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We have a few books on cover design:

Author Powers, Alan, 1955- 
Title Front cover : great book jacket and cover design / Alan Powers. 
Publication Info. London : Mitchell Beazley, 2001.
ISBN 1840004215
(1920s-1990s)

Title Covers & jackets! : what the best dressed books & magazines are wearing / [compiled by] Steven Heller & Anne Fink. 
Publication Info. Glen Cove, NY : Library of Applied Design ; New York, NY : Distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Rizzoli International Pubications Inc.,, c1993.
ISBN 0866361952
(1990s)

Title Fully booked : cover art & design for books / [edited by Robert Klanten, Matthias Hübner]. 
Publication Info. Berlin : Gestalten, c2008
ISBN 3899552091,    9783899552096
(2005-2007)

For the most current book jacket design, I'd look at various design annuals like the Graphis Design Annual which has a section on books.

Title Graphis design. 
Publication Info. Zurich (Switzerland) : Graphis Press Corp. ; New York, N.Y. (USA) : Graphis U.S. Inc., c1952?-
ISBN 1932026533

Jennifer Faist
Library Systems and Digital Collections Administrator
James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library
Art Center College of Design
1700 Lida Street
Pasadena, CA   91103
626-296-2236
From: "Lockard, Ray Anne" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Lockard, Ray Anne" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:19:36 -0700
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Book Jacket Design

Hello Colleagues,

 

We have a Studio Arts faculty member who has requested that I buy some books on book jacket design.  Do any of you that serve studio arts collections have any good suggestions – fairly recent publications?  Thanks so much, in advance for your help!  Ray Anne Lockard

 

Bibliographer and Public Services Librarian
Frick Fine Arts Library
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA  15260
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