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A very colorful cover to this rather mundane booklet from 1963 on the joys of peanuts brought to you by Peter Pan Peanut Butter. The illustrations are what makes this booklet -- however, the cover is misleading. The illustrations found inside are of the two color press variety: grey and an odd orange-y color. But man! This is a great cover, though! The mundane part to this booklet is the dull storyline found throughout. Boooring.

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Illustration and book art with a literary bent. Focus on international illustrated books and Surrealism.

Poster by Witold Janowski (1926 - 2006), Polish version.

Japanese Book Cover: Of Great Beauty. Ryohei Yanagihara. 1971 | The Gurafiku archive of Japanese graphic design is a collection of visual research surveying the history of graphic design in Japan.

Illustration and book art with a literary bent. Focus on international illustrated books and Surrealism.

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Our guest blogger Susan McCabe writes: “Hsinping has done a lovely, sophisticated book cover for eatdrink.co. Her image is silkscreened on to a fine cloth cover and the result? Like that of a smooth Bordeaux. Simply yummy!

La propuesta de una obra literaria, en nuestros días, comienza con la portada. Sin embargo, esto no es nuevo: basta recordar las hermosas copias de libros elaboradas por los monjes en la Edad Media. Mucho ha cambiado la cultura desde entonces, y ahora lo que prevalece, por lo general, son portadas con tendencia minimalista, pop o conceptual. No obstante, el deseo de captar la atención de potenciales lectores y de constituirse en vistosas introducciones a los contenidos de las obras, sigue…