The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text...
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The Great Gatsby (section Dust jacket art)
book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dust jacket art, named Celestial Eyes, greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated...
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errors. A publisher prints the basic design for the first time. The dust jacket or cover design has changed appreciably. The height or width of the book...
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praise from others. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dust jacket of a book. With the development of the mass-market paperback, they were...
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List of used book conditions (section Dust jackets)
that remove the original colour of the dust jacket in discrete small flecks. In all cases, the lack of a dust jacket is noted if the book was issued with...
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dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket...
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substituted for the original photo dust jackets. Supplied by Wisden's "official dust jacket supplier", these jackets are laminated and are printed in black...
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added as an appendix to the book: An untitled vignette, printed on the dust jacket. The story contains the book's title and author's name, which appear...
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Yves Brayer (18 November 1907 – 29 May 1990) was a French painter known for his paintings of everyday life. He was born in Versailles. He studied in Paris...
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Masterwork, Marvel relaunched the line with silver dust jackets in 2003. On the front cover dust jacket, these initial releases had the book's interior contents...
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