues que más puede esperar tu maestro de filosofía si va a buscar un libro de Hermes al sangrons?, de vez en cuando te encuentras libros que luego ni en gandhi (Una vez encontré uno de Fernando Arrabal), pero son excepciones, como momentos kodak, jaja.
Como verás no trae puesto su "dustjacket" porque se ve mejor sin el. Digo no esta mal ya que la portada trae una ilustración de William Blake "The Ancient of Days (aka God as an Architect)" personalmente me fascina esa pintura y es muy ad-hoc con el libro.
Selected Writing On Contemporary Canadian Art.
by Gil McElroy.
Wolfville, Gaspereau Press, [december] 2oo1. ISBN 1-894o31-46-6.
6 x 1o-15/16, 78 sheets white bond perfectbound in plain ivory stiff card wrappers & 6-1/16 x 11 ivory heavy bond dustjacket with 3-1/16" flaps, all except dj verso, covers & 17 pp (2, 4, 6, 14, 34, 6o, 76, 8o, 82, 14o, 146, 149/15o, 152, last 3 pp) printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to dj.
cover photograph by Gil McElroy.
11 other contributors ID'd:
Gerard Beaulieu, Gary Castle, Peter Dykhuis, Keith Graham, Alexandra McCurdy, bpNichol, Lauren Schaffer, Dan Steeves, E.Nancy Stevens, Susan Wood, Carl Zimmerman.
includes:
i) A STUDY OF CONTEXT: H, by bpNichol (visual poem, p.93; illustration for (iii) below)
also includes:
ii) [epigraph for part 2] (poetry, p.81, lines 1>4 (of 7) from "fortunate day", by bpNichol, part 36/47 of clouds (the martyrology book 2))
iii) GROUND STATES: THE VISUAL CONTEXTS OF BPNICHOL (prose in 8 parts, pp.83>98;
–1) "In the beginning there is the cosmological ground state. The" (pp.83>84)
–2) "Within the realm of the literary arts, visual poetry – a poetic" (pp.84>86; quotes: Willard Bohn, Barbara Maria Stafford)
–3) "The grid is so endemic to twentieth-century art that it has" (pp.86>87; quotes: Rosalind Krauss, Charles Olson)
–4) "There were two major anthologies published that documented" (pp.87>91; quotes: Augusto De Campos, Haroldo De Campos, Eugen Gomringer, Dick Higgins, bpNichol (2 on p.9o; from An Introduction (to Doors: To Oz & Other Landscapes) & from some afterwords (to the cosmic chef)), Décio Pignatari, Mary Ellen Solt (p.89, on Nichol from CANADA (in concrete poetry: a world view)))
–5) "While his career was initially established, in large part, because of" (pp.91>92)
–6) "The first historically acknowledged comic strip – a sequence of" (pp.92>94; quotes: bpNichol (4 on p.94, from (in order):
––A) LONELY FRED the cowboy hero: two (panel 1)
––B) LONELY FRED the cowboy hero: one (panel 2)
––C) LONELY FRED the cowboy hero: three (panel 3)
––D) LONELY FRED the cowboy hero: five (panel 2))
–7) "Nichol's family lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a time when he" (pp.95>97; quote: Isidore Isou)
–8) "Underscoring the thought balloon that is this essay is a fun-" (pp.97>98))
Grab your boots and spurs and get ready for some Wild West Adventure!
Code Of The West By Zane Grey was published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1934.
The interior of this hardcover novel is clean and still snug and features Blue cloth boards and spine in excellent shape. The charming brightly colored illustrated dust jacket is in lovely condition as this is an ex-library copy and is covered in Mylar.
Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6.75" - 7.75" tall.
Summer 56 Combined Volume..the first with a laminated cover after 13 years of cloth bound issues with dustjackets and one of the scarcest to get now....ten and six was a lot of money then and often beyond the scope of the schoolboy spotter.
retrospective.
catalogue by Nicky Drumbolis.
Toronto, Letters Bookshop, 15 september [ie 12 october] 1988. 12 copies numbered in black pencil lower left verso of frontis, [issued as List 72].
7 x 8-1/2, 22 sheets white xerographic bond folded to 88 pp in 3 signatures of 7 sheets each, sewn pearl white in 2 doublestitches, the 22nd plain sheet glued around as interior wrappers, glued into plain black Fabriano laid endpapers & 7-7/16 x 8-5/8 plain white mayfair card wrappers in red Canson laid dustjacket with 2-7/16" flaps, front cover & spine only printed black typescript, interiors all except versos of 1st & last leaves printed black photocopy with 2 further leaves white xerographic bond tipped to recto rear interior wrapper, 1st 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 folded to 4 pp, 2nd 6-5/16 x 8-1/2, all printed black photocopy.
