best covers in lit

>>8441183
bought this specifically for that cover.
minimalism boners everywhere.

>>8441183
>hey guys let's not even waste money on a cover artist for our cheap mass produced paperback, we'll save a bit that way and it's just going in bulk to schools where the kids won't give a fuck about it anyway
>omg so aesthetic

>>8441197

shut the fuck up you phony

>>8441190
That's not minimalism.

He rapes his sister phoebe

>>8441224

where's THAT cover though?

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I always was fond of the Illuminatus! Trilogy covers

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>>8441257

better version

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what i'd do to get my hands on this

>>8441183
am I a plebeian for liking the penguin classics covers? they're simple and to the point.

>>8441358

wow

give me that

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>>8441366
forgot picture

>>8441366

you're only a pleb if you like movie tie-in covers

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>>8441358
that's the British or German edition, I can't remember

prob UK version and prob way out of print but follow your heart anon, it may lead you places you desire

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For the low low price of only $99,999

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Vintage Contemporaries have good-bad covers which are my favorite type.

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>>8441470
I love her fashionable and completely 100% contemporary blouse.

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>>8441183
I got that and this suuuper cool looking edition of this book on a trip to Vancouver B.C. yesterday.

>>8441368
the disdain in his glance is great

>>8441257
ahh yes i love this one. one of those that makes you want to get the book just for the cover. i like that whole cover series actually.

>>8441275
you got me

>>8441610
>the eternally unmoving gaze of a statue
>"glance"

???

>>8441727
Maybe he's on a swivel.

>>8441730
kek you have me there

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One of my favorites.

>>8441224
you better shut your whore mouth

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>>8441358
Is anyone else a fan of this cover? I quite like it, but don't often see people mention it.

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Couldn't find any hq pics online so I just took a picture of my own copies

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One of my favorite scifi covers

>>8442423
>Ler Gravity's Rainbow e Infinite Jest em português

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Pic related would be great if it didn't have that shameless Guardian plug in the lower left corner.

>>8442423
>>8442483
Lembro do tópico desse mano tomando porrada de geral por ter lido tradução de duas obras que é inútil ler em outra língua que não a original

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>>8441183
book itself and the cover. personal favourites of mine.

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>>8441366
Nah, they got solid design.

The only thing that bothers me about them is when they use an inaccurate image.

>>8442609
Damn.

>>8441808
2spook

>>8441366
Yes, they are very ugly.

Especially the texture, the way the top part is all glossy is disgusting.

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This is a great cover for Notes.

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Hate incoming

>>8441224
i know

>>8441823
Those are shit.

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What's the original paintings name?

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>>8441808
Picador publishes in the anglosphere, but wiki says they do a lot in UK and Australia

My bet is that is an 80s/90s Australia edition

Actually just looked it up both >>8441808
and >>8441358 are UK editions the first from the mid-90s the latter from the late 80s

Here's the German edition cover which is pretty slick I feel

>>8441458
I feel that. I have a couple of those and they're weirdly nostalgic

>>8443107
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, or at least something like that

>>8443133

Ur absolutely correct anon

>>8443107
The Wanderer

It's somewhat of a cliche and is commonly the cover to Frankenstein (because they're both from 1818) and Schubert's Wanderer fantasie

>>8443133
Thank you very much

how do you guys feel about barnes and noble classics cover?

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>>8442845
I loved this run of Murukami editions that Vintage did... but then they stopped with them and made these awfully generic paperback editions....

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>>8443222
>>8442845
All of them look exactly like this cover now, they're so generic and glossy and lame looking now.

>>8441298
What's the pattern from? It doesn't look too Japanese. Anyway, I like it.

>>8443168
Better than most new book covers

>>8442609
Nice. And the book is amazing.

>>8441248
>Robert Anton Wilson

What the fuck. Did he write fiction? Is this any good?

>>8441248
Is the Illuminatus Trilogy worth reading? My friend who read it told me it was a waste of time.

>>8443368
your friend is a dumbass

am I a pleb if I love pretty much every NYRB or OWC

>>8442580
Você deve ter viajado, ou talvez seja invejinha por ser apenas um filisteu, acontece nas piores senpaiílias

aliás
>achar que a complexidade e genialidade de GR e IJ estão na escrita
educação pública é triste mesmo

>>8443423
No.

