Favorite book covers thread, pic related.

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so homoerotic

>>7617335
"The Gay"
homoerotic indeed.

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Bruhs anything by Camus. The covers on those books are just cool.

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>>7617366
cont

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>>7617369
cont

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>>7617372
Sorry if spamming, last one.

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Books of the Bible.

>>7617334
Fucking ugh

>>7617398
who published these?

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>>7617434
Grove Press, "Pocket Canons".

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easy

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Edward Gorey > anyone

>>7617335
In elementary school we used to call it the gay
Also the obvious phallic imagery was p funny too

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>>7617476
What?

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>>7617487

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>>7617494
and the rest of the series

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>>7617504
ditto, but this one especially

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>>7617522

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This cover doesn't stand alone as awesome, but I had an epiphany during which I decided the person who picked this painting for the cover of this book was a genius. The person who designed it understood the book deeply.

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Goat

>>7617858
>OMG!! Those wall is actually a pussy XD

>>7617894
have you always been the worst or just now?

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The one downside was that I wasn't quite sure if it had been scratched.

>>7617894
go back to reddit

>>7617894
have you even read Lolita, familia?

>>7617858
>>7617894
Am I not getting a joke? That's a really fucking good cover.

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This is not a popular opinion but I do prefer this cover from the other Penguin Classics.

>>7618136
This is always so much more intersti ng when I don't see the guys head

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>>7617301
Not even the best moby dick cover
(Though it is p cool desu)

>>7618174
I'll be totally honest: I don't get that one. Not the guy you responded too, and I haven't read it, but what the hell is that cover trying to do?

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>>7618174
This one is great, too, one of the best covets on a normal penguin.
Naturally, one of the greatest books of all time should have numerous great covers

>>7618179
Read the book
Meet Queequeg
You will get it

>>7618186
New to literature, havn't even finished /lit/ essentials. Should I attempt to read Moby Dick? I hear Power Moby Dick is annotated well, but I don't want to overwhelm myself.

>>7617350
>spoiling the book on the cover

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Fight me.

>>7618275
Fought me.

>>7617858
This isn't real though right? Like I'd buy in a heartbeat if someone could point me in the right way

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I hate to encourage this sort of thread, but at least it gives me an opportunity to post a picture of this cover, which I like quite a lot. (Not my favorite, however, for I much prefer hard covers which have nothing in it, except maybe the name of the book and the author.)

>>7618399
blimey

>>7618136
I sometimes wish I had it just for the cover, even though I already own a portuguese edition of it.

>>7618186
Queequeg's a Maori?

>>7618174

That's a nice cover, but the first one does a better job of capturing the essence of the narrative.

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>>7618183
>>7618174
>All these pleb Moby-Dick covers

Look on mine and despair, fags. It features a badass pulpy Ahab looking like a mean motherfucker.

>>7617301
Who's edition is that?

>>7618186
You are a fag.
>self-portrait of the face of Tupai Cupa, whose story Melville found in New Zealanders (1830) and on whom he based Queequeg

>>7618191
Read it dude. It's a truly amazing and joyful experience. It's a book to get lost and swept up in.

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This Borges Collection.

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I like this one

desu senpai

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>>7618582
this one is nice too, kappa

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>>7618595
seriously though, books should look like books, not photographs with text on them

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>>7617292
I'm a sucker for simplicity

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>>7618736
#2 Herzog

>>7618570
Those look really neat

>>7618744
# Hundred Years of Solitude...all three look beautiful on my shelf. I'm addicted to first editions from Abebooks.

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>>7618751

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Memey as fuck but the layout is just so satisfying to me somehow.

>>7617350
why make the cover a spoiler?

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desu

>>7618744
Okay, I'll admit that this one is fantastic. I'll take full calf with elaborate tooling nine times out of ten, but some of the old dust jackets were great

>>7619635
not such a ridiculous choice—it's very elegant.

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>>7617301
awful

>>7618595
I want to freeze that book, cut it into chunks and eat it with honey.

>>7617334
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>>7617858
literally brazilian design student on behance tier

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This is one of my favourite books that I own—William Cowper, The Task. Got it for forty bucks. Published by John Sharp, 1825, but I don't know whether it's a contemporary binding. Either way, I love it. Marbled endpapers too.

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I really like the simplicity of this cover for This Side of Paradise.

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>>7619789
small time

>>7619988
Horribly gaudy.

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I love this cover.

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/thread

>>7617538
>"a major talent!"

>>7620058
You don't /thread yourself fucking newfag.

The Tin Drum has a pretty nice one, I like it a lot when a book cover has a consistent central design over multiple printings

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the old norwegian translation of the clown has a pretty good cover

>>7620002
your taste a shit, friend

>it's so ornate and Georgian... that's not minimalist at all! So gaudy!

