The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text...
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praise from others. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dust jacket of a book. With the development of the mass-market paperback, they were...
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The Great Gatsby (section Dust jacket art)
book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dust jacket art, named Celestial Eyes, greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated...
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errors. A publisher prints the basic design for the first time. The dust jacket or cover design has changed appreciably. The height or width of the book...
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List of used book conditions (section Dust jackets)
that remove the original colour of the dust jacket in discrete small flecks. In all cases, the lack of a dust jacket is noted if the book was issued with...
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dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket...
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Grimble (section From the dust jacket)
on the BBC children's television show Jackanory and (according to the dust jacket) Freud received 23,500 letters about the work, including 64 letters of...
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Scribner's Sons, Zelda Fitzgerald made a sketch in which she envisioned the dust-jacket for her husband's novel. Her sketch depicted a naked flapper sitting...
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despair. Dust jacket of This Side of Paradise (1920) Dust jacket of The Beautiful and Damned (1922) Dust jacket of The Great Gatsby (1925) Dust jacket of Tender...
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Margaret Macadam (section Book dust jacket designs)
commercial works are several dust jacket designs for London-based publishers, with one of her most notable designs being the dust jacket for the first edition...
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Yves Brayer (18 November 1907 – 29 May 1990) was a French painter known for his paintings of everyday life. He was born in Versailles. He studied in Paris...
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added as an appendix to the book: An untitled vignette, printed on the dust jacket. The story contains the book's title and author's name, which appear...
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"E" (with the variant 50,000 Word Novel Without the Letter "E" on the dust jacket), sometimes dropped from late reprints. In the introduction to the book...
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Tolkien's book. The setting of The Hobbit, as described on its original dust jacket, is "ancient time between the age of Faerie and the dominion of men"...
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Masterwork, Marvel relaunched the line with silver dust jackets in 2003. On the front cover dust jacket, these initial releases had the book's interior contents...
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and editorial enhanced, limited deluxe hardcover anthology edition in dust jacket, though print run is unknown. The Silver Surfer: Parable (68 pages, Marvel...
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and included a new story, a parody of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" on the dust jacket. The book is narrated by the character of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk...
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substituted for the original photo dust jackets. Supplied by Wisden's "official dust jacket supplier", these jackets are laminated and are printed in black...
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first edition did not have any illustrations. Spurrier's drawing for the dust jacket had to be used. The second edition contained drawings by Clifford Webb...
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assassination and the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Original hardcover with dust jacket release by Random House: The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random...
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added to the dust jacket. In 1943, the interior frontispiece art was updated to conform to current 1940s style. In 1950, the dust jacket was revamped...
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Nightmares and Daydreams Dust-jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for Nightmares and Daydreams Author Nelson Bond Cover artist Ronald Clyne Language English...
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trade hardcover edition features a dust jacket that is a faux newspaper front page, with the front of the jacket featuring an article recounting the...
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be set in Florida, as well as the first to be set in Minnesota. The dust jacket features holographic lettering. Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy Minnesotan...
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designer whose most famous work was Celestial Eyes, the original 1925 dust jacket for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. From the mid-1940s he was...
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be available in three different formats: paperback, hardcover (with dust jacket), and eBooks.[citation needed] Consistent with other Stratemeyer Syndicate...
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order. Dec.: Decorated. D.j.: Dust jacket. D.S.: Document signed. DW: Dustwrapper (same as dust jacket, or book jacket) Ed.: Edition or editor. Endp....
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had a garish dust jacket and I remember being embarrassed by the violence, bad taste and slippery look of it. It looked the book jacket for a book of...
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British re-armament and opposing the appeasement of Germany. The books dust-jacket quoted Jesus' remark that "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee"...
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published until 1925. Bell created the cover art for the first edition dust jacket of that novel. In 2021, Bell was one of four featured women artists at...
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