Hard Cover Books

Yves Saint Laurent

Florence Muller & Farid Chenourne

The Velvet Underground: New York Art

Kugelberg, Johan, Reed, Lou

The Selby is in Your Place

Todd Selby

My Favorite Dress

Gity Monsef, Samantha Erin Sager & Robert de Niet

There's just something about hard cover books that feel more special then their paperback counterparts. Perhaps its the fact that they don't fit in book shelves, or hands, the fact that they smell nice (creepy yes.) and use lovely grainy paper. Since when did "coffee table book" become a bad word? when did it suddenly mean the books had no substance? Sure you can't read them on the train, but the only reason their on the coffee table is because their too big for the shelves.

I love pulp fiction paper backs, for all the opposite reasons as to why I love hardbacks, but this post would be 5 pages long if I was to photo montage all the paperback novels I love. Also, I know this is... kind of old news but, I love that Penguin and Virago Books have started using covers that have this sense of oldness to them, or in the case of Penguin-- returning to the oh-so-trendy "no frills" packaging, it makes me feel like I'm buying books in the 1950s.

Lie to me and tell me that those book covers didn't make you a little excited...

I utterly disagree with the statement "never judge a book by its cover".