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Bookcovers rarely have the staying power of album covers, which build up a distinct relationship with the music.
Bookcovers move from the ephemeral to something approaching art when there is a tight relationship between publisher, designer and, best of all, author.
Pentagram had the idea in the 1980s when gaudy, postmodern covers were all the rage, by redesigning Faber and Faber's catalogue in a conservative, plain, but effective style, with the new "ff" logo and strict, formal rules for variety within an overall brand identity.
Some international covers display the book's homoeroticism, while some depict the character of Jim as a tennis instructor (which he is for a time).
The first five bookscover the time from the American Revolution through the first two decades of the 20th Century.
Its cover is quite phallic and provocative: the front (at left) pictures a shapely woman straddling the barrel of a gun and wearing only an American flag, with a hotdog held high in her hand; and the back (at right) shows - well, a rear view of the same woman wearing even less.
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