More Lawrence (and Waugh)

And speaking of sexy ladies on Lawrence covers, here's another one. It's one of the two Penguin Essentials covers I didn't have (out of the set of 20) when I first posted about them here. (Click for huge version.)

It's rather lovely, and is by Lucy McLauchlan. 


The other missing cover was for Brideshead Revisited, this time by Jim Tierney (see his work on Jules Verne for Vintage here). Again, click for a huge version.

As much as I like these, it does raise the question of how necessary they are. In Australia there are currently five different editions of Brideshead available and in print, all from Penguin, who also have four different editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover in print (five if you count the Graphic Classics edition from the US). Yet there other great writers, who were once part of the Penguin Classics list, who are now completely out of print in English, or at least in the Commonwealth: Sean O'Faolain, Witold Gombrowicz, Jiří Weil, most of Colette, V S Pritchett, Martin Boyd, etc etc etc etc. This seems somewhat mad.

An Ape with a Cigar IN YOUR FACE

Coming next year from Vintage Classics UK is the somewhat new concept of 3D book cover art*. They're publishing a set of five science-fiction classics, each of which will come with a pair of red/green 3D glasses in order to appreciate the covers. Here are the covers... (click on the first three for much bigger versions, especially if you already own a pair of old anaglyph glasses)

These aren't bad at all, though the Lovecraft misses the opportunity to do something which actually hurts the eyes, which would have been appropriate.

(UPDATE: And as Óscar Palmer notes in the comments, the two Vernes are the work of Jim Tierney, who also did these gorgeous Verne covers as part of his student work. Tierney is now working for Penguin in the US, a well-deserved role.)

And here's another of the Vintage Classics D. H. Lawrences with a Carla van de Puttelaar cover photo (see here for the others).

* Relatively new for non-lascivious purposes, in any case. The only other 3D books that I've seen in bookshops are along these lines...

And for more unlikely ape action, look here.