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Old June 8th 06, 01:14 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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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Old June 8th 06, 02:42 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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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Old June 8th 06, 04:27 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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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Old June 8th 06, 12:55 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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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.
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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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Old June 12th 06, 05:45 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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Default 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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Old July 14th 06, 12:29 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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"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


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Old July 14th 06, 12:29 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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"Steven" wrote in message
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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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listings and cache, which may otherwise deter casual readers



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Old July 14th 06, 12:30 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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"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


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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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