"I certainly did not know, for example, that the earliest recognised dust jacket belongs to a literary annual entitled Friendship's Offering of 1829. Nor that e.e. cummings's self-published No Thanks (1935) contains a dedication to the 14 different publishers who had rejected the manuscript: 'NO THANKS TO Farrar & Rinehart, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann', etc. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:33PM on January 12, 2020