>>7620021
Cool book, mine is the black/white/gold version tho

>>7619666
está se identificando?

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Penguin's new design for 1984 by George Orwell.

>>7621519
Is this available to buy anywhere? I can't find anything besides articles showcasing the cover from 3 years ago

>>7617301
Anyone knows the edition?

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>>7617366
I have this one

>>7621519
a gimmick?

>>7618275
flipped through this in a barnes and noble once. her expression in literally every illustration is one of surprise, nervousness, fright, or distress.

I've never seen a lord of the flies cover like that, I only ever see the pig one

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>>7620058
You can't /thread yourself, anon.

And besides, mine's better.

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saw this one in the library today, and I was reminded of this thread. It's a 1902 first edition. The interior is also very seemly—the frontispiece, the chapter headings, the illustrations are all very pretty; the only thing that strikes me as dull is the spine.

>>7621779
It is, bought it in the German equivalent of a Barnes & Noble. It's out there, brother. Don't lose hope.

>>7619988
looks like the decor of a typical chinese restaurant desu senpai

>>7620058
there have been so many incredibly ornate qurans, gilded inside and out. Why this one?

>>7618275
kawaii

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>>7618466
There's something great about those old Signet covers. You find them a lot at used book sales, too.

>>7619652
Hey now, that Crime and Punishment cover i posted is brilliant, mate. The uncertainty on his face! The inner turmoil of the poor Raskolnikov! The wig! The horrible photoshop! The cringe!

>>7618275
Agreed.

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>>7618195
Step it up son.

I really really really hate quotes on book covers.

"this book is soooooooooooo good" - some faggot

>>7617292
Reading this book right now. I lasty read it 12 years ago in school

>>7618751
>first editions
so pointless and expensive

I like early editions, but first editions are rarely worth it.

abebooks is great though. I'm currently awaiting like 6 different books in the mail

>>7617301
>have severe thalassophobia, cetaphobia, and megaphobia
>this cover legitimately triggers me a bit

It's fucking great though

>>7617442
Fuck these fucking books

Those things were like analogue jumpscares in 3rd grade

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Pfftttt amateurs. Took this shot a few days back.

Lolita, the love of my life and the fire in my tobacco.

>>7630055
Just got this edition in a shitty bookstore while on vacation in India

This cover fucking sucks desu

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>>7617374

>tumblr_minimalist_movie_poster.jpg

>>7630066
>i_do_not_know_anything_about_the_sixties_or_the_graphic_design_styles_that_were_popular_at_the_time-OR-i_unironically_call_things_that_i_don't_like_tumbler:_a_study_of_the_anonymous_man.pdf

>>7630047

Yeah well I have thalassophobia, cetaphobia, megaphobia, submechanophobia, agoraphobia, technophobia, that-thing-where-you-touch-a-dirty-surface-and-are-incapable-of-touching-your-face-or-eating-until-you-wash-your-handsphobia, and I'm scared of clowns

>>7617301
That is frightening

>>7621830
My nigga, I have this edition and it smells so good too due to age

>>7618755
I wish my 100YOS was this one

I have the one that looks like a romance novel you'd get at CVS

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>>7629324
That's the worst version of it imo

>>7630836
i mean i couldn't think of a word for "i'm scared of massive things that are underwater, including whales, as well as water and massive things of their own"

It's all linked

>>7630943
I have the edgy one with the fire and the guy screaming

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ayy lmao didnt read 1page of pic related in public

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>>7630951
Oh yeah that one might be even worse

>>7630967
I get that
At least my version didn't have a provocative cover

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all these editions of moby dick and still no one has posted the best one

haven't seen the queequeg cover before though, that's pretty unique.

>>7630972
So, how do you like Irvine Welsh? I knew him through Trainspotting, one of my very favorite movies. I bought all his books I could find, so far read skagboys, trainspotting and porno

>>7631017
>best one

>>7617301
This one is way better mate

>>7631027
I've read Trainspotting before watching the movie, then Porno right after

Loved Trainspotting, but (maybe because I read it immediately after) Porno seemed a bit repetitive at times. Got a little bored, so I never came to reading Skagboys.

The movie was great too, I hear they're making Porno into a movie too, right?

>>7631041
Yes, glad I read the book before watching the movie this time. I really liked skagboys though, the time before trainspotting. But I think I may enjoyed it a bit more than usual because as I said I loved the movie, watched it several times, love the characters and shit

>>7631031
Not him but that editions doesn't exist. No physical book has that cover.

>>7631069
Ah, excuse a pleb. Anyway, I liked that one better