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Cover design for Dubliners by Apfel Zet

Cover illustration by Adrian Tomine for the Japanese edition of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (via)

Cover illustration for John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor by Matt Taylor

A Book of Scripts, design by Jan Tschichold (1949), from Postcards from Penguin

(part of a series!)

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick, design by Peter Mendelsund

On my to-read list since I read this interview.

(via lustik)

pasadenapictures:

Wooden block books, designed by Leanne Shapton available at John Derian Company, New York and Lutyens & Rubinstein, London.

Always & Forever, and Five Other Lies, design by Teagan White (buy the book here)

Nabokov back catalog from Penguin designed by Pentagram

Creativity in Industry, design by David Pelham (1975), from Postcards from Penguin

The Iliad, Andrew Barron

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

The design by Jen Wang gathers together the original cover art from each novel’s first edition in the 30s and 40s. Love it.

Tender is the Night, design by John Sewell (1963), from Postcards from Penguin

Penguin Modern Poets 2 from Postcards from Penguin

From Day516’s slideshow of the series:

For Penguin Modern Poets Germano Facetti commissioned a series of photograms by Peter Barrett, Roger Mayne and Alan Spain between 1962 and 1965.

(I thought I’d scan some of my favorites so you could see them better.)