37 contributors ID'd:
Margaret Atwood, Matsuo Basho, Bill Bissett, Nancy Bryant, Charles Bukowski, Laurie Clark, Thomas A.Clark, Victor Coleman, Arthur Cravan, E.E.Cummings, jwcurry, David Donnell, Albrect Dürer, Amber Fritz, C.H.Gervais, Gerry Gilbert, Glenn Goluska, Dan Sayre Groesbeck, Sadakichi Hartmann, Liane Neller, Susanna Heller, Daniel Jones, M.Kettner, Archibald Lampman, Michael Lawlor, Michael McNamara, Lowell Naeve, bpNichol, Maureen Paxton, Steve Richmond, Elizabeth Smart, Raymond Souster, Fred Turner, Rosalind Warren, Phyllis Webb, William Carlos Williams, Ludwig Zeller.
Nichol contributes:
i) "fr-o-glop" (concrete poem, translation of Matsuo Basho quoting Dom Sylvester Houédard)
ii) WATER POEM # 3 (poem; reprintd as it appeared as a matchbook)
iii) "Hope Anderson is an absolutely amazing" (prose blurb)
also includes (all bibliography by Nicky Drumbolis except as noted):
iv) books published (in 34 parts, pt.26 is bp nichol)
v) "CCMC with steve mccaffery (Sketching 2)" (cover for Nichol title)
vi) broadsides published (in 3 parts, Nichol references throughout:
–1) broadsides published
–2) addenda
–3) ephemera)
vii)CONTACT RETROSPECTIVE, by Nicky Drumbolis (poster (much reduced), passing reference to Nichol)
viii) work published (Nichol referenced)
ix) "george bowering condensed", by Nicky Drumbolis (title page typography (with illustration by Dan Sayre Groesbeck); Nichol referenced)
x) "At the first, stray", by Thomas A.Clark (poster designed by Nichol, much reduced)
xi) events (in 5 parts, Nichol referenced pts:
–1) readings
–4) collaborations
–5) exhibitions
The 17th book in Mulford's famous "Hopalong Cassidy" series of novels, the hardback copy is a Sun Dial Press 1940 reprint & the opened paperback copy is a Hodder & Stoughton 1952 edition. Also in the above picture is my Siskiyou Buckle Co. pewter cowboy belt buckle & a Cath Kidston cowboy design large mug.
Grab your boots and spurs and get ready for some Wild West Adventure!
Code Of The West By Zane Grey was published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1934.
The interior of this hardcover novel is clean and still snug and features Blue cloth boards and spine in excellent shape. The charming brightly colored illustrated dust jacket is in lovely condition as this is an ex-library copy and is covered in Mylar.
Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6.75" - 7.75" tall.
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is not actually a novel but rather a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories.
The first story was originally published in 1940 by Whitman as a Better Little Book entitled John Carter of Mars. Although credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, it was written (and illustrated) by his son, John Coleman Burroughs and was later expanded and re-published in Amazing Stories as "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", the name it goes under in the collection.
The second story, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter", was first published in Amazing Stories in 1943. Intended as the first in a series of novelettes to be later collected in book form, in the fashion of Llana of Gathol, it ends with the plot unresolved, and the intended sequels were never written. Several other writers have written pastiche endings for the story.
The first edition of John Carter of Mars (a title that Burroughs never actually used for any book in the Barsoom series) was published in 1964 by Canaveral Press, fourteen years after Burroughs's death.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Frank Clune's 'Try Anything Once - the autobiography of a Wanderer' describes his early years as an adventurer. Clune became a popular writer on Australian adventurers, explorers, bushrangers etc.
Published by Angus & Robinson, Sydney. Brown cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket, 242 pages 13cm x 18cm..
Inscribed to the Australian book collector, Len Woodward, with comment 'Good Hunting'..Christmas 1952.
Memoir by musician and composer William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), who did much to popularize and publish American blues music. "He tells of his early struggles; the lot of a Negro musician knocking about with entertainment groups in the South; his days in famous old minstrel shows; his work keeping his own band going; how he made but $100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the last war; his career in New York as a publisher and song writer" (from flap text). An attractive copy of a wear-prone title. BLOCKSON 7995; SKOWRONSKI (Black Music in America: A Bibliography) 6875.
