Thursday 19 August 2010

Dorian Gray - no 45.

Penguin Classics 2010

Price: a gift from Friend 2; back indicates it was $6.99, reduced to $4.99

History: Friend 2 returned from America with three rather lovely presents for me.

Look: This is the best of the three covers, a very punchy cartoon-style youth with a cold, savage expression. It's simplicity - three colours, line drawing - is eyecatching and alluring. Dark blue isn't a colour I'd associate with the book, but it works marvellously. A favourite design.

Introductions/appendices:
Short biography and chronology, plus a facimile of the original front page - nothing worth writing about.

Captured: ?-8-10

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