
Via New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Via New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Image: postcard dated 1909, New York Public Library Digital Collections.

I really don’t need any more tote bags, but if I did, I’d scoop up one of these totes featuring vintage book covers.
Here’s one of my favorite books, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), represented by its original Francis Cugat cover, a hallucinatory image of an illuminated fairground or city skyline and a woman’s face materializing against a dream-blue sky.