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.
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17 comments:

  1. Kieran Shea9:01 AM

    can't choose. tons here though.

    http://bookcoverarchive.com/randomize

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  2. pattinase (abbott)9:04 AM

    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.

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  3. Todd Mason9:40 AM

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0060394366/ref=dp_otherviews_0?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=0

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  4. George9:42 AM

    I always liked the McGinnis cover on ONE NIGHT WITH NORA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/4796357921/in/pool-544453@N25

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  5. A Selection of Dianne & Leo Dillon10:00 AM

    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

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  6. pattinase (abbott)10:03 AM

    Delightful. Fantasy, horror and science fiction make for a larger pallet.

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  7. Todd Mason10:06 AM

    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

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  8. C. Margery Kempe10:30 AM

    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.

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  9. Charles Gramlich11:50 AM

    Most of my favorites are old SF covers from the 50s and 60s. Great old silver rockets and folks in space suits.

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  10. Anonymous12:01 PM

    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..

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  11. David Cranmer1:19 PM

    I have Kieran's problem. But you picked one of my favorites: The Great Gatsby.

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  12. Dorte H3:03 PM

    The Galaxy one and The Hound of the Baskervilles are great.

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  13. Dorte H3:03 PM

    The Galaxy one and The Hound of the Baskervilles are great.

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  14. Richard R.5:18 PM

    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

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  15. Erik Donald France7:40 PM

    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.

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  16. Cameron Ashley2:30 AM

    oh, i looooove that "one night with nora" cover.

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  17. Cameron Ashley2:31 AM

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