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Modern American Book Cover Design. Pp. 192(last colophon), printed in blue & black, illustrated in colour throughout, notes, selected bibliography, index; demy 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005. First edition. *Traces the story of the American book cover from its inception as a means of utilitarian protection for the book to its current status as an elaborately produced form of communication art. It is, at once, the intertwined story of American graphic design and American literature, and features the work of such legendary figures as Rockwell Kent, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Rudy de Harak and Roy Kuhlman along with more recent and contemporary innovators' [wrapper blurb]. Item #153818
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