Page "Dust jacket" Paragraph 17
from
Wikipedia
Dust jackets from the 1920s and later were often decorated in art deco styles which are highly prized by collectors.
The most famous example is the jacket on the first edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925.
Other examples of highly prized jackets include those on most of Ernest Hemingway's titles, and the first editions of books such as Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, among many others.
Prices for dust jackets have become so inflated in recent years that even early reprints of certain titles in jacket can command good prices.
Conversely, if the book itself is unimportant, or at least has little demand, the jacket is usually of little value either, but nearly all surviving pre-1920 jackets add some additional value to the book they cover.
Page 1 of 1.
1.873 seconds.