{"id":4081,"date":"2013-04-16T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2013-04-16T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:16:35","slug":"a-book-by-its-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-book-by-its-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book By Its Covers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/04\/GreatGatsby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4082\" alt=\"GreatGatsby\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/04\/GreatGatsby-300x276.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/04\/GreatGatsby-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/04\/GreatGatsby.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Francis Coradal-Cugat\u2019s original cover art for \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Great-Gatsby-Scott-Fitzgerald\/dp\/0743273567\">The Great Gatsby<\/a>,\u201d which Baz Luhrmann brings to the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreatgatsby.warnerbros.com\/\">big screen<\/a> next month, depicts a disembodied face floating in a night sky. It is one of the lasting images in literature, but that hasn\u2019t kept book designers from trying to outdo it. The scholar and F. Scott Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli spent his adult life stockpiling those efforts \u00ad\u2014 pulpy paperbacks, fancy slip-covers, French-flapped foreign editions \u2014 and today his trove is not only one of the world\u2019s most complete collections but also an illuminating cross section of 83 years of book design. Now housed at the University of South Carolina, the collection is worth several million dollars but Bruccoli, who died in 2008, claimed he was never motivated by money. \u201cYou don\u2019t buy books as an investment,\u201d he said. \u201cYou buy them because it gives you pleasure to read them, to touch them . . . to see them on shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From: http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/09\/a-book-by-its-covers\/?ref=design-issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Coradal-Cugat\u2019s original cover art for \u201cThe Great Gatsby,\u201d which Baz Luhrmann brings to the big screen next month, depicts a disembodied face floating in a night sky. It is one of the lasting images in literature, but that hasn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-book-by-its-covers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-about-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}