Heinemann Uncorrected Proof Copy

May 30, 2017 8:39 AM

Patricia Highsmith First Edition Book Cover Gallery
posted by griphus (10 comments total)

I can literally smell my grandmother's bookshelf looking at those covers.
posted by bq at 8:52 AM on May 30, 2017 [6 favorites]

Man, book covers peaked in the late 50's and have been going downhill since.
posted by jetsetsc at 9:44 AM on May 30, 2017 [4 favorites]

I understand, I suppose, why different editions printed in different eras have different covers for marketing and whatever other reasons. But I don't know why you'd publish This Sweet Sickness with anything other than this perfect cover.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:45 AM on May 30, 2017 [3 favorites]

I love it
posted by growabrain at 9:50 AM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

I had to make a prop version of an early edition of The Price of Salt for a play this year. I ended up using this cover, instead of the first edition cover. It was mostly because we wanted the prop to read "character is reading lesbian pulp fiction, with bonus knowledge for people who know the book" and less "character is reading an older book." But I had so much fun putting that together.

Old book covers are delightful. Patricia Highsmith's are particularly so.
posted by JustKeepSwimming at 10:51 AM on May 30, 2017 [2 favorites]

As a follow up, I'm kinda sad that they went with the 1990 edition of Carol here, instead of The Price of Salt.
posted by JustKeepSwimming at 10:54 AM on May 30, 2017 [2 favorites]

Old book covers are delightful. Patricia Highsmith's are particularly so.

The same goes for Graham Greene novels.
posted by Fizz at 3:25 PM on May 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

I love the water colour artwork of the Library Edition Works of Graham Greene I linked up above. They're beautiful and bold.
posted by Fizz at 3:27 PM on May 30, 2017

I read somewhere that highsmith revised TPoS several times.
posted by brujita at 12:02 AM on May 31, 2017

"...writes about men like a spider writes about flies."
posted by mule98J at 10:50 AM on May 31, 2017