Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Triplicate and Duplicate

With thanks to eagle-eyed reader Peter Herpich, a trio of matching covers (all using Edward Hopper's 'Rooms by the Sea' (1951))...




[UPDATE: And avisannschild has found another...

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 ..and another pair I've spotted, using what I think is an old 'Vogue' photo.


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4 comments:

avisannschild said...

And here's another one to go with your trio: Ordinary Time.

13 July 2011 at 20:21
Craig D. said...

That photo is perfect for Gatsby, but the gigantic text nearly ruins it.

14 July 2011 at 15:16
JRSM said...

Avisannschild: Thanks you! Well spotted! I've added it to the post.

Craig: It's tricky, because it's the standard design for the Penguin Modern Classics series--though the arrangement of the photo, with the gap between the two heads into which the text neatly slots, does help.

14 July 2011 at 15:32
Anonymous said...

I just finished reading Rules of Civility - and one of my thoughts was that it owed a lot to Fitzgerald!

17 July 2011 at 11:12

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