Endangered Species?

(Find me at 50 Watts Books.)



God I hope not.



Jakob von Gunten

Submitted by Sebastian Borckenhagen
Apparently it's the first US paperback issue of the Univ. of Texas edition (though when I first saw it I was convinced Sebastian was putting me on)





Practical English Handbook, 1974, back cover. Best back cover ever?

via Daniel Letson





German Queneau cover





Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe by Harry L Shipman

via Daniel Letson, who notes "The whole front cover is just white, with a 'black hole' cut out, revealing the black cover underneath. BRUTAL."





Granville Sharp cover by Hawes, Oxford Univ. Press





E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for Crazy Like a Fox

via Piet Schreuders

see Giusti's cover for this book





E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for The Ill Tempered Clavichord, 1950





E. McKnight Kauffer cover design for Don Quixote, 1948





Elaine Lustig cover

via Scott Lindberg's Elaine Lustig collection





1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

via Daniel Letson





Roy Kuhlman, cover design for New French Writing





Japanese book cover





German book cover





Robert Jonas, cover for The Odyssey

via cdrummbks

Robert Jonas flickr group





Eppo Doeve, cover for Moord aan Boord

via uk_vintage

Also see: Dood in Ecstasy





The Accomplice by Matthew Head, book cover

Submitted by Hyla, aka Queen of Arts





Arthur Hawkins Jr., cover design for Murder on the Palisades





Design by Sugar (likely a pseudonym for Djuna Barnes), Horace Liverlight 1928





Madness of War, 1928





"P.A.H. Hofman"

via blikkentrom





Hamsun

via blikkentrom



Gobble-Up Stories, cover illus. by Jack Carr





Cover of Girondo's 1942 Persuasión de los días





dust jacket from the 1940 first edition of Bioy Casares' Invention of Morel, illustrated by Norah Borges,
prologue by Jorge Luis Borges





Seymour Chwast cover for Eight Great Tragedies

via Daniel Letson





Ronald Searle, cover illustration for A Wolf in Frog's Clothing, The Best of Alphonse Allais



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