Tuesday, November 27, 2012

1948 Book Jacket Designers Guild Exhibition

The First Annual Exhibition of Book Jackets
May 5 to June 25, 1948
A-D Gallery, New York City

Book Jacket Designers Guild
George Salter, Chairman

Exhibitors: Arnold Bank, Rudi Bass, Lester Beall, John Begg,
Eugene Berman, Joseph Blumenthal, Andro Braun, Jean Carlu,
Lili Cassel, Jack Cesareo, Marc Chagall, Warren Chappell,
Edgard Cirlin, Ronald Clyne, Salvador Dali, William Pene
du Bois, W.A. Dwiggins, Wolfgang von Eckardt, Bill English,
Nathaniel Farmer, Gene Federico, John Ferren, Sam Fischer,
Paul Galdone, Erica Gorecka-Egan, Philip Grushkin, Adolf
Hallman, Robert Hallock, Arthur Hawkins, Jr., H. Lawrence
Hoffman, C.G. Holme, Sol Immerman, Robert Jonas, Irving
Kamens, Ilonka Karasz, Joseph Karov, Lester Kohs, Elizabeth
Lehman, Riki Levinson, Frank Lieberman, Joseph Low, Alvin
Lustig, Leo Manso, Fred McCarroll, E. McKnight Kauffer,
William Meek, Irving Miller, Meyer Miller, Ava Morgan,
Joep Nicolas, Oscar Ogg, Rafael D. Palacios, Ben Raeburn,
Paul Rand, Ernst Reichl, Seymour Robins, Thomas Ruzicka,
George Salter, Arno Enrico Schuele, Charles E. Skaggs,
David Soshensky, Saul Steinberg, Alex Steinweiss, Joseph
Trautwein, Meyer Wagman, Jeanyee Wong, Leona Wood,
Arthur Woodbury, Miriam Woods, and Hal Zamboni


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Whale Song

Tony Johnston
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Sun Yat-sen

Nina Brown Baker
Vanguard Press, 1946
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