ILB: Post your canonical covers here

Such as this one from the first paperback edition of The Dog of the South
http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780553341690-us.jpg

Prior to this it had fallen out of print:
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/09/books/5-year-old-southern-novel-enjoys-a-sales-boom.html

The hardback, that is.

This edition of The Stranger was in the spinning paperback rack of every public library everywhere when I was coming up http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/7755782156_2e0cbbe820_z.jpg

The much beloved Impressionist Lite cover of The Sun Also Rises
http://billadamsphd.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Sun-Also-Rises-PM.jpg

The green and yellow background Evelyn Waugh's, such as The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/photo.goodreads.com/books/1348477491i/1060081._UY200_.jpg

Or Scoop
http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348573218l/531260.jpg

Put Out More Flags
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0187/2886/products/L2420683_1024x1024.jpg?v=1393953696

Later editions of Charlie Gillett's The Sound of the City all have lots of pictures of star performers on the cover, but the original one I read had this amazing guitar jukebox hybrid image
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UYQeEHwBL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Old school Dalkey Archive covers, especially fo Wittgenstein's Mistress:
https://cover.archinform.net/m/9780916583507.jpg

bought a bunch of these 70s editions of Evelyn Waugh books with covers by Bentley/Farrell/Burnett from my local oxfam bookshop when I was a student

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6087/6055469755_844511e539_b.jpg

there have been much hipper versions of this since, but this Lord of the Flies cover is really burned into my brain

http://cdn.mhpbooks.com/2011/11/lotf2.png

there have been a zillion covers of gravity's rainbow but this one, which freaked me out a little when i first looked at it in a waldenbooks sometime in the late 90s, remains the "real" one for me:

https://www.waste.org/pynchon-l/grcover1.jpg

Either that or t he other GR cover with a somewhat similar idea:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Gravitys_rainbow_cover.jpg
#i always get those two mixed up

This is what I think of as the "real" Lord of the Flies
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6532799-M.jpg

that GR cover JD posted looks like a VHS more than a book, something about the proportions of the text

also that Camus looks like the best lost pop punk album art

*post* punk

I had this one on me a lot in high school/early college

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/PenalColony.jpg/220px-PenalColony.jpg

The GR cover that James Redd posted is oddly disconcerting.

How did Frank Miller end up doing the most recent one?

I mean the one JD posted. The classic one still makes me a little queasy too tho.

Avon paperback of The Last Gentleman, with Will Barrett looking through a telescope at what is presumably Central Park
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31FB-OqURPL._BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

those penguin waughs are great... a few there i've never seen before. similarly, the penguin ionicus wodehouse covers!

my canonical lord of the flies...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/6c/b5/836cb59f1362200e4f555ffdd81ddceb.jpg

When I was a teenaged Wyndham maniac, these Peter Lord covers were THE covers...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SKTXbQVsrnI/AAAAAAAABWI/5VpRGeDdX0s/s400/peng+86+peter+lord+%285%29.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hvV0JHPYX_I/SKTXboxbCdI/AAAAAAAABWQ/DRRZar1tWWI/s400/peng+86+peter+lord+%284%29.jpg

My generation's Lord Of The Flies
http://cdn.mhpbooks.com/2011/11/lotf3-320x483.jpg

You would see this version of I Sing the Body Electric! with the eerie mummy-meld cover on a shelf at seemingly every other household in the seventies in the US.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ia-FbHxcUB4/UAniFy2P3II/AAAAAAAAAGE/Tj1b7yIUcnA/s1600/ray_bradbury_i_sing_the_body_electric_cover.8u6z4e94wq4oscok804w04ss.d28e1p3urvkkosc8o0okcc0sg.th.jpeg

Usually side by side with this version of The Illustrated Man.
http://highwaytomars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/illustrated_man.jpg

This exercise reminds of that recent thread - I can't recall the exact title - called something like "How strong is your inner vision center?" because, while I have some reasonably strong sense of the general layout of these covers in my memory, many of the details have long been forgotten, if they were ever remarked upon in the first place.

"My" Code of the Woosters
http://wodehouse.ru/cover/e/59-02.jpg

And Leave it to Psmith
http://2016.wodehouse.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wh08_big1.jpg

Looks like Jonathan Rosenbaum had the same copy of The Last Gentleman that I had: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2016/04/dr-percy-to-the-rescue-on-walker-percys-the-second-coming/

http://www.therocktraveler.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Readability006.jpg

Much canonicals here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/26518458@N05/sets/72157628002693444/

Not sure about that Code of the Woosters cover, I seem to remember Jeeves making his feeling about moustaches pretty clear.

Okay, confirmation and new recollection. Saw "my" Lord of the Flies as above
https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6532799-M.jpg
on a table of used books at 8th Street and 6th Avenue and in the pile of books was one of these Sigmund Freud editions:
http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780393096514-us.jpg

What's black and white and re(a)d all over?

Sigmund judges us all and finds us wanting

http://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780393096514-us.jpg
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my decades of posting here is 'What does ILB want?'

Not sure about that Code of the Woosters cover, I seem to remember Jeeves making his feeling about moustaches pretty clear.

Used to see this cover of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang everywhere. Still have yet to read myself.

http://www.lwcurrey.com/pictures/medium/135665.jpg

That cover for The Sound and the Fury has a similar Red Sky theme to those for Gravity's Rainbow. Probably could do a whole thread about that in itself. Also, surprised no one posted anything for Dhalgren yet.

Reposting the very slightly changed Jonathan Rosenbaum Walker Percy link: http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1980/07/dr-percy-to-the-rescue-on-walker-percys-the-second-coming/.

There are dozens of different covers for Heinlein's 'Space Cadet' and 'Starship Troopers', but these are the ones I remember:
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SpaceCadet_790.JPG
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bb/a8/40/bba840c9b22938f7b30957b4c032b383.jpg

This was the cover of Starship Troopers I had. Very effectively menacing.
https://www.worldswithoutend.com/alt_covers/starship_troopers7.jpg

All the Len Deighton covers that used this font:
http://www.bookgasm.com/wp-content/images//BDBALT.jpg

Think maybe some recent Len Deighton covers pay tribute to that look.

Came to post all the Saul Bellow covers that looked like these:
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780380009619-us-300.jpg
http://thesmartestbookclubever.com/perch/resources/book_covers/henderson-the-rain-king-w800.jpg

this was the version of Lord of the Flies we had in my school library, the cover to the first edition by Anthony Gross:

http://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2011/11/lotf11-320x484.png

And the Avon cover of Herzog, recently discussed on the current rolling thread
https://pictures.abebooks.com/100POCKETS/md/md15248976356.jpg

Not a Delillo fan, so I like how inappropriately cheesey this one is:

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780394741215-us.jpg

there have been a zillion covers of gravity's rainbow but this one, which freaked me out a little when i first looked at it in a waldenbooks sometime in the late 90s, remains the "real" one for me:

I take my stand on this

i used to have a copy of that one! i loaned it to someone who never returned it >:[

The original cover of Mystery Trainhttps://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--0SFBtWYu--/f_auto,t_large/v1548875166/ddmahcmmmt9ns6yex3j4.jpg

Later covers emphasized Elvis - seems there was at least one edition with a Warhol Double Elvis- and now there is just a black on white image of a guitar headstock.

*bumpit*

Just saw this weird gimme pile of books I will try to describe later