After days of riding dusty roads and trails, I couldn't find a single piece of gear, from clothing, to camera, to laptop computer, that didn't have dust on it.

Survival. Phyllis Bottome. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1943. Book Club Edition.

Author of The Mortal Storm

The latest from James Frey and his first which is very much most definitely (probably) fiction. And it's...a cracking good read. It's a homage to LA following four main stories in amongst a range of other shorter tales of individuals and portraits of pieces of LA, punctuated with chapter heads with snippets of the history of the place from when it was established up to now.

The four stories themselves are really engaging and unlike a Crash or many other books of this ilk they do not intertwine they just paint the picture of LA from different people's perspectives and this style works really well and the book as with Frey's other work rapidly becomes a real page turner with a desire and interest to find out how these individual characters lives will develop. There is the usual mix of character personalities as well - with their weaknesses to the fore as well as their strengths and an ending which again leaves you wondering about how things turn out and how people end up getting what they do/don't deserve a la Million Little Pieces.

My recommendation - take a couple of days off, get a cup of coffee, sit on the sofa and read it in a very satisfying day or two.

MW's favourite

Last year Portfolio Books published Wild Delaware that focuses on wildlife and wild places in the First State. Wild Delaware is 260 pages and beautifully printed in full color, hard bound and has a French-fold dustjacket.

There are still some autographed, first edition copies available from the publisher at:

www.WildDelaware.com

Wild Delaware is the state's #1 bestselling book ever. If you order a copy through the website you will receive four signed lithographs with each book.

that's right: the Gregory Peck. in a gilligan-window.

Reissue of A Map of Verona: Poems, by Henry Reed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1956.

Dustjacket to The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol. 1. "Jacket by Sagebrush." 1970. Has to be one of the ugliest covers I've seen.

Tally Hall

Capgun Coup

Dust Jacket

Bradley

Gospel Claws

Wednesday, February 27th 2008

Modified Arts - Phoenix

The very last book I bought at Shinsaibashi Maruzen Bookstore.

Shinsaibashi Maruzen Bookstore was colose on July 31st and will move to a new place.

This book is about the history and culture about the street on which the bookstore had been for 106 years.

A white paper is, so-called in Japanese, a book-cover.

I know "book-cover" is an Engrish word, or a Japanese English word.

The "book-cover" is used to cover the book up like a dust jacket.

"Book-cover"s are very common in Japan, and they are made by many Japanese bookstores, publishers and so on to advertise them.

心斎橋丸善の最終日に買った本は『モダン道頓堀探検』でした。

Amazon.co.jp:モダン道頓堀探検

帯付きと帯の無いのと2冊あったのですが、もちろんこの帯付きを選びました。

丸善のブックカバーは、そのときの店舗をしっかりと反映しているそうです。

ですが、いくらなんでも大阪がないものを、つくらないのでは・・・？と思ったり(開店まで一ヶ月ちょっとですから)。

ブックカバーというのは和製英語。

外国にはブックカバーのようなものはないと聞きます。

要領悪く説明してみました。

An author whom, I think at least, was a better writer than his contemporary Ian Fleming.

Richard Henry Michael Clayton, pseudonym William Haggard, 1907-1993, British crime author.

‘The Vendettists’, 1990, Hodder and Stoughton, by William Haggard.

edited by William Toye.

2nd printing (1st in 1973). Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1973. ISBN o-19-54o2o5-7.

6-1/16 x 9-1/4, 82 sheets ivory cockle folded to 11 signatures (1o of 8 sheets, 8th of 2) sewn pearl ivory in 9 stitches & glued into plain ivory kraft endpapers & 6-5/16 x 9-1/2 navy-painted cloth-covered boards printed gold letterpress spine only, interiors all except 5 pp (vi, last 2 leaves) printed black offset; missing dustjacket?

37 contributors ID'd:

Alvine Belisle, Carl Berger, Jack Crompton, Frank Davey, Kildare Dobbs, Sheila Egoff, Sheila Fischman, David Flint, Edith Fowke, Wynne Francis, Gary Geddes, John Glassco, Michael Gnarowski, Monique Grandmangin, David Hoffman, Naim Kattan, L.W.Keffer, Laurie LaPierre, Laurent Mailhot, Joyce Marshall, Agathe Martin-Theriault, C.R.P.May, Pierre Nepveu, James Noonan, Jean-Louis Roy, Donat Savoie, Ben-Z.Shek, Peter Stevens, Norah Story, Philip C.Stratford, William E.Toye, Claude Trottier, Mair Verthuy, Miriam Waddington, Jack Warwick, Sally M.Weaver, George Woodcock.

