Open All Night ("Ouvert la nuit") is a 1922 collection of stories by French author and diplomat, Paul Morand. His stories were praised for their highly descriptive and witty portraits of women in the period after WWI. He wrote in an impressionistic style much like the popular jazz music of the time. He also used a cinematic approach in many of his short stories, with rapidly shifting scenes and flash cuts. Individual stories, such as "The Six-Day Night," stand out for their immersion in specific subcultures, like bicycle racing in Paris, and have drawn acclaim for their unique narrative settings. The collection as a whole has been credited with helping to define Morand as one of the most daring and witty writers of his generation, even if his reputation has dimmed over time.  

 Bonibooks released this trade-sized paperback edition of Open All Night in 1930. It was popular and had several reprints. The Bonibooks series ran from 1929 to roughly 1943, starting with paperback editions and eventually moving toward hardcover formats. Over this period, around 100 titles were issued under the Paper Books and Bonibooks series names. The Bonibooks venture was noted for being a radical experiment ahead of its time, attempting to popularize quality paperbacks and book clubs as a new method of book distribution in the United States. While the cover design for Open All Night is simple and somewhat generic, it has its charm with the bands of faded orange on either side of the front cover. Bold typeface, along with the striking publisher icon at the bottom, gives the cover design a style and class. I think another publisher like Penguin would use a period photo or painting to capture the atmosphere of Paul Morand’s stories, which would probably be more appropriate, but there’s something about this Bonibooks cover that is appealing, especially considering that the publishing date (1931) is way before the paperback revolution that began in 1939.