Cover me up

Whether you're an avid reader or someone who just

with reading,  cover design is a beautiful art, and one Penguin has experimented with over the years. You have to admit that sometimes - whether you read them or not - books look very nice. Though they can also look very horrible - naming no names here. I love comparing all the different covers and editions that are around. And I will pay extra for a well designed cover and nice typeface. I'm not ashamed to admit it. That's why I'm itching to buy myself a set of these Penguin postcards, 100 book covers - I think they'd look sweet stuck on one of my walls.  


p.s. the photo is from Christmas. A friend got gifted this book in a Secret Santa. Funny isn't it.

(Decades) Covers: 1950s

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city -- which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. But this city, clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind. I could see the streets, and the buildings that lined them, the waterfront, even boats in the harbour; yet, waking, I had never seen the sea, or a boat. ...

And the buildings were quite unlike any I knew. The traffic in the streets was strange, carts running with no horses to pull them; and sometimes there were things in the sky, shiny fish-shaped things that certainly were not birds.

Most often I would see this wonderful place by daylight, but occasionally it was by night when the lights lay like strings of glow-worms along the shore, and a few of them seemed to be sparks drifting on the water, or in the air.

It was a beautiful, fascinating place.

John Wyndham. The Chrysalids.