Dust Jacket Cover Art and More

Ivan Chekhov - Flickr

"Collection of U.S. dust jacket cover art starting from the 1920's and paperback & digest cover art from the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia starting from the end of the 1930's - organized in chronological Albums per publisher / series"

Found through This isn't happiness

Miss Sweden Of Books 2013

If books were women this book would just have been crowned Miss Sweden 2013 (If you prefer men let's call it Mr Sweden). The award for Sweden's most beautiful book 2013 went to Mattias Adolfsson's "The second in line" designed by Jens Andersson.

More information and purchase link here.
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redrum

My vintage book collection: Houses Architects Live In - by Barbara Plumb (1977)
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Cinerama

Cinerama

my vintage book collection

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So Many Books, So Little Time

The Horrors of it All
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A Visit

A Knight Came Riding 
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Ex Libris

See all bookplate posts on 50 Watts
See the companion post at BibliOdyssey 
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The Dessert

1955

Book Cover Lover: Efterrätten (The Dessert)

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Movies: The Savage 7

Deadlicious: The big book of biker flicks


Cream - Anyone For Tennis (The Savage Seven Theme)
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Books: Nice Backs

Backs of books can be great. I know this photo I took today in a secondhand bookshop/thrift store/antique store is a bit out of focus but I still wanted to show it to you. It is a Swedish encyclopedia of animals called Djurens värld ("The World of Animals") and it was printed in 1963 or -64 if I remember correctly. Sadly I couldn't find out who designed it, but it would make anyone's library look nicer.
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Update: I went back and took a few more photos, put them together:

click for larger image
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Illustration: Mattias Adolfsson

By the great Mattias Adolfsson

Mattias Inks: How to enrich your life through literature and movies
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Illustration: Got Spanked

Flickr: heysambennett: "A Shufflebook was developed by Richard Hefter and Martin Stephen Moskof, Golden Press, 1970."
via beautiful decay
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Svarta Serien

These are paperback covers belonging to a Swedish publication series of crime books from the 60s called "Svarta serien" - "The Black Series". What they also have in common is that they are all illustrated by one of my absolute favorites - Per Åhlin. I and his other fans are lucky because in the 60s he was very active as a book cover illustrator. Thus it is not hard to come by his works in antiquarian bookshops or thrift stores.

Books: The Pop-Up Nooks of the 30s

Golden Age Comic Book Stories: The Pop-Up books of the 30s.

Via Bibi
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Children's Books: Kajsa

From Musselsoppans Vänner

I just happened to come across this little charming children's book from 1961 in a thrift store today. The illustrations were made by Åke Lewerth (for Swedes mostly know for illustrating Agaton Sax). You will find some more from the Kajsa book at Musselsoppans Vänner.

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Book Covers: Mitchell Hooks

The Voodoo Murders. 1957. Cover by Mitchell Hooks.

Mitchell Hooks Covers
a set on Flickr by 5m@5hYdez

Via Leif Peng's article:
Mitchell Hooks, Fredman~Chaite, and the Transition to Paperbacks

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Children's Books: Jim Flora

Jim Flora's Children's Books

via Children's Illustration

Vintage: How To Remember Names and Faces

Excerpts from Edward Stoddard's 'How To Remember Names and Faces', 1958
by what's-his-name

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Book Covers: The Pelican Project

The Pelican Project
at things magazine

via Maraid Design | Blog

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Flickr: Den nya vägen

Den nya vägen (1965), illustrations by Ylva Källström
Swedish Books - a set on Flickr by Stockholm Stream

Via Bibi

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