They are nothing genius but they all look good, and they don't have the glossy shit that Penguin uses.

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>>8441183
I love minimalist covers. I was going to buy pic related yesterday, but it was too expensive, so I bought a cheaper edition, with another cover.

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>>8443224
>>8443222
Just checked the rest of the new Vintage editions.

Goddam.

>>8442780
Japp

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>>8443222
Murakami's books always have great covers. I just don't like the font in pic related, but the photograph is amazing.

>>8443547
The title was hard for me to read at first but damn, that looks amazing. I'm a sucker for that '20 poster style.

>>8443791
Those are kind of cool, but I think it would be neater if they had some noticeable difference between them even if it was something small.

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>>8441298

Politically Corrected

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>>8443791
One of them is in red ink. What more do you want?

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Let's bump the quality here a bit, shall we?

And while were at it, does anyone know whitch edition is this one from?

>>8443234
It's the American flag as designed by and for Nazi sensibilities, hence the stripes are changed to SS-like lightning bolts. It's subtle, unlike >>8443812

>>8444100
>SS-like lightning bolts

that's a stretch

>>8444100

It looks like a quilt. Probably because the swastikas got them in shit. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich had that problem. Why take a chance?

>>8444110
...Have...have you read the fucking book?

>>8444137
The manji on the second cover are technically wrong; the Nazi swastika was designed turned at an angle to be diamond-shaped, adhering to the "pointy" aesthetic of the National Socialists.

>>8443107
>>8443133

My favourite painting desu, and pretty fitting for anything Nietzsche.

>>8443114

German doesn't have 'å', it's Norwegian or Swedish, because it isn't Danish.

>>8443114
That's the Swedish edition though

>>8444177
Same here mate, cozy yet so alive

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>>8441298
Yeah, this one's definitely; "let us rather not offend anyone."

>>8443494
You bought the one from booklet editions? How much cheaper was it?

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>>8444177

Uhm... No, just NO! Capar has such an opposing philosophy that they simply don't go together. In all honesty, It's like putting Parthenon to the cover of a book about Roman architecture.

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Greatest cover of all time coming through.

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>>8443262
>>8443368

They are pretty good. I highly recommend you read them senpaitachi. They really make you think (;

>>8441823
Where did you get that edition of V.?

>>8442857
Crime and... Trouble.

>>8442761
Bought this copy from Borders back in 2011. Haven't found another copy since.

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>>8441183
an entertaining read

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Loved this one, anybody know what this style of art is called?

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Ima let you guys finish, but this is the best cover of all time.

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This is the best.

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>>8443107

>spoke
>not spake

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This shit makes me all wet

Brazillians are the best at making covers

>>8443107
its the main pic for the wikipedia article on romanticism

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>>8446487

Do any of you actually own these covers?

>>8446598
Yes
>>8446697

>>8445379
art deco

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>>8443323
This.

Also, I'd like to have the lewd Lolita ones such as pic related.

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I like this one

I love this one so much I literally bought it off amazon.co.jp, and I have no regrets whatsoever

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>>8446948
forgot pic

>>8446881
That's beautiful. Is that late Kandinsky?

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>>8447241

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One of my favourites.

>>8448877
>dat e30
hngg

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I need a custom Moby Dick with this cover.

>>8448958
That's a big whale.

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Who doesn't like lewd statue girls?

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>>8441183

>>8441380

I when after a book becomes a successful movie that every cover contains the lead actor. I don't want Matt Damon staring at me from my book shelf.

>>8448964
for you

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Holden rapes a five year old from south Hungary who is his sister, Phoebe.

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>>8441224
I read it years ago but don't remember that part. Was it implied subtle or is my memory just bad?

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>>8441183

>>8450145
its a meme (and a bad misreading)

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>>8447241
no, it's malevich

>>8450201
Thanks
That really made me think though

>>8450194
JUST

>>8450262
There's something almost elegant about this one. The colors are crisp and refreshing.

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This impressed me, when I was in high school.

