Happy World Book Day: 11 Beautiful Book Covers from the 1920s
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SUTTER'S GOLD
This series was established in 1817, and this volume is believed to be from 1927.
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SKAZKI
Ida Zeitlin's collection of Russian folk tales dates to 1926.
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REVELRY
This 1926 book's cover certainly gives lie to its title, huh? It's about the scandals of the administration of President Warren G. Harding.
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MAN POSSESSED
This collection of Benét's poetry was originally published in 1927.
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THE CUBICAL CITY
Flanner wrote a column for The New Yorker under a pseudonym for nearly 50 years.
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EARLY AUTUMN
Bromfield's 1927 tale of an old New England family at the end of its heyday won a Pulitzer Prize.
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BURNED EVIDENCE
One of the oldest books here, Woodrow's murder mystery was originally published in 1925.
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CAPRICIOUS WINDS
Chicago's Helen Birch Bartlett was both a published composer and poet. (Capricious Winds, a collection of her poetry, was published in 1927.) She and her husband accrued quite the collection of paintings, including Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Paul Gauguin's Day of the God, and Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, which today comprises a good chunk of the Art Institute of Chicago's collection.
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BRONX BALLADS
This collection of witty songs dates to 1927.
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ADVENTURES WITH BIG FISH
Wood's 1925 book covers the whaling industry. His other works also focused on the sea, including a collection of stories from shipwreck survivors.
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LIFE AND LETTERS
This is the first-volume cover of Conrad's Life and Letters.