Re: The Seymour/RHtR Cover
Richard Lampe (rlampe@mathcs.richmond.edu)
Wed, 08 Oct 1997 07:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, anaconda wrote:
> Secondly, the covers of the Salinger books are completely empty
> of anything. I suppose it has been some time since I have bought
> Salinger new, and these might have been around for awhile, but what
> an awful thing Time-Warner has done to the Salinger books. None of
> them portray any personality whatsoever.
I don't think this is anything Time-Warner has done to the books, but is
something JDS has reqested or demanded himself. I read somewhere that the
covers should be white and as plain as possible, so that the cover would
not sell the book. Rather, let the book stand on its own merits
or on the reputation of its author, instead of marketing it with a glitzy
cover.
RickL