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Bruna has created thousands of commercial books covers in his time, (mainly for A.W Bruna & Zoon the publishing company owned by his father), something we discovered when we were designing the book of the exhibition 'Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design'. You can see a small selection from his full James Bond set in the top right of the photo here: http://webbandwebb.co.uk/webb/ian_fleming_4.htm.

The bear character which appears on all the books above, and the Bond series, was the logo of the Little Black Bears pocket series which focused on mainly detective style stories. The series was uniform in size and used similar styling across all titles to encourage readers to collect the whole set. Hence the rat on the cover of 'Ratten on der trap', above, also appears on 'The spy who loved me' in the bottom right of the Bruna spread in our photo.
James Webb
2010-03-26 12:48:35

Very nice. More book cover feature please CR!
Chris Hannah
2010-03-26 14:36:13

Wow! Thanks, except for a vague memory of Miffy, I was not familar with Mr. Bruna's work. Shame on me.
Mark Kaufman
2010-03-27 08:46:31

Just published (Oct. 2011): 'Het Zwarte Beertjes-boek. 55 jaar Zwarte Beertjes-pockets in beeld' by Maarten Harms. Bibliography of all the 4300 Black Bear pocket books. With 4700 cover images. 2000 of Dick Bruna. 448 pages. 21x30 cm. Price: € 49,95. Mail me to order this collectors item: rijkgriffioen@hetnet.nl
Rijk Griffioen
2011-10-21 00:09:31