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Great Book Jacket and Cover Design
Powers, Alan Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, London, United Kingdom
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 144pp Price: $45.00 ISBN: 1-84000-421-5
Book Type: Handbooks/Manuals
Resource Type: Book
Examples of some of the best book covers and jackets of the twentieth century.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Evolution of the Book Jacket
The Impact of Modernism: The 1920s and 1930s
The Modernist Jacket
Designing in Monochrome
Graphic Innovation
Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious
Victor Gollancz
Classic Novels
Strange and Surreal
Barnett Freedman
Penguin; The Creation of a Brand
Early Paperback Series
Colour and Printing
The Author as Artist
Dutch Graphic Design
The Creation of Style: The 1940s to the 1960s
Lettering
Edward McKnight Kauffer
European Writers
Bond Novels
Science Fiction
Alvin Lustig
Through the keyhole
American Classic Novels
Penguin and the Paperback
Kitchen-sink Novels
Discreetly Scandalous: Lolita
The Pulp Fiction Jacket
American Graphic Artists
The American Thriller
The Beat Generation
Playing with Typography
British Classic Novels
A Revolution in Print: The 1960s and 1970s
Psychedelia
Exploring the Erotic
Len Deighton
Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar
Paul Rand
The British Crime Novel
The Paperback Explosion: Penguin
The Paperback Explosion: Other Publishers
Cold War Paranoia
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Poetry
Classic Novels
Counter Culture
Agatha Christie
Design in the Digital Age: The 1980s and 1990s
Faber and Faber
Picador
Harvill Press
Bloomsbury
The Postmodern Novel
Penguin; New Designs
Pocket Canons
Black Sparrow Press
Andrzej Klimowski
Granta
Jeff Fisher
Indigo
Rebel Inc
Grove Atlantic
Designers and Imprints
Useful Addresses
Index
Acknowledgments
Topics
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