Poet Mark Strand calls dust-jacket ... the book’s packaging, like the packaging on a bar of soap. Yet in the work of some photographers, the author’s photo can aspire to the level of high ...

A new book showcasing beautiful midcentury cover art, “The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970,” contains dozens of outstanding hand-drawn or painted covers. It’s a colorful guide to the ...

With hardcovers, I take meticulous care not to damage the dust jacket ... but I like my books to look as if they’ve never been read. I’ve always been like this. In high school, I would ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design ... other designers knew expectations were high for ‘Yellowface’.

OSAKA--The swelling popularity of the small family-owned Seiwado Bookstore here is proof that you can't judge a book by its cover ... Instagram thanks to its dust jackets and bookmarks, which ...