"Dust cover" redirects here. For the firearm part, see Dust cover (firearms).
A dust jacket, propped up and partially unfolded for illustration
The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers; these flaps may also double as bookmarks.
Dust jackets originally displayed cover information on top of a simple binding, at a time when it was not feasible to print directly onto the binding. The role of a dust jacket has been largely supplanted by modern hardcover printing technologies, which print such information directly onto the binding.
Modern dust covers still serve to display promotional material and shield the book from damage. The back panel or flaps of the dust cover are printed with biographical information about the author, a summary of the book from the publisher (known as a blurb) or critical praise from celebrities or authorities in the book's subject area. The back of a dust jacket often has a barcode for retail purchase, and the book's ISBN. The information on the dust jacket often resembles that of the binding but may have additional promotions about an edition, and the information on the flaps is not typically copied onto the binding.
The back of a dust jacket, showing the ISBN
The dust jacket protects the book covers from damage. However, since it is itself relatively fragile, and since dust jackets have practical, aesthetic, and sometimes financial value, the jacket may in turn be wrapped in another jacket, usually transparent, especially if the book is a library volume.
The dustjacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text...
book's title and considered several alternatives. Painter Francis Cugat's dustjacket art, named Celestial Eyes, greatly impressed Fitzgerald, and he incorporated...
praise from others. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dustjacket of a book. With the development of the mass-market paperback, they were...
that remove the original colour of the dustjacket in discrete small flecks. In all cases, the lack of a dustjacket is noted if the book was issued with...
on the BBC children's television show Jackanory and (according to the dustjacket) Freud received 23,500 letters about the work, including 64 letters of...
dustjackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket...
are dust sleeve, album liner and liner. The term is also used to denominate the outermost cardboard covering of a record, i.e. the record jacket or album...
Yves Brayer (18 November 1907 – 29 May 1990) was a French painter known for his paintings of everyday life. He was born in Versailles. He studied in Paris...
commercial works are several dustjacket designs for London-based publishers, with one of her most notable designs being the dustjacket for the first edition...
and included a new story, a parody of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" on the dustjacket. The book is narrated by the character of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk...
Masterwork, Marvel relaunched the line with silver dustjackets in 2003. On the front cover dustjacket, these initial releases had the book's interior contents...
and editorial enhanced, limited deluxe hardcover anthology edition in dustjacket, though print run is unknown. The Silver Surfer: Parable (68 pages, Marvel...
1998 (500 copies) and twice more. Starting with the third printing, the dustjacket was changed to include a picture of Renée Zellweger from her role in...
Tolkien's book. The setting of The Hobbit, as described on its original dustjacket, is "ancient time between the age of Faerie and the dominion of men"...
Scribner's Sons, Zelda Fitzgerald made a sketch in which she envisioned the dust-jacket for her husband's novel. Her sketch depicted a naked flapper sitting...
had a garish dustjacket and I remember being embarrassed by the violence, bad taste and slippery look of it. It looked the book jacket for a book of...
added as an appendix to the book: An untitled vignette, printed on the dustjacket. The story contains the book's title and author's name, which appear...
first edition did not have any illustrations. Spurrier's drawing for the dustjacket had to be used. The second edition contained drawings by Clifford Webb...
designer whose most famous work was Celestial Eyes, the original 1925 dustjacket for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. From the mid-1940s he was...
British re-armament and opposing the appeasement of Germany. The books dust-jacket quoted Jesus' remark that "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee"...
published until 1925. Bell created the cover art for the first edition dustjacket of that novel. In 2021, Bell was one of four featured women artists at...
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