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Speaking of pulpy covers, I really dig the covers for the Hard Case Crime line of books. I've been known to import British versions of books because of superior cover art (to me, anyhow). Traitor's Blade is a good example. Here are the two side by side (UK on the left):  The same goes for Joe Abercrombie's books because the US covers have just gotten loving stupid:  I read a fair bit of fantasy, so I understand that bad covers are inevitable. That said, I hate when publishers gently caress things up mid-series. The Iron Elves books had visually-striking covers for the first two books, and then a big pile of poo poo for the third. It was kind of sad seeing the author try to be upbeat about it. Of course, they've since gone back and made equally lovely covers for the first two books.    And while searching for these images, I discovered that the artist for the first two did a cover for the third that was used during pre-publication press I guess, and it's pretty damned good: 
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Some more covers I'm particularly fond of:    The Horrifying Presence and Other Tales by Jean Ray
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a kitten posted:Even though I own a digital copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, someday I'm going to fork over the money for a 1st edition because it has one of the greatest covers I've ever seen. They aren't terribly expensive unless you're looking for a fine copy; The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House are the Jackson books that go for big bucks.
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