Speaking of book covers, I saw a few of Harland Miller’s enormous fictional Penguin book cover paintings in Rotterdam the other week. My favorite one is “Wake Up and Smell the Coffin” also by Poe but I couldn’t find a good image.
From some point after its incoporation to the early 80s, the Library Association of Portland, which later became Multnomah County Library, operated its own bindery. Besides visually and texturally uniting runs of periodicals and sets of reference books on the shelves, the bindery, together with the mending department, breathed new life into well-read books.
He’s started a collection of these striking covers which is fun to browse. Thanks, Caleb!
137 years of archives now available via Google Books.
Majorly distracted over here.
Nothing library related, just some inspiration for a Monday morning.
