I liked the cover design for Alan Dean Foster's Predators I Have Known. I visited the site of the designer, Jim Tierney and came across his beautiful designs for four Jules Verne novels. The jacket for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is cut to resemble waves, exposing the cloth cover.
I don't think these books are commercially available. They seem to be part of Tierney's senior thesis work.
imprint has a short piece about Tierney.