LOL - very good - thanks all :-)

As you all no doubt realised the design was 'borrowed' from an early style Penguin paperback from the days before they used imagery on their covers.

I expect only hd will get the alternative idea (below). It relates to a piece of 1960's graffiti from the docks at Hull, a northern UK coastal city.

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