Tuesday 6 October 2009

Vintage book covers

Polish

Polish

Polish (1969)

Russian-language Tolstoy book published in Germany, 1923, cover by Wassilij N. Masjutin

Ringelnatz, book cover, Germany, 1924

Libuše Loskotová, 1977, Slovak cover for Josef Kožíšek, Žabka panáčik pán

Slovak, 1968, cover for Komediantka by W. St. Reymont

If you like vintage book covers as much as I do you're going to love spending an hour, a day or even a whole weekend over at the amazing treasure trove of book and illustration-related finds A Journey Round My Skull. Enjoy!


7 comments:

  1. these are fabulous, I totally love that top image.

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  2. oh so beautiful! love the bird in the second one.

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  3. I love #3 - just brilliantly simple

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  4. Yum yum yum! These are just fabulous! Thanks for the link :) K

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  5. Splendid, thanks for showing them.

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  6. These are amazing and fab reference for my screen printing! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. funny! when I saw your comment posted at a journey round my skull, I was pretty sure I would find something here. bingo.
    These books are amazing and righly hard to find. My favourites are a bit different.

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