First Printing. Octavo (22cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xviii,317,[1]pp, with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Light wear to spine ends, hint of sunning to spine, topstain dulled, with a small, faint circular stain to rear cover; contents fresh; Very Good+ or better. In a supplied dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to heel and front flap fold, with a few tiny tears and creases; Near Fine.
Landmark Books were a series of history books published in the 1950's for children. I loved reading them as a kid, but got most of them from the library where the had dull covers without dustjackets. I've been picking some up at thrift shops. I really enjoy the cover art, and since I seem to barely be able to make a dent in my monthly upload limit, I'm sharing them with you.
In the early 20th century elaborate illustrative cover designs were popular and the use of color halftone paper onlays increased. At the same time, publishers began printing matching illustrated paper dust covers.
Book jackets proved to be a cheaper, more effective marketing strategy for publishers. The jackets could easily incorporate color, photographs, information about the publisher and other titles available, along with a synopsis of the book. The establishment of the dust jacket as a marketing tool meant that the era of publishers’ bindings was at an end.
So shiny! Metal foil for the braces.
SMILE will be in stores February 2, 2010. Published by Scholastic/Graphix.
Penguin First edition published in 1967.Cover illustration by Charles Raymond.Dust Jacket shows Dustin Hoffman in a scene from the Mike Nichols-Lawrence Turman production of The Graduate
First edition, with "First Published in April 1939" on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. 8vo., publisher's heavy grain decorated beige cloth. A near fine copy in like dustjacket, bright, clean and fresh. Housed in a tailor made leather spined case. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:
"For Jules and Joyce and also Joan with love John Steinbeck."
Beneath the signature is one of Steinbeck's irreverent flying pig sketches (or "Pigasus" if you prefer), generally an indication that the recipient of his presentation was a close and valued friend,or someone he held in high esteem. In this case it was Jules Buck, and Joyce Gates, with their young daughter, Joan. Jules Buck started out as John Huston's camerman for his wartime documentaries (”Winning Your Wings", "Let There Be Light" etc.) and then grew into an influential producer, both in the US and abroad. Although having a sketchy working relationship with Huston, they reportedly fell out over Huston's anti-Semitic behaviour (Huston later referred to Buck as "My body servant" which is obviously super healthy). He collaborated with Steinbeck on the screenplay of what would end up as Elia Kazan's "Viva Zapata", although uncredited, and later produced "The Killers", "The Naked City" etc. before shifting to Europe to escape the Hollywood witch hunts, founding a production company with Peter O'Toole (Keep Films) and producing such wonders as "Under Milk Wood", "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England", "Lord Jim" and "What's New Pussycat" Joyce Gates was an actress in various small, often uncredited, roles in movies like "Kismet", and their daughter Joan is a notable journalist, writer, and all round renaissance woman by all accounts; at one point the London correspondent for Warhol's "Interview" magazine, the only American to have been editor-in-chief of French Vogue, and the subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Life and Hard Times of a Teenage London Society Girl.", later published in "The Pump House Gang." She started studying acting in 2002, and appeared in Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia", later writing about the experience of auditioning for Ephron. She fell from grace after Vogue published a decidedly lightweight and grievously ill timed interview with Asma al-Assad, wife of Bashar al-Assad. Frankly they seem fascinating, but basically the point is that Steinbeck knew them very well, and liked them, and inscribed his sad, slow, strange, dust-bowl novel to them. A really gorgeous and interesting association copy of an undeniably great book.
The Public and Private Life of Books.
edited by Jason Camlot & J.A.Weingarten.
Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier University Press, [may] 2o22. ISBN 978177112568o.
6 x 9, 76 sheets white bond folded to 3o4 pp in 19 signatures of 4 sheets each & glued into plain ivory heavy bond endpapers with 3/4" black cloth appliqué head- & tailbands in 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 straw cambric-covered boards printed black letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in matte PVC white dustjacket with 3-7/8" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.
cover sculpture by Brian Dettmer; photographer unacknowledged.
