A new book showcasing beautiful midcentury cover art, “The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970,” contains dozens of outstanding hand-drawn or painted covers. It’s a colorful guide to the ...

Attaching the cover to your book is straightforward. First, you remove the dust jacket from your book, unfold the jacket’s flaps and measure the length of the entire thing, then cut off a piece ...

As with fashion and interior design, trends in book cover art come and go, sometimes inexplicably. One day you’re puzzling over how an exploding rose ended up on multiple dust jackets ...

Not one to judge a book by its cover, apparently, Dean confesses, "Every hardcover that comes into my possession is desecrated, almost immediately, insofar as I automatically remove the dust ...

The dust jackets of new fiction were suddenly filled ... to find a piece that says exactly what you want to say on a book cover.” One can see how vegetation would be a useful front for non ...

The Illustrated Dust Jacket begins with short descriptions on the artistic movements that influenced these influential decades of book design, and then highlights over 50 of its artists through ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket (book cover) illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s ...

Poet Mark Strand calls dust-jacket photos “the door to the dark room of the imagination.” Even though a writer’s looks have little to do with the words he or she puts down on paper, many a ...

The copy of Poirot Investigates sold for over £40,000 - smashing the world record price for a book by the author. The 1924 edition was worth so much because it came with its dust jacket showing a ...

One is formed of people who religiously remove the dust jacket of every ... check what is under the jacket. I myself am of the latter school. Yasufumi Suezawa, 40, a book publisher in Osaka ...