53: New World Paperbacks, part III
April 11, 2011
Following up on last weeks post, and some of last years covers that slipped through the cracks, here is a cool selection of New World Paperbacks (NWP) covers. The original…
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13: New World Paperbacks, Part II
July 5, 2010
Here’s part two of the New World Paperbacks series. I’ve only got a dozen different books on my shelf, but if anyone else out there has some more cool NWP…
12: New World Paperbacks, part I
June 28, 2010
The next couple weeks entries will be focused on the covers of New World Paperbacks, which was an imprint of the Communist Party, USA’s main publishing house International Publishers. I…
256: Little New World (compiled)
January 22, 2018
From the early 20th century through the early 1960s, one of the largest Left organizations in the US (if not the largest) was the Communist Party USA. The propaganda wing…
211: Little New World, part II
February 2, 2015
This week I’m going to go through the second half of Little New World Paperbacks, roughly in order of their issue number. The last number I’ve found is LNW-39, although…
210: Little New World, part I
January 26, 2015
From the early 20th century through the early 1960s, one of the largest Left organizations in the US (if not the largest) was the Communist Party USA. The propaganda…
198: New Century Publishers, part III
October 20, 2014
Back in 2011 I published a couple posts looking at the covers of New Century Publishers, a Communist Party-run press that published from the 1940s into the 1960s, and appears…
67: Updates (Eberhardt and New Century Publishers)
July 18, 2011
For the next week I’m in Pittsburgh helping Justseeds install our piece in the upcoming Pittburgh Biennial, so unfortunately I don’t have a ton of time for the next couple…
66: New Century Publishers
July 11, 2011
A couple months back I was browsing the shelves at the awesome Book Thug Nation bookstore in Brooklyn and I came across a nice paperback copy of Julius Fuchik’s Spanish…
217: A Little Bit o’ Lenin
June 1, 2015
First off, we’ve been hard at work on a brand new Justseeds website, which will vastly transform the experience of both the posting and reading of blog entries like these….
110: Frantz Fanon, part X
July 16, 2012
Here is the final post in this long-running Fanon series. Thanks to all that have been with me for the entire ride! You can see all the covers (133 different…
97: Angela Davis, part III
February 13, 2012
Here’s the last hurrah of the Angela Davis covers (pending any great ones y’all might send in to me!), a collection of books by other authors about Davis and her…
52: Prisons, part VIII (George Jackson)
April 4, 2011
Well, I have to say, I’m pretty excited that I’ve now done a full year’s worth of “Judging Books by Their Covers” blog posts! Week 52! In what has otherwise…
43: Prisons, part V
January 31, 2011
Now I’m going to move into the next sub-collection of prison book covers, books about political prisoners in the U.S. Officially the U.S. does not acknowledge that it holds political…
257: Dover Science and Math
May 21, 2018
While there is a fair amount of literature out there on the “paperback revolution” and the sea change in publications created by the Pocket Books imprint in the US (founded…
252: Penguin Specials
December 4, 2017
The Penguin Special ran for about fifty years, from 1937 through 1989 (although the latest date I’ve seen on one is 1986). Specials covers were red, one of army of…
249: The Wisdom Library
April 17, 2017
While working a shift at Book Thug Nation a couple years back, I stumbled across a couple really nicely designed hardbacks of Sartre’s philosophy. They’re interesting because they simultaneously have…
245: Simenon, part I
December 12, 2016
Following last post’s foray into genre fiction, I’ve now hopped from sci-fi to crime. I’m a huge fan of detective novels and crime fiction, and in some might say that…
244: Philip K. Dick
November 28, 2016
I used to work hard at doing one of these Judging Books by Their Covers posts a week, but I’ve fallen of, and recently realized I’ve been doing more like…
240: Collier’s Af/Am Library
July 4, 2016
While collecting books from the African Writers Series published by Heinemann (I’ll be featuring those books in a future post), I stumbled upon what I first thought was a small…
224: Diane & Leo Dillon
December 7, 2015
Much of what I focus on in these Judging Books blog posts is cover design that is quite rare, either because the politics are marginal (anarchism! communism! socialism! oh my!),…
220: Buchi Emecheta
November 2, 2015
For this week’s post I thought we could stay in Africa, but focus on an author instead of a publisher. Or maybe a combination of the two. One of the…
176: Science Fiction Book Club
April 28, 2014
I recently stumbled upon a small handsome science fiction hardback at a used book sale. The cover of Wilson Tucker’s The Lincoln Hunters is entirely abstract, but still manages to…
174: Zamyatin’s We, part I
March 24, 2014
I’m slightly embarrassed that I only read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s (Eugene Zamiatin) We for the first time about two months ago. Not embarrassed because it’s something everyone should read, but embarrassed…
155: Gorey, Part I
September 16, 2013
One of the great things about working at a bookstore is you start to notice more and more quirky little things about books, stuff that only the week before passed…
150: Students on the Move, Part I
August 12, 2013
The last handful of years have seen an explosion in student organizing, here in the States, but also across the world, with hot spots in the UK, Austria, Sudan, and…
136: Collier’s Af/Am Library, Part III
February 18, 2013
This week is the third and final installment of covers from Collier’s African/American Library series. What we’ve got left are the books by African-Americans, and unlike the African novels, most…
134: Collier’s Af/Am Library, Part I
January 21, 2013
While collecting books from the African Writers Series published by Heinemann (I’ll be featuring those books in a future post), I stumbled upon a small series of African novels produced…
119: Penguin African Library, part IX
September 17, 2012
This is the 9th part of my series on the covers of the Penguin African Library and associated titles, and the second part on the covers of series editor Ronald…
107: Frantz Fanon, part VII
June 25, 2012
Now that I’ve gone through all the Fanon titles proper, here is a collection of strange odds and ends, books that contain Fanon’s writing, but aren’t standard editions. To start…
LIST: Best 12 Books I Read in 2009
March 8, 2010
I’ve been trying to organize some of us Justseed-ers to start posting top ten lists of various things, I’ve always thought they were fun to both write and read. To…