A new edition of Voltaire’s Candide with a cover by Chris Ware came out a few months ago. At the time, it was announced that there would other books in this series with covers by other famous artists, and I’ve been waiting to see them ever since. The other other day Penguin’s Summer 2006 catalog arrived, and I was excited to see that the covers are in there. I was going to wait until the pictures were up online somewhere before posting them, but it was taking too long, so I scanned them. Candide is already out, the rest are out on March 28:
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| Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Cover by Anders Nilsen | The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Cover by Art Spiegelman |
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| Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Cover by Roz Chast | The Portable Dorothy Parker, Cover by Seth |
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| The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Cover by Charles Burns | Candide by Voltaire, Cover by Chris Ware |
See the full-size pictures here
Update: See Part Two
