Front cover
Subtitle: great book jackets and cover design
By: Alan Powers.
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Book jackets -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Book covers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Book jackets -- History -- 20th century; Book covers -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139) and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of the book jacket; title: The impact of Modernism : the 1920s and 1930s; title: The modernist jacket; title: Designing in monochrome; title: Graphic innovation; title: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious; title: Victor Gollancz; title: Classic novels; title: Strange and surreal; title: Barnett Freedman; title: Penguin : the creation of a brand; title: Early paperback series; title: Colour and printing; title: The author as artist; title: Dutch graphic design; title: The creation of style : the 1940s to the 1960s; title: Lettering; title: Edward McKnight Kauffer; title: European writers; title: Bond novels; title: Science fiction; title: Alvin Lustig; title: Through the keyhole; title: American classic novels; title: Penguin and the paperback; title: Kitchen-sink novels; title: Discreetly scandalous : Lolita; title: The pulp fiction jacket; title: American graphic artists; title: The American thriller; title: The beat generation; title: Playing with typography; title: British classic novels; title: A revolution in print : the 1960s and 1970s; title: Psychedelia; title: Exploring the erotic; title: Len Deighton; title: Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar; title: Paul Rand; title: The British crime novel; title: The paperback explosion : Penguin; title: The paperback explosion : other publishers; title: Cold War paranoia; title: The times they are a-changin'; title: Poetry; title: Classic novels; title: Counter culture; title: Agatha Christie; title: Design in the digital age : the 1980s and 1990s; title: Faber and Faber; title: Picador; title: Harvill Press; title: Bloomsbury; title: The postmodern novel; title: Penguin : new designs; title: Pocket canons; title: Black Sparrow Press; title: Andrzej Klimowski; title: Granta; title: Jeff Fisher; title: Indigo; title: Rebel Inc; title: Grove Atlantic.