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Mitchell Beazley
Language
English
Pages
144

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Subjects

History, Book jackets, Book covers

Places

Great Britain

Times

20th century

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Front Cover: Great Book Jackets and Cover Design
October 28, 2006, Mitchell Beazley
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
741.6/4/0904
Library of Congress
NC1883.G7 P68 2001

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Pagination
144 p. :
Number of pages
144

ID Numbers

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OL3599628M
ISBN 10
1840004215
LCCN
2002327453
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482680

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