Research Catalog

Title

Classic book jackets : the design legacy of George Salter / Thomas S. Hansen ; foreword by Milton Glaser.

Author

Hansen, Thomas S. (Thomas Stansfield)

Publication

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Glaser, Milton

Description

200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 25 cm.

Summary

• "It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn and lettered jackets served as elegant windows into the works of such renowned authors as Albert Camus, John Dos Passos, Jack London, and Thomas Mann. Salter had the rare ability to reduce the illustrated jacket to its essential elements. Using typography, calligraphy, and pictorial imagery, he evoked the contents of a wide variety of books."
• "Salter's life and work bridged two continents and cultures and spanned the political turmoil of the mid-twentieth century. He survived both world wars, the rise of National Socialism in Germany, and permanent exile in a new land, but nothing halted his tireless and brilliant design work. Classic Book Jackets tells Salter's story and describes the innovative thinking he brought to his clients and students (including his designation of seven jacket types that are still valid today). It includes more than two hundred reproductions of his finest works as well as a complete catalog of his jackets, designs, and lettering jobs for the book trade."--Jacket.

Subject

• Salter, George, 1897-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
• Book jackets > United States > Design
• Book jackets > Germany > Design

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

George Salter's Berlin years -- From Berlin to New York: the 1930s and 1940s -- Designs of the 1950s and 1960s -- George Salter's German designs for the German book market, 1922-1934 -- George Salter's designs for the American book market, 1934-1967.

ISBN

156898491X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004008214

OCLC

• 54952954
• SCSB-10779831

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library