Designing Book Jacket by Curl Peter (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 96 pp, foreword, introduction, conclusion, appendices + acknowledgments; color photos of jacket designs frontis; 48 pp b/w & color captioned illustrations in text & full-page, showing over100 book jackets; slight tanning, very good+; square 8vo, red tweed cloth, spine sunned, cuff bottom spine, scratches bottom front cover, light edge & corner wear, good+; laid in priced dust jacket flaps, International Collector's Library tri-fold color ad.

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. Yellowing on endpapers, light staining inside; A Studio Publication; Vol. 65; B&W and color Illustrations; 96 pages.

25.0 x 19.0cms 96pp b/w illusts very good hardback (no dustwrapper) The chapters are: the role of the designer; equipment & materials; book sizes; layout; lettering; treatment; visuals; the progress of a commission; an actual commission described; references; seeking a commission; methods of reproduction; designing for reproduction.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (book jackets, decoration and ornament).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A Nice Solid Clean Book, Previous Owner's Sticker On Top Of Ffep Otherwise Unmarked. Red Cloth Covered Boards With Black Title On Spine. No Apparent Shelf Or Reading Wear. Dj Is Yellow Dj On Blue Background With White Panel Black Lettering Rear Jacket Has Top Left Corner Missind. Rubbing To Folds And Chipping To Edges.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; illustrated throughout with many examples of jackets, some in color; fine copy in original red cloth, dust jacket rubbed with several short tears (no significant loss). Issued as no. 65 in the publisher's How To Do It series.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Cover shows signs of age and wear. Page 93: bottom right-hand corner creased. Generally good condition considering its age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. CURL, Peter [96] pp. The Studio Publications 1956 10" x 7 1/2" w/ 48 pages of illustration showing over 100 book jackets.

FIRST EDITION, extensively illustrated with various examples, some with use of colour-printing, pp. 96, 4to, original yellow boards, backstrip lettered in black, top edge faintly dustsoiled, free endpapers faintly browned, dustjacket by the author, slightly nicked at extremities, very good. An excellent treatise from an artist whose own work included designs for science fiction titles from Michael Joseph and Faber - his cover for Arthur Koestler's 'Age of Longing' (Collins 1951) is perhaps his finest in the medium, evincing his belief that 'lettering is important'. Curl avers that, whilst such design-work has attained the 'standing of a serious activity for the graphic artist', it remains generally the preserve of those at the beginning of their career (often their 'first freelance commission') - the level of remuneration in comparison to other work meaning that most will have to cultivate work in other fields, commercial or creative. He emphasises the value of a literary sensibility, and suggests that the best examples show a combination of 'selling factor [.] taste in design and idea [.] with the expression of the spirit of the book' - in which cases they become 'more than an ephemeral aid to selling'.