Poets & Writers Theater

In this video from Adam Savage’s Tested, the host visits the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco and speaks with executive director Anita Engles about the history of book cover designs and proves that maybe you can judge a book by its cover.

In this Penguin Random House video, book designer Vi-An Nguyen narrates the progression of her cover options for The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel about two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation who find refuge in each other.

First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been reprinted in many different editions and in many different formats. Richard from AbeBooks.com counts down thirty of the covers used to illustrate the novel over the past eighty-eight years.