We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust-jacket (book cover) illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long ...
It takes a keen eye to know what you're buying as a book collector, and while a first edition could be worth thousands of dollars, as the saying goes, you can't always judge a book by its cover.
Book covers have long been a source of artistic quality and, in the age of Kindle, are reintroducing more and more of us to the pleasures of traditional reading Click here to view of gallery of of ...