includes:

i) Birney, Earle, by Peter Stevens & Norah Story (pp.16-18; passing reference to bpNichol p.17)

ii) Bissett, Bill, by Peter Stevens (p.18; with reference to Nichol)

iii) Literary magazines in English, by Wynne Francis (pp.189-197; passing reference to Nichol as contributing editor of Open Letter p.195)

iv) nichol, bp, by Peter Stevens (pp.236-237)

v) Ondaatje, Michael, by Gary Geddes (pp.238-239; passing reference to Nichol/sons of captain poetry p.238)

vi) Poetry in English, by Peter Stevens (pp.245-253; in 4 numbered parts with introduction, including parts

--2. The younger poets (pp.247-252; passing reference to Nichol/ABC The Aleph Beth Book p.251)

--3. Experimental Poetry (pp.252-253; passage on Nichol p.252))

vii) GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARDS, anonymous list (pp.317-318; in 6 parts, Nichol listed in part 4, 1970, p.317)

Call No.: PS3515.E37 W5 1933

Location: Special Collections, MSEL

London: Bloomsbury, [1997]. Hardback, with pictorial dustjacket. ISBN 0747532699. Number Line 20 19 18. 223 pages. Condition: Very Good.

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason... HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!

Weight 300g

Edited by Ian Hamilton. London: Alan Ross, 1965. Pictured, top: Robert Conquest, R.N. Currey; bottom: Charles Causley, Bernard Gutteridge, Roy Fuller.

Henry Reed. Collected Poems. Edited by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Jacket designed by Edgard Cirlin. Duell, Sloan and Pierce, New York, 1945. Third printing.

First edition, first printing with original dust jacket. It was published September 27, 1929 and cost $2.50.

Call No.: PQ3515.H29 F2 1929a

Library Location: Special Collections, MSEL

The dustjackets for the "World's Best 100 Detective Stories" series have really cool ornamental borders that remind me of the designs on the wallpaper in Disney's Haunted Mansion!

Potter, Stephen, ed. Sense of Humour. London: Max Reinhardt, 1954. Anthology of comic and humorous English prose and verse.

All images from this book.

EVIDENCE

Provenance evidence: Bookplate/Label, Seller's Mark

Location in book: Dust jacket

Transcription: LIBRERIA CORTICELLI MILANO DELLA CASA EDITRICE A. CORTICELLI VIA S. TECLA TEL. 81065

Geographic location:: Milan (Italy)

COPY

Repository: Penn Libraries

Call number: Sterne 358

Collection: RBC

Copy title: Sterne

Author(s): Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768

Published: Aldo Garzanti, Milan, 1944

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Penn Libraries

Penn Libraries Sterne 358

RBC

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768

Sterne

Milan

1944

Aldo Garzanti

Bookplate/Label

Seller's Mark

Dust jacket

Milan (Italy)

Venstrehendte dikt.

by Michael Ondaatje/translated by Anne Arneberg & Espen Stueland.

1st Norwegian edition of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Oslo, Samlaget, 2o12. ISBN 978-82-521-8oo5-3.

5 x 8, 78 sheets ivory bond perfectbound with approx.1/2" black head- & tailbads into 5-1/4 x 8-5/16 red linen-paper-covered boards with ivory bond liner printed gold letterpress spine only, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset, in 5-5/16 x 8-5/16 white glossy dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps printed 4-colour process offset recto only.

cover graphic unacknowledged/design by Michael Werner.

photographs by L.A.Huffman, (others).

afterword by Espen Stueland.

includes:

i) THE KID FORTEL ALT 'EINESTAANDE FENGSELSINTERVJU (pp.93-98; prose translation of The Kid Tells All 'Exclusive Jail Interview' with reference to bpNichol's Captain Poetry)

ii) ETTERORD (pp.123-129; prose with references to Nichol pp.12-129)

iii) "Denne boka er til mange" (p.129; 3-line dedication includes Nichol as 1/6 dedicatees)

___________________________

• author photo exchanged for unacknowledged portrait

• 1st edition, House Of Anansi Press, 197o

• 2nd printing, 1972

• 1st american, W.W.Norton, 1974

• 2nd american, Berkley, october 1975

• 5th printing, Anansi, 1975

• 7th printing, Anansi, 1977?

• 3rd american edition, Wingbow Press, 1979

• 1994 edition, Anansi

• 1st italian, Theoria, 1995

• 1st german, Carl Hanser, 1997

• 1st french, L'Olivier, 1998

• 2nd german, Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1999

• 2nd italian, Garzanti, 2oo2

• 2oo3 edition, Anansi

• 2nd french, L'Olivier, 2oo7

• 1st spanish, Punto De Lectura, 2oo8

• 2oo8 edition, Vintage Canada

• 2nd spanish, Debolsillo, 2o16

• Vintage Classics, UK, 2o25

The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0171

Photo by Donna Robertson.

