Book cover help needed
Sep. 22nd, 2011 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eee1313Hello, people who know things about books, image searches, and book databases that might have images in them. I have a request from a friend at my office. She needs your help.
So, my coworker T is a crazy book lady. I'm sure many of you can relate. She has her entire library cataloged through some kind of software, and she keeps track of every book, where she got it, and whom she's loaned it to (if anyone). Part of her crazy book obsession is also cataloging all of the cover art that goes with her books. This is where things get tricky.
She has her entire library cataloged except for one image, and it's driving her nuts. It's the cover from a book she had as a kid. But it's not really the cover, it's the "stepback illustration" inside the book cover. I had no idea what these were actually called, but remember in V.C. Andrews books, how there was a cutout in the book cover that showed someone's face, and then you opened it up and got the full picture? That's a stepback cover. For example, this becomes this.
T is looking for one specific stepback illustration, and she can't find it online anywhere. It's for the book Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, by Maud Hart Lovelace. The illustrator for T's book is (she thinks) Michael Koelsch, who was not the original artist for this book series. The cover should look something like this. T has tried everywhere she can think of, and has even ordered a copy of the book through ILL in the hopes that they'll have a version with the full illustration.
Of course, this begs the question that if she's cataloging the book for her files, then she herself must have a copy somewhere and you'd think she could just take a picture of that stepback cover. But maybe her dog ate it, I don't know.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas of where she might find this inside cover, please pass on your info to me so I can pass it to her so she doesn't go crazy. Thanks!
So, my coworker T is a crazy book lady. I'm sure many of you can relate. She has her entire library cataloged through some kind of software, and she keeps track of every book, where she got it, and whom she's loaned it to (if anyone). Part of her crazy book obsession is also cataloging all of the cover art that goes with her books. This is where things get tricky.
She has her entire library cataloged except for one image, and it's driving her nuts. It's the cover from a book she had as a kid. But it's not really the cover, it's the "stepback illustration" inside the book cover. I had no idea what these were actually called, but remember in V.C. Andrews books, how there was a cutout in the book cover that showed someone's face, and then you opened it up and got the full picture? That's a stepback cover. For example, this becomes this.
T is looking for one specific stepback illustration, and she can't find it online anywhere. It's for the book Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, by Maud Hart Lovelace. The illustrator for T's book is (she thinks) Michael Koelsch, who was not the original artist for this book series. The cover should look something like this. T has tried everywhere she can think of, and has even ordered a copy of the book through ILL in the hopes that they'll have a version with the full illustration.
Of course, this begs the question that if she's cataloging the book for her files, then she herself must have a copy somewhere and you'd think she could just take a picture of that stepback cover. But maybe her dog ate it, I don't know.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas of where she might find this inside cover, please pass on your info to me so I can pass it to her so she doesn't go crazy. Thanks!