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Re: Cover Art on VN Paperbacks (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. My own favorite is the Ted CoConis cover for the 1970
Fawcett paperback of ADA. There is a small color reproduction of it in The
HARVARD MAGAZINE (July-Aug. 1986), p. 38. I hazily recall that Coconis
told me that the Fawcett editor told him (TC) that VN liked it. I think
Coconis did a commercially available poster version of it. He sent me a
large black and white specimen.
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From Galya Diment:
This is not really about paperbacks but it is about cover illustrations
and Nabokov. He really liked the final product by Milton Glaser of the
dust jacket for PNIN. He wrote to Jason Epstein the year PNIN was out:
"The jacket is absolutely splendid -- I never imagined than an illustrator
could render an author's vision so accurately." My publisher and I just
negotiated, successfully, with Milton Glaser to use the same drawing for
the dust jacket of my PNINIAD since the drawing comes so highly
recommended by Nabokov...
Galya Diment
Fawcett paperback of ADA. There is a small color reproduction of it in The
HARVARD MAGAZINE (July-Aug. 1986), p. 38. I hazily recall that Coconis
told me that the Fawcett editor told him (TC) that VN liked it. I think
Coconis did a commercially available poster version of it. He sent me a
large black and white specimen.
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From Galya Diment:
This is not really about paperbacks but it is about cover illustrations
and Nabokov. He really liked the final product by Milton Glaser of the
dust jacket for PNIN. He wrote to Jason Epstein the year PNIN was out:
"The jacket is absolutely splendid -- I never imagined than an illustrator
could render an author's vision so accurately." My publisher and I just
negotiated, successfully, with Milton Glaser to use the same drawing for
the dust jacket of my PNINIAD since the drawing comes so highly
recommended by Nabokov...
Galya Diment