I had the week of Thanksgiving off from work so as a little project I thought I’d give one of my old hardcover’s a dust jacket. I have this old first edition (eighth printing) of The Postman Always Rings Twice I bought for a few bucks a number of years back that is coverless. So that became my project.
I googled around to see if I could just find a high-resolution scan to print, but no luck. I did find a facsimile dust jacket for sale for 25 bucks, but that is 5 times what I paid for the book. So that didn’t make much sense to me. The image on that site didn’t really serve to make the cover I needed, the details were too hard to see. So next I found a listing for the book on Abe Book, a great online bookselling site— like Discogs for books, that contained a couple photos of the dust jacket.
Using that I was able to re-create a pretty close, but not exact, duplicate of the dust jacket. I printed it out, cut it out, and wrapped it in mylar and now I have a passable dust jacket for my copy of The Postman Always Rings Twice. Which is pretty fun.
