We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long deserved ...

Earlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m. The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour ...

GAME of Thrones author George RR Martin has unveiled the cover of a new book which looks at the history of the ‘World of Ice and Fire’.

Taking Cover It was the worst Marine-on-Marine friendly fire incident in modern history. But it's not in the history books. An explosion in Fallujah, Iraq left three dead, a dozen wounded, and ...

In "VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave" the music channel's original hosts dish about the net's early years in their own words. By Andy Lewis MTV VJ Book Cover - P 2012 Take a peek ...

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.

The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, Alfred A Knopf, 1992, cover by Chip Kidd & Barbara de Wilde “Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled” was how New York Times critic, Michiko Kakutani ...

Book design has become more important than ever – but what makes an iconic jacket, asks Clare Thorp. A pair of eyes and red lips floating in a midnight sky above the bright lights of New York on ...

The cover of the latest in a series of books on the history of Runnels County tells an interesting story before even opening the book. The center of the cover is a photo of a marker denoting the ...

Even the new books’ covers are curling and pages are discolored. Screenshot 2025 04 19 at 9.42.25 AM A Barnes & Noble Customer Wasnt Impressed With The State Of The Store She Visited.

The folks over at Insight Editions and Insight Comics have been pretty good to us here. From providing us with announcements for exciting products and no shortage of great books for review, it&#82… ...

A successful cover conveys something about the words inside. “If you’ve got a visceral piece of writing that’s risk-taking and bold, it’s important to put that cover on that book,” she ...