>>8450489
We had a choice for my class, picked crime and punishment over that
Learned lotf via osmosis from other groups, glad I didn't pick it

>>8443107
Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer by Caspar David Friedrich

>>8441275
Actual good cover despite shit author and prose.

>>8445370
I was going to post this. Love this cover, love this book, love this author.

Good choice, now lets suck each others dicks.

hypersphere

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best fantasy cover. Even if you don't care about the series, it's really interesting and well done

>>8446697
/lit is well read they said. Yet they cannot figure out how to post a picture fucking right side up.

>>8450262
Dosto Jew Skivj!

Fyodlmador DobblestoJEWskbliv!

>>8442845
>>8443222
Only book I've ever thrown in the trash.

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One of my favorites

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Would've jumped on this immediately if it weren't for the shilled meme translation.

>>8452514
Shhhhhhhhhh

Do you wanna hear a secret?
I know one

>>8453033
>PSHEWEWERREEEEWWEWWQWWEERRREEEWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

>>8441218
Close enough.

>>8451480
>>8451480

People make mistakes and we should be understanding instead of critical.

>>8448943
kek/10

>>8445381
it would be better for 1984

>>8446780
ah muslims and their approach to pedophilia xD

>>8441399
God I hate abstract garbage like this. Is that supposed to be a rocket going into a vagina? I haven't read it, is this at all relevant to the book?

>>8443798
Uhhhhhhhhhh the title?

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the other hachette book covers are pretty based as well.

>>8451480
That's more of a /g/ thing desu

>>8453033
>>8453065
The only noise wall I actually like

>>8453342
l o l

>>8441224
i remember that classic meme :')

>>8441358
my girlfriend owns that version. Is it rare or something?

>>8454386

amazing.

>>8443437
invejinha de gente inculta? kek

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>>8454496
>típico estudante de humanas que não lê mas opina

>>8454500
Não fiz humanas, e li o livro. Parabéns, tu errou as duas suposições. É um berne mesmo.

>>8454523
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxYUHyU__E

escute e tire algo para sua vida

>>8454526
Claro, vou ouvir astrólogo. Tu é mais estupido do que eu esperava... oh wait, 4chan

>>8442580
Só me faltam os contos e Vineland pra ler tudo do Pynchon, tanto tradução (GR, M&D, V., IV, AtD) quanto original (GR. TCoL49, BE, V.) e posso dizer que salvo a tradução de V. da Paz e Terra, nenhuma das obras perde muito.

Paulo Henriques Britto é provavelmente o melhor tradutor da história da lingua portuguesa, e isso vindo de alguém que estudou Sérgio Buarque e Paulo Ronai e é fã de ambos.

>>8454535
típico brhuehue, deixa passar uma chance de aprender e melhorar como pessoa e evoluir intelectualmente para pagar de espertão na interwebs e falar sem conhecimento de causa

achar que DFW e Pynchon são famosos pelo uso da língua inglesa é errar totalmente o propósito de suas obras, e desmerecer traduções de pessoas com maior conhecimento da obra e autor e com formação superior a sua simplesmente faz sua ignorância ser ainda mais ofuscante

>>8441823
those are so bad

>>8454386
can i get this as a poster

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Romanian translation of Sans Famille I used to read as a kid, love the cover

>>8442512
Awful font

>>8454700

That's very charming

>>8444086
I laughed but I actually have this one

bought it at a school book sale in 6th grade. blew my fucking mind, and taught me how to spot pleb movies

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so easily forgotten?

>>8442758
o damn that's satisfying

>>8453033
>>8453065
??

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>>8456686
Lurk moar fag

>>8448943
This is perfect

>>8456700
The gold ink wears off almost immediately. Shit edition

>>8457060
WOT IS DIS

>>8457076
Neon Genesis Evangelion.

>>8457076
>>8457081
Our generation's greatest piece of art

>>8441224
>All those people went in thinking that happened in the book
>never does
>I was one of those who thought that

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My personal favorite, although the german title kinda sucks. Why can't they just translate it one to one? They always make up their own shitty names, which is kinda disrespectful to the author.

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>>8457646
Fug, forgot to turn it.