Cover design for Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, by John Heartfield (1922)
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“Jason Booher designs book covers as well as other things”
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Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
Publisher: Vintage Books
When Ishmael sets sail on the whale-ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship’s strange captain, Ahab, is obsessed with hunting down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.
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I haven’t read this since fourth grade. I’m betting this will be a very different experience as an adult. For some reason I felt like I should switch back to Real Paper Books for it. My paper book choices are very different than my e-book choices.
Czech cover for The Dictionary of the Khazars.
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VINTAGE LIMITED EDITION HARDBACKS
Vintage design has the privilege of working on many limited edition hardbacks, working both in-house and collaboratively with illustrators. Here are just a small selection of covers including cloth-bound editions of Tolstoy and the fiftieth anniversary edition of Catch-22 with sprayed edges.
Tord Boontje designed the Harvill centenary edition of Doctor Zhivago and the Vintage Classics edition of Madame Bovary was illustrated by Karen Nicol.
Also featured are the upcoming Vintage Classics editions of The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov, illustrated by Klaus Haapaniemi; and Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, both published in April this year.
