Matt Taylor's Le Carre's Update (plus Pelham and Wolpe for walls)

In May I raved about Matt Taylor's wonderful John Le Carre covers for Penguin US. He's produced one more, for January's republication of the classic The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

And here's the un-texted illustration.

Also! Heroes of this blog David Pelham and Berthold Wolpe have some of their celebrated cover designs for Penguin and Faber respectively available as fancy art prints here. If you have any wall space not obscured by jammed bookshelves, how about filling it with some book covers?

Here are the designs: Wolpe's famous text-based covers for Faber, and Pelham's famous A Clockwork Orange and J. G. Ballard covers.

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy

Sorry for the pun--I couldn't resist after I saw these gorgeous new covers for John Le Carre's books coming in June from Penguin US. They're by the artist Matt Taylor.

A Perfect Spy is especially good, but they're all excellent.

The only other cover design by Taylor that I know of is this beautiful cover for a ho-hum and deeply unconvincing book.