Because of the Cats

Because of the Cats by Nicholas Freeling. It's real:

Chief Inspector Piet Van der Valk of the Amsterdam police has a teenage gang on his hands: they are coming into Amsterdam from out-of-town, and they are remarkably professional. They leave behind a trail of wanton damage, senseless brutality, and rape, and one piece of possible evidence- 'the cats won't like it'. ""Because of the Cats was an international best-seller-indeed its group-murder plot was reenacted in real life shortly after, in Latin America-and Van der Valk acquired a huge following.""

One copy with this cover at eBay. Via.

Clifford Simak's City

Clifford Simak's City. The versions of the cover I spotted at eBay were possibly stranger. Via.

You have to be one heck of an illustrator to get away with a book cover like this

Book cover for On Illustration by Andrzej Klimowski, which apparently contains "only a few illustrations." Here's a sample of his work:










You can see many more of his posters here, and the book can be preordered at Amazon.

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Let's Panic About Babies

This would be better if it was a book collecting media fear-of-the-day stories. Instead, it sounds like a collection of cliched jokes about how babies are a pain to raise. Via.

Frankenstein book cover

Frankenstein (Everyman's Library) by Barbara deWilde available at Amazon. Via.

Polish-style book cover contest entries

My favorite entries from this Polish-style book cover contest:


THe Lord of the Rings by Bas Alberts.



1984 by Ben Jones.



To Kill a Mockingbird by Marc Storrs and Rob Morphy.

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Blog devoted to Polish illustrated books

A few gems from a blog devoted to Polish illustrated books. Via.