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The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers ; these flaps may also double as bookmarks .
Early 1860s duster. The original dusters were full-length, light-colored canvas or linen coats worn by horsemen in the United States to protect their clothing from trail dust.
Full dust jacket. front: Author: Jacket drawing by John O'Hara Cosgrave . Photograph by William Cole: Permission (Reusing this file) No permission is required because the dust jacket was first published prior to 1978 without a valid copyright notice.
Gelett Burgess c. 1910. In the US, the history of the blurb is said to begin with Walt Whitman's collection, Leaves of Grass.In response to the publication of the first edition in 1855, Ralph Waldo Emerson sent Whitman a congratulatory letter, including the phrase "I greet you at the beginning of a great career": the following year, Whitman had these words stamped in gold leaf on the spine of ...
When the book has a soft or hard cover with dust jacket, the cover yields all or part of its informational function to the dust jacket. On the inside of the cover page, extending to the facing page is the front endpaper sometimes referred as FEP. The free half of the end paper is called a flyleaf. Traditionally, in hand-bound books, the ...
The back flap of the dust jacket is not shown in its entirety, so the lack of a copyright notice is not certain. However, at least four dust jackets featuring the same cover art, but from a different printing, are known to be published without a copyright notice. WorthPoint; WorthPoint; WorthPoint; WorthPoint
Original Dust Jacket, Nesthäkchen im Kinderheim. Illustration by Robert Sedlacek Illustration by Robert Sedlacek Sedlacek trained with Siegmund L'Allemand , 1900-1904, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and became a middle school teacher 1904.
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