Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Your Favorite Book Covers

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Your Favorite Book Covers

Here are two I like a lot. How about you? I'll post them here.
George and Todd's choices came as no surprise, I will add.

17 comments:

Kieran Shea said...: can't choose. tons here though.

http://bookcoverarchive.com/randomize; 9:01 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Interesting to note that on some the nicest covers the title doesn't pop the way it should. I do like THE THIN MAN there.; 9:04 AM
Todd Mason said...: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0060394366/ref=dp_otherviews_0?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=0; 9:40 AM
George said...: I always liked the McGinnis cover on ONE NIGHT WITH NORA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/4796357921/in/pool-544453@N25; 9:42 AM
A Selection of Dianne & Leo Dillon said...: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=leo%20and%20diane%20dillon%20ace&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

Or see the hotlink. The Dillons are not quite the polar opposites of Robert McGinnis, but danm.

Todd Mason; 10:00 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Delightful. Fantasy, horror and science fiction make for a larger pallet.; 10:03 AM
Todd Mason said...: And Diane (odd typo, but not alas rare for me) and Leo Dillon didn't restrict themselves thus. They are multiple Caldecott winners.

Jack Gaughan, from the first issue of GALAXY I owned (his work for the magazine in its handsomest period, 1970-1972, is stellar):

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bwJaSQiUhIo/S6PxHKCWgHI/AAAAAAAAAOE/xPSN4p4WMRg/s1600-h/galaxyfirst.jpg; 10:06 AM
C. Margery Kempe said...: Well, I love love love my latest cover, but I have to say one of my all time faves is the Hound of the Baskervilles I gave to my pal Stephanie, the Holmes-o-phile. I have to scan the rest of my pulpy paperbacks before I get rid of them. There are some lovely covers.; 10:30 AM
Charles Gramlich said...: Most of my favorites are old SF covers from the 50s and 60s. Great old silver rockets and folks in space suits.; 11:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Patti - Hmm...I really like this one: http://www.amazon.com/One-Flew-Over-Cuckoos-Nest/dp/0451163966 Of course.... I like the book very much, too..; 12:01 PM
David Cranmer said...: I have Kieran's problem. But you picked one of my favorites: The Great Gatsby.; 1:19 PM
Dorte H said...: The Galaxy one and The Hound of the Baskervilles are great.; 3:03 PM
Dorte H said...: The Galaxy one and The Hound of the Baskervilles are great.; 3:03 PM
Richard R. said...: This has always been a favorite, and the image was used on the paperback cover as well.

http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/ASF/ASF_0286.jpg; 5:18 PM
Erik Donald France said...: One Night With Nora looks good to me. They're all pretty cool, though.

I like some of the old Daw covers -- Games Psyborgs Play, for instance. Pierr Barbet.; 7:40 PM
Cameron Ashley said...: oh, i looooove that "one night with nora" cover.; 2:30 AM
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