Clemens Brentano

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George Salter and Beyond

This post began because I wanted to tout the above book by Thomas Hanson, Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter. Princeton Architectural Press published it in 2004, and it seems to have already been remaindered, because copies can be found in abundance.

Before scanning my favorite images from the book, I did a google image search and wound up at Thomas Hanson's website for George Salter, which includes many of his covers.

I also wound up at a great French site -- nooSFere -- for American science fiction. (They probably do other stuff, I haven't fully explored their vast site.) They featured one of my favorite Salter designs:



Within seconds I stumbled upon this Virgil Finlay cover for the Jan. 1941 issue of Fantastic Novels.



Searching for Salter, I also wound up at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies. They have a gallery called Exile Authors on George Salter’s Book Jackets.

They also have a gallery for the new-to-me artist Albert Bloch.

I especially enjoy his "Portrait of a Man, 1911":

Julien Gracq, Chateau d'Argol

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Robert Walser scrapbook

A Journey Round My Skull is now 50 Watts
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Daumal books from Pier Marton

This photo comes from Pier Marton. Pier was one of the first people to send encouragement about this blog (for which I am eternally grateful). He's holding some of his Daumal collection. I've never seen some of those editions.

Pier also recommends A Seventh Man by John Berger, shown below with another Daumal book. In this interview, Berger says if he had to be judged it would be on A Seventh Man. [It seems to now be out-of-print, and there aren't many copies on the web.]


Pier's French friend also suggested Paludes by Andre Gide. I tracked down a translation, which I haven't had a chance to read yet. It's an early work.

International Institute for Research on Literary Lunatics...

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BibliOdyssey

BibliOdyssey is PK's gift to humanity. The book version is one of most incredible books in my collection.

Also enjoy PK's Flickr page. A random image from BibliOdyssey:

To Die No More and Blind Pony

Artist, Blind Pony-blogger, and Hans Henny Jahnn-reader Herbert Pfostl now has a book:

"To Die No More is an artist's book about the marvelous embroideries of death taken from many sources both known and long forgotten. 170 fragments - from Aries to Wittgenstein - collected and edited by Herbert Pfostl and Kristofor Minta with splinters by Kristofor Minta, ruins, appropriated by James Walsh, and small paintings of shipwrecks, animals, and ashes by Herbert Pfostl. Made with great care and sober like a good dream. Dedicated to the deeply dead and the truly living. 2oo pages text - 25 color images $30.00"

Alfred Lichtenstein and Mynona

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Philip K. Dick's Estonian Hamburger

Some entertaining images from the Philip K. Dick cover art archive. Their site description: "Philip K. Dick fans from around the world have contributed to this scanned collection of over 650 PKD book covers. We think you will enjoy seeing the many visual interpretations of his stories presented here."

Baudelaire's bookplate

I discovered Lewis Jaffe's blog Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie this morning, which includes such things as Baudelaire's bookplate. It was fun to scroll through 2 years of posts in an hour.

Kurt Tucholsky, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles

front cover above, back cover below



More details coming. I just needed to get Eichendorff's haircut off the top of my blog.

Joseph Von Eichendorff & the Taugenichts

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Robert Walser, The Assistant

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Richard Aeschlimann, Le Regard Géologue

I picked up this oddity at a used bookstore a few years ago.

Le Regard Géologue (1973, L'Age d'Homme) includes drawings from 1969 to 1972 by the Swiss artist Richard Aeschlimann. L'Age d'Homme seems like a damn fine publisher (with many books by Aeschlimann), though I haven't yet found a good place to purchase their books without being killed on international shipping.

I know Roland Topor is a fan of Aeschlimann (but I don't know much about either of them). Look at Topor's own artwork to The Tenant and you can see the similarity in their artwork. [The Tenant, a 1964 novel, was recently reprinted by Millipede Press with an intro by short-story master Thomas Ligotti. Millipede seems to have fine taste so I will check out this book and their other publications. At their site I learned that the image that haunted me as a kid is by the artist Don Brautigam.]

Here are some samples from Le Regard Geologue.

I keep meaning to post about the great Polish writer and artist Witkacy:


This one is Gorey-esque but disturbing in its own way:


Many of the images feature naked body parts (usually separated from the body!):



Self-portrait from the book's back cover:

Alvin Lustig and The Green Child

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