Triptastic animations of mid-century op-art paperback covers

[Rusty_Blazenhoff]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/08/triptastic-animations-of-mid-c.html

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[David_Guilbeaul]

I love this. When I was a boy my family made frequent weekend outings to a university bookstore on an appropriately brutalist/mid-century modern campus; the shelves were filled with books (and covers) like this.

[dll]

I was a bit taken aback at how many of these we have in our house (physicist + philosopher). Not necessarily the same covers though.

[David_Guilbeaul]

ya, I bet a lot of these went on to be Dover reprints…

[Nelsie]

Is there one for Induction of Psycho-Neuroses by Conditioned Reflex with Stress? I’ve only ever seen the hard-back without the dust-cover.

[David_Guilbeaul]

here’s the cover from my copy