What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of the spirit ...

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, has long ...

Book covers have long been a source of artistic quality and, in the age of Kindle, are reintroducing more and more of us to the pleasures of traditional reading Click here to view of gallery of of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: THE COVER STORY Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use by G. Thomas Tanselle (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia) Many ...

This morning, literary critic Michelle Dean penned an article for Flavorwire assailing the purpose and usefulness of dust jackets, those glossy outer shells of hardcover books. Not one to judge a book ...

Maybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s hard not to judge a cover by its design. This week, “The Accursed,” the giant new gothic novel by Joyce Carol Oates, provides a surprising study in ...

One is formed of people who religiously remove the dust jacket of every volume to examine the cover design. The other consists of those who never bother to check what is under the jacket. I myself am ...