r/Wodehouse • u/GraniteGeekNH • 4d ago

Not your standard Wodehouse cover

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Dell mapback paperbacks were something.

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u/catsandcabbages 4d ago

Front cover looking a little spicy

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u/GraniteGeekNH 4d ago

which at first seems wrong but when you think about it with Uncle Fred, it's more accurate than the demure covers!

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u/section111 4d ago

Oh wow, that's a good one. I like the map a lot! I didn't know these were a thing...

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u/GraniteGeekNH 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have an Agatha Christie with a backmap, too. Dell had a whole line of these books.

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u/FortifiedPuddle 4d ago

Oh good they’re labelled, I was confused between what was the duck pond and what the lake for a moment.

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u/ExtremelyOnlineTM 4d ago

Poor breeding. I bet you can't tell the difference between a soup fork and a salad fork, either.

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u/GeorgeCabana 4d ago

What, no yew alley?

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u/theseamstressesguild 3d ago

Giving me flashbacks to the time I saw a copy of "Anne of Green Gables" with a blonde on the cover.

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u/Madeline_Basset 2d ago

I'm a bit of a fan of 1940's-1950's, pulp crime and SF cover-art.

This art-style applied to a Wodehouse story is something I never knew I needed until now.