You can almost smell the used bookstore smell through the screen.
Though this online collection of book covers is not new – it’s been up for years – it is still stellar. things magazine has photographed a near-comprehensive collection of Pelican trade paperbacks and cataloged them by year, creating a glorious snapshot of book cover design from the 1930′s to the 1980′s.
things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world.
For a journey through seemingly random yet striking collections of ephemera, see also Failed Sudoku and this gorgeous foursome of survival books.
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[...] week on Bangback, we’ve looked at an online archive of book covers and some beautifully designed specimens of print. Here’s an entry that is at once both of [...]