Speaking of things that make you drool. I came across this yesterday too (it's amazing I got any work done yesterday).I saw this cover on the excellent The Oxen of the Sun blog, which covers all things book design. As I design a book a year at the moment, I like to check out the latest book design fetish items a bit, and dream about making more books.
Nabokov's The Original of Laura was the book he was working on when he died. He said he didn't want it published, but his son kept hold of it, and seems to have allowed it to be published. They have done an amazing job. Chip Kidd was the designer, which after a bit of research doesn't seem like a surprise, as he seems to be the Johnathan Ive of book design.
Nabokov apparently wrote his books on index cards. This book has been published with a photo of each of the original index cards on each page, and then a printed text version below it.
The back of the index card is displayed on the reverse of the page, so you get pencil smudges and notes etc. PLUS, the index cards are perforated too, so in theory you could pop them all out and have an original version of the book as it was written.
Plus the cover is amazing. Very understated... very black. Another geeky purchase I feel.
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