From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Inscription to Bertha Lawson in Gold in Their Hearts by Will Lawson 1951.

A novel set in the New Zealand gold fields in the nineteenth century.

Inscribed to Bertha Lawson (Henry Lawson's widow) by the author.

Published by Invincible Press, Sydney.Fawn cloth boards with coloured dustjacket 256 pages 22cm x 15cm.

by Robert Hogg.

Toronto, Coach House Press, [december] 1978. ISBN o-8891o-o81-o.

5-1/8 x 8-7/16, 18 sheets ivory zephyr antique laid folded to 72 pp in 5 signatures (4 of 4 sheets, 4th of 2) sewn ivory in 9 doublestitches & glued in plain ivory heavy bond endpapers & 5-7/16 x 8-13/16 plain yellow zephyr antique laid-covered boards, interiors all except 7 pp printed black offset with red additions to 5 pp & yellow to title page, in yellow zephyr antique laid dustjacket with 3-7/16" flaps printed red with copper addition to front cover.

cover unacknowledged.

flap texts by Victor Coleman, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Robert Hogg.

Clear PVC dustjackets with embossed logos all around the outers for a subtle effect.

A Map of Verona: Poems, by Henry Reed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.

By Ralph Henry Barbour

I was told of this book only last weekend, recollected as a memorable childhood read; intrigued, I found this copy on the internet.

Weston Park Museum

Places In Time: The Art of Kenneth Steel

Kenneth Steel was a skilled artist and commercial illustrator who created visuals for classic mid-century travel posters and architectural landmarks, yet his name remains little known.

This exhibition sheds new light on Steel’s considerable achievements, bringing together the most comprehensive collection of his art ever to go on display, including over 100 drawings, paintings, prints, posters and more.

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/weston-park/exhibiti...

Built by Davy-United

by Kenneth Steel

1959

Watercolour

Reproduced as a book dustjacket

The illustration shows one of Davy-United’s flagship products (a rolling mill) being assembled and tested at their Darnall works.

See Andy Polaine’s blog, blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=153

See Andy Polaine’s blog, blog.eyemagazine.com/?p=153

by bpNichol.

Toronto, Coach House Press [february] 1967. 5oo copies issued as part of bp; not released separately.

4-3/4 x 7-13/16, 28 sheets dark grey coarsewove perfectbound in plain blue mayfair board wrappers glued at spine into dark grey coarsewove dustjacket with 3-1/2" flaps, jacket printed black & blue offset recto only (flaps black only, rear cover blue only), interiors printed offset in sections of grey (7pp), turquoise (4pp), olive (6 pp), green (1opp), cobalt (12pp), bluegrey (11pp), acnowledgements olive & Coach House logo red, with 4 x 7-3/16 white textured parchment card broadside printed black offset laid in.

cover photograph by Andy Phillips.

a longpoem in prologue & 5 parts:

i) Prologue: 1335 Comox Avenue

ii) Blues on Green (Part 1; in 3 parts:

--1. "up on the mountain"

--2. "the woods"

--3. "looking out")

iii) Fire & Water (Part 2; in 5 parts:

--1. "I raise the cup and take it to my lips."

--2. "we lie on the bed"

--3. "as children"

--4. "(putting a match to paper,"

--5. "I leave my room,")

iv) Ancient Maps of the Real World (Part 3; in 8 parts:

--1. "eyes open on colour,"

--2. "fingers unfolded"

--3. "sun overhead"

--4. "rolling into night"

--5. "eyes close"

--6. "train going"

--7. "everything gone"

--8. "the sea")

v) Beginning . And . End (Part 4; in 3 parts:

--1. Beginning (in 6 parts:

----a. "always."

----b. "if to explain"

----c. "air"

----d. "early morning"

----e. "rain"

----f. "yellow light")

--2. And

--3. End)

vi) Letters from a Rainy Season (Part 5; in 7 parts:

--1. "the circle"

--2. "seated round"

--3. "beyond"

--4. "now the sea"

--5. "the sun"

--6. "such"

--7. "scrub &")

vii) "parts of JOURNEYING & the returns appeared in" (prose acknowledgements)

also includes:

viii) [untitled photograph], by Andy Phillips (cover)

ix) "The person moves thru the world and", by [Victor Coleman?] (front flap text with 5-line quote by David Phillips (from --?--))

x) A Letter from Margaret Avison; by Margaret Avison (on bp on laid in broadside)

Dustjacket is priceless, featuring photo of charmingly bespectacled author on the back, and cool illustration, by Ira Greenblatt, on the front. Story is a complete riot, kind of Bridget Jones meets Sex in the City, back in the sixties. Early chick lit!

