The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks

All right, annoying audiophiles, one more reason to mourn all capacious 12 inches of your beloved LP: It was such a grand way to take home the ''look'' and ''feel'' of a movie. Not only were soundtrack composers like Henry Mancini much better than today's saccharine John Williamses, but the disc jacket provided a superior canvas for poster art — often, with its Pucci colors and cut-'n'-paste shapes, more creative than the flicks it advertised. Check out Saul Bass' herky-jerky designs for Hitchcock and Preminger; marvel at how an entire era can be so readily conjured up by a single typeface in The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks by Frank Jastfelder and Stefan Kassel. A