Comments on: Salinger’s design clause http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/ For the organization and appreciation of book cover design Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:42:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ein toter Salinger und drei Antworten - Gunnar Geller http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/comment-page-1/#comment-18205 Ein toter Salinger und drei Antworten - Gunnar Geller Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:32:17 +0000 http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/?p=407#comment-18205 [...] “In the 1950s Salinger had a clause put in his publisher’s contracts that insisted only the text of the title of the book and his name were to appear on any future editions of his work, and absolutely no images. This hard line was particularly prompted by an early fatal experience with a publisher who covered a collection of short stories, then titled for Esmé – with Love and Squalour (after one of them) with a dramatic illustrated portrait of a seductive blonde. Salinger’s outrage is understandable: his Esmé is a precocious young girl of seven, and the story depicts a chance encounter and redemptive conversation with a solider on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nevertheless, it’s instructive to see how various publishers and nationalities have dealt with Salinger’s legal one-liner over the past half-decade of reprints and new editions.” (via) [...] [...] “In the 1950s Salinger had a clause put in his publisher’s contracts that insisted only the text of the title of the book and his name were to appear on any future editions of his work, and absolutely no images. This hard line was particularly prompted by an early fatal experience with a publisher who covered a collection of short stories, then titled for Esmé – with Love and Squalour (after one of them) with a dramatic illustrated portrait of a seductive blonde. Salinger’s outrage is understandable: his Esmé is a precocious young girl of seven, and the story depicts a chance encounter and redemptive conversation with a solider on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nevertheless, it’s instructive to see how various publishers and nationalities have dealt with Salinger’s legal one-liner over the past half-decade of reprints and new editions.” (via) [...]

]]> By: jm http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/comment-page-1/#comment-84 jm Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:21:39 +0000 http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/?p=407#comment-84 Ahhhhh Amazon broke the rules and is selling one with an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&tag=deabulmai-20&qid=1233249609&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">image on the cover</a> Ahhhhh Amazon broke the rules and is selling one with an image on the cover

]]> By: Pieratt http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Pieratt Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:01:29 +0000 http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/?p=407#comment-77 Stuart - Thanks for clarifying. Ricardo - I had read that and forgot all about it. Thanks! Stuart – Thanks for clarifying.

Ricardo – I had read that and forgot all about it. Thanks!

]]> By: Ricardo Cordoba http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Ricardo Cordoba Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:39:18 +0000 http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/?p=407#comment-75 Thanks for posting so many great book covers on your blog! Have you seen Michael Bierut's essay on these two covers, <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=119" rel="nofollow">"The Book (Cover) That Changed My Life"</a>? He talks about both of these covers. When the essay was printed in <em>Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design</em>, he added a note in the appendix that says, "I am still waiting for the designer of the maroon cover to come forward." Thanks for posting so many great book covers on your blog! Have you seen Michael Bierut’s essay on these two covers, “The Book (Cover) That Changed My Life”? He talks about both of these covers. When the essay was printed in Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, he added a note in the appendix that says, “I am still waiting for the designer of the maroon cover to come forward.”

]]> By: stuart bailey http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/2009/01/407/comment-page-1/#comment-74 stuart bailey Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:55:28 +0000 http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/?p=407#comment-74 someone just forwarded this to me, and as i'm responsible, i should at least try and respond: the most obvious place i would have read about this is in ian hamilton's 'in search of j.d. salinger', a biography-of-sorts which was apparently cut to a shadow of its former self by salinger's lawyers. unfortunately my copy has gone missing, but i don't think it's too difficult to get hold-of. someone just forwarded this to me, and as i’m responsible, i should at least try and respond: the most obvious place i would have read about this is in ian hamilton’s ‘in search of j.d. salinger’, a biography-of-sorts which was apparently cut to a shadow of its former self by salinger’s lawyers. unfortunately my copy has gone missing, but i don’t think it’s too difficult to get hold-of.

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