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 ...

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 ...

High-end collectors look for really pristine copies. "If they are looking for a first edition, they are expecting that book to be the correct edition, with the correct dust jacket, and that dust ...

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 ...

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’.