I've always been a sucker for "musty old paperbacks at yard sales and library sales," and I tend to gravitate to older books that I, theoretically would like to read. But admittedly, I am sometime drawn to...plain old cool covers.
Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49"
1964 Bantam
Cover design by ???
Who is Oedipa Maas? And what was she doing when the Paranoids blew out all the lights? What was the strange legacy of Pierce Inverarity that first led her to the world-wide conspiracy known as the Tristero System, and then onto the mystery and enigma of America itself?
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Husker Don't [deleted] 79 months ago | reply
nice!!
andrewafoley2005 75 months ago | reply
Great cover. I own a British edition of this book, which has a great surreal cover, but it's not half as cool as this.
ISO1977 27 months ago | reply
Did you read it?
I have this very same edition..
I really advise you to read this if you haven't already. (you mentioned you bought it for the cover art).
vernacula 4 weeks ago | reply
I have not been able to identify the creator of this Peter Max-like cover art