Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: Book Author: Powers, Alan, 1955- Title: Front cover : great book jackets and cover design / Alan Powers. Publisher, Date: London : Mitchell Beazley, 2001. Description: 144 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm Summary: Discusses the importance of cover design in conveying a book's essence, with sections on each historical phase of book jacket design, from the late 19th century to today. 300 color illustrations. 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. Genre: Illustrated works. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 139) and index. 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. LCCN: 2002327453 ISBN: 1840004215 9781840004212 1845332423 9781845332426 Other Number: 47062491 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 107917 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 741.64 Powers Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
