Fishink’s selected Vintage Book Covers
For me, some of the best book covers that you may see on the internet or in secondhand shops from the 1950’s through to the 1970’s, are concerned with a few core elements. Colour, shape and movement all wrapped up in a feel-good factor. Here are some classics,
also a few not quite so well known.
Repetition of shape, geometry and colour certainly ruled the day. Gosh they even make ‘Riddles in Mathematics’ by Eugene P. Northrop look kinda funky !
Colour and movement were key elements when attracting the customer to the cover.
This happened across the board. Boys and girl’s books…
Travel …
How to… where to…
Books about relaxation and music.
Farming, industry and life in the city.
Even craft and cookery covers all got that special treatment .
Fab covers don’t you think.
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I think I may have an addiction to this stuff. I love them all, but those fish are just something else – oh and the bottles and stuff on that mango one – exquisite.
Perhaps like me, you have a penchant for all things fish related : )
I’m Pisces!
You win : )
Oh, I was certain you would say that you were too!
Alas no, I’m not a water baby, instead I’m a child of the winter months with a Capricorn’s December birthday. Us goats like the higher rockier crags (apparently!).
Sounds dangerous!
well I guess it would be, if I was a typical Capricorn, however luckily I’m not, so instead preferring the un-craggier low-lying flat areas to live in : )
🙂
Yes, quite fab. I had to chuckle at your comment about the Math book cover… so true. Being ‘math-deficient’, I remember gazing at my new mathematic textbook, knowing that no matter how colorful and interesting the cover was, the inside held such boredom, confusion, and dread for me!
Why is this always the same feeling. I have an excellent picture book called Maths Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. It sums up that feeling of dread and panic perfectly.
Like Alison I love the fish ones, that’s because I’m sea obsessed, not a Pisces. Wonderful post… thank you.
There’s a few of us fisher folk around it seems : )