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unusual facts about book jacket



Logrolling

Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors.


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Gale Wilhelm

Never Let Me Go included praise from Wilhelm's friend Carl Sandburg on the book jacket.

Honeywell 200

Honeywell 200 consoles featured in the graphic design of Len Deighton's Billion-Dollar Brain book jacket and also figured as part of the hall-sized supercomputer complex in the 1967 movie of the book starring Michael Caine and Karl Malden.

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Peter Firmin

Charlotte is also an illustrator; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury; Katy,who works for a farmers' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy,a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

Rebecca Schiffman

Schiffman's watercolor portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek appeared as the author image on the inside book jacket for the UK edition of his book "Violence."

Sara L. Press

Her commercial photography includes album covers for No-Neck Blues Band, Dusty Trails; book jacket art for Barney Rosset's imprint, Blue Moon Books; and magazine covers for Heeb.

Subir Chowdhury

According to the book jacket, endorsements are included from quality experts like Dr. Armand Fiegenbaum, Philip B. Crosby, J.D. Power III, and Dr. Genichi Taguchi.