There’s always interest in posts which look at vintage book covers, and here are a few of my favourites of the family bookshelf scanned up. These will interest those of you with an eye for design as much as the history lovers among you. Personally I love the image of Leinster House on the front of John B.Keane’s book, as well as this colourful cover for Borstal Boy, the “bawdy swaggering outrageous bestseller.”
John B. Keane- Letters Of A Successful T.D (1967)
Brendan Behan- Borstal Boy (1958)
Oliver St John Gogarty- As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1968)
Liam O’Flaherty- The Informer (1964)
Richard Bennett- The Black and Tans (1970)
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
I think the John B. Keane one has aged very well. Simple, plain, abstract and well executed.
I like the last one. In Ireland everything is a black and tan issue..
Some similar stuff on Hitone’s Vintage Irish Book Covers.
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