I don’t remember how I stumbled upon this guy’s site of nicely designed vintage books, but his collection is pretty impressive. This one for Thomas Pynchon’s beast of a novel is so brilliantly sexy and strange:

Doesn’t it make you curious enough to dive right into the 700+ pages and attempt to keep track of all the 400 characters mentioned in it? That’s not an exaggeration.

For years I was indiscriminate about hoarding vintage books in thrift stores and yard sales until I finally ran out of physical space to contain them and sadly ended up re-donating a lot of them. However, I held onto these because I adored the covers: