Inspired by coming across this hitherto unknown contribution to swashbuckling and deckswabbing by Virginia Woolf just now:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZPMMAX1IL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-13,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg
The kindle/ebook market looks set to turn this into a burgeoning field.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:35 (fifteen years ago)
But of course this kind of thing has been going on for a while:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/avon-books/622-1.jpg
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:36 (fifteen years ago)
Are these really madeleines?http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FS59rxkmL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-16,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:53 (fifteen years ago)
Madeleine, macaroon, what's the difference?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:56 (fifteen years ago)
macaron, my friend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
― nanoflymo (ledge), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Gy8NMyaoL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-5,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpgNice typography.
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:59 (fifteen years ago)
xp
Macaron, macaroon, what's the difference?
(I stand corrected)
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:00 (fifteen years ago)
Beautiful. Sequel to The Rainbows I guess.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:01 (fifteen years ago)
Last one for now.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mcQNm%2BnQL._SL500_AA266_PIkin3,BottomRight,-2,34_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCTpr4P2L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg
I think I remember a "Star Wars" themed one, too.
― alimosina, Thursday, 20 January 2011 16:53 (fifteen years ago)
Here we go.
http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/22/95/229558439eaf52759392f3450514141414c3441.jpg
― alimosina, Thursday, 20 January 2011 19:47 (fifteen years ago)
I used to make a habit of collecting these covers (not the actual books, I'm not that mad)...There was a POD outfit called Tutis who was especially talented at getting the wrong cover image (usually copyright stealing in the process)http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Urll49ZI/AAAAAAAAGw0/n-yQwTiCC3M/s1600-h/royo+nicked+%281%29.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Uv8czdPI/AAAAAAAAGxE/6qVkP-qaAjQ/s1600-h/royo+nicked+%283%29.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2Yp4zRk3I/AAAAAAAAGx0/V_ffj3C03n8/s1600-h/kim.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aPVZTzXI/AAAAAAAAGyE/H9Dq3WOwX5s/s1600-h/516IjHYbkEL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SH20_OU01_.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aRGaqfnI/AAAAAAAAGyM/KDN50KoDQJM/s1600-h/8132051130.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aTl7yu7I/AAAAAAAAGyU/AvWys8QZbto/s1600-h/8132038487.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpM--Hht01I/AAAAAAAAGC4/mL73T1EtWlU/s1600-h/jkj1.jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpXFS9K_hfI/AAAAAAAAGGA/gItED5dq_ag/s1600-h/doyle1.jpg
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:43 (fifteen years ago)
Fuck, that didn't work. See here, though: http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutis%20bashing (sorry for the self-plug)
My especial favourite is the Thomas Hardy book with Slash from Guns n Roses on the cover.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:44 (fifteen years ago)
Amazing!http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpRxPLDnuII/AAAAAAAAGEQ/Vitc1-hRLog/s1600/hardy3.jpg
― Stevie T, Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
Those Proust macarons made me laugh a little too hard!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
omg
― Meme From Turner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:39 (fifteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/Sx2aTl7yu7I/AAAAAAAAGyU/AvWys8QZbto/s400/8132038487.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Meme From Turner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SpM-9mX0InI/AAAAAAAAGCw/Mff8AvM3T8w/s1600-h/jkj2.jpg
― Meme From Turner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 January 2011 02:57 (fifteen years ago)
Aargh, that didn't work, it was the one by "Pelham Grenville" with the pink doughboy on the cover.
(sorry for the self-plug)
― Meme From Turner (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 January 2011 03:04 (fifteen years ago)
is that the church from the november rain video in the background behind slash?? is that a still from the november rain video?!?
― j., Saturday, 22 January 2011 09:04 (fifteen years ago)
I _think_ it's from a Rock Star game cover
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Saturday, 22 January 2011 11:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51iwkPPTMPL._SS500_.jpg
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Monday, 24 January 2011 07:31 (fifteen years ago)
just in case JM is shy of plugging again, check the new collection at ccc:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ysByywuUdw/UGpQpKAuU_I/AAAAAAAALns/oFAi2D7kXmo/s1600/Henry+James+%284%29.jpg
(The Coxon Fund!)
