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contraportada en espejo

English translation: mirror-image back cover

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Spanish term or phrase:contraportada en espejo
English translation:mirror-image back cover
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

15:41 Jan 23, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Printing & Publishing
Spanish term or phrase: contraportada en espejo
This is a description of the catalogue to the Exposición Surrealista Internacional held in Mexico City in 1940:

[la muestra] Contó con un catálogo bilingüe, el cual, con la contraportada en espejo, mantuvo una oferta seductora: “aparición de la gran esfinge nocturna, relojes videntes, marcos radioactivos, invitaciones quemadas”.

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 01:26
mirror-image back cover
Explanation:
This usually means with the same image/design on the back as on the front.

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Note added at 1 hr (2020-01-23 17:13:51 GMT)
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Scroll down in this link and there is a picture of one, with the text mirror-imaged:

Chico Buarque, Brazil's Malandro and Icon — Music ...
Jul 10, 2014 - ... Buarque's books, including an edition of Budapest with Buarque's name on front cover and a mirror-image back cover bearing Zsose Kósta's ...
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 01:26
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mirrored back cover


Explanation:
Or perhaps "reflective back cover".
Although if you Google the phrase, most of the references you find are for cell phone covers, but "contraportada" means the back cover of the catalogue, so I wouldn't worry about that.

Mirrored:
having a surface like a mirror; reflective.
"mirrored sunglasses"



    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mirrored
neilmac
Spain
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
mirror-image back cover


Explanation:
This usually means with the same image/design on the back as on the front.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 1 hr (2020-01-23 17:13:51 GMT)
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Scroll down in this link and there is a picture of one, with the text mirror-imaged:

Chico Buarque, Brazil's Malandro and Icon — Music ...
Jul 10, 2014 - ... Buarque's books, including an edition of Budapest with Buarque's name on front cover and a mirror-image back cover bearing Zsose Kósta's ...

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 01:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hugh Thomson: On page 8 there is a description of the cover of the exhibition catalogue; I think it is unlikely to have been reflective: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1329&contex...
4 hrs
  -> Thank you for confirming my suspicion!
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Yes. I did the same with the cover of my memoir.
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Muriel! // So you did, I just checked! Congratulations, on several levels.
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