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Old 11-12-2010, 01:18 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by frankelr View Post
Could someone please point me to a link where I can
find down-loadable book cover files. My main interest is covers
for public domain books such as are found at Gutenberg or Manybooks.
The problem with that is books old enough to be in the public domain come largely before the standard was to have artwork on the covers. This, for example, is the original cover of The Time Machine (from Wikipedia)

http://www.dollsofcolor.org/blog/wp-...1895_cover.jpg

And this looks, as far as I can tell, to be the first cover of Tom Sawyer:

http://www.amazon.com/ADVENTURES-TOM.../dp/B003JMEO1M
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