Chekhov's Mistress

Judge a Book’s Cover

by Bud Parr

Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems 1956 - 1998 Vote for the best book cover of 2007 at The Book Design Review

I, of course, voted for Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems 1956 – 1998, partly because I was just happy to see it there (my favorite book of the year) and partly because it is a great cover, evoking a 50s – 60’s coolness that also comes out in stories about Herbert.

Alas, it’s not among the top vote getters, but I think the two top ones deserve it because the covers seem to cleverly tell their own story about what’s in the book.

[via Bookdwarf]


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what a silly picture - why couldn’t they wait till he finished his cigarette??

    –  (11/21  at  07:19 PM)


I wrote a blog on bedside books where I mentioned that Herbert’s Collected poems were the first book in years that I bought solely for the cover. The last was The Wind-Up Chronicle and like that book, the content inside was even better.

    – Marlon James (11/27  at  04:55 PM)


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