Though shameless self-promotion, I’m still utterly taken with the cover of my own book Art & Art-Attempts (OUP 2013).

https://sites.google.com/site/cmaguidhir/research/books

Not only does it feature my favorite artwork, Tobi Wong’s This is a Lamp (2001)–courtesy of the Wong estate and Tim Dubitsky–but OUP did a killer job with the color scheme. Hate on the insides all you want, the outside kicks serious ass.Report

A poor picture, but this is my favorite:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41P6%2BAg0vyL.jpgReport

It’s nothing fancy, but I’ve always loved the cover of this edition of Quine’s _From a Logical Point of View_, and the typography inside the book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674323513/triskelionlimite/Report

Well I know that you are familiar with this one, Justin, but I think Kevin’s cover to _Is a Little Pollution Good for You_ is pretty awesome.

http://books.google.com/books?id=dqI6k8TIN3MC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=falseReport

The original cover of David Lewis’s ‘Convention’ is a beautiful example of high-modern graphic design, and it also alludes in a clever way to book’s content.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr52ubpLTe1qarkzuo1_1280.png

(I couldn’t find a scan of the cover when I was looking for one a while back, so I created this one in Illustrator.)

I also think that the original cover of ‘Word & Object’ is both beautiful and subtle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_and_Object#mediaviewer/File:Word_and_Object.jpg

For example: the hollowing-out of ‘Word’ might be seen as a metaphorical gesture at Quine’s skeptical views about meanings (i.e., contents). One could also read into the fact that the ascender on the ‘b’ in ‘object’ sticks up and intervenes in the spacing of ‘word’ (but that no letter in ‘word’ touches any letter in ‘object’, whereas it does touch the ampersand), the fact that the most emphasized character on the page is the ampersand that links together ‘word’ and ‘object’, and the fact that both the ‘j’ and the ‘t’ in ‘object’ have had to be amputated so that they could be arranged very closely to ‘word &’.

It’s not clear how much of this was intentional, but it’s fun to think about.Report

I quite like Paul Boghossian’s _Fear of Knowledge_ cover: http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Knowledge-Against-Relativism-Constructivism/dp/0199230412Report