cover designs
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Halloween with Lee Thayer
Happy Halloween from the American Trade Bindings Collection at UNCG! After a very busy summer, we’re back with an October pick for you to enjoy as you surreptitiously pilfer candy from your child’s trick or treat bag. Our featured title is The Scrimshaw Millions, by Lee Thayer (New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932), and is… Continue reading
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November Binding of the Month Club
Welcome back club members! And welcome to all new club members. The selection for this month is a cover that’s both seasonal and one of the more dramatic covers I’ve seen. In addition, it’s a fine example of the importance of condition in collecting and experiencing book cover art. I’ve seen this book in less… Continue reading
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Binding of the Month Club
A certain cover design keeps popping into my head. I like it for no other reason than … I like it! I don’t know who the designer was; there are certainly more “elegant” designs; that really doesn’t matter. If I had been browsing in a bookstore in 1902, that book with that cover would be… Continue reading
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The flowers that bloom in the spring …
Tra la! I was taking a walk around campus the other day, idly kicking up grass toupees, when I passed a small enclosed garden with some beautiful blooms. I can tell a pansy from a pie plate, but beyond that I’m fairly hopeless at plant identification. Not so with many binding designers. Among them the best… Continue reading
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National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month To celebrate National Poetry Month here are a handful of cover designs from our collections. All of them are from books of poetry. Judging by their covers, these should contain some fine verses. But we’re not supposed to do that, are we? A Margaret Armstrong design From Theodore Brown Hapgood … Continue reading
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