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I let my daughter pick out a book at the used book store, pretty much assuming she would go with a Dr. Seuss or Berenstein Bears title, something familiar and normal, but instead she insisted on The Value of Fairness, a crazy 1977 book (part of the "ValueTale" series) about Nellie Bly, a turn-of-the century lady journalist who investigates inhumane conditions at an insane asylum.
What I love about this book is its illustrations, with their round, funky seventies-ness that somehow makes you feel like everything is going to be okay (despite the scary nurses). The kind of illustrations that in our current age of perpetual anxiety beckon us into a warm womb of nostalgia.
Don’t worry, just dig the sun.
PREVIOUS FABULOUS COVERS OF THE WEEK:
The Face of the Ancient Orient
What comes in a box?
The Age of Reason
The Coming of the French Revolution
Andre the Courier
Hide-Out
Brideshead Revisited
The Golden Book Sherlock Holmes
Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, vol. 5
God's Smuggler
Mixology
The Score
The Frazer Acquittal
Wife or Death
Wild Game Cookbook
Crime Patrol No.9
Boy's Choice
The Value of Fairness
Cancelled Japanese Stamps
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
Scoop
Barchester Towers
Fathers and Sons
Evil Genius
Early Man in the New World
Camp Craft
The Man in the Net
7 Types of Ambiguity
Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
The Idea, a novel told in woodcuts
The Simple Art of Murder
History Begins at Sumer, featuring the typography of Edward Gorey
Marvel Spectacular featuring the art of Jack Kirby
The Age of Analysis
Metropolis: An American City in Photographs
Engineering is Like This
The Ponder Heart
Don Martin Digs Deeper
The Golden Book Encyclopedia of Natural Science (Volume 9, Kinglets to Meteor)
The Mountlake Terrace High School 1964 yearbook
Take a Letter: A Cyclopedia of Business & Social Correspondence
The Vice Lords: Warriors of the Street
Islam and The Golden Home and High School Encyclopedia
Munakata
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