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Unique Dust Jacket
I just purchased a copy of Mexican author Laura Esquivel's new book "Malinche",
which has been out for only a few weeks. I took the dust jacket off to examine the boards (blind-stamped floral pattern in a purplish brown from top to bottom on the right edge), but what caught my eye is that the dust jacket is almost doubled up, so that if you take it off, unfold the top fold-down, unfold the bottom fold-up, you have a paper nearly twice as big as expected with a story told in non-verbal graphic panels, with Aztec archetypes in many of the panels. (The novel is about Cortez and Malinalli, the woman who was his translator and mistress during the Conquest of Mexico.) For those familiar with the Ethiopian graphic panels telling the story, from the Ethiopian point of view, of the Queen of Sheba (Ethiopia) and Solomon (which resulted in the birth of Menelik), you will have a good image of what these panels contain. I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. Francis A. Miniter |
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Unique Dust Jacket
Francis A. Miniter wrote: I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. the Wallet and Skeezix book that came out last year had cartoons inside the dust jacket. |
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Unique Dust Jacket
Francis A. Miniter wrote:
I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. McSweeney's 13, the comics issue from 2004, has a large folded dustjacket fully illustrated by guest editor Chris Ware. The folds in the jacket also serve as pockets to hold two miniature comic books. Simon Winchester's _The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology_ (2001) includes a jacket that unfolds into a large reproduction of Smith's 1815 topographic map of England. And Pamela Anderson's no-doubt ghost-written novel, _Star Struck_ (2005), also has a fold-out jacket, with lots of naked Pam front & back, or, um, so I've heard. --Jon Meyers |
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Unique Dust Jacket
Francis A. Miniter wrote:
I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. Grosset & Dunlap used the inside of the DJ to list titles in their juvenile series offerings on the DJs of the juvenile series books in the 20's and early 30's. -- RWF http://BobFinnan.com |
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Unique Dust Jacket
Jon Meyers wrote:
Francis A. Miniter wrote: I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. McSweeney's 13, the comics issue from 2004, has a large folded dustjacket fully illustrated by guest editor Chris Ware. The folds in the jacket also serve as pockets to hold two miniature comic books. Simon Winchester's _The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology_ (2001) includes a jacket that unfolds into a large reproduction of Smith's 1815 topographic map of England. And Pamela Anderson's no-doubt ghost-written novel, _Star Struck_ (2005), also has a fold-out jacket, with lots of naked Pam front & back, or, um, so I've heard. --Jon Meyers No unique, then. Still, maybe it will keep some people from discarding dust jackets. About the Pamela Anderson one, . . . Francis A. Miniter |
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Unique Dust Jacket
Francis A. Miniter wrote:
I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. John Hildebrand, *Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family* (NY: Knopf, 1995): the dust jacket of which appears normal but, when removed from the book, unfolds to a large (20" on each side) poster-like square that reveals a map of the family farm in question and antique photographs of the patriarch and matriarch. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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Unique Dust Jacket
"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message news:44876be8@kcnews01... I just purchased a copy of Mexican author Laura Esquivel's new book "Malinche", which has been out for only a few weeks. I took the dust jacket off to examine the boards (blind-stamped floral pattern in a purplish brown from top to bottom on the right edge), but what caught my eye is that the dust jacket is almost doubled up, so that if you take it off, unfold the top fold-down, unfold the bottom fold-up, you have a paper nearly twice as big as expected with a story told in non-verbal graphic panels, with Aztec archetypes in many of the panels. (The novel is about Cortez and Malinalli, the woman who was his translator and mistress during the Conquest of Mexico.) For those familiar with the Ethiopian graphic panels telling the story, from the Ethiopian point of view, of the Queen of Sheba (Ethiopia) and Solomon (which resulted in the birth of Menelik), you will have a good image of what these panels contain. I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. Francis A. Miniter ----------------------------------------------------------- Reposted so as to help clear some of the rubbish from the listings and cache, which may otherwise deter casual readers |
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Unique Dust Jacket
"Steven" wrote in message ups.com... Francis A. Miniter wrote: I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. the Wallet and Skeezix book that came out last year had cartoons inside the dust jacket. ----------------------------------------------------------- Reposted so as to help clear some of the rubbish from the listings and cache, which may otherwise deter casual readers |
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Unique Dust Jacket
"Jon Meyers" wrote in message ... Francis A. Miniter wrote: I know of no other dust jacket making such use (or any use, for that matter) of the inside, and certainly none that fold up hiding half of the size of the paper forming the jacket. McSweeney's 13, the comics issue from 2004, has a large folded dustjacket fully illustrated by guest editor Chris Ware. The folds in the jacket also serve as pockets to hold two miniature comic books. Simon Winchester's _The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology_ (2001) includes a jacket that unfolds into a large reproduction of Smith's 1815 topographic map of England. And Pamela Anderson's no-doubt ghost-written novel, _Star Struck_ (2005), also has a fold-out jacket, with lots of naked Pam front & back, or, um, so I've heard. --Jon Meyers ----------------------------------------------------------- Reposted so as to help clear some of the rubbish from the listings and cache, which may otherwise deter casual readers |
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