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unusual facts about dust jacket



Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

The books are sold in a transparent rhodoïd dust jacket, and inserted in a white printed cardboard slipcase, although multiple volumes are often sold in a single slipcase.

Russell H. Tandy

When Stratemeyer approached Grosset & Dunlap with his concept for Nancy Drew in 1930, he submitted dust jacket art by both Tandy and Ernest Townsend for the publishing house's consideration.


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Bloodhound Mystery

British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations.

Canaveral Press

Back to the Stone Age, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (dust jacket by Sam Sigaloff and seven plates by John Coleman Burroughs, 1963)

Frank C. Papé

He also created dust jacket illustrations for the first editions of several Wheatley novels, including The Devil Rides Out (1935), Strange Conflict (1941), The Haunting of Toby Jugg (1948), and To the Devil a Daughter (1953).

Jingle Jangle Comics

His experience included painting the first edition dust jacket for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and ghosting the newspaper strip Reg’lar Fellas for artist Gene Byrnes.

Kate Osann

The rear flap of the dust jacket was devoted to a self-portrait of Kate O'Sann, and a brief biography of her which reads in part, "Illustrator Kate O'sann, a native of Missouri, grew up in New York City, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She makes her home in Orlando, Florida, with her husband, William O. Chessman, and 'two large and vocal children' - William and Kathy."

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Marvel Masterworks

Following this, from 1997 to 2002, the Masterworks line was revived, when some of the original 27 went back into print with a new style of dust-jacket designed by Comicraft, and without the chronological numbering on the spine.

Teeny Ted from Turnip Town

The book was published using funds from a successful Kickstarter campaign with contributors' names shown on the dust jacket.