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I was looking up the original cover art for 'The Great Gatsby' and found out something wild
Our club just finished the book, and someone asked about the first edition. I got curious and looked it up online. Turns out, the famous face on the original cover was based on a real person, a painter named Francis Cugat, and he got paid $100 for it in 1925. That blew my mind... a hundred bucks for one of the most famous book covers ever. It made me wonder how much other classic cover artists got for their work. Has anyone else stumbled on a weird fact about a book's history that changed how you saw it?
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cole3626mo ago
That reminds me of learning the original title for "1984" was "The Last Man in Europe".
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