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By its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

By its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

By its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

$29.95

Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger

Pap. New York, 2005

Book ID: 65544

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. Includes Rockwell Kent, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Push Pin Studios, Chermayeff & Geismar, Chip Kidd and others.

192 pp., 200 color illus.