BookJacketJackpot

Pictures of books found in little libraries. That’s all.

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I can’t walk past a little library without taking a look inside, which is a problem since I walk a lot and there are over 500 little libraries in this city. Using Twitter to justify my compulsive book lust by posting photos of my discoveries therein! #bookjacket #ham

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I migrated my #mastodon account to @[email protected]

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This account has migrated to Mastodon, an open-source decentralized social network not owned by a twit.

My new account is @[email protected]

Fellow book collectors, rare book dealers, bookstores, book obsessives & book jacket designers - come join me there.

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1985 Canadian hardcover of John Fowles’ “A Maggot,” read on a flight to Vienna? A perfect engrossing plane read.

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I honestly want someone to knit me this Matisse sweater today.

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Peak 80s. Pretty sure my mom knit me sweaters from this 1983 pattern book “by top designers.”

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In the genre of girls with long hair racing away from houses. I love the school book order tucked into the cover of this 1981 paperback: Nicholas in grade 6 bought six books in January costing a total of $7.

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Novelization of Murder She Wrote. From 2005? I had no idea the fandom persisted for so long. Left in a #littlelibrary in tribute to the late great Angela Lansbury.

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Bright cheery yellow 1968 Canadian paperback edition of Anne of Green Gables. Anne looks very abandoned on the front cover; anxiously waiting for a child to pick up the book and keep her company.

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The unicorn-Pegasus on the cover of this 1984 edition of A Swiftly Tilting Planet definitely aroused my most fervent childhood devotion. Funny I have completely forgotten the plot all these decades later.

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I like the retro-Deco aesthetic of this reprint of a 1928 whodunit, featuring aesthete detective Philo Vance. It was also adapted into a 1929 film.

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Nora Roberts en français. There are over 50 novels in this series, which are published in English under the pen name J D Robb. To think I haven’t even read a single one, in any language!

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1959 Penguin edition of Ngaio Marsh’s Final Curtain. Once doubled as a coaster. Tea or coffee?

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News from the US these days be like this #thisismyburneraccountthatssupposedtodistractmefromthehorrorofpolitics

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A Puritan romance published by a Christian pastor. What could be more enticing? (Basically anything)

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Suitably dull cover for this novel about a bureaucrat in the 25th century who is responsible for investigating time travellers.

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@Sectorbob There are 52 Dray Prescott books, written under a pseudonym by Kenneth Bulmer, who wrote over 160 sci-fi novels published under all sorts of names. I guess whoever donated this stack of titles to the book box was a Bulmer fan.

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Walked by an unfamiliar book box last night that was packed to the gills with sci-fi titles from the 60s and 70s. I think the Psi High cover is the trippiest.

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The widowed heroine love interest in Warpath (1982) doesn’t let living in Fort Detroit in 1763 stand in the way of having gorgeously feathered hair.

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The Derby Man might believe in law and order, but he scoffs at fire safety. Looks like he gave up on the town of Bodie and set it aflame. 1982 paperback.

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An erotic horror novel first published in 1968. The detective receives a snuff film in the mail, showing his partner being killed by a vampire, and he uncovers a world of supernatural brutal sex games. 1985 paperback. The original cover from 68 is brilliant.