AtD cover

[jbor at bigpond.com]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420120X/

Yes, the fonts are different, and the shadows get successively bigger. 
As far as the schemata or symbolism or significance of the lettering 
... yes, palimpsest ... echoes ... magnification ... self-reflection 
... reverberation ... resonance ... harmony ... harmonics ....

Mise-en-abyme ....

But back to front, or turned inside-out.

At first glance at the larger image on the computer screen it looks 
like a battered and dog-eared and slightly discoloured book dust 
jacket. And so, "it's a hardcover galley of some sort," you think to 
yourself. But the improbability or paradoxicality of that assumption 
fairly quickly dawns, and it occurs that it could be just the image of 
a dog-eared and discoloured dust jacket rather than an actual one, 
i.e., it is trompe l'oeil, a photograph of a book dust jacket which has 
been printed on the actual dust jacket and then scanned onto the 
Internet at Amazon.com ....

Like, say, a painting by Magritte. Or Kramer's 'Coffee Table Book'.

Or it's like a wrapped parcel, much the worse for wear, with that weird 
quasi-Oriental or Middle-Eastern or Aztec or Incan-languaged stamp or 
rubric in the bottom left-hand corner (opposite to where it would 
"normally" be)... the hooves of masked Pony Express Riders clattering 
away into the distance ... a package in transit, vouchsafed (via the 
Trystero) ....

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