Years ago (this would be late '70's), I bought the paperback of A Wizard of Earthsea just because of its lovely, grayish-greenish, detailed but distant cover (and then bought the sequels both for the covers and for the stories). Ditto with the old paperback of Dragonsong, by Anne McCaffrey - it had beautiful, bright-but-muted colors in an intricate, almost paisley-patterned picture.
And I bought the paperback of Elizabeth Goudge's A Little White Horse because of the cover, too - lovely, mysterious shades of green with a small, white "horse" glowing beneath the trees. The description on the back was also interesting, but it was the cover that caught my eye.
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Paperbacks
Date: 10/13/07 07:27 pm (UTC)And I bought the paperback of Elizabeth Goudge's A Little White Horse because of the cover, too - lovely, mysterious shades of green with a small, white "horse" glowing beneath the trees. The description on the back was also interesting, but it was the cover that caught my eye.