― woof, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 12:31 (thirteen years ago)
^perfect for this thread:
Henry James in Space
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:09 (thirteen years ago)
that is a great thread premise, it is a shame it fizzled out. I am going to think about Henry James in space some.
― woof, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:47 (thirteen years ago)
tears at these
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:17 (thirteen years ago)
I think I posted about this on another thread, but I was SO bummed by this cover after waiting months for the new printing:
http://ecimages.kobobooks.com/Image.ashx?imageID=8_cOEEyMGEmkInJwinw6Sw&Type=Full
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:18 (thirteen years ago)
(trilogy is about a wealthy heroin addict who was sexually abused by his father)
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 15:19 (thirteen years ago)
misleading? it does what it says on the tin.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yquZUsax3R0/UGpQrdFuzoI/AAAAAAAALn8/O3E9m35AEMY/s1600/Henry+James+%286%29.jpg
― I got the Boyzone, I got the remedy (ledge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 13:55 (thirteen years ago)
except it's a nut not a screw.
― I got the Boyzone, I got the remedy (ledge), Thursday, 4 October 2012 13:56 (thirteen years ago)
apparently it's two wrenches having a nut tug-of-war?
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 October 2012 13:58 (thirteen years ago)
adjustable wrenches with screw adjusters fyi, i think it's a valid picture
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:00 (thirteen years ago)
One wrench is polished and new, the other old and rusty.
― jim, Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:11 (thirteen years ago)
it is like a virile young wrench feeding a moribund elder
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:18 (thirteen years ago)
or an old wrench passing on the nut of life to the next generation
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Thursday, 4 October 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)
the turn of this crew
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Thursday, 4 October 2012 17:03 (thirteen years ago)
rusty wrench = governess is insane shiny wrench = ghosts are realnut = reader
― woof, Thursday, 4 October 2012 17:07 (thirteen years ago)
not quite as misleading as most of what's going on in here, but i found this today sans textual information i'd have guessed 'erotic sci fi'
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/full/672731372.jpg?key=320480&Expires=1350356224&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=Aghr1Y2Y93vNCudpAy2U4Bcjwg3pVWMcQpy0DlnNsHO5xiNoEEkPmR1yVZLqh10-z7Kf5jOBIbCB57sR25mJgek~ipKjSqJPfVLpcdJcJFS5Tk8LGSZIuN0yYUy9-6dMrYGGt8yvVdJIHuM4DpToM7GuSbM44fN--NO9ceIcoxw_
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:41 (thirteen years ago)
The mystery is killing me!
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 04:26 (thirteen years ago)
huh, i guess twitter doesn't like the internet outside of twitter. http://twitpic.com/b4iyuk
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:00 (thirteen years ago)
Erotic sci fi, or maybe unerotic but full of sex Ballard sci fi
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:16 (thirteen years ago)
digging these Dorothy Richardson covershttp://neglectedbooks.com/?p=3941
― woof, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:18 (ten years ago)
i've never read those books. has anyone read them all? i never SEE them to buy. even copies with goofy covers.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:17 (ten years ago)
not has anyone ever read them all. has anyone here read them all.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:18 (ten years ago)
virago did okay covers of them in the 70's. i never even see those. must not have sold much here.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:21 (ten years ago)
Virago still sells them, but only as print-on-demand, so they never make it to shops. And probably nobody buys them, either.
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 00:31 (ten years ago)
did you read them? kinda figured if anyone had here...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:29 (ten years ago)
old virago copies on amazon but not always cheap. i'll find them all eventually.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:30 (ten years ago)
Yeah, I always intended to get the viragos if I saw them, but I never have seen them :( of course, once I do it will probably be 20 years before I actually get round to reading them. or at least the first 2 before losing momentum.
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:51 (ten years ago)
Seen a couple of the Viragos around but have never read them. Thomp was curious about them, I think, but I don't know if he actually read them.
― woof, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 07:05 (ten years ago)
I decided to go with the Penguin edition.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41xf%2B0Xz59L._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― jmm, Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:44 (seven years ago)
Love imagining cover-quoter Nabokov's reaction to that cover
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Sunday, 28 April 2019 03:56 (seven years ago)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/9a/38/fe9a38f55e926e78bd9e95a2dd23b93c.png
― omar little, Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:16 (seven years ago)
That is at least a Liartown fake, thank God.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 29 April 2019 00:07 (seven years ago)