1899, The Werner Company, Akron, OH, cover artist unknown. An odd compendium of uncredited, seemingly unrelated folksy stories (including one called "Joe the Chimpanzee"). Kudos to develbow for making this junk shop find. The great thing is that the disgruntled "potato man" on the cover is a complete creation of the cover artist. There's no anthropomorphized potato to be found in the text. "Mr. Sweet Potatoes", the main character of the title story, is a human; a Chinese milkman. The cover artist either didn't know or didn't care, and instead dreamed up this great character, interpreting the book title as he saw fit. I wish there WAS a story about him! All the illustrations inside are more generic, b&w engraving-type images (by, seemingly, a number of different artists). I've rarely seen such a weird disjuncture between a book's cover and its contents. Another thing; funny that this book was produced in Akron, OH, the birthplace, 70-odd years later, of those legendary spudboys, Devo. They employed a great deal of anthropotato imagery in their work. What's with Akron and potato people?
Sheldon Lord - A Woman Must Love Midwood 33 (1960) Cover art by Paul Rader
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I can't believe that White Wednesday is here again already. The days just seem to fly by anymore and I am getting farther and farther b...
Title: Night Call Author: Adeline McElfresh Publisher: Dell Copyright: 1961 Illustrator: Robert Abbett Review available His signature runs down the back of her dress. To Nurse Lyn Jennings, hurrying through Carter Memorial’s cool white corridors, emergencies were part of the life she had chosen—the challenging, exciting world of a hospital at night: —in 212, a lonely, crying child, afraid to go to sleep without its mother— —in the driveway, an ambulance shrieking to a halt after a race with death, bearing the victims of a highway collision— —in the darkened supply room, storage place for drugs and narcotics, a mysterious figure moving toward a cabinet, no longer able to resist temptation.
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A4 Flirt - Biscuits Lefevre-Utile, c.1895. This image is part of a Mucha-dedicated album here on Flickr. Discover over 100 high quality scans of the same quality by viewing the album this image belongs to!
They say you should never judge a book by it's cover and that has never been more accurate with this collection of vintage book covers. More
I often judge a book by its cover and sometimes I’m wrong, often I’m right. But oh how I wish book covers could go back to being as deliciously detailed as they once were. Let’s t…
They say you should never judge a book by it's cover and that has never been more accurate with this collection of vintage book covers. More
Covers of vintage magazines from my personal collection. My complete vintage website: thevintagesite.com
quilted cover for a hand-bound book
The ‘AiM Hits Puberty’ zine anthology is in the works! A zine is a self-published book or magazine. Some are more or less printed blogs, others are just like magazines (or, like Advent…
