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Some of them are worth far more than the books they cover. The most famous example is the jacket on the first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. Without jacket, the book brings $1,000 or so. With the jacket it can bring $20,000 or $30,000 or more, depending on condition.
A tiny sample is extracted from the book's covering and the collagen analysed by mass spectrometry to identify the variety of proteins which are characteristic of different species. PMF can identify skin as belonging to a primate ; since monkeys were almost never used as a source of skin for bindings, this implies human skin.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Dustwrapper (same as dust jacket, or book jacket) [1] Ed.: Edition or editor.
Extension projects Extension projects can take the form of numerous creative and artistic student products, from book jackets to visual media or printed forms. Projects provide readers with "additional ways to revisit what they've read, continue the conversations (and the discoveries), and create even more meaning" (Schlick Noe & Johnson, 1999).
Lynton ("Larry") Lamb RDI, FSRA, FSIA (15 April 1907 – 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs. [1] [2]
H. Lawrence Hoffman (23 October 1911 – 20 January 1977) was a commercial book jacket designer, illustrator,calligrapher and painter who worked in New York City. He illustrated book covers for over 25 publishing companies, including Alfred A Knopf, Pocket Books, Popular Library, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, The Viking Press, and Random House.
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For books, the article name should be the short title of the book, for example the book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating has the article name The 100-Mile Diet. If the article name is already taken, there are two options: either use the long title (such as Power: A New Social Analysis) or the disambiguation "book" (such as Outliers).