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Showing posts with label Dust Jackets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dust Jackets. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2013

Whitey The Irrepressible Infests Europe After Festing With The Queer People Of Hollywood

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by Stephen J. Gertz Cover art by Vincentini. A lovable and, yes, irrepressible but dissolute American, Whitey, wreaks havoc in Europ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Dust Jacket Designer Philip Grushkin From Comps To Final

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by Stephen J. Gertz Philip Grushkin working in his Englewood, NJ home studio, c.1950s. A major archive of renowned dust jacket desig...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Book Illustrator Ben Shahn Does Posters

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by Stephen J. Gertz WE WANT PEACE / REGISTER - VOTE. (1946). "His codified signature neatly scribbled under any of his imag...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Innocence Found in Scarce Dust Jacket

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by Stephen J. Gertz Take a good look; you'll likely never see another first edition copy of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-win...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Literary Matchboxes Light Up Christmas Stockings (Close Cover Before Striking)

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by Stephen J. Gertz Those seeking the perfect match when Christmas (or any other kind of) shopping for friends with a literary bent (a...
Friday, November 23, 2012

For Purple Monsters Majesty Above A Nutty Plain

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by Stephen J. Gertz New York: E.P. Dutton, 1949. First separate edition.   "What mad universe was this that Keith Winton fou...
Friday, October 26, 2012

The Most Unfortunately Titled Novel Ever Published In English

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by Stephen J. Gertz “They’re not flamingoes, Adrian thought; there wouldn’t be flamingoes on Dildo Cay in September.”  "A ver...
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