Bookish Covers

A blog of book jackets found in San Francisco Bay Area libraries. By Joey Della Santina.

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Insect Sex Pheromones by Martin Jacobson

“Jacket design by Jorge Hernandez”

Copyright 1972 by Academic Press, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-77360

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“Shugakuin Detached Palace” [packet of postcards]

Cover design unknown

“Peacock Brand, Hyogensha Co. Ltd. Kyoto, Japan”

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Encyclopaedia of Superstitions by E. & M. A. Radford

Edited and revised by Christina Hole

“Jacket design by Ralph Mabey based on The Sabbath: St. James the Elder combating the diabolical enchantments of a magician composed by Breughel the Elder. Printed in Great Britain”

First published 1948

Third impression 1969

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69–20013

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The Art of War by Sun-Tzu

Penguin Books – Great Ideas

“Cover artwork: David Pearson at Penguin”

“Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2006″

ISBN 9780143037521

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Tijerina: Land Grant Conflict in New Mexico by Michael Jenkinson

Cover design unknown

“Copyright 1968, Ben Pollack”

Paisano Press Station D Box 3353 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110

Library of Congress Card: 70-76530

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Guidelines Establishing Requirements for Security and Confidentiality of Information Systems prepared by the Intergovernmental Board On Electronic Data Processing [State of California]

Cover design unknown

“January 1974″

“STATE OF CALIFORNIA DOCUMENTS SECTION“

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Anatomy of Spying by Ronald Seth

Jacket design by Francis Smith

Copyright 1961 by Ronald Seth

“Arthur Baker Limited 20 New Bond Street London W1″

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Roe’s principles of chemistry (12th ed.) by Alice Laughlin

Jacket design unknown

Copyright 1976 by The C. V. Mosby Company

ISBN 0-8016-1470-8

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The Human Species by Anthony Burnett

Cover design by Colin Forbes

Revised edition copyright Anthony Burnett, 1961

“a Pelican Book”

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Bats by Glover Morrill Allen

Jacket design unknown

“Copyright 1939 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.”

This Dover edition is published through special arrangements with the Harvard University Press.”

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Revolutionary Change in Cuba edited by Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Jacket design unknown

Copyright 1971, University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN 0–8229–3232–6

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Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler

Jacket design by Hal Siegel

Copyright 1971 by John Kobler

“Printed in the U.S.A.”

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The Theory of Logical Types by Irving M. Copi

Cover design unknown

“To the memory of Bertrand Russell, a great philosopher and a great man”

Copyright Irving M. Copi 1971

“ISBN 0 7100 7026 8″

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Other Minds by John Wisdom

Cover design unknown

“University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California”

“First California paper-bound printing, 1968, based on a second edition published by Blackwell in 1965″

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Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s by Dale Dubin

Cover design unknown

Copyright 2000 COVER Inc.

ISBN 9780912912066

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Memoirs by Pablo Neruda

“Jacket design by Antonio Frasconi”

Translation Copyright 1976, 1977 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

“FIRST EDITION, 1977″

ISBN 0-374-20660-0

Back of jacket:

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Sex and Society in Nazi Germany by Hans Peter Bleuel

Jacket design by Don Bender

English translation copyright 1973 by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited

ISBN-0-397-00980-1

(Notice the male symbol on the front cover and the female symbol on the back cover)

Back cover: