Here's a link to a collection of 50 great book covers as compiled by ABE. Here's a sample:

My perspective? I love A Wizard of Earthsea's book cover, Light in August, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Psycho, Cold Comfort Farm. I do not like the On The Beach jacket or The Informer. My personal favourites, not included here, are the UK firsts of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Terry Goodkind's Pillars of Creation and The Stamboul Train by Graham Greene - Oh and the Stephen King US Firsts of The Regulators and Desperation, and both UK and US firsts of J.G. Ballard's Crash - In fact, I think Ballard wins hands-down for best jackets.

What are your most and least favourite jackets or book covers?

• Comments

• 28/05/2010 13:51 AngleBooks
  Not a dustjacket, but the cover of the Limited Edition of On Her Majesty's Secret Service has always been a favourite of mine. There's something very special about very early dustjackets - the simplicity of them, then it all went wrong in the 20s with jackets like Graham Greene's Brighton Rock!

• 28/05/2010 13:52 Holden
  The Portugese True First of The Alchemist - Truly ugly. And Tolkien's The Silmarillion (I've been browsing the Marketplace)

• 28/05/2010 23:42 aickman
  All Salinger books. Sorry Jerry but total control isn't all it's cracked up to be!

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