Illustrated book covers: Death in Venice, Tristan and Tonio Kruger by Thomas Mann

Death in Venice, Tristan and Tonio Kruger by Thomas Mann, published by Penguin Modern Classics, 1962, Middlesex.

Illustrated book covers: The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published by Pan Books, London, 1976.

Illustrated book covers: Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

Published by Pan Books, London, 1973

Illustrated book covers: Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

Published by Fawcett Crest, USA, 1971 

Illustrated book covers: Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury

Published by Corgi Books, London, 1969

Magnet of Doom by Georges Simenon

Published in French in 1947, this English translation was published by Pan-Books in 1956. The imprint page is missing from this copy so I do not have further details. 

The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon

First published in French in 1940, this translation was published by Digit Books, London, 1962.

Other titles by Ray Bradbury in my library

Originally published in 1952, this edition was published by Corgi Books, UK, in 1972.

Originally published in 1957, this edition was published by Granada Publishing, UK, in 1977. 

Originally published in 1963, this edition was published by Panther Books in 1977.

Illustrated book covers: The October Country by Ray Bradbury

The October Country by Ray Bradbury. Originally published in 1955, this edition was reprinted by the New English Library in 1973.

Illustrated book covers: Georges Simenon's Mr Hire's Engagement

Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon, first published in French in 1933. Translated into English in 1956, this edition by Arrow Books was published in 1958. 

Illustrated book covers: Georges Simenon's Maigret's Little Joke

First published in France in 1957 as Maigret s'amuse. Published in English by Arrow Books in 1961; this copy is the second edition from 1963.

Illustrated book covers: Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book

Evergreen Black Cat edition, New York, 1962

Illustrated book covers: Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller

Illustrated cover of a 1962 Pan Books edition of Jack Kerouac's collection of short prose, Lonesome Traveller. It is the only edition of a Kerouac book in my possession that was printed while he was still alive.

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Illustrated book covers

I really love the illustrated covers that books used to have and a big regret of mine was letting slip the opportunity to buy an excellent big book on the history of book covers in the 20th century ( or maybe since the advent of the paperback explosion, I can't recall).

Anyway, here are just some illustrated covers of books in my library at home.