13 contributors ID'd:
Cameron Anstee, Nicholas Bradley, Jason Camlot, Anna Dysert, Sherrin Frances, Emily Kopley, Alberto Manguel, James Maynard, Linda Morra, Meaghan Scanlon, Andrew Stauffer, Bart Vautour, J.A.Weingarten.
includes:
i) "What is a library? Why do people collect", by [--?--] (front dj flap; prose précis with passing reference to jwcurry)
ii) Private, Public, and Personal Libraries In Situ and in Circulation, by Jason Camlot (pp.1-27; prose in 4 parts & Notes with a paragraph on (iii) below in part
–4. "Unpacking The Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books presents" (pp.18-24; curry reference p.24))
iii) jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive, by Cameron Anstee (pp.21o-226; prose in 5 parts:
–1. "Sometimes at the impetus of small-press agents, sometimes due to scarcity," (pp.21o-211; with quotes by curry from
––a. "dec 98 Carl Spadoni:" (epigraph, p.21o)
––b. Marilyn Irwin reads at VerseFest Volunteer Appreciation w/ jwcurry..., by Rob McLennan (curry quoted in, p.21o))
–2. The Minor Archive (pp.211-214)
–3. Room 3o2 Books (pp.214-219; with quotes by curry from
––a. other indications (p.215)
––b. a bpNichol cyclopœdia B (p.215)
––c. "room 302 books" (p.216)
––d. as random as it'll get (p.216-217, again 217)
––e. The Jwcurry Experience, with Chris Kubsch (2 on p.217)
––f. "dec 98 Carl Spadoni:" (2 on p.218, 2 on 219)
––g. about just the curry section of yr dissertation (2 on p.218)
––h. "jan 99 Carl:" (p.219)
& about curry from
––i. Curvd H&z and Avant-Garde/Small Press Publishing in Canada, by Gregory Betts (p.215; 2 quotes)
––j. "January 28, 1999 Dear John (jw curry)", by Carl Spadoni (2 on p.219))
–4. A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-224; with quotes by curry from
––a. in support of A Beepliographic Cyclopoedia (pp.219-22o
––b. A Beepliographic Cyclopœdia: A Gallery Of Rectos In Progress (p.221)
& about curry from
––c. The Street Passage of Hand Print, by Nicky Drumbolis (p221, via Rob McLennan's Not Exactly Two Cents Worth: jwcurry's 1cent))
–5. NOTES (pp.224-226))
iv) "In My End Is My Beginning": The Library as Heraclitean Archive, by J.A.Weingarten (pp.227-238; references curry p.233)
v) Bibliography, compiled by [the editors?] (pp.239-256; includes 11 references to curry pp.24o (Betts), 242 (curry), 248 (Kubsch), 25o (McLennan))
A Bibliophilography from stock.
by Nicky Drumbolis.
Toronto, Letters Bookshop, 14 january 1992. 56 copies issued as List 91 in 3 variants, ISBN o-921688-o3-2:
a) 3 proofs (uninspected)
b) 3 "dedicatee" copies marked "o/s" (uninspected)
c) 5o copies numbered in red ink at colophon rear as decribed below.
5-7/16 x 8-3/8, 92 sheets tan xerographic bond perfectbound with plain salmon xerobond endpapers into plain dark-flecked grey byronic brocade card covers in mauve xerobond dustjacket with 2-7/8" flaps pasted down inside covers, all except inside & rear covers, front flap & 2 pp (4, last) printed black photocopy with 3-1/2 x 7-9/16 tan xerobond broadside printed black photocopy laid in (9 copies thus).
9 other contributors:
Nelson Ball, Vaughn Bode, Barbara Caruso, Victor Coleman, jwcurry, Jack David, bpNichol, Brad Robinson, Janeen Vanden Berg.
curry inclusions:
i) "well, now i've gone & done" (entire 1st page quoted in full (see also (v) below)
bibliography in 7 parts prefaced with "thanks to jwcurry & stan dragland" includes further references to curry (all bibliographical descriptions by Drumbolis) in:
ii) Separate Publications (part A in 35 parts with curry references in parts
–27. METAMORPHOSIS (curry as publisher)
–32. FORCE MOVEMENTS (quotes curry's colophon "2nd edition, slightly revised, of 15o copies" in full in text & comments "Produced by jwcurry (whose persistence encouraging the author's return to print must be credited partly responsible for the consequent resurgence to publication).")
--34. CELEBRATION (curry as publisher))
iii) Periodicals Contributed to (part C in 67 parts with curry references in parts
--66. 1cent 271 (curry as editor)
--67. 1cent 274 (curry as editor))
iv) Edited Publications (part E in 79 parts with references to curry's notes toward a beepliography in part
–75. KONFESSIONS ON AN ELIZABETHAN FAN DANCER)
v) ABOUT (part G in introduction & 43 parts with curry references in part 43, 1cent 271, & substantial further quote from (i) above, including an embedded quote from curry's to the reviews editor)