No Country for Old Men, cover by David Pearson

This is a very good example of a text-only cover that works. The only thing I am not too sure about is the amount of scrunched-in kearning. I would like the letters spaced out a little bit more, but other than that this book does suit the material beautifully. The text looks like aged wood, with the grains headed in different directions. The fact that the letters themselves are not uniform is just something that draws you into this cover. The bottom of the cover could do without the "Utterly Compelling, Lucid, and Thrilling" -Sunday Times review. Putting a review on the front cover of a book is like putting someone's opinion of cereal on the front of the box. People aren't usually interested in someone else's opinion of a book unless that reviewer has a following, so that stuff belongs on the back with the plot summary. This cover may look far from new, but at least it shows the age and time of the story.


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