"Louisa Mary Datchett was very fond of men. Men, for their part, seemed to recognize this in her and took advantage of it--and of her--when they needed listening to, when they needed prescriptions filled, employment found, socks washed, suits fetched from the cleaners, or musical instruments got out of hock. "Bachelors in lodgings going down with influenza employed their last spark of consciousness to telephone Louisa. ..She was constantly being either sent for, like a fire engine, or dispatched, like a lifeboat, to the scene of some masculine disaster." It is time, Louisa decides, feeling jaded, to start looking out for herself. The result of this new and unfamiliar impulse is to marry, and marry well..."

London: Collins/Telegraph Travel Library, [1967]. First Edition. Hardback, small format with pictorial dustjacket. 156 pages including index. Pictorial endpapers. Condition: Fine.

With this menu readerin his (or her) hand any tourist bound for Italy can tackle any menu with confidence and aplomb.

The book is in two parts. In the first Jean Robertson introduces the regions of Italy, describes the basis of the food that is most likely to be found there, and lists the main local specialities that should be sampled by the gastronomically-minded tourist. The second lists under the traditional sections of the menu the dishes that are most likely to be found in alphabetical order, with the explanation following.

This small book is a miniature guide to the cuisine of the whole country.

Andrew Robertson has contributed the section on Italian wine.

The art of the dust jacket: A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition Central Library Peterborough. Sunday 1 June 2014. File Reference: 2014-06-01-IMG_0164

Photo by Donna Robertson.

From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries

Sign of Dustjacket Books, used and rare books.

1505 Barrington St., Halifax.

October 2, 2017.

This one was rejected by the client as too conceptual. The final was good too, but mostly decorative.

in the story, somehow some higher power is able to travel in time… nothing new there… and they go back to the days of columbus. so in the comp (which is what this was), i had the idea of somehow showing an etching of columbus coming to life. so you can see the old time drawing of columbus with a sideways profile that smudges into photo-realism, like the drawing came to life. that is backed by an old compass that is juxtaposed with some semi-digital count-down of the ages.'

it always bugged me this was rejected… back in 1994. what they had me do instead was the same type backed up by a plain old field of stars. full bleed, cover to cover.

WHA?

Dramatic cover art.

Arthur Catherall 1906–1980, English author, also using several pseudonyms, whose works were aimed mostly towards the younger audience.

‘Sea Wraith’, 1st ed. 1955, Lutterworth Press, London.

Very nice quality, though I do not have an Asuka to compare this to. One of the pages had a slice down through a portion of it where it ha been bound incorrectly. I called WHCC and they QUICKLY remade a replacement. Called them Tuesday when mine arrived and the replacement was in my hands by Friday morning. I was impressed. The dust jacket is on photographic paper and is very heavy and almost a plastic coated feel to it, but I like it. Not a slippery slick type of dust jacket like most books have.

my first real sale. the cover of George Pelecanos' new novel, The Way Home. release date is Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

original here. coincidentally, shot the same night as this one.

Dustjacket cover of "Through Sorrow's Gates" by Halliwell Sutcliffe, written in 1903. This edition is published by Wright & Brown of Farringdon Avenue, London, as part of their 2/6 Net Series in 1934.

Halliwell Sutcliffe was a prolific author who wrote over 40 books between the 1890s and 1930s. Many of his novels are historical romantic dramas set in the Yorkshire Dales (including a series set in Haworth, renamed as the fictional Marshcotes). He was born in Thackley in April 1870. At the time the family was living at Cross Roads, but then moved to Bingley. He was educated at Bingley Grammar School (where his father was headmaster) then at King's College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics. He married Mabel Cottrell of Twickenham in 1904, they had two sons, and lived in Embsay then Linton-in-Craven. It was here that Sutcliffe died in January 1932, aged 61. He was passionate about the outdoors, becoming the first president of the West Riding Ramblers' Federation, and his ashes were scattered on his beloved moors.

The book is from the personal collection of History Society member Tim Neal and was scanned on behalf of the Society in May 2019.

Lovely dramatic cover art.

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon 1883–1955, English crime and mystery novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

‘Prelude To Crime’, 1st ed. 1948. This ed. published ‘For the Crime Club’ by Collins Ltd. Undated, but probably around 1948-50; paperback, with spine bound in a green soft fabric material.

I've been looking for this book for years. I finally found a copy and the cover is lovely.