This falls beneath the category, “In order for you it accomplished proper, you must do it yourself.”
In 1950, when Jack Kerouac launched his first novel, The City and the Metropolis, he was lower than impressed by the guide cover professionalduced by his publisher, Harcourt docket Brace. (Click on right here to see why.) So, in 1952, when he started storeping his second novel, the nice beat classic On the Street, Kerouac went forward and designed his personal cover. He despatched it to a potential publisher A.A. Wyn, with a little observe typed on the very high:
Pricey Mr. Wyn:
I submit this as my concept of an attractioning commercial cover expressive of the guide. The cover for “The City and the Metropolis” was as boring because the title and the photo againflap. Wilbur Pippin’s photo of me is the perfect On the Street one … it’ll seem like the face of the figure under.
J.Okay.
Wyn turned down the novel, and it willn’t get published till 1957. It might, however, grow to be a finestvendor and be published with many different covers by way of the years. They